Gas prices!!

Website · Post by **Damien** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:13 am

I hear that gas is gonna go up to 4 friggen dollars!! Its allready expensive enough @ around $3.30 or so where I live... How much is gas around where you guys live?

Post by **Eldo** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:30 am

Unleaded is $1.20 AU a litre which is fucking outrageous. But you guys had like, cheap fuel before during and after the Iraq war, didn't you? Australia still had expensive as shit fuel since ever.

Post by **Ellen** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:33 am

People were goin crazy at the pumps two days ago because they thought it was going over $2.00/litreCAD. This is from $1.05/L CAD to maybe $1.37 in some stations. Some independent gas stations took this as an opportunity to raise their prices to around $2.00 and up, but they were reprimanded. Things are still okay, even with the Rita aftermath. It wasn't nearly as bad as Katrina apparently.

btw $1USD ~= $1.20CAD and there are 4 litres in a gallon, so that means our gas prices are roughly $4.00 a gallon already

Website · Post by **Damien** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:34 am

Hopefully the prices will go back down to like 3.25..

Post by **ucrzymofo87** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 4:26 am

i just hope they get the oil refineries in the gulf coast back up and running. that would help lower prices

Post by **Gaiseric** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 7:29 am

I pay 2.99 a gallon for 91 octane fuel.

Post by **newbified** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:37 am

Yeah, there were some reports of gas stations around the Toronto area raising the prices to upwards of $2.40CAD a Litre...

That's just about $10CAD a Gallon ($9.60), which would equate to about $8.00US per gallon.

But yeah, on Thursday there were lines at the gas pumps, and it took us 30 minutes to get to a pump to fill our car up. Not to mention with all this extra traffic the city roads, and even the 401 was backed up to all hell.

Post by **Loeviz** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:40 am

In Sweden we pay about 12,30 SKR (and in US $ it´s a like 1,75) for 1 liter

Post by **Skullkracker** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:15 pm

The interpretations I've read about oil price is that it will decrease as soon as the market calms down...which may take a while IMO

but worry not, the prices can't go sky-high
at 80$/barrel alternative energy sources will become profitable

Post by **Necromancer** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 7:27 pm

I don't care that much for the gas prices (I have no car) but oil is something that is used for many things in nowadays life.

Post by **Skullkracker** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:15 pm

that means: if oil prices remain this high it very well may boost inflation

Post by **oneofakind** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:56 pm

Last time I was in Germany it was something like 1.30 € for 1l.
About 6 dollars for 1 gallon!

It´s time to change the fuel source and leave petroleum behind...

Post by **panasonic** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:03 am

we need them alcohol cars.... but tell the alcoholics its non drinkable first though

Post by **Skullkracker** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:20 am

you know the most envaironmentally friendly way of transport is:

horseeyyy

Post by **Loeviz** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:51 pm

Well I can´t ride, but it would be kinda cool if we all went over to only use them again though

Then we can start to rob bank´s once more and get away with it (Just like in the old west

).

Post by **Femto** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:06 pm

I use mass transportation.

Post by **Killfile** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:11 pm

Problem with ethonol as fuel (and yes, it is drinkable) is that it's only a net energy profit if it's a byproduct of some other agricultural process.

I.E. if you grow corn to feed your cattle, you can process that corn into sour mash, distil off the ethonal, and feed the fermented corn to the cattle. Net energy profit.

BUT

If you just grow the corn, ferment and fuel - you loose energy in the conversion process, because it takes more energy to farm the corn in the first place than you get out in fuel.

Because of this, while alcohol based fuels are certainly an excelent way to CONSERVE energy, they don't actually work as the foundation of an energy economy. You still need net energy input from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is still fossil fuels.

Post by **Necromancer** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:00 pm

Loeviz wrote:Well I can´t ride, but it would be kinda cool if we all went over to only use them again though
Then we can start to rob bank´s once more and get away with it (Just like in the old west ).

I want an undead horse! Hehe, but I too can't ride.
It's really about time we start to get profitable alternate sources.

Post by **Skullkracker** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:25 pm

I can...or rather could ride a horse
but there's something that needs less looking-after: bicycle

Post by **Loeviz** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:37 pm

Yeah but if you ride... The horse do all the labour. Can you see yourself bicycle for 10 hours straight ?

Post by **Skullkracker** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:37 pm

yes I can...boy do I look sweaty

Post by **Loeviz** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:55 pm

Hmm, maybe you could do something profitable with all the sweat then

like make a sweat engine you can put on your pedals...
I must be tired to even think about something like this.

Post by **Skullkracker** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:58 pm

how about this? a crossover of a gym and a power plant: just add a few generators to some of them torture devices and you already put that sweat to work

are we the only ones posting this evening?

Post by **Loeviz** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:15 pm

Hmmm a gym combined with a powerplant.. So it´s like run on body heat/sweat ??

Yeah seems like it´s just we thats posting at the moment

Post by **Necromancer** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:57 pm

Go try to invent a machine that produces more power than it uses and you'll get a Perpetuum Mobile.