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Well there was a news article today in australia, that prices could be at $3 a litre in the future 12-18months...fok that
Or will they just continue to rise?
I mean, filling up at 3.09 today was horrible.
And I fear it will only get worse.
When will enough be enough?
How high is high enough?
I been riding Via for about 2 years half the time. Maybe I will start riding it full time.
Well there was a news article today in australia, that prices could be at $3 a litre in the future 12-18months...fok that
3 gallons = 1 liter
so.......that would be 1 dollar per gallon?????
as long as were not allowed to drill for our own oil, then it will get higher and higher.
As long as oil companies are allowed to raise oil prices while recording record profits they will continue to rise.
Too bad we can't spend the same amount on researching alternate fuel sources that we do on this pointless war.
I think I'm going to get a motorcycle.
$3.21 in my area. lucky i get around 30 mpg.
Oh, for sake, get used to it.
Petrol has been artificially cheap throughout it's entire history - not only is oil a non-renewable resource, but not one cent of what you pay for it accounts for the environmental damage it does.
Current world oil supply is around 85,000,000 barrels/day (take a moment to consider that!), demand has been exceeding supply due to the hot global economy, thus forcing the price up. Add to this the fact that no new supergiant oilfields have been discovered since the 1970s (the 14bil barrels in Brazil discovered recently equates to about 165days of world supply), and that most of the world's large oilfield are at or close to peak supply, and you can see that over the medium term oil prices will increase significantly, and over the long term (50yrs) THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL.
The world should be adjusting to a future without oil starting now, but no-one seems to get that. If we don't start chipping away at this problem very soon the current economic crash will seem like a blip when oil supply really starts to tighten.
3.19 here.
And I just recently read an article that said we'll likely see 4$ this summer.
Smartest thing I've ever seen you say.
Imagine what pumping $200bil/yr into alternative energy research would do...
As long as liberals tie up new refinery construction for up to 10 years a pop in court, they will continue to rise.
I don't hear Democrats preaching alternative energy, just wanting to tax the oil companies more, who will in turn pass it on to you and me. In short, a stupid ass ing idea.
I blame inflation and sinking value of the dollar I saidd IS SAIAIAIADDD
Are you sure about that? I've said some pretty genius stuff.
Close. $3/liter is roughly $12/gallon.
I'd guess that the rest of the world pays, on average, $6-7/gallon now.
Demand in US for transport fuel took a big drop recently, indicating there is elasticity in demand. Taxes should force up the price of gasoline and diesel to force demand down, making alternative more attractive, and providing funds for research.
corn-ethanol is total bull , just another dubya disaster, "taxing" everybody's steeply rising food costs, on which you spend much more than on gasoline.
I want a car that runs on my own piss.
In Oz we are paying $1.20-1.40/L. In The UK it's closer to $2/L. Don't know about the rest of Europe.
Why people buy 5L V8s to sit in traffic jams will never make sense to me. If the whole world committed to only allowing small vehicles (bikes, motorbikes, cars with engines less than 1500cc) for personal use (larger vehicles would be acceptable for work purposes) in cities, combined with better public transport networks, the demand for oil would drop drastically. That would slow the rate of pollution and resource depletion, giving scientists and policy makers more time to find real solutions to these problems... but no, let's all drive SUVs.
Firstly, $3.09/gallon would make me jump up and down for joy here in California.
Secondly, the answer is not building more refineries and further raping the earth so's we can all drive SUVs. The answer is in making a concerted effort to research and develop alternate fuel technologies so that we can stop being so dependent on a resource that cannot possibly keep up with our consumption.
also dont forget the depreciation of a US DOLLAR doesnt do when buyin barrels, cose fuel companies would just increase the prices at the station just to make up for it.
Never heard of the old Supply and demand?
You failed out of school so Im sure you don't know that..
ya but thats not nearly the only answer.
if there were alternatives to gasoline or gasoline based products to fuel autos, then this is a bigger issue.
Its not. There is no alternative for the consumer.
However, I digress. Gas isnt going down, at least not for any significant period of time by any significant amount. Its as simple as that.
We are paying for our own sins now, we can thank Detroit and Big Oil for that largely.
An entire shift in our consumer and societal culture is the only way to change things and end the dependence on oil.
The libs have been the driving force for ethanol in Congress (particularly with that bill they passed back in December that mandated the six or seven fold increase in the use of ethanol or whatever obscene increase it was), shove your W. hate up your ass, you partisan little .corn-ethanol is total bull , just another dubya disaster, "taxing" everybody's steeply rising food costs, on which you spend much more than on gasoline.
I don't know if you have blinders on or are just that much of a liberal hack, but Pelosi drove the bus on that bill back in December, don't even try and hang it on W. Everyone in Congress on both sides of the aisle got some kickbacks out of that bill's passage, if you are going to call out Bush you best call out your liberal brethren in D.C., and both presidential candidates for your party as well (who voiced their support for the bill).
I thought you'd missed the point entirely by saying that there are no alternatives, but you didn't you hit it on the head with your last comment. We have to realise that oil is NOT a right we are born with. We have to change the way we live, and develop alternative transport technologies.* We have to do the same with electricity, the majority of which worldwide is coal-generated. We all take cheap energy for granted because we grew up with it, but energy has an economic and environmental cost. Time to wake up to that.
*corn-derived ethanol is a disaster - it is causing rising global corn prices as corn-for-fuel competes with corn-for-feed. At the end of the day, it is only a tokenistic response to the prolem. More promising would be using bagasse (sugar crop waste) and other crop wastes to generate ethanol. Either way, you'd need the entire arable land (ie. all the current food-cropping land) of 4 USAs to make enough ethanol to replace current US demand for transport fuel. it is a very small piece of a very large and complex puzzle.
You guys have it pretty easy. It's around 3.50 for regular unleaded in California. I would love it to be at the 3.09's.
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