As of late April 2026, gas prices on the Big Island of Hawaii are among the highest in the nation, averaging around $5.66 per gallon for regular in areas like Hilo.
@Zaphod42 I'm not surprised. Somebody posted an article about how California requires different levels of refinement made to the oil they allowed to be sold to the general public. Bound to be a little more expensive, but likely worth it in terms of emissions. I don't know.
Here in my part of Australia, the equivalent of 1 gallon of 98 RON petrol will cost me today using the conversion factor of 3.785 L per gallon:
- A$8.70 from any of the three 'majors' (BP, Shell, Ampol) where I live (3.5 km away). - A$8.25 from the EG Garages (selling Ampol fuel) near my work 30 km away.
Diesel from the same sources today will be:
- $10.98 from the three 'local' major brand sites, or - $11.35 from the EG outlet near my work.
Note this is with the Australian fuel excise tax still 'temporariliy' halved from 52 to 26 cents per litre so the true cost per litre is approximately 30 cents more (with GST factored in).
@swirlie The tax is got to be so high because up to 30% of big businesses here earning over $100 million paid no tax in the 2023/24 financial years. So the government hits up the little guy to top up it's coffers.
@Gusman I'll never understand why governments make those really dumb financial incentives available to big business. If zero taxation is the only thing that attracts them to the region, then maybe they shouldn't really be there in the first place? Wouldn't that be their first clue?
@peterlee And what the Stock Market spivs have been up to, given the suspicions of either trading based on very astute analysts managing to read President Trump's intentions.... or of illegal, insider-trading.
You can't buy a gallon of gas in my area.... 🇨🇦 Gallons went extinct in Canada in 1979.
The only countries in the world that still use the 'gallon' as a standard of fuel measure are Third World countries in South America and the USA.
The old but larger British Imperial 'gallon' is occasionally found in some Caribbean countries, but most of those places have gone metric along with the rest of the world.