The price of fuel

[Shadowjack]

Good man!!

Now tell me where I can buy it for 50 cents a gallon.......

1972-ish?
Oh, you said "where"...sorry.
Shadowjack-Father has a historical invoice from 1972-ish for an oil change - total $2.96

This doesn't help, does it.

[Mudfart]

someone has to pay for the mega mall in abu dhabi and the "world cl-ASS" resorts in dhubai. I just read the xmas tree in the abu dhabi mall cost 130 million, and was adorned with real jewels blah, blah.
my bike now must be about 38$ to fill, but our truck which is scary thirsty, (Honda CRV 2.0ltr) is over $100. The bike I get 7 trips to work and the truck 8.
hmmm 38 for 7 or 100 for 8?... pity the fat cats put the regos up so high, then knew the petrol rises were coming anyway.
maybe they should take out the faster burning additives from the petrols.

[swbarnett]

Is it a higher performance filter or just a new replacement making that fuel saving?

Just a replacement. The old one got really dirty and I couldn't wash it as it's paper. Also, I was having extreme trouble locating one for my 1980s bike. Was a shock to me when I replaced it.

[sinned]

Cringing at the though of the $$$ going into the F100 tank while going to/from the Beach Hop @ Whangamata next year.

15mpg for a 3,000+km round trip, you do the maths.

Oh, and it thrives on 98...

Sounds like towing it (behind a Toyota) would be cheaper and avoid the inevitable breakdown.

[rainman]

Just wait until the global recession finishes.

If fuel keeps going up, it ain't gonna finish.

Read the IEA's latest oil outlook. An interesting glimpse of the future, particularly for us in the OECD...

[axdout]

$2 a litre is the price you pay for living in a first world country like nz. If you dont like it leave. After just spending 3 months in San Antonio, texas paying NZ$1.02L, purchasing cheap food, piss, and electronic goods, I realized how good I have it in NZ. I just couldn't wait to get back so I couldI work 60 hrs a week to generate massive tax so the Laiafi's, the Va'iga's and the pisi's don't have to work and they can drive around in their new subarus and toyota estima's. So while $2L is high, the feeling you get from giving to so many people that are just to lazy to work, well it's worth it..

[junkmanjoe]

I remember when gas was a 1$ a litre.....in around 1984....on apprentice wages....now that was expensive.....and the ol' Z1000 was a thirsty beast.

Wait until the recession is over then watch it climb...

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well i can remember when gas was 74c a liter we used to go every where in them days.

[warewolf]

do you think this will affect your riding this xmas. or up coming tours you may have had in mind.. at $2 a liter its starting to get expensive to fill the twin tanks on the 950 ..

Nope. However I will/do pay attention to keeping the beast running right to minimise fuel use.

It's not just fuel, which is about 1/3 of running costs. The price of tyres has jumped up a lot in the last year or two.

[scracha]

The price of fuel is just far too high and also unjustified.

Call it unjustified if you want. It's simply supply and demand. They can't supply enough fuel and demand will keep increasing....therefore the price will keep rising.

I was $37.70 filling up the TDM today.....and $104 for the CRV yesterday......fuck.

Watch it affect food prices as fertiliser and transportation costs balloon.

[jasonu]

$2 a litre is the price you pay for living in a first world country like nz. If you dont like it leave. After just spending 3 months in san antonio, texas paying nz$1.02l, purchasing cheap food, piss, and electronic goods, i realized how good i have it in nz. I just couldn't wait to get back so i couldi work 60 hrs a week to generate massive tax so the laiafi's, the va'iga's and the pisi's don't have to work and they can drive around in their new subarus and toyota estima's. So while $2l is high, the feeling you get from giving to so many people that are just to lazy to work, well it's worth it..

well said!!

[MarkH]

do you think this will affect your riding this xmas. or up coming tours you may have had in mind.

I'm just glad I ditched the car - it used twice as much gas as the scooter despite being a small, light manual car with fuel injection and only 1500cc.

I have been taking it easy on my Auckland commuting and am now getting an average of better than 26 km/litre despite the various traffic lights I stop at to waste gas. The higher the fuel prices the more sorry I feel for those saps in their cars spending 2-3 times as much on fuel as I do. (maybe more if they spend too much time stuck in traffic while I split passed them)

My mate just bought himself a Civic Type R to replace his WRX - now he gets almost 50% more distance from each litre of petrol, still uses over twice as much as me though.

[firefighter]

Is it a higher performance filter or just a new replacement making that fuel saving?

It sounds a bit exaggerated to me......60kms. I'd believe maybe 30. I realise I could be wrong, but i'd be surprised if a car got that much more mileage out of a full expensive service.

[firefighter]

$106 in the XR6 this afternoon, lucky for me it runs on 91

That's not bad, my shitty Vectra takes $95odd to fill. I bet it's not much more fuel efficient. 550kms roughly town driving/commuting. I guess you'd get about 500ish?

[Sharry]

It could be much worse. You could be filling up a car.


Do you remember when the oil companies could NOT charge more than 99cents per litre, simply because their fuel pumps only had two digits?

I'm sure I do, can't remember what it cost a ltr but my first bike only cost $3.00 to fill the tank.
Although I don't agree that the current fuel charges are necessary it won't stop my riding. After bills petrol is the first thing on the budget... got to be cheaper than the therapist I would need if I didn't ride

[Gibbo89]

Is Iraq getting oil at the moment? I know they are raped by war etc but when they start extracting fossil fuel (at full capacity) I hope the price drops down significantly.


Fingers crossed...