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Title: Petrol rationing? Post by: Manky Monkey on January 24, 2011, 10:51:07 PM Did anyone see the headline in the Daily Mail today?
"Now they want to ration petrol: MPs back token scheme as prices are set to hit £8 a gallon by the summer" Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350021/Petrol-rationing-proposed-MPs-prices-set-hit-8-gallon-summer.html#ixzz1Bznr7Eqw I know the Mail's notorious for it's doom & gloom outlook, but still a bit worrying. At this rate, by the time Taz & I get all our projects finished, we won't be able to use them :( Title: Re: Petrol rationing? Post by: Tony oily bike on January 25, 2011, 07:08:04 PM Just topped the car (just an ordinary mass produced non-performance tin box) with diesel and it cost me over £78 for a nom 50 L tank!! (I had run it low)
Got me thinking to when I had my FS1E back around '76, and petrol was around 75p a gallon.... sigh Found this pdf from the AA of fuel prices from 1896 – 2004, scary viewing http://www.theaa.com/public_affairs/reports/Petrol_Prices_1896_todate_gallons.pdf So maybe the next project should be a pre-war (if 1929 is "pre-war", for the MoT issue being discussed elswhere) petrol tanker...... which might around the 'rationing' issue..... :D Title: Re: Petrol rationing? Post by: Dslam on January 25, 2011, 07:32:45 PM I have a feeling its the other war. You know, the first one. So you will have to invest in a horse & cart or maybe a steam powered thing and a load of milk churns!!
Title: Re: Petrol rationing? Post by: Al on January 25, 2011, 08:23:55 PM do you not use the old bio-fuel minted apart from the winter runs minted it is only 80p a litre at the pumps it is £1.29 cant grumble got to change filter more but live with that
Title: Re: Petrol rationing? Post by: Strangely Made on January 28, 2011, 11:33:58 AM Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, maybe I should go duel fuel on the VW and fit an LPG tank some where.
Title: Re: Petrol rationing? Post by: blair on January 28, 2011, 02:46:41 PM theres plenty of alternative fuel sources but the goverment doesnt want you to use them as they will loose out on the revenue they get from the oil companies
rape sead oil chip shop fat ( good for use fat blokes ) methanol ( by producet of beer making good for use beer drinkers ) methane ( good for cows and country smells ) anyway i thought you only ration something when theres not enough of it ? ??? not because its too expensive Title: Re: Petrol rationing? Post by: triker_Chewie on January 28, 2011, 03:47:32 PM http://www.thegoodoil.tv/ (http://www.thegoodoil.tv/)
Title: Re: Petrol rationing? Post by: Manky Monkey on January 28, 2011, 08:12:21 PM ;D Around Oz on a bike powered by cooking oil. Brilliant.
If we ever get Taz's 6 1/4 litre V8 Dodge Charger on the road, we'll be fitting an LPG tank in the trunk. 10 miles to the gallon on petrol -it'd take a week's wages to go to the shops & back. Title: Re: Petrol rationing? Post by: dobber on January 29, 2011, 10:55:40 PM i run a 08 dodge ram, 5.7 petrol. put it on gas from day one, April o8. gas was i think 49p litre then. filled up at local Morrison's and is now 73 p. thinking of finding an accommodating farmer. apparently they use it for crop drying and pay no duty. sneak a pump outta sight then run their motors for next to nowt.
Title: Re: Petrol rationing? Post by: Plasticpig on January 30, 2011, 10:06:40 AM How about this?
http://infogreenglobal.com/cella-hydrogen-based-synthetic-fuel-with-no-carbon-emissions/ |