I know you are all sick of this topic (fuel prices) but...

[blossomsowner]

they dont earn it, they just had their jobs handed to them on a platter....




feel free to go out there and do better....anyone

saw another thread earlier.........seems that "tank" is in the running.

has some pretty interesting policy ideas as well.

[skidMark]

stupid question , but if it works for cars why not use LPG in a bike

Tank maybe not strong enough. hmm gas cap would need changing to.

Gas tap also probably...

And err..... would you wanna crash with a tank full of highly compressed gas under you...

Ba booooooom

**gulp**

[skidMark]

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Rightyo. Well if they cant afford to put the gas in it they shouldnt have a car, it's quite funny how everybody seems to have a car, it seems the norm, they arn't a luxury item like in the 1930's etc.

Yet hang on people still got around, i believe they used a thing called legs. and bicycle, which also used thems new fandangled leg thingymajiggywhatjudermacallits.

[Disco Dan]

Rightyo. Well if they cant afford to put the gas in it they shouldnt have a car, it's quite funny how everybody seems to have a car, it seems the norm, they arn't a luxury item like in the 1930's etc.

Yet hang on people still got around, i believe they used a thing called legs. and bicycle, which also used thems new fandangled leg thingymajiggywhatjudermacallits.

So when are you next walking to Auckland for a visit?

[skidMark]

So when are you next walking to Auckland for a visit?

Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooont

Skid.

[Mikkel]

Stop fucking whinging or stop buying petrol... EASY! [/end topic]

Perhaps try and realise that some day you won't be able to buy petrol in the first place and that when that happens shit is REALLY going to hit the fan!

[Hinny]

In many parts of the country their is a levy of four cents / litre to pay for Auckland motorways.
The rural sector has to pay higher prices initially for the oil companies added delivery charges. Their ire at having to fund roads for a population most consider economic parasites is understandable.

[What?]

Never seen a poor petrol station owner. Never.

That's possibly because they have all shut their doors and walked away.
I know, and know of, quite a few who have done that, and more who soon will. The only way to make a buck out of pumping gas is to pump HEAPS of it, and prop that up by selling over-priced soft drinks, lollies and bread.

[ambler]

Who cares even if it was $5 a litre we still have to buy it.

This guy doesn't.

[candor]

Its just like NZ tobacco, price unrelated to cost - our Govt saw an opportunity to extra extort us and blame the Arabs . Gas is only NZ $1.20 in Asia. Fewer MPs to support though. Time to pull that CNG plan out of the bag again - source it locally.

[Jeremy]

Sourcing it locally won't help. Petrol is fungible. We could guarantee the supply but the cost would be the same.

[Hinny]

Running vehicles on water raises interesting questions.
Does it work? I met the guy over the shore that has a bike running on water. Nice, smart man.
Conversion costs. How long before 'alternative' fuels go the same way CNG did in the past. (PS I had a Hemi 265 on CNG that returned the equivalent of 17.62kms/litre at av. speed of 105kms/hr.) That's better than my bike.
Road user taxation.
Supply. Local govt. has us drinking out of the toilet at the moment. Good water is more expensive than petrol. I guess we could all get tanks and collect our rainwater. We'd be alright here in Auckland.
Years ago a plan to refill oil tankers with water for the return journey to the middle east was scrapped after objections from environmentalists concerned mainly about the pollution created cleaning out the tankers. Maybe we could use tankers to ship excess water from Fiordland, as per the original plan, around the world in clean tankers. No need for sluicing out dirty old oil.
Convert Comalco into a Hydroxl conversion plant after the Aussies abandon it because our cheap Benmore electricity is too expensive for them to use.
Pretty neat sustainable cycle.
Or we could follow Neddy Seagoon's suggestion of shipping all our excess rain off to some dry and arid place where they desperately need it. Fill up with hot dry air for the return journey.

[idleidolidyll]

I can still remember when petrol was .60cents a litre,

ahh youth...........i remember when it was 39c a GALLON! That's just under 9c a litre!

[flyingbrick]

Rightyo. Well if they cant afford to put the gas in it they shouldnt have a car, it's quite funny how everybody seems to have a car, it seems the norm, they arn't a luxury item like in the 1930's etc.

Yet hang on people still got around, i believe they used a thing called legs. and bicycle, which also used thems new fandangled leg thingymajiggywhatjudermacallits.

I'm not even going to attempt the required retort to this in its entirety. I'm sure there are enough people here of adequate morel standing to know what I'm thinking right now.

HOWEVER.. I must get this out of my system. And yes its a personal attack. I've seen others say similar; Skidmark blasting seems virtually customary here.


Thread after thread I'm confronted with your moronic ramblings. The forums would be better off without you.

Thats all. Toned down a bit on what i was going to say.. sorry guys.

[peasea]

I'm not even going to attempt the required retort to this in its entirety. I'm sure there are enough people here of adequate morel standing to know what I'm thinking right now.

HOWEVER.. I must get this out of my system. And yes its a personal attack. I've seen others say similar; Skidmark blasting seems virtually customary here.


Thread after thread I'm confronted with your moronic ramblings. The forums would be better off without you.

Thats all. Toned down a bit on what i was going to say.. sorry guys.

No, please continue.........