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

[Ixion]

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

And *I* remember the enormous storm of protest when it was raised from 3/4d (33c) a gallon, which price it had been maintained at, by law (back then the government set the price for all essential commodites) , for many many years.

Butter , by the way , for the housewives present, was 2/- (20c) a pound (500gm) for most of my youth. I was regularly sent to buy it from the corner shop, and I knew all the prices because they never changed.

[idleidolidyll]

shit you really are an old codger!

pounds shillings and pence left these shores when i was almost in double digits!
twasn't till 74 they'd allow me a licence (i was driving/riding by 12)

[DingoZ]

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

Wow......Whats a gallon................

[idleidolidyll]

Wow......Whats a gallon................

good question actually

in britain its about 4.5 litres

in amerika its about 3.8 litres; remember this when some yank tells you how cheap gas is by the 'gallon' in yankerland

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[cowboyz]

I get sick of the mentality that there is no point in complaining about it till it becomes out of reach expenisive. Surely there has to be something done about it before then. Did anyone catch that thing on the news last night (I missed it but saw the advert) about spikes coming up when driving into a fuel station in (UK??) to stop runners?

[hazard02]

Its all a conspiracy. You've all laughed it off for years when you heard stories about petrol companies assasinating the inventors of electric vehicles, and paying engineers to keep their water powered cars under wraps whilst whisking the schematics away so nobody could ever find them.
Skip foward to petrol hitting $200 US a barrel. Its rediculous, there's riots in the streets, gun battles erupting, economies collapsing...
Then out rolls the brand new Mobil X-1, the worlds first completely practical solar-electric/water powered vehicle which solves all our problems! All for the low price of $40g. Don't tell me this wouldn't sell like wild fire and make those Oil companies even richer...

[DingoZ]

No but there are quite serious talks underway with most major franchise owners, to make PRE-PAY compulsory at all times of the day now...

One local owner I was chating to was commenting on this and said. Bloody good idea, then noticed I was on a bike, and said to me, pre pay sucks for you guys...?

Answer yup....

Hmmmmm he goes, if they make it compulsory you might just have to unlock your fuel cap and bring in ya keys and then we can clear the pump...

Just a thought, but hey at least he is thinking of alternatives for bikers...

[Kittyhawk]

well why not look at converting??


fuel is fuel right...why not convert the engine and convert the fue typel?

there is a small group working on it..

just run the bikes on beer, they can ride themselves

[DingoZ]

Great the bike not you gets done for being under the influence and you have to catch a taxi home...

But I only put $5.00 of light beer in officer, not full strength....

[ambler]

Its all a conspiracy. You've all laughed it off for years when you heard stories about petrol companies assasinating the inventors of electric vehicles, and paying engineers to keep their water powered cars under wraps whilst whisking the schematics away so nobody could ever find them.
Skip foward to petrol hitting $200 US a barrel. Its rediculous, there's riots in the streets, gun battles erupting, economies collapsing...
Then out rolls the brand new Mobil X-1, the worlds first completely practical solar-electric/water powered vehicle which solves all our problems! All for the low price of $40g. Don't tell me this wouldn't sell like wild fire and make those Oil companies even richer...

Not so long ago there was an extremely succesful electric version of Toyota's RAV4, they were selling faster than they could be made. The project was stopped after only building about 1500 vehicles, and although Toyota has never really said why, the worldwide patent rights to the large-format NiMH batteries they were using had become the property of Chevron-Texaco. And would it surprise you to know that currently Chevron now only allows smaller NiHM batteries to be produced?
Here's some interesting reading - electric vehicles are not future technology, they're past technology!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV

[hazard02]

I was just taking the piss, but this does sound a little fishy. Perhaps this was a pilot run to test the market for electric vehicles in preparation for the situtation I propsed?

[Hinny]

Skip foward to petrol hitting $200 US a barrel. Its rediculous, there's riots in the streets, gun battles erupting, economies collapsing....

Doesn't this happen in Mad Max when gas hits $1.20 a litre?

[marty]

gas in switzerland is currently €1.80/litre (NZ$3.69)

[tri boy]

Kill more dinosaurs, problem solved.
"Cum ere Ixion, and hold this bomb shaped thingy, whilst I round up old rider"

[jonbuoy]

Not so long ago there was an extremely succesful electric version of Toyota's RAV4, they were selling faster than they could be made. The project was stopped after only building about 1500 vehicles, and although Toyota has never really said why, the worldwide patent rights to the large-format NiMH batteries they were using had become the property of Chevron-Texaco. And would it surprise you to know that currently Chevron now only allows smaller NiHM batteries to be produced?
Here's some interesting reading - electric vehicles are not future technology, they're past technology!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV

0-60 in 18 seconds, equivelant of 100 MPG and they were still selling like hot cakes? A diesel electric would out perform that, not to mention the cost of having to replace all those NiMH batteries every few years because they got tired and have bugger all capacity and die when you least want them too. Battery technology isn't there yet and won't be for a while yet.