gas prices

As long as we love piston-pumping cars, we'll have an indirect love of oil - crude oil to be specific. Our love affair with the black slippery stuff does come with a few complications though - environmental consequences can get out of hand when there's a spill on land or sea. Key to Canadian ...

In the midst of economic turmoil in Europe, more Italians are turning to bikes as their preferred mode of transportation. Such is the bicycle's popularity in Italy that purchases of the pedal-powered two wheelers have eclipsed automobile sales for the first time since World War II. According to ...

Over 50 gas stations across the States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania have raised the price of their fuel to more than $2.11 per litre (over $8 per gallon). They are all Lukoil stations, and their owners have raised prices in protest of practices by Lukoil North America that they say leave ...

Drivers in certain parts of Italy are currently shelling out a staggering $2.50 per litre ($9.50 per gallon) of gasoline, according to Bloomberg. The hefty fuel prices are largely the result of the European debt crisis. Italy has hiked fuel taxes in an attempt to get a handle on the country's ...

The power of social media has revealed itself today in the form of fluctuation in fuel prices based on a false tweet. According to The Wall Street Journal, a Twitter account claiming to be Russian Interior Minister Vladamir Kolokoltsv tweeted that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad had been ...

Hybrid vehicles are quickly gaining more popularity these days, especially with gas prices expected to continue climbing. Long gone are the days when gas cost less than a dollar a litre; the last time the average price of regular gasoline dipped below the loonie was back in the summer of ...

The Detroit News reports used small-car prices are plummeting right along with fuel prices. The news comes courtesy of a National Automobile Dealers Association study, which says gas prices have dropped an average of 3.5 per cent compared to last year. In yet another shocking reminder of just how ...

Most of us likely assume that the gas pump that is providing petrol is giving you the fuel that you pay for – no more or less. While that may be true in most cases, ABC News in Baltimore, Maryland proves that sometimes pumps do bad things to good people. The report details Maryland state ...

Primus Green Energy Ltd. just announced that it has produced its first viable batch of renewable "drop-in" gasoline. The New Jersey-based company, an American subsidiary of the holding company Israel Corp, next plans to build a commercial plant in eastern Pennsylvania that will be able to produce ...

The Bentley Continental GT with the W12 is rated at 19.6 city/12.3 L/100km highway (12/19 mpg) on traditional premium, 29.4 city/16.8 L/100km highway (8/14 mpg) on E85, and easily less than that on an excited right foot. When we drove the Continental GT V8 at launch we were told that official ...