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Rising Fuel Prices

Started by _Unidentified_ , Apr 18 2006 08:04 PM

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#126 lakeside

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Posted 17 May 2006 - 10:10 PM

one good thing it stopped the hoons on the roads

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#127 _CHOPPER_

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Posted 17 May 2006 - 10:13 PM

They're still out there, just less of them.

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#128 _devilsadvocate_

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Posted 18 May 2006 - 09:27 AM

I go through about 250 litres of LPG a week. That averages to less than 10% of my weekly wage.

I gather Chopper's figures are incurred in the process of earning an income?, the figures quoted are for private use.

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#129 _73LJWhiteSL_

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Posted 18 May 2006 - 06:35 PM

Choppers a courier i think....

Special deliveries

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#130 _CHOPPER_

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Posted 18 May 2006 - 08:14 PM

I go through about 250 litres of LPG a week. That averages to less than 10% of my weekly wage.
I gather Chopper's figures are incurred in the process of earning an income?, the figures quoted are for private use.

I'd like a few posters here to work out what THEIR cost of fuel per week is as a % of their wages. Would be interesting to see real world figures!

I responed to this request.

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#131 _Yella SLuR_

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 01:44 PM

A picture is worth a 1000 words:-

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#132 _73LJWhiteSL_

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 02:08 PM

I'd like a few posters here to work out what THEIR cost of fuel per week is as a % of their wages. Would be interesting to see real world figures!

My fuel probably costs me about 25% of my total wage, but then I only work part time and my study is a long way away.

Thats on gas by the way. On petrol its was a lot closer to 60% of my total wage.

If i was working full time my gas would be more like 10 - 15%

Steve

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#133 _CHOPPER_

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 10:08 PM

I go through about 250 litres of LPG a week. That averages to less than 10% of my weekly wage.
I gather Chopper's figures are incurred in the process of earning an income?, the figures quoted are for private use.

Just for comparison sakes, when I was in the tyre industy I was going through about 60 litres of LPG a week with this same van. That equated to about 4% of my weekly wage.

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#134 rodomo

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 10:10 PM

How much is a litre of milk?

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#135 _CHOPPER_

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 11:24 PM

About four pulls of a cows tit.

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#136 _ToranaGuy_

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Posted 20 May 2006 - 02:40 AM

Devils,

Well it's not that high of comsumption. Driving a Heavy EB GT Mockup, i do a tad over 800kms in my avg week, with work being about 100km round trip for me, 5 days a week. Meaning my avg fuel economy is a bit under 15/100. I can get it down to about 12.5/100 if i PUSSY FOOT the car around, but i can't do that, and it really doesn't save me much, only about $10 a week and takes me longer to get places. I should get the car tuned again, been about 35k kms since i've had the LPG ECU tuned. I change the oil, filters, plugs and other bit's n pieces myself about every 10 - 15k kms.

Not saying i'm a hoon, but i do like to put the foot down a bit upto the limit posted.

Yella, Love the pic make, it's just SO DAMN TRUE!

Chopper, thanks for the input, i'd love it if my fuel bill was only 10% of my income.

I spoke to my grampa about it some more, DIY fuel, and he said that if i can get the gear to do it cheaply enough i'd be laughing. My mum was also there and she was rather shocked i was talking about moonshining, reckons i shouldn't do it. Even for fuel. So my grampa encouraged me more, said when he moves to melb he will spend a few days over at my place and give me a hand to build a still if i want to. :spoton:

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#137 _CHOPPER_

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Posted 20 May 2006 - 11:13 AM

So gandpa has plenty of experience with stills? He would have gotton along well with my grandma while she was still alive.

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#138 _ToranaGuy_

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Posted 21 May 2006 - 01:50 PM

So gandpa has plenty of experience with stills? He would have gotton along well with my grandma while she was still alive.

Grampa had a bit of exp with stills, and i've come across a few sites online that show how to build a good reflux column still, for making real pure ethanol pretty easy.

Also been reading up on BIOdiesel. Interesting and rather easy to make. Been collecting some cooking oil for a few mths now, should have enough to make about 5ltrs of diesel just to see how it goes. G/f's bro has a diesel generator, will be giving it a go on bio. I'm thinking the odd time or two it get's used a year, between our two households we should go thru enough oil to produce enough biodiesel to power it.

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