Maybe a Nissan dealership in 2010:I think an investment in a company with exposure to new car retailing might be a good investment if the comes a time where the is a wide spead move to alternative vehicles,... think about the number of cars that will have to be replaced as conventional combustion engines become obselete.
All the cost of design and production changes will fall on the manufacturers where as the retailers will just make a margin on the higher sales.
Yeah you'll pay silly money for fast idiots. (And they're murder to hang a shoe on)We got plenty of horses and farriers at my work, and they would be quicker than most cars off the start! Only problem is that they cost a ridiculous amount of money.... between $1000-$20,000,000! and around $25 a day to agist them.
Shouldn't the government be spending more time on looking at alternatives? More incentives on hybrid cars, and gas?
With current fuel prices as high as they’ve ever been, are we going to see petrol reach two dollars a litre any time in the near future? According to David Thurtell, a commodity expert at the Commonwealth Bank, it would take decades for petrol prices to rise to two dollars a litre and by then we would hopefully be relying more on renewable fuel sources such as hydrogen fuel rather than fossil fuels.
“I think two dollars a litre is a very long way away,” says David. “If… terrorists hit the major Saudi refineries, for example, then oil could go to US$70 or US$80 [a barrel] and that would probably put 25 cents a litre onto the cost of petrol. But really we’re getting into speculative territory here.”
The NRMA is doing the only thing it can - denial. They'll be harping on about hydrogen and biofuels right to the bitter end rather than face the reality of an energy crisis.Taken from NRMA's Open road website, http://www.openroad.com.au/driverknowhow_fuellingthenation.asp
I think they need to update it! LOL
asxgorilla said:I already pay $2.35 a litre over here...and my girlfriend commutes 140kms round trip per day at the same price...it's far less painful than you think.
It's roughly 1000 litres per head of population per year. So about 20 billion litres a year. That's just petrol (all grades). Diesel is a bit over half the quantiy as petrol. All other things (kerosene, LPG, bitumen, lubricants, fuel oil, heating oil etc) are roughly 20% of the total.Does anyone know approx. figures of litres of petrol Australia uses per day? Like to work out how much the govt. get in revenue from excise and GST. per day. I think it will be staggering to see the result!
That's why I simply don't believe anyone who claims Australians want to cut CO2 emissions. Actions speak a lot louder than words and when it comes to action, most will spend a fortune on a big car but won't spend a relatively trivial $2K on a solar water heater. Enough said...I've told a few people I'll soon be selling my old 12L/100km car (once considered reasonable), and buying a small car that can achieve 6L or so/100km in expectation of $2-3/L fuel in 2009 or 10.. yet I still get abused for thinking of driving a "girls car". What a crock.
Try this, put 'cng honda civic' into google, you fill it up over night in your garage overnight off your domestic gas main . Randwick council pushes some of its trucks around with with cng now. If your an early adopter it could be years before the tax office works out how to levy fuel excise on you.
Actions speak a lot louder than words and when it comes to action, most will spend a fortune on a big car but won't spend a relatively trivial $2K on a solar water heater. Enough said...
It's roughly 1000 litres per head of population per year. So about 20 billion litres a year. That's just petrol (all grades). Diesel is a bit over half the quantiy as petrol. All other things (kerosene, LPG, bitumen, lubricants, fuel oil, heating oil etc) are roughly 20% of the total.
Those figures are very rough and from memory. The petrol one should be pretty accurate though. Fuel oil in particular has significant state by state variation in terms of consumption per head.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/11/2301042.htm
Petrol report a wake-up call: environmentalists
Posted 7 hours 3 minutes ago
Updated 5 hours 56 minutes ago
Environmentalists say a CSIRO report predicting the price of petrol could rise to $8 a litre in 10 years should serve as a wake up call to the public and governments.
oops
make that $7.95 if Bendan Nelson wins -
.. then again if Malcolm Turnbull takes over the Liberal reins before then, he doesn't promise to commit to give that 5c discount
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