Comments on: What’s expensive gas for you? http://www.mightybargainhunter.com/2005/06/12/whats-expensive-gas-for-you/ Personal finance, commentary, and spending less the easy way Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:24:44 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Administrator http://www.mightybargainhunter.com/2005/06/12/whats-expensive-gas-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Administrator Sat, 09 Jul 2005 05:00:33 +0000 http://www.mightybargainhunter.com/2005/06/12/whats-expensive-gas-for-you/#comment-7 Wow Espen. Thank you for the nice comment! I'm very humbled by your response. A true story as case in point: I unexpectedly had to rent a (mid-sized) car while on vacation last week. I was absolutely fuming mad about how much it cost: $250 per week. In retrospect, that's still less than it cost you to rent yours for a single day. I had absolutely no reason to complain. I'm such a spoiled American. *blush* Wow Espen. Thank you for the nice comment!

I’m very humbled by your response.

A true story as case in point: I unexpectedly had to rent a (mid-sized) car while on vacation last week. I was absolutely fuming mad about how much it cost: $250 per week.

In retrospect, that’s still less than it cost you to rent yours for a single day.

I had absolutely no reason to complain. I’m such a spoiled American. *blush*

]]> By: Espen Skripeland http://www.mightybargainhunter.com/2005/06/12/whats-expensive-gas-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Espen Skripeland Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:15:34 +0000 http://www.mightybargainhunter.com/2005/06/12/whats-expensive-gas-for-you/#comment-5 In Norway (one of the largest oil producing countries in the world) gas is almost 3 times as expensive as in the US. If we had to pay about $2 a gallon, it would be considered dirt cheap. Btw, when I was in Venezuela I paid about 25 cent for a gallon. That's the way it should be in Norway too. Expensive gas makes the country expensive. Transporting goods and labour makes all products more expencive. I belive $2 is a fair price for a gallon - but not more. It's just gas, not gold. Travelling in the US is still cheap for me. To rent a car is cheap, to drive the car is cheap, buying food is cheap and so on... A small menu at McDonald's cost about $8-9 in Norway... In Norway the amout of tax on a car depends on weight, and how powerfull the engine is. The cheapest car in Norway costs about $20 000. If the same car is equipped with a more powerfull engine, it might cost $60-70 000. And it is still a "cheap" car - just faster. In the US you can buy a Porche, for less then we pay for a medium to good equipped VW Golf.... A litre of cheap vodka cost about $25-30... (and we border to russia where it starts from $1. ( in Spain you have to pay about $5).. Take a vaccation in Norway - any you'll learn the true meaning of the word expencive. I lived in Spain for a while, and I had to pay about $10-12 a day to rent a small car. Being used to that price - I was shocked to find out that I had to pay about $300-350 for one day (for the cheapest car they had at the Oslo airport). But it's not all bad... We don't need insurance for health and dental care. It is free until a person is 18. After that we have to pay a small fee for healt care (like $70 for a $20 000 surgery). We have to pay 25% of the price the dentist wants - until the age of 25. After that - full price, but it might change.. And school/university is free. It's this way to give all an equal start in life. In Norway (one of the largest oil producing countries in the world) gas is almost 3 times as expensive as in the US. If we had to pay about $2 a gallon, it would be considered dirt cheap.
Btw, when I was in Venezuela I paid about 25 cent for a gallon. That’s the way it should be in Norway too. Expensive gas makes the country expensive. Transporting goods and labour makes all products more expencive.
I belive $2 is a fair price for a gallon – but not more. It’s just gas, not gold.

Travelling in the US is still cheap for me. To rent a car is cheap, to drive the car is cheap, buying food is cheap and so on…
A small menu at McDonald’s cost about $8-9 in Norway…

In Norway the amout of tax on a car depends on weight, and how powerfull the engine is. The cheapest car in Norway costs about $20 000. If the same car is equipped with a more powerfull engine, it might cost $60-70 000. And it is still a “cheap” car – just faster.
In the US you can buy a Porche, for less then we pay for a medium to good equipped VW Golf….

A litre of cheap vodka cost about $25-30… (and we border to russia where it starts from $1. ( in Spain you have to pay about $5)..
Take a vaccation in Norway – any you’ll learn the true meaning of the word expencive.

I lived in Spain for a while, and I had to pay about $10-12 a day to rent a small car. Being used to that price – I was shocked to find out that I had to pay about $300-350 for one day (for the cheapest car they had at the Oslo airport).

But it’s not all bad…
We don’t need insurance for health and dental care. It is free until a person is 18. After that we have to pay a small fee for healt care (like $70 for a $20 000 surgery). We have to pay 25% of the price the dentist wants – until the age of 25. After that – full price, but it might change..
And school/university is free. It’s this way to give all an equal start in life.

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