petrol prices

[scumdog]

Not to mention the 60% tax and the GST take that increases every time the price rises.
Remember this as you walk up to the polling booth

Argh, pay 33%PAYE, add 12.5%GST AND add on Road Users TAx and the dollar you earned on you hourly rate has'nt bought much petrol at all eh?

Bloody Gov't and its pandering to minority/non-working/political/arty etc types - spend it on schools, hospital and other good honest reasons ya bastids!!!

[Beemer]

Haha... I was only a couple of cents short of $30 for the R65 tank on Tuesday morning. I remember not so long ago, that amount would fill up a Toyota Corolla

Filled up our Lancer the other day, more than $50 - used to be $45 max if it was already on reserve. At least it's economical - you get about 520kms to a tank (40L). The Goose gets about 25kpl and the Beemer 31 so at least we will still be able to afford to ride! The Goose went onto reserve yesterday at 269kms and it took 11.49L when I filled it up a few kms later, so the 3.4L (15L tank) in reserve is pretty accurate.

[raster]

Argh, pay 33%PAYE, add 12.5%GST AND add on Road Users TAx and the dollar you earned on you hourly rate has'nt bought much petrol at all eh?

Bloody Gov't and its pandering to minority/non-working/political/arty etc types - spend it on schools, hospital and other good honest reasons ya bastids!!!

I agree with you completely SD.

[MD]

Interesting views on Campbell live tonight about the 'peak oil crisis' when all reserves on the planet are being pumped dry but demand continues to grow. I agree with them that we are all headed for a major world shift in life styles. It's always been a case of when not if demand exceeds supply.
So what will happen? Good stuff at first I reckon as greedy buggers using V8s and 4wds to drive 1km to kiddies school or the supermarket will be forced off the road and people, and just maybe Govts, will finally realise there is a place for motorbikes & scooters on our roads. They may be forced promote bikes by lowering rego and insurances etc, instead of viewing us as second rate citizens and a nuisance on the road. Don't know how many on here remember high school car parks in the 70s. Early to mid 70s there were rows of small motorbikes and a few cars (at my school anyway). After the fuel shortages had past came cheap jap car imports that replaced the bikes with students cars.
We might see that reversed again in a few years. Can't see that as a bad thing. Less pollution, less congestion and less boy racer car pile ups and more room on our roads to ride.
We need to penalise large cars commuting with single occupants (guilty myself) and reward/encourage small cars and bikes for inner cities especially.
The London city congestion fee is a good start. Some European cities have banned all cars from CBD.
So the price rises may hurt us all in the pocket but it just has to happen sooner or later.

[Brian d marge]

Agreed a lot of lifestyles will have to change ,,,,Mind you theres that NZ company making plastics from potatoes ,,,our bills the plastic in the envelope is made of Soya .

Ethonal 85 as I have already said ,,,

Finally as has already been said ,,,, bikes arnt actually as eath safe as we may think ...a 1000 cc diesil emissions are quite good ..( better than Monooxides!!)
and can get very high kilos per litre ..( even better if the car is used to capacity ,,,)
Having a look round my place would I miss dino juice ,,a little ,,
I mean is beer made from petrolium...no ... Nowt on tv ..wouldnt miss that ...Internet ,,yes would miss that ...very much ,,,
Racing ..my mx bike can run on Ethonal 85 ..

books ,,,,,nope they are made from trees ,,good quality rainforest trees ..
Bacon sandwiches ,,,nope they come from the bacon sandwich fairy ....

Music ,,,nope that comes from the internet ,,,,

Electricity ,,,nope thats Nuclear ...... so internet safe ,,,,,

Would we really miss gasoline or petrolium??? or is it just an easy way at the mo .....

BTW You can blend Ethanol in any ratio with gasoline ....


Stephen

[TwoSeven]

Interesting views on Campbell live tonight about the 'peak oil crisis' when all reserves on the planet are being pumped dry but demand continues to grow. I agree with them that we are all headed for a major world shift in life styles.

This is what I said in an earlier post but I think it was over everyones head to understand

[pete376403]

Dont expect petrol prices to come down anytime soon. High prices are here to stay for good. Wholesale Brent Crude is at an all time high of over $65.00 per barrel. Why else would the Americans be in Iraqi? Just bought some oil stocks last week to make some money on the high oil prices.

Most of the reason the price is $65/bbl and rising is BECAUSE the US is in Iraq.
Until Georges adventure started the price was fairly stable. Since The US invaded Iraq is producing even less oil than it was before. And the strife the US is causing in Venezuela isn't helping, either.

[campbellluke]

This is what I said in an earlier post but I think it was over everyones head to understand

I look forward to your post on Jan 1 2011 when this never happened.

[Zapf]

Most modern cars are very economical, we have a 2004 Toyota Caldina GT Four at work that supposedly uses 6.5 litres per 100km, thats pretty good isnt it? What sort of fuel usage are most getting, personally I have no idea what my bike uses, when it gets low I fill it up, (tripmeter doesnt work, sorry....)

supposedly? Its a 2L turbo.... I would think it use more than that....

I have a Honda Jazz, pretty much one of the more economical car around and that does 17.5km/L around city. A petrol electric hybird might do even better...

[Zapf]

Not sure if this has been posted yet but the main reason most are upset by the fuel price hike is because it went up to pay to fix auckland roads.

When I first got the bike up and running here in NZ it took $17NZD to fill it from bone dry. Now it takes just shy of $22NZD to fill. Not too much difference but still...

no... that is what the goverment told the rest of the country so that Auckland would take the blame for the fuel hike... can't you see they are playing regions against regions?

What happened to all that government surpluses?

[Zapf]

I think the government should really do a carrot and stick approch to gas guzzlers... tax the big V8's and give incentives to smaller more economical cars... and bikes.

I might be voteing the greens just for this...

[Waylander]

no... that is what the goverment told the rest of the country so that Auckland would take the blame for the fuel hike... can't you see they are playing regions against regions?

What happened to all that government surpluses?

It's paying off the student loan interest.

[Marmoot]

Petrol price?
I don't bitch about rising petrol price!

I only bitch about tax not going down and my pay not going up

[Bonez]

Time to drag the cb250rs out of the garden shed and get it back up to spec and road legal me thinks. Mind you 320ks on th GBs 14ltr main is pretty good.

[MikeL]

Well I've got a dinky little Toyota Starlet which is supposed to be super-thrifty. Fill it up for $35. Do 100 km and the needle hardly moves. Next day it's on 1/4. Wtf???
Oh, wait, I think my son might have borrowed it...