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Wanting to know what everyone's thoughts on this are.

1/3 of current motorists say they will stop driving once petrol reaches 1.80/litre which we will probably experience within a year or two. Only one year ago petrol cost $50US a barrel. Now it costs $120US a barrel.

Skyline owners I think are much more resistant to change, but there has to be a point where petrol prices are just not worth it.

Driving is very convenient from my house to work, taking only about 20-30 mins without much traffic. Public transport is unimaginably complicated for the same trip(involving train and tram for an hour), so I am basically willing to pay whatever the hell the petrol companies want to charge me up to probably $5/litre.

i don't think its the rising fuel and living costs that are the problem.. its that inflation isnt rising equally with all monetry related things in life... so basically..

cost of living/surviving/commuting are increasing, however the average income/wage is not increasing enough to accomodate these changes

$1 for petrol is fine for what we are earning now... and if we were paid 5 times as much... $5 for petrol wouldnt be that bad either.... but unfortunatly we arent going to recieve that relief, and for me and my generation, and for that fact further generations to come ... living is not going to be easy... just look at the price of houses for one thing.

Inflation is definitely high at just over 4%, out of keeping with wage increases.

However, you cannot deny that the 150% increase in the price of crude oil at the supply stage over the last year hasn't had an impact beyond what can be attributed to the 4% inflation alone.

There is no easy solution. Rising alternatives like biofuel have doubled the price of food in 3rd-world nations, which are currently facing a crisis. Electricity is not the answer as we have only limited amounts of coal left. Renewable energy at some stage will overtake fossil fuels as more economical.

Instead of all the money spent on finding other source of energy, we should pour trillions of dollars into antimatter research. Once we find a way to produce or harvest antimatter from space, and safely harness the energy of anti-matter vs matter explosions, we have nothing to worry about. A sand-grain sized portion of anti-matter vs matter will be enough to power a city for months. We can use the antimatter to annihilate garbage and get limitless energy. Win/Win.

Only issue is with the potential for terrorism.

The current price on a student income is already taking a serious chunk outta my wallet, if it got to 2.00 i would have to say no more. But soon i'll getting about in an LPG commodore and the line will serve totall pleasure purpose, so i wont car about fuel.

I don't think people will stop driving, more people will just be more conscious of fuel efficiency.

More people will ride scooters/bikes. Car enthusiasts like us, will probably keep our cars for play, but not drive them often - not when its going to cost us $200 in fuel every time we take it out.

I need to walk more anyway, school kids now scream "Feee Willy" and other intolerant shit at me when i walk past their school.

But the past 6 months i have stopped the casual driving of my car as it has been costing $85-90 to fill up. Part of the reason track days are just a little it out of reach at present it the $250-300 in fuel to get there, race and get back. But my gold my car loves V-Powr Racing :(

people will just swap to smaller cars - just took my honda jazz to rye with the missus - 300 kays and its still not down to the half tank mark....probably got around 28 ltrs left out of the 42ltrs that honda had filled up.

skyline would have had qtr tank left by now.....

I don't think people will stop driving, more people will just be more conscious of fuel efficiency.

More people will ride scooters/bikes. Car enthusiasts like us, will probably keep our cars for play, but not drive them often - not when its going to cost us $200 in fuel every time we take it out.

BING.... nail on the head

I don't think people will stop driving, more people will just be more conscious of fuel efficiency.

We're on the same page, of a very annoying book.

Much better than the M6 that does 300k's out of a 70l fill....

Aahhh the decadence! :blush:

Haha, cool great to see all the votes and the majority vowing never to stop driving!

Am I right in saying most of us have their skylines as daily drivers?

Looks like people will stop driving their skylines for daily purposes, but will still keep at it for pleasure :blush:

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