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16 Dec 2007, 19:42
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Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
My dad asked me to fill up his car from empty, at the petrol station i nonchalantly stuck the nozzle in the tank and pressed the lever; choosing to ignore the pump and instead gazing with rapist like intensity at a slutty woman in miniskirt(!) shivering whilst filling her car up.
When the nozzle cut the pump off i took a quick glance at the pump and nearly shit myself.
£75*
seventy five ****ing pounds, seventy five pounds to fill a car up (apparently it has a 70l tank and i was filling with unleaded). Jesus ****ing christ. For the americans thats $150. Now my dad obviously repaid me but how the **** do people afford that week in week out?!, thankfully ive got a small car that i don't need to use often but at the rate fuel prices are increasing you might as well just forget about using a car as a viable means of transport.
Anyone got a higher fuel bill?
*£73.something
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16 Dec 2007, 20:36
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Insomniac
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
and just think, half of that is tax ( oh and americans would be paying $50-80 for the same amount )
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16 Dec 2007, 20:46
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mz.
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
(and complain still)
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17 Dec 2007, 19:36
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I am.
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
"buy oil! they're not making any more of it!"
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17 Dec 2007, 23:31
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USS Oklahoma
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
Last I saw, the oil companies make about 9 cents American on each gallon. The government makes several times that amount but very few seem to blame the government for hight petrol prices.
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18 Dec 2007, 00:20
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Evil inside
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
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Originally Posted by dda
Last I saw, the oil companies make about 9 cents American on each gallon. The government makes several times that amount but very few seem to blame the government for hight petrol prices.
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Stop complaining. Your goverment goes to war for oil, so you can drive around in your car. Show some respect man!
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18 Dec 2007, 02:43
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Bona Fide Jesus Freak
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
The oil companies also claim that they do not control the price of gasoline. Did you know that companies like Equiva that do the actual gasoline trading are owned by companies like Shell Oil? Supply and demand they say. They create the demand and they have the supply. Don't believe me? Check out their ad at Monster.com: http://company.monster.com/equiva/
I don't call it gas anymore......
I call it GREED!
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18 Dec 2007, 08:27
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mz.
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
Very dramatic.
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The outraged poets threw sticks and rocks over the side of the bridge. They were all missing Mary and he felt a contented smug feeling wash over him. He would have given them a coy little wave if the roof hadn't collapsed just then. Mary then found himself in the middle of an understandably shocked family's kitchen table. So he gave them the coy little wave and realized it probably would have been more effective if he hadn't been lying on their turkey.
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18 Dec 2007, 14:07
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Banned
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
what , that we use oil because if we were to get hydrogene car , you made youself and half the block blow up?
... this actualy explod , not petrol who burn
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18 Dec 2007, 15:09
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Registered User
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
jesus christ, hydrogene cars won't blow up, the only thing we need to change is our way of life, not using the car for every mile you can walk would be a great help.
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18 Dec 2007, 17:26
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Capitán de Navío
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
The Apocalypse is coming! Walk or die.
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18 Dec 2007, 23:59
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USS Oklahoma
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
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Originally Posted by G.K Zhukov
Stop complaining. Your goverment goes to war for oil, so you can drive around in your car. Show some respect man!
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Interestingly enough, though my country goes to war for oil most of the gasoline stations in my area are non-American. Arco (British Petroleum), Shell (Royal Dutch Shell), Citicorp (Hugo Chavez), Valero (Mexico). The American owned stations Standard Oil, Union 76 have higher prices for gas than do the foreign owned gas stations.
Apparently, even though we go to war for oil we can't even get that right.
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19 Dec 2007, 01:35
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Evil inside
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
I suspect that your area (influenced by yourself, dda?) is unpatriotic! I will call the white house to inform Georgie about this and ask that he takes appropriate actions (ie invade).
I thought you were a godfearing patriot dda, but you have dissapointed me :crymeariver:
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19 Dec 2007, 05:54
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mmm.. pills
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
We will get rid of our dependance on oil, its already in the process, but you can gaurentee it wont be in the interest of furthering our goal towards a more utopian society, rather only a question of when the oil companies and car manufacturers can come up with a working model to turn over a bigger profit from alternative energy.
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19 Dec 2007, 09:00
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mz.
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
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Originally Posted by djbass
We will get rid of our dependance on oil, its already in the process, but you can gaurentee it wont be in the interest of furthering our goal towards a more utopian society, rather only a question of when the oil companies and car manufacturers can come up with a working model to turn over a bigger profit from alternative energy.
