They're predicting gas at $7 gal next yr (oil at $200 barrel).Still keeping your 993?
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#64
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Hi Gents
Here in the UK we are paying $10 per gallon........and we keep paying it and they, (the government), keep squeezing....... it's a very English thing to say "wotya gonna doo......" but you know what......things are starting to bite here.
I've started using my 993 at weekends and for freeway work only it's very sad, I don't believe that oil is running out, although i would agree it is a finite resource and a degree of responsibility is required, they went to war to protect our oil interests, or so some would have us believe and yet here we are paying $130 a barrel!!
They're pissing on our shoes and then telling us it's raining!!
Sheep are for shearing I guess........
Oh, by the way, any protesting or blockading of fuel depots in the UK now comes under the terrorist act 2006..........great
I don't see a lot of terrorists here in the UK, I do see a lot of Government intervention, surveillance, ID cards, paramilitary police etc etc
Love it!!
Sorry, rant over
Here in the UK we are paying $10 per gallon........and we keep paying it and they, (the government), keep squeezing....... it's a very English thing to say "wotya gonna doo......" but you know what......things are starting to bite here.
I've started using my 993 at weekends and for freeway work only it's very sad, I don't believe that oil is running out, although i would agree it is a finite resource and a degree of responsibility is required, they went to war to protect our oil interests, or so some would have us believe and yet here we are paying $130 a barrel!!
They're pissing on our shoes and then telling us it's raining!!
Sheep are for shearing I guess........
Oh, by the way, any protesting or blockading of fuel depots in the UK now comes under the terrorist act 2006..........great
I don't see a lot of terrorists here in the UK, I do see a lot of Government intervention, surveillance, ID cards, paramilitary police etc etc
Love it!!
Sorry, rant over
#65
Why would anyone here worry about gas prices or availability? As long as garages and trickle chargers don't become extinct, we have no problems. My 97 just passed 47,000 miles and I know I need to stop driving it so often lest it pass the dreaded 50,000 miles mark by about 2010.
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Okay, I'll chime in here...
I drive 25K miles/yr. in my DD(not p-car) that does 27 mpg.
The day that gas hits $5 bucks, I'm gonna buy a prius who can do 47mpg!
I drive 25K miles/yr. in my DD(not p-car) that does 27 mpg.
The day that gas hits $5 bucks, I'm gonna buy a prius who can do 47mpg!
#70
Race Car
no, they have their hands in the till !
do you really believe that first comment? Why would oil companies spend billions to build exploration rigs to drill in new locations here at home? So they can pass on cheap oil and cheap gas to us? They're making a raping on us now with the old crap in the gulf (and other locations) and pick up per barrel money of off middle east oil, whats the incentive to change that?
not flaming, just provoking thought.
#73
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i would not sell the 993 just for fuel price considerations.
i am lucky and have arranged my current work life to allow me to run or ride my bike to work every day. hey, it's only 6 miles.
as other people have said, the $7 per gallon fuel prices would effect me severely in many other ways long before i worried about pupming $7 fuel into my private car tank.
sigh
cheers
Craig
#74
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starting from the end...........
no, they have their hands in the till !
do you really believe that first comment? Why would oil companies spend billions to build exploration rigs to drill in new locations here at home? So they can pass on cheap oil and cheap gas to us? They're making a raping on us now with the old crap in the gulf (and other locations) and pick up per barrel money of off middle east oil, whats the incentive to change that?
not flaming, just provoking thought.
no, they have their hands in the till !
do you really believe that first comment? Why would oil companies spend billions to build exploration rigs to drill in new locations here at home? So they can pass on cheap oil and cheap gas to us? They're making a raping on us now with the old crap in the gulf (and other locations) and pick up per barrel money of off middle east oil, whats the incentive to change that?
not flaming, just provoking thought.
As someone who earns his living working for one of the major Oilfield Service Companies, I think everyone needs to realize that bringing new reserves online is a multi-year process (even when you know the hydrocarbons are there via test wells). A deep-water GOM field can take 5-8 years from initial planning to full-scale production. Onshore is much faster (2-5 years). This is why ANWAR is a great short-term answer, it is likely to be possible to bring supply in ANWAR online in the near-term (e.g. prior to 2015). Projects off of the coast of FLA and CA are much more involved, but gov't needs to permit exploration now in these areas because exploration and mapping is a 2-5 year process on-top of the drilling process. Reserves in these areas may be plentiful, but they will take 8-10 years before they would be supplying your local gas-station.
We've leashed US production by not at least permitting exploration. What needs to be done NOW is for govt to ease restrictions so new, advanced seismic survey's can be shot over ANWAR, costal CA, and coastal FLA. This is simply "priming the pump". Folks also really need to take a look at the environmental record of the industry in the US over the last decade...improvements in drilling technology have made massive strides in environmentally sensitive drilling, particularly horizontal reach wells (e.g. from one platform, we can drill many, many miles horizontally. Wells today look more like spider-webs than vertical holes in the ground. Go have a look at the OTC (offshore technology conference) website: http://www.otcnet.org/2008/ which was in Houston this week. Most folks have no clue how technologically advanced we are ;-)
You know, we all know how bad deferred maintenance is on our Porsche's -- we have been, and are, playing this game with our national resources for political expediency...this needs to end.
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#75
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Yea my GT3 will get 30 mpg if I put in in 6th gear and drive the speed limit. why in the HELL would I get rid of my 911? They have been paying $7 a gallon in Europe for a long time. Gas is just now approaching where it would be had it kept up with inflation of other goods over the last 30 years.
My BMW X5 gets 24 at best my wifes BMW Z4M gets 24 at best. The GT3 is the only econo box
in our family.
My BMW X5 gets 24 at best my wifes BMW Z4M gets 24 at best. The GT3 is the only econo box
in our family.
I am considering building an electric car for in-town driving. My colleague at work did that, but I would build something that performs like the Tesla. I can't get away from sports cars.