Fuel Prices

[Bob_Roller]

It's increased about $.04 here in Phoenix since yesterday, seems like about 6 years ago I saw unleaded regular at $.86 per US gallon.

Not going to see that again, that's for sure !!!!

[Ed Miller]

Bob, I think you're right about the 6 years ago price.  But I think that was a dip, and it had been some time since it had been that low.

Personally if I owned an oil well I would charge all the market would bear.  And I would keep pushing that limit.  

I should calculate how high the price of gas needs to be to pay for me to convert my CRX or (gasp) my R65 to electric power, to be reasonable in price.  

Actually both bikes would not be hard to convert to ethanol fuel, though I don't think burning food is a good way to transport myself.  But who asked me, right?

[Melena]

Heh heh!  This topic sure caught everyone's attention!

I'm in Northern California north of San Francisco.  I got gas for the car over the weekend and it was about $3.35 a gallon for the middle grade, which my car seems to need.  Luckily I live only 5 miles from work.  I think I spend around $30  to fill it up.  I've got a 1991Toyota Camry that gets about 25 - 28 mpg.

I really should start riding to work.  40 - 50 mpg is soooo much better.    I've got to figure out a way to get my bike put away by myself.  I still have that darn curb to go over and the slope up through a gate.  Practice, practice practice.

A moot point right now as the bike is waiting patiently to have her charging system fixed.  (sigh)  And it's raining cats and dogs outside.

More on that in a separate thread!  

[mikeyd3]

I stopped buying fuel. I bought a cyphon and let my neighbor buy the gas. lol

[trolle]

Between 7.00 and 7.64 $ per US gallon here in Denmark, luckily I live only six minutes from work by bicycle, so I do not have to use my car or the Wh8la2.

I often have meetings in a town about 100 miles from my hometown. The roundtrip on the Wh8la2 costs me $31 for the gasoline, $2.5 in oil and $7.5 in tires. The depraciation amounts to $31.75. All in all $72.75. With luck the trip can be done in three hours, which gives $24.25 per hour.

Should the weather be foul enough to force me to use the public transportation, the same trip would cost me at least $77 and last more than six hours.

Your choice?

greetings from a cold, damp and snowy north

trolle

[Ed Miller]

trolle, your bike is not depreciating any more, if it ever did... is that some tax scam?  

You should fix your oil leak.  My bike needs less than a quart of top up over 5,000 miles.

Of course that quart gets artfully displayed all over the bike.  Weird.

[trolle]

Yeah it is a great protection for the engine and other artfully sprayed parts against the brine, we have to drive through in winter.

greetings from a snowy, damp and cold north

trolle

[thrang]

I'm not sure how much a gallon it is over here these days as the euro-nazi's have made us go metric, but it's £104.9 a ltr , and its just cost me £21 to fill the tank on the RT (I think thats about $40 US).

Dick Turpin (A famous higway man) at least had the good manners to wear a mask!

[Justin B.]

Thrang, I'm really hoping you put the decimal point in the wrong spot...

[thrang]

opps... yeah £1.04 doh!

[ken.turnock]

In England we are  paying

4.95 British pounds = 9.72873 U.S. dollars
per imperial gall

Or 1.1 British pounds = 2.16194 U.S. dollars
Per Ltr

[thrang]

I paid £1.06 a ltr this morning in ambleside.... ouch!

[SCJJR65]

Here in upstate SC, I paid $2.78 per gallon of regular unleaded.  Could be worse, I suppose.


And how in the Hell did Britta's photo get in Ken.Turnock's post above?

[Justin B.]

Probably because when you had me add your avatar I put it in the avatar directory and he picked it from the list.

[Bob_Roller]

The price for a USA gallon of 87 octane regular in the Phoenix area, looks like the price hit it's low this past week at $2.67US, as it's started to go back up, it's now at $2.78US.