UK v US energy prices and...huh?

12 Sept 2005. Duh! As Mr Tyler so kindly pointed out, in much nicer words, I'm a dork. "Gas" in the USA is what I get after eating a lot of beans, and what I put in my car at a cost of about $3 per gallon. In the UK, "Petrol" is what one uses to fuel one's car. So the cost of fuel in the UK is still about twice what it runs us in the USA. - Joe This morning I read a Guardian article about gas and electricity prices in the UK. Using  conversion rates of 3.785 litres to a gallon and £1 = $1.83, I'm estimating that in the UK one currently pays the equivalent of about $3.75 for gas for one's car. With the numbers from the Guardian article, it also appears that, on average, it costs the equivalent of $70 per month for home gas and electicity costs. Here at the Litton house (2,000 sq ft in Tampa Florida area) we pay about $150/month for home gas and electricity, and locally it's about $3 per gallon to gas up my car. OK. So I can see that it's still a little cheaper here to fuel my car, and I was curious about the comparative home energy cost. I'd expect that the average UK home is smaller than the 2,000 square feet of our US home, so I Googled using the search string "average home size in UK". Click the thumbnail below to see what popped up as the first link :)