Gas Prices

[trebuchet03]

Originally Posted by Peakster

There's virtually no reason to drive a car that has more than 4 cylinders these days.

Puh... my mother's car is a 4cyl... and 2.5 liters and an auto At least the gearing is okay.

[SVOboy]

If only the US hadn't pulled out of Kyoto...we would have higher gas prices and more efficient cars to show for it!

[Mike T]

I love it. Bring $2 a litre on!

[Peakster]

Originally Posted by Mike T

I love it. Bring $2 a litre on!

Lol. I drive one of the more fuel efficient cars on this site and even I worry about what will happen if $2 a litre came to be this year.

- People would steal gas like lunatics. Rip off the licence plates, wear hooded a sweatshirt & sunglasses then blatently take it from gas stations in huge hoards.
- Activists would crash/destroy/torch higher-priced name brand gas stations in anger.
- Innocent people would be killed/injured over this materialistic fuel.
- SUVs and trucks would be vandilized and gas syphoned from them.

Someone somehwere should make a blockbuster movie about such a situation. Gas prices $15 a gallon = lunacy everywhere!

The good thing about that situation is that after the huge revolution, everyone would be driving electric scooters, walking, riding their bikes everywhere and it would be a happy ending.

[landspeed]

Originally Posted by Peakster

Lol. I drive one of the more fuel efficient cars on this site and even I worry about what will happen if $2 a litre came to be this year.

- People would steal gas like lunatics. Rip off the licence plates, wear hooded a sweatshirt & sunglasses then blatently take it from gas stations in huge hoards.
- Activists would crash/destroy/torch higher-priced name brand gas stations in anger.
- Innocent people would be killed/injured over this materialistic fuel.
- SUVs and trucks would be vandilized and gas syphoned from them.

Someone somehwere should make a blockbuster movie about such a situation. Gas prices $15 a gallon = lunacy everywhere!

The good thing about that situation is that after the huge revolution, everyone would be driving electric scooters, walking, riding their bikes everywhere and it would be a happy ending.

We pay $2 a litre here now (in the UK), and there is no civil unrest.

When the price went about ?1 / litre though, there were blockades by lorry drivers which caused chaos everywhere and the prices dropped (then began creeping up again from that point). I wonder if we can do that next time they get so high?

The other day I saw a Pontiac Trans-Am drive by, and wondered how they can afford to run that in the UK??

[MorningGaser]

In San Francisco, it's already $4 plus....check this link:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/18279439/dis...stry/18425670/

[Mike T]

I remember when the price of a pint of ale in London went to £1 for the first time (around the summer of 1984), everyone was freaking out. Ahh the good old days. Back then it was still 60 p in the country.

Even at $2 a litre in Germany, people (including me) drive over 200 km/h....so no there won't be civil unrest, unless Canadians are more hot-headed than other nationalities

[BeeUU]

Originally Posted by MorningGaser

In San Francisco, it's already $4 plus....check this link:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/18279439/dis...stry/18425670/

It is 3.30 to 3.90 here in the Seattle area. Moving fast.

[GasSavers_Red]

3.41 last time I checked

[VetteOwner]

$2.98 pisses me of...2 months ago it was down to $2.08