How expensive does petrol need to get

Daegerty

Before the ould horse & cart becomes a viable option for transport again?

amacca

Personally I'm already considering using a bicycle much more often (help me keep fit anyway) and motorbike for any long journeys (bit more fuel efficient)

cage is a 2.8 litre intercooler turbo.......

starbelgrade

That depends on how much a horse & cart costs, their running & repair costs and the relative value you would place on them in terms of comfort, speed, time saved vs spent on using them and the price of hay.

jimmycrackcorm

When fuel becomes too expensive we'll all be eating the horses and burning the carts for warmth.

Absurdum

I put €110 worth of petrol in mine yesterday

Degag

Fúck your Honda Civic i've a horse outside..... and so forth.

Numb.Muzik

Absurdum wrote: »

I put €110 worth of petrol in mine yesterday

And how long would that last :O

jimthemental

Well I'll put it to you this way, if it gets more expensive I'll have to move to Carlow or emmigrate because I'm driving 90+ miles a day to and from work. Personnaly I think if it gets much worse Fine Gael wil drop revenue a bit on it.

Absurdum

Numb.Muzik wrote: »

And how long would that last :O

a week if I'm lucky

brianthebard

Absurdum wrote: »

I put €110 worth of petrol in mine yesterday

What car was that?

jimthemental

brianthebard wrote: »

What car was that?

Bullshít, I'd stil fill mine with around €75

ottostreet

jimthemental wrote: »

Bullshít, I'd stil fill mine with around €75

Emmm...you do know some cars have huge fuel tanks? I know Voodoomelons 7 series takes that much! I'd well believe my own car would take 100 euro easily (im too scared to try though)

Lapin

Pint of Guinness in my local pub is €3.70

Therefore 1 litre of Guinness works out at roughly €6.50

I litre of petrol in my local garage is €1.50

So when the price of petrol catches up with the price of a pint - I'll start panicking. :cool:


I hope the new Minister for Finance isn't reading this.

ascanbe

Daegerty wrote: »

Before the ould horse & cart becomes a viable option for transport again?

Petrol will become increasingly expensive as oil supplies dwindle; unless there are huge undiscovered sources out there, this will happen.
It's not as simple as saying mankind will revert to the horse and cart, though.
If oil supplies dwindle to a critical level, those in control of it will no longer be willing to sell it; they'll be keeping it for themselves/using it to barter.
Huge reserves of oil would still be required by the general populace, in terms of creating and running carts and transporting horses in any way other than by foot/hoof, amongst many other things.
Basically, the population explosion on earth is as a result of the discovery and refining of oil and pretty much everything we do in living our lives these days is reliant on oil; if/when it runs out, if there is no alternative/equally useful energy resource discovered/created in the mean-time, the population of the earth will be reduced by hundreds of millions and probably billions.
And there's no reason to think that those of us residing in this country, if that happens, will fare particularly well.
Don't mean to be alarmist; that's just the way i see it.

FearDark

About three fiddy.

phasers

never mind petrol, if fuel goes up by much more we'll all have to go back to living off potatoes because everything else is imported!

Mister men

I hope it keeps rising. It will keep the riff raff off the roads.

Mister men

phasers wrote: »

never mind petrol, if fuel goes up by much more we'll all have to go back to living off potatoes because everything else is imported!

No we'll be fine. We grow our own mushrooms and carrots now.:)

mikemac

Used to cost around €5.50 to fill my moped and that would do for a week
Now it's closer to €7, it's breaking me

stovelid

Mister men wrote: »

I hope it keeps rising. It will keep the riff raff off the roads.

The people that actually own cheaper cars as opposed to having a second mortgage on some ostentatious ****-mobile, you mean?

mikemac

On another note, read somewhere that one analyst reckons fuel is still cheap

€1.50 for a litre of fuel that was explored for, drilled, extracted, transported and refined. You need teams of experts and engineers before you even find any oil

On the other hand, people pay €1.60 for a litre of lucozade in Spar and that's just water and other ingredients processed in a factory. Not like you have to drill or refine it.
And some pay over a euro for a litre of bottled water

Just saying

stovelid

feelingstressed wrote: »

On another note, read somewhere that one analyst reckons fuel is still cheap

€1.50 for a litre of fuel that was explored for, drilled, extracted, transported and refined. You need teams of experts and engineers before you even find any oil

On the other hand, people pay €1.60 for a litre of lucozade in Spar and that's just water and other ingredients processed in a factory. Not like you have to drill or refine it.
And some pay over a euro for a litre of bottled water

Just saying

Conclusion: Lucozade-powered cars.

mikemac

stovelid wrote: »

Conclusion: Lucozade-powered cars.

A trip to Dragons Den I think :cool:

up for anything

My car would take over €110 to fill it at today's prices. I put in a tenner a day and sometimes do that twice. The car would probably vomit if I put in more it's got so used to that. Reminds me, must buy oil. Fecking town driviing. :mad:

phasers

Mister men wrote: »

No we'll be fine. We grow our own mushrooms and carrots now.:)

Suppose we can have a nice stir fry

grudgebringer

Could always pump some money into an electric car, over the next few years I am sure they will become much more common and with the gov/esb locked into a contract to provide over 3500 charging stations and a free one (charging station, not car!!) to the first 2000 residential customers its a good option, especially if you just look at them as an option for fuel powered replacement

Bummer1234

feelingstressed wrote: »

On the other hand, people pay €1.60 for a litre of lucozade in Spar and that's just water and other ingredients processed in a factory.

Is that a special offer on lucozade,Perhaps thats a 380ml bottle??

df1985

Ive already started planning/considering journeys a bit more, usually Id go one place and then maybe come home, then go back out, etc etc.

For example yesterday I had to run into town in the car, so i packed the gym bag for the way home, did the shopping on the way home and some other errands.

Usually id come home from town, passing the gym, sit on my arse, then go back to the gym etc etc.

Probably should have been doing it all along really.

My mates have girlfriends on opposite sides of the city.......its killing them on pertrol!

SafeSurfer

I don't think the horse and cart will make a widespread return. I mean think about it. People in urban areas having horses, hay having to be transported by horse and cart into towns and cities to feed the horses, parking your horse outside work for 8 hours etc etc. Would be handy for coming home from the pub though.

Electic or hydrogen powered vehicles are a much more likely outcome of rising oil prices.

Professey Chin

grudgebringer wrote: »

Could always pump some money into an electric car, over the next few years I am sure they will become much more common and with the gov/esb locked into a contract to provide over 3500 charging stations and a free one (charging station, not car!!) to the first 2000 residential customers its a good option, especially if you just look at them as an option for fuel powered replacement

Id like to get to Dublin without having to recharge for a few hours 1st

Faith+1

Petrol is only going one way and that's up. The world has already reached peak oil years ago and demand is continously increasing so we're fu*ked unfortunately. If €1.50 is high give it another 10 years, it'll be at least double that.

the groutch

stovelid wrote: »

Conclusion: Lucozade-powered cars.

how about Gasohol?

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