The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: Bob_Roller on August 08, 2009, 09:46:37 AM
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Kinda curious what fuel prices are around the world these days, significantly lower than this time last year .
Price for unleaded regular at the local station I usually fill up at is : $2.60US/US gallon, which works out to be around .49 euro/liter .
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You would faint if you filled up in the UK you will struggle to find anything under a pound a Litre 1 pound is tradeing at 1.65 dollars today i was on holiday in Wales last week and some garages were at !.15 a Litre thats about $5 a gallon i think???.
Lou
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That's about $6.24-7.17US/ US gallon .
That's a pretty steep price from our point of view !!!!!!!
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About $2.39/gal around my village in North Texas. Monte
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Hey Lou, how much of that is tax? We pay about $.40/gal in tax to the greedy bastidges in Washington who then take our money and give it away. I work in the oil patch, have for over 30 years, and I've seen prices rise and fall, boom & bust, several times. You'll never convince me that the spike we saw last year wasn't orchestrated by OPEC and the Axis of Evil as a way to influence politics in the USA. Guess what? It worked!
If you want to get an idea how prices are going to be in the coming months then monitor the worldwide rig count. If the rig count goes up, then the price of oil is going up. If it starts to fall then oil prices are going to fall. Right now we're kind of holding steady.
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were are taxed to death the bulk of it 65% i think is fuel duty then theres 15% vat on top??? tax on tax?? then we pay road fund tax currently 65 pounds for rolling r65 rubber on the road if you think thats bad you should try operating a commercial vehicle 4k road tax for a truck i give up wheres the social security office maybe monte could point me in the direction of the mouse mats
Lou
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I never really pay attention. I have a hundred mile a day commute and I'm not willing to get killed by a logging truck at 3:30 some rainy morning on my bicycle, so I buy gas. >:(
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Filled the bike today - $1.69 a litre for 91 octane.Fuel prices went up 5 cents a litre this week.
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$1.31 for a litre regular non ethanol unleaded over here at the moment.
$1.41 /l for 95 octaine.
$1.46 /l for 98 octaine.
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Prices have started creeping up here in the Phoenix area, and with a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico, it's sure to go up, just because it can .
Current price for 87 octane unleaded is $2.66US per US gallon, looks like that works out to be around $.85AU per liter (litre?) .
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Interestingly for Australia at least - diesel is $1.14 per litre.
Historically - for the past as long as I can remember diesel has always been about 10-20c/l more expensive.
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Here in the US, the price of diesel has been about 20% less than auto fuel, then around July of '08, it was as high as 25% more than auto fuel, currently, it's around 8% less than auto fuel here in Phoenix .
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I'd love to get my hands on one of these
http://www.dieselmotorcycles.eu/
Phenominal range.
Not sure about the engine hangin down like it is.
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Here's a diesel Kawasaki single cylinder bike the US Marine Corp has been using for a few years .
http://www.dieselbike.net/kawasaki.htm
Not available to the general public .
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How the the US marines enjoy it?
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Outside of that website, haven't heard anything about the bike .
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I'd love to get my hands on one of these
http://www.dieselmotorcycles.eu/
Phenominal range.
Not sure about the engine hangin down like it is.
Ill bet it sounds as bad as it looks. [smiley=embarassed.gif]
Lou
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We've got a pressure washer at work, that has a 12 hp, single cylinder diesel engine carburated, not injected, and it has the most obnoxious sound while running, I can't imagine riding a motorcycle that sounded like that .
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Gas is up 5% in the last month in the UK we have this wonderful thing called the "Fuel Escalator" an added tax which increases yearly beyond the rate of inflation the increase has been suspended for the last 12 months due to recessionary pressures now re introduced.......if we follow the logic behind this tax a litre of fuel will eventually cost more than the car.(or bike)
Lou
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Noticed unleaded regular is $2.31 USD in Denton, Texas. 02 SEPT 09
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The price has stayed at $2.60US per US gallon, for about the last 6 weeks at the gas station I normally patronize here in the 'Valley of the Sunstroke' .
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Wala... :D
http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx[media]http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx[/media]
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I'm so jealous when you guys in the land of plenty talk fuel prices. We are paying almost $6 a US gal and rising.
I Bought some BP oil shares as a hedge against rising fuel prices. Not sure if it's going to pay off but it makes me feel better.
Might be cheaper to move to North America.
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I'm so jealous when you guys in the land of plenty talk fuel prices. We are paying almost $6 a US gal and rising.
I Bought some BP oil shares as a hedge against rising fuel prices. Not sure if it's going to pay off but it makes me feel better.
Might be cheaper to move to North America.
Bad news BP went down today even with the Monster find!!
Lou
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I'm so jealous when you guys in the land of plenty talk fuel prices. We are paying almost $6 a US gal and rising.
I Bought some BP oil shares as a hedge against rising fuel prices. Not sure if it's going to pay off but it makes me feel better.
Might be cheaper to move to North America.
Bad news BP went down today even with the Monster find!!
Lou
Well, the issue now, according to BP, is the question of actually getting to the treasure chest of dino. If I understood the article correctly, there would be over eight miles separating the drilling platform and the oil; eight thousand feet of water and 35000 feet of seabed. BP is not yet totally committed to saying it is a doable deal.
That expensive investment with no guarantee of success likely effected the stock value. Huge gains will require even greater risks of failure or success. Whatcha think they'll be asking for a barrel of their deepest? Me? I'm not holding my breath.
Monte
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That expensive investment with no guarantee of success likely effected the stock value. Huge gains will require even greater risks of failure or success. Whatcha think they'll be asking for a barrel of their deepest? Me? I'm not holding my breath.
The prices we see posted are all about commodity traders buying & selling contracts. The energy market today is incredibly skewed and does not actually reflect supply & demand. Oil should sell for about six times what natural gas sells for and right now it is selling for about 24 X the price of gas. The only thing I know for sure is we aren't drilling and aren't going to until we see some market stabilization - maybe late 2010 or even into 2011. At least that's what the Brain Trust tells me. I filled up the Guzzi the other night with premium for $2.59/gal. At that price I can afford to ride.
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I don't pretend to understand the oil market, just bought into BP about 6 months back when the price was low because I thought the world will be wanting more of the stuff in a few years time. So far I'm not complaining.
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Here in the Irish Republic we`re paying between €1.15-€1.20 per litre for Unleaded and €1.03-€1.15 per litre for Diesel.
I don`t have a Can-Bus calculator to do the math but I suspect the Death Valley to be more welcoming price wise !!! :(
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Noticed unleaded regular is $2.31 USD in Denton, Texas. 02 SEPT 09
This Labor Day weekend, I topped up the Cabriolet and '81 R65 for $2.27/gal unleaded. Monte
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Yesterday, I put $7.00 worth of unleaded regular in Blackjack at $2.25/gal.
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Is this going to change? With the Fed printing money to buy Treasury Debt with...I don't have a crystal ball...but this sounds incredibly bad. Bad as in ghostbusters bad.
Where is that d@mn crystal ball.... :-X