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Will fuel at $3.35 a litre (in less than ten years according to Caltex) put you off racing/driving donkeys k's to races?

I'm with Noel and the 110 brigade from now on!
12 (63.2%)
Mebbe one less long distance gig a year
2 (10.5%)
Might for the non-turbo'd V8 instead
2 (10.5%)
Looking admiringly at the old bongo van again, and 125s only
3 (15.8%)
I'm with Noel and the 110 brigade from now on!
0 (0%)

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Offline Gerard De Ruyter (Twistandshout)

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Bang for your buck
« on: March 05, 2008, 03:44:39 pm »
Could be back to home stills pumping out high octane vege oils folks!
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Offline Hoony

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Re: Bang for your buck
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2008, 05:01:29 pm »
in ten years time i think my body will decide that for me anyway.
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Offline Nathan S

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Re: Bang for your buck
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2008, 07:16:13 pm »
Nice bit of market conditioning from Caltex there.... Tell us that we'll have to pay $3.5/litre, and then we won't bitch and moan too much when it gets to $2.50/litre....

If petrol went to $3 tomorrow, the direct costs would hurt, but wouldn't really change my behaviour much.
What would be the killer, is the way it'd significantly increase the cost of everything, due to the increased costs of transporting stuff around the country.


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Re: Bang for your buck
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2008, 07:17:06 pm »
In ten years time I'll be 68 and driving an electric wheelchair most probably. I won't care.
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Re: Bang for your buck
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2008, 07:45:57 pm »
in 10 years time, even at $3 a litre, petrol will still be cheaper than bottled water..go figure  :D
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Re: Bang for your buck
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2008, 08:12:13 pm »
I was in Norway last year and petrol was that already when converted, its a reality for Aussie eventually, ditch the V8 while you can!
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Re: Bang for your buck
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2008, 08:17:14 pm »
All we need is a Moonshine still in the back yard ,enough to go racing on sunday and just a liitle to go a drinking and a dancin on saturday night,
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« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2008, 08:31:38 pm »
AH what the hell .....we will be in the recession we had to have and interest rates at around 20% ......sound familiar  ;)
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husky61

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Re: Bang for your buck
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2008, 08:41:48 pm »
Buy a V8 or better still a V12 jag . that way you pay for the extra motor oil they consume or leak.

Get a 500cc bike whilst your at it. Hang it , get a bunch of 500's. And better still get a 500 husky , they leak oil like jag's , dont want get caught be an underconsumer now do we.

You only go around once so you might as well go as fast as possible.

Oh ,also get a four wheeler to tow the 500's , they suck it  down better Linda Lovelace did in that old movie.

Shoey
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Re: Bang for your buck
« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2008, 08:53:00 pm »
whats methonol made from ? can we get it from sugar cane ? we can race on fructose, nutra sweet ? in 10 years there will be somthing that burns !
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Re: Bang for your buck
« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2008, 09:07:32 pm »
Four strokes?.....
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Re: Bang for your buck
« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2008, 09:13:57 pm »
no they dont burn they break
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Re: Bang for your buck
« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2008, 09:38:56 pm »
alcohol, ethanol, methanol ,whats the difference,
try ; ask.com
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Re: Bang for your buck
« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2008, 10:22:51 pm »
We just signed up to export  $20 billion worth of LPG to China to run their cars and industry,While us suckers  continue to be ripped off by the big oil companies till the last dollar can be made.Why don't they make it more attractive to sell more LPG cars till another alternative (which the oil companies now buy the rights to and put in the bottom drawer or shredder)  can be found?   Market forces and Politics = Tax $'s
   
     Now if we throw away all those ugly vintage fuel tanks and replace them with 12 kg LPG barbeque gas cylinders, and.............................!
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« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2008, 12:45:07 pm »
ahhh...LP eh..wonder if they'll make a fat/skinny type LPG tank for desert racers ;D   ohhh.. just had a vision  :o gas bottle between the legs conjures up horrific premonitions  :D
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