I'm sure once you factor in the fuel consumption of american cars.
You'll find that they're probably paying about the same in a lot of cases.



5 / 33 = 16 cents /mile
8.44 / 53 = 16 cents / mile

*crosses arms, looks smug*
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 14:46, 2 replies)

At least they can
do something about it.

I can't sell my V8 and get a smaller diesel car, I did that 4 years ago.
(username failed moderation, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 14:52, closed)

In which case
You're probably paying less than the average yank.

And there is little they can do about it, what with the stigma surrounding diesels in the us.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 16:19, closed)

Possibly,
but the point was, I'm paying as little as I ever will.

The Americans have a long way to go. They're still buying 3.2 litre V6's as 'economy' cars.

[edit]

10 years ago, Top Gear were scoffing merrily at the idea of them ever going anywhere near a diesel car. Most of us were too.
(username failed moderation, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 16:51, closed)

This is utterly irrelevant though,
If Americans drive cars that use more fuel and that ups their MPG, that's their problem and the can change it. They still pay less per gallon of fuel, and that's the important measure because it's the one the driver has no control over.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 16:57, closed)

Yeah, but it's a smaller gallon!
Seriously, the Seppoes have this weird idea that 16 fluid ounces = 1 pint. So eight US pints = .8 UK gallons.

So they pay $6.25 for REAL gallons, as used by MEN. Then they burn it at 25 mpg.

Let's laugh and point at the colonials, kids!
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 18:04, closed)

Well, that I didn't know.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 8:57, closed)

I drive a modern German diesel car
Long run = 64.8 miles/gallon*
General driving = 49.2 miles/gallon

'Merkins have, up to now, never had an incentive to make their engines economical. Maybe now they'll learn!

* that's real Imperial gallons not these namby pamby colonial ones.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 19:20, closed)

It's all economical
until your super-dooper variable vane turbo clogs up after 100,000 miles and suddenly have to shell out a grand on a replacement.
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 10:01, closed)

^^this, totally this
*from experience with said waste-of-space 'pollution filter'*
( NooShmoo It's a fantazmagorical pile of ultra bollocks, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 10:19, closed)