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DeepIron
05-23-08, 04:56 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWbjSnU1OCM&fmt=18

A bit of humor while the price of oil puts the whammy on us... :up:
Stealth Hunter
05-23-08, 05:55 PM
Exactly $135.09 per barrel.:nope:

We're doomed.
DeepIron
05-23-08, 05:59 PM
I got 200 gals of diesel in Winnemucca, Nevada yesterday and it set me back $985... :nope:
Stealth Hunter
05-23-08, 06:08 PM
Shall we break out our songbooks and begin singing "Nearer My God To Thee"? The RMS America is sinking, and we're going to have to choose to either abandon ship or go down with her.
jumpy
05-23-08, 07:27 PM
Price of diesel per litre in may 2007: 96.8ppl*

Price of diesel per litre in may 2008: 126.7ppl*

So 89 litres to fill my 300tdi landrover cost £86.15 in may last year. Now it costs £112.7
That's a 26 quid difference.

I've not had a full tank in one go for 6 months now.

If I was filling up 2 or 3 tanks a month to travel to work and the like, that's nearly an extra 100 quid a month. Robbing swine's.

Fortunately I've not been stung too badly on the road tax hikes - £200 per year now; if I owned a td5 from 2001 it would be £455.00! in 2010:eek:

I don't do many miles anyway and if I can walk to get where I need to go then I will. I do even less miles now.
I even used public transport to get from leic to bham last week (not having been on a train since before 1995, I was sort of looking forward to it). We paid for a return train ticket, about 9 quid, and ended up on a bus because there were no trains running on that saturday. :rolleyes: Public transport - I can't say what I really think of it on here.


*figures from AA fuel price archive and petrolprices.com (average prices)
DeepIron
05-23-08, 07:41 PM
Shall we break out our songbooks and begin singing "Nearer My God To Thee"? The RMS America is sinking, and we're going to have to choose to either abandon ship or go down with her.Nah... that'll just get the ACLU on our as*...
HunterICX
05-24-08, 03:55 AM
Exactly $135.09 per barrel.:nope:

We're doomed.

We're not doomed,
we are beeing screwed by the oil companies.

HunterICX
Von Tonner
05-24-08, 04:44 AM
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa130/shazavaar/gas.jpg
sunvalleyslim
05-24-08, 07:53 PM
Exactly $135.09 per barrel.:nope:

We're doomed.
We're not doomed,
we are beeing screwed by the oil companies.

HunterICX

Come on Hunter, The oil companies can only charge what the market will bear. The real reason is world supply demand. We have made China and India consumers. They are building all the worlds commodities. With work comes money, with money comes desires, and everyone in these third world countries wants a car just like you and me. So they go out buy that car cause they don't want to ride that damn bike anymore. And they got to put gas in that thing. So now it's not just you and me that wants gas. It's countries that have Billions of people that want some of the action, so it's time WE stop wanting what everyone else wants and go with something new. It will take them time to catch up....:lol: