At What Point Does The Price Of Fuel Make Car Ownerships Unrealistic For The Masses?

[starkyRB25]

absolute joke they reckon its gonna get worse now because we have recovered from the finacial crisis well...

[Kujotk]

speculators are always wrong, the heading of this thread said it would reach $2.30 by the end of 2008.... I like how that turned out

[Deano 1]

Lol it's along way off, $1.20 for 91RON today

[Boof]

Wait till BP stat recouping the costs for this oil spill in US of A...Be interesting to see how much it goes up by then

[FrangaR33]

Wait till BP stat recouping the costs for this oil spill in US of A...Be interesting to see how much it goes up by then

It will be very interesting to see if Shell, Chevron etc. see this as a big oppurtunity to sink or seriously hurt BP considering the clean up is going to cost BP billions. They dont really have any reason to jack up the price of oil, its still only minor amounts of oil in the grand scheme of daily consumption, but oil companies are crafty and i'm sure the executives wouldnt mind the extra cash.

[xALmoN]

Why not run straight ethanol?

If you can tune for E85, you can tune for straight ethanol, and without that pesky gasoline in the mix, 5% of water, 10% of water, doesn't really matter.

And with that, you can distill your own ethanol with a reflux column from what, solar heaters, electricity, you name it, you've got it. You can fuel your own car. The grass you mowed last weekend, can be converted to ethanol. People with apple trees, fruit trees, you'll always have excess fruits, that, you can ferment and distill.

The only obstacle now, is the legality of it all. I'm gonna be running some experiments soon though. =D

[scotty nm35]

I'm all for it, I was planning the same. Take it further and run the house off it...

As for 100% ethanol, I am having problems with cold start already, probably ok up north though. Perhaps a small squirt of 91 to get her going in the morning might be the go.

In some states the US they can apply for a permit to make ethanol for their vehicle. I don't think our government will go for it of course.

[xALmoN]

I remember reading about some permit where you actually can produce and sell it back to the government. But i can't remember where it was from, .au site definitely.

Distillation and all is pretty dialed, i just need to know the optimum sugar concentration vs yeast concentration and fermentation times.

I'm planning on getting an old electric generator, and running it off ethanol and see how long it'll survive... and what kind of wattage its putting out with the new fuel. But thats all in the planning right now.

[GTR-N1]

Can fuel grow on trees?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Farmer...8431695812.html

hmmm...

[Mayuri Krab]

Fuel price will have to be ~$5/L before I even consider taking public transport of fail...

[FrangaR33]

Fuel price will have to be ~$5/L before I even consider taking public transport of fail...

It would have to be $5 and then some for me to take public transport, I'd rather just buy a ecobox fiesta and run about in that than get on the god forsaken rush hour train. At least in a car your always comfortable and have your own personal space not some fat guys ass in your face

[Eugene2032]

Is it really that bad though?

Petrol price is something i never really worry or complain about. It's a must need like bread, milk and water.

[Crackfox]

Fuel price will have to be ~$5/L before I even consider taking public transport of fail...

Agreed

I honestly don't know why anyone would use public transport that doesn't absolutely need to. It costs me $8.50 to travel to and from uni with public transport, or ~$11 dollars of fuel to drive the skyline in, so it saves me $2 and then only costs me 2.25 hours of time in smelly, uncomfortable conditions. On my lowly pizza boy wage thats about $45 of time. Fuel must go up about 5-fold before public transport becomes something that I will ever consider using

Edited May 19, 2010 by Crackfox

[KF-]

It doesn't bother me to much working on the mines, I'm away from home most the time and I get a week to spend down here doing my thing.

I wonder if this will have any direct effect on performance parts dropping in price.

[GTR-N1]

Fuel price will have to be ~$5/L before I even consider taking public transport of fail...

OR...

Has anyone here ever worked in a servo, only to then realise just how many people have come in with false plates > done a runner?

Any interesting stories?

[xALmoN]

OR...

Has anyone here ever worked in a servo, only to then realise just how many people have come in with false plates > done a runner?

Any interesting stories?

Not really a good idea to be doing that in our kind of cars, but if i were morally compromised, i would do it.

[Mayuri Krab]

Agreed

I honestly don't know why anyone would use public transport that doesn't absolutely need to. It costs me $8.50 to travel to and from uni with public transport, or ~$11 dollars of fuel to drive the skyline in, so it saves me $2 and then only costs me 2.25 hours of time in smelly, uncomfortable conditions. On my lowly pizza boy wage thats about $45 of time. Fuel must go up about 5-fold before public transport becomes something that I will ever consider using

Similar to my situation as well, I get paid sh*t all with my crappy fast food part time job but I rather pay the $ on petrol than take public transport.

Also since this year I have started to stay at Uni very late (to midnight 1/2 of the time) to finish up assignments & stuff so public transport won't work properly anyway.

OR...

Has anyone here ever worked in a servo, only to then realise just how many people have come in with false plates > done a runner?

Any interesting stories?

Not really a good idea to be doing that in our kind of cars, but if i were morally compromised, i would do it.

Agreed with not doing it in a skyline, although if I were to use the Camry (that looks like every other 1 million Camrys out there) hhmmm....

[xALmoN]

Well, i do have a generic looking accord, you know what i mean? =D

[sh@un]

Well here we are nearly 2 years later and E10 is still only around $1.25 on average

In other news, I paid a record low 53c/L for gas for my LPG-injected Stag today

Ooo yeah. Bite me

[r33cruiser]

Well here we are nearly 2 years later and E10 is still only around $1.25 on average

In other news, I paid a record low 53c/L for gas for my LPG-injected Stag today

Ooo yeah. Bite me

I think ALOT of us would use e10 if we can get it for that price at the pump (not in drums from 1 supplier). Problem is up here its hard to find. They should replace 95ron with e10 . 91ULP, 98ULP, E10

If fuel got up to the $4-5+ a ltr level i might re-think my situation. And I've only driven my skyfap maybe twice in 6months.

Edited May 27, 2010 by r33cruiser