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Almost prophetic, if it weren't for it's obviousness. You can't depend on something that isn't there any more man.
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The outraged poets threw sticks and rocks over the side of the bridge. They were all missing Mary and he felt a contented smug feeling wash over him. He would have given them a coy little wave if the roof hadn't collapsed just then. Mary then found himself in the middle of an understandably shocked family's kitchen table. So he gave them the coy little wave and realized it probably would have been more effective if he hadn't been lying on their turkey.
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19 Dec 2007, 11:37
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mmm.. pills
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
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Almost prophetic, if it weren't for it's obviousness. You can't depend on something that isn't there any more man.
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They're not stupid either. They will hang on for as long as they have to, if it means pushing prices up further until only the privelidged can afford to drive it will buy them as much time as they feel they require.
Also by putting patents on alternative technologies to stop competition from pulling the rug out from under them.. they are not going to let control fall into others hands.
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19 Dec 2007, 15:32
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Darling
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
Even for short trips round town, at £1 for ten miles the car is still cheaper to run than the bus at £1 for a journey. And that's dirt cheap as far as buses go.
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20 Dec 2007, 17:14
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
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Originally Posted by BesigedB
Even for short trips round town, at £1 for ten miles the car is still cheaper to run than the bus at £1 for a journey. And that's dirt cheap as far as buses go.
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True, but you forgot to count one other cost, YOUR SOUL!
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20 Dec 2007, 22:08
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USS Oklahoma
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
Souls are cheap.
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20 Dec 2007, 22:18
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I am.
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
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Souls are cheap.
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i know
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24 Dec 2007, 14:12
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
Higher energy costs are a good thing in the long run, so long as they are managed properly to stop the effects completely crushing any particular set of individuals. I suspect that in the longer term, cars will still be very popular for people outside of the most densely populated areas, but certain journey types will become less common.
When calculating something for work I had to do a survey and found that there was several people who travelled over 100 miles a day to and from work. The majority of these people were doing jobs which could be done from home at least two or three times a week. Factor in high commercial rents and it's not surprising that 20% of our employees will work from home at least once a week within a year (up from 0% about five years ago).
Residential car-pooling could prove interesting, it's in place in a few developments in the UK, although I am still unsure if it "fits" Britain. The principle is sound though; if you don't need a car that often, then why own one? If you can get the balance between cars and residents right (enough to guarantee 95% availability or something) then you can cut the individual costs of car ownership dramatically while not demanding huge sacrifices from anyone.
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24 Dec 2007, 14:23
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Good Son
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
They had this enquiry in Finland a year ago or so regards the subject. The purpose was to map how people in the Helsinki area travel to work and what affects their choice of transport. There's a quite good and very reliable local train traffic from the neighbour cities to Helsinki, and it's no matter how you turn it cheaper than driving a car. In fact, it's faster too.
Why would a lot of people want to drive cars, especially drive cars alone to work?
Because they want to sit in their car alone in their "privacy" on their way to work. It hasn't got to do with petrol prices, transport costs, or time consumed.
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24 Dec 2007, 16:21
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BlueTuba
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
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Originally Posted by Tietäjä
They had this enquiry in Finland a year ago or so regards the subject. The purpose was to map how people in the Helsinki area travel to work and what affects their choice of transport. There's a quite good and very reliable local train traffic from the neighbour cities to Helsinki, and it's no matter how you turn it cheaper than driving a car. In fact, it's faster too.
Why would a lot of people want to drive cars, especially drive cars alone to work?
Because they want to sit in their car alone in their "privacy" on their way to work. It hasn't got to do with petrol prices, transport costs, or time consumed.
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They should learn to sleep on public transport then.
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24 Dec 2007, 16:31
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Insomniac
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
i quite liked the top gear awards take on the state of motoring in the uk
( uk only ) http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008m4dy.shtml - around 36:42
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24 Dec 2007, 17:40
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
I must admit I'm the King of Apathy. Long reign whatever.
But even I was moved to take this when visiting my friends up North yesterday.
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1876/dsc00281yy0.jpg
God damn, I say god damn.
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26 Dec 2007, 01:36
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modest sagacity
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Re: Petrol prices and how i started to question the car
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Originally Posted by All Systems Go
True, but you forgot to count one other cost, YOUR SOUL!
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and road tax, and cost of the car, cost of maintaining it, insurance, etc.
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