Yeah the "one day" is here
Petrol prices at BP Autobahn of 98s are $1.999 per litre.
The "two dollar" era has begun
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Yeah the "one day" is here
Petrol prices at BP Autobahn of 98s are $1.999 per litre.
The "two dollar" era has begun
If you can make it on Kiwibiker you can make it anywhere.
on the up
I'm getting perilously close to a $40 fill on the RF.
And what do you think's going to happen if we migrate to public transport in large numbers? You can be damn sure the price WON'T go down.
Interesting article on 3 News tonight regarding the boom and bust cycle of oil, and that eventually this will have to ease.
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Don't bet on it. Its called peak oil guys, its what happens when half of a finite resource is used up. The other half now has a greater demand on it, unfortuanatly its actually what makes the world go around..
Like it it or lump it its here to stay. My advice? Join the oil industry
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Of course the price won't go down.Originally Posted by riffer
Public transport is contracted out to commercial operators who run the services at a loss. This loss is then subsidised by contributions from local and regional councils.
Even if people migrate to public transport in large numbers, the services will still run at a loss. The only thing that will change is the size of the public subsidy.
Hardcore Biker
Hah! Never thought i'd say this but I agree with Skiddy!!
The only thing that will reduce the amount of cars on the road is hit drivers where it hurts, ie: the wallet.
I've already sold mine, and am saving loads.
How many cars do you see every day, sitting in peak traffic with one occupant? Think many of them can afford to do that 5 days a week when gas is $2+ per litre? Get them carpooling, onto public transport, whatever, and the roads might finally start to clear.
I'm hopeful anyway.
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I dont think bikes are that much cheaper. For me, anyhow, it is cheaper to run my wifes hyundai 1.3 hatchback than my zx9r. Cost me $120 the other week to go to Hamilton and back.
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You poor man.
Sounds like you are living in purgatory.
Ever thought about shifting closer to work or working closer to home.
I guess you don't work ten hours a day and sleep ten hours a night.
How's your carbon footprint?
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Hardcore Biker
I'm pretty sure 98 has passed the $2 mark up here. 91 is 1.98.
Hard to believe we still have relatively cheap petrol in the scheme of things. I think the UK is getting close to 1 pound a litre. Ouch.
Forum whore
it seems funny to me how the price has gone up so much
ok , we pay about double the price for fuel now to what a remember it being .
years ago ok
so i think its just got to go up in a hurry because when there start putting in the bio fuel , the price will have to be more then as well , so its kinda easing us in the the future price, without us realising it .
think about it if the prices was say 1.59 a litre ok and then you get the addition of bio fuel , which i guess will be expensive .
Youd get a jump from say 1.59 a litre to maybe 2.10 a litre
imagine what will happen then , so i think its pushing up to meet that figure .
Im just guessing here . But i wouldnt be surprised that the price of fuel will settle at 2.10 2.15 a litre .
ok this price could be a couple years down the track , but lets see in a couple years or 3 time
Hardcore Biker
What I can't understand is when Bill Birch signed us up for long term oil contracts at $89 a barrel in 1979 (3 times the spot market price!) the price of gas was about $1.50 a gallon.- about 33c a litre.
Now they want 6 times as much.
What's changed apart from the oil companies being allowed to own petrol stations?
Great example of the free market bringing us cheaper prices. Yeah right.
Is it all going to pay invisibles; freight, insurance, refining etc.?
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Agreed, if you are heavy on the throttle and run soft rubber then the cost per km would easily work out more expensive than a car.
With oil prices increasing tyres will also get more expensive to produce, and for me tyre's would be the second most expensive part of owning/maintaining a bike.
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Hardcore Biker
Good God Keith, Who on this site honestly gives a toss about carbon footprints when we go stomping all over Northland and the Coromandel because it's a nice day?
If you want to burn petrol, do it, but be prepared to pay, and don't moan too loudly. As for Biofuel.........What a have.
See you at the ATNR?
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I've gone from a Wrx wagon @ roughly 10km/L - Driving nice to my zxr which uses bugger all and is more fun...
did some 200km on sweet 10L or something... funny how i always checked the fuel eco in the car and can't b arsed with the bike...
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Oil companies owning petrol stations really have nothing to do with it.
The simple fact is that there are more people in this world who want to buy oil than there is oil being produced. This means that oil has become more valuable, and naturally the oil producers are able to ask a higher price for it.
If we don't want to pay the asking price for oil, the rest of world will.
Hardcore Biker
It seems like a case of having your cake and eating it too. If we imagine that we have a share of the world's resources then why waste it on pointless travel. My sense of values doesn't put gliding (stomping in your case apparently) all over the beautiful parts of NZ. What a waste of a life spending nearly four hours a day commuting. Daylight saving wouldn't have to much effect on SPman at a guess.Good God Keith, Who on this site honestly gives a toss about carbon footprints when we go stomping all over Northland and the Coromandel because it's a nice day?
If you want to burn petrol, do it, but be prepared to pay, and don't moan too loudly. As for Biofuel.........
See you at the ATNR?
As for Biofuel ..... Making it myself could be the only way I am going playing in my Safari in the future. I went out in it today. Found the fuel gauge reading dangerously low. Put $20 in it which nearly brought it up to E.
ATNR sounds a good call. I need to find $64 dollars to fill the bike up. How weird does that sound?
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