By Tel Aviv (BonaireTalker - Post #47) on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 8:18 pm: |
Could someone estimate the price in dollars per gallon of regular unleaded gas in Bonaire? Thanks.
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By Jake Richter - NetTech (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5562) on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 8:26 pm: |
See my discourse on this very topic as of a couple of weeks ago:
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By Timothy Westfall (BonaireTalker - Post #33) on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 8:14 am: |
Jake:
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By Brian (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1084) on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 9:42 am: |
We will swap - in the UK; currently we are paying 92.9 pence per Litre for Diesel thats $1.77 per litre or $6.68 per US Gallon. On top of that we take out additional health and dental insurance to supplement the National Health Service. My wife and I spend each £390 on Diesel every month ($741) if we ran petrol cars this would be about £585 or $1,111 a month.
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By Timothy Westfall (BonaireTalker - Post #34) on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 10:06 am: |
My point is how much of the fuel price is tax? Here in Wisconsin the tax is only $.46 per gallon. Federal and state combined and we are one of the higher taxed states. What is the tax in the UK? I’m betting it is substantially more than $.46 cents per gallon.
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By Sue Goodman (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #188) on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 11:03 am: |
just some food for thought...the cost of gas/oil/fuel is embedded in every item or service you buy. Your groceries need to get to the store from the distribution center, which was also trucked there from the manufacturing plant, all of which consumes fuel. Almost all products (food, clothing, non-consumables, etc) require energy to produce them or use petro-chemicals in packaging. Taxes add up along this chain and will be passed through to the consumer. Add the higher costs of oil to this equation and you can easily explain why prices on almost everything are going up (also known as inflation).
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By Brian (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1085) on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 11:06 am: |
Timothy from every £50 fill up £43 goes to Tony Blair in Tax
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By Jake Richter - NetTech (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5566) on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:12 pm: |
Timothy,
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By Dean Botsford (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #349) on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 8:08 pm: |
Tel, last week at Lisa gas the price was 1.89 naf a litre which is about $1.06 a litre US. Which would be roughly $4.25 a gallon.
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By Timothy Westfall (BonaireTalker - Post #35) on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 8:50 am: |
I guess if you call a chicken a duck long enough people will think it is a duck!
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By Jake Richter - NetTech (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5568) on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 11:16 am: |
When you do, you'll be supporting the island of Curacao, as Bonaire doesn't get much if anything from gasoline taxes, sadly.
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By Brian (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1086) on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 1:38 pm: |
We get hit every way we turn with taxes. 17.5% sales tax, 25 to 40% earnings tax and then Poll Tax for local rates. Transport is worse as they tax everything and then invest nothing on the public transport. It is cheaper to fly to Rome than get a train to London. Our roads have not had sufficient investment and they are clogged with heavy goods vehicles and the rail system is falling apart.
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By Dr. Director (BonaireTalker - Post #81) on Monday, June 27, 2005 - 12:21 pm: |
Lost in this thread is a statement Jake made in his original blog that the per capita income on Bonaire, after taxes, is $800 per year. (Jake: is this correct or was there a typo?) If it is correct, that amounts to $15.38 per week income (after taxes) per man, woman and child, or just over $61/week for a hypothetical family of 4. At that level, how can the average family on Bonaire afford to eat, let alone drive?
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By Josh Schrank (BonaireTalker - Post #35) on Monday, June 27, 2005 - 1:36 pm: |
Dr, Director.... um, lots of Iguanas?
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By Jake Richter - NetTech (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5570) on Monday, June 27, 2005 - 3:15 pm: |
Oops. That was meant to be $800/month, not year. I've updated the blog to reflect that.
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By Steve Jarrad (BonaireTalker - Post #45) on Monday, June 27, 2005 - 4:06 pm: |
The price of gas is pretty cheap if you look at what everyone on this thread pays for water. One 20 oz. bottle of water at the local convenience store sells for appx. $1.29 (.0645 cents per oz. X 128 oz. per gallon = $8.25 per gallon of water) Gas is cheap.
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #767) on Monday, June 27, 2005 - 4:20 pm: |
even at $8.25/gal, the water tastes better than gas
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