Fuel is cheap

Can you name another liquid, apart from tap water, that is cheaper?

Think about the steps involved to get it from the ground to the pump, I mean think about how hard it is to build a platform in the North Sea
which then drills down... way down to get the oil. Then you've got to refine, store and ship it all over the world.

And it's cheaper than orange juice.

The other amazing thinig is that you can buy a machine, brand new, for around $13,000 - with warranty
This includes a stereo, air bags, remote locking, alarm etc etc.
You can then put 4-5 adults in this machine and travel at 100kmh + for hour after hour, the cost of which is about 10c/kilometre!

And all this runs on the cheapest liquid I can think of. It's even cheaper than bottled water. I think it's bloody amazing.


Edit: Distance between Sydney and London is about 16,000km.
You can get a one way ticket for around $1600, or 10c/Km.
That's you and your luggage flying at 1,000kmh for 10c/Km.

Now I'm thinking perhaps we are all spoilt

evlPanda said...

Fuel is cheap

And it's cheaper than orange juice.

...but I don't drink 80 litres of orange juice a week

The only reason petrol is cheaper than beer is because the government taxes the hell out of beer. When I made my own homebrew it cost me about 10 cents a litre. Petrol is cheap too, would be cheaper if the government didn't tax it so much. We need to use it all up before the upcoming alien invasion.

I for one welcome our new alien overlords.

home brew petrol/ethenol ????$$$$

I have no objection to the price of fuel. If it stays put!!!

What I do have objection to is the parity pricing introduced in the 80's (?) when the alternative (cheaper fuel) means we could be self sufficient, thus lowering the price of manufacturing, agrigulture and mining and therefore making more money for australia.
What I object to is the companies putting the price up on Friday before a long weekend, claiming it is a normal cycle, and the impotent knobjockeys at the ACCC claiming they will take action.... 5 yrs later nothing has changed.
What I also object to is the inflation caused by fuel prices- which is massive (25% increase in groceries in 2yrs!!!!) but the Govt claims it is still about 4% or something. Bvllsh!t!!!!
I also object to the fact that some countries still pay half what we do.... and their fuel production is much LESS than Australia's. IE- the import it cheaper than we sell it here??? WTF???

I also object to gas for 3c / litre to China, especially when we now have a gas crisis in WA!!!

Agreed Mark, I just don't understand the logic of virtually giving our resources away. Sure we have a lot of them but they aren't infinite, when they run out our descendants aren't going to be very happy with us for squandering them.

Mobydisc said...

Richiefish said...

home brew petrol/ethenol ????$$$$

Already happening. People are making their own diesel or reusing cooking oil.

2yrs. ago i was so interested in a Discovery Channel series about a plant whose seeds burn for bout 2mins. the size of a peanut only to know we had it in our island and are called Jatropha Curcas..so i sought the help of my alumni La Salle Univ. chem. studes and the prof. gladly introed me to 4 of them who decided to make a thesis on refining it to biodiesel from raw oil..well their thesis was tops and made them summa cum laudes and i sent a few liters to the Dept. of Energy and the Petron refinery for analysis and lo and behold, btu, flashpoint,sulphur,and hectane values was better than that of diesel...but never took off..studies show we need thousands of hectares just to make it feasible

To understand why fuel and everything else is happening you must look at the big picture.I watched the Zietgeist movie last night and i urge everyone to see it.......

stribo said...

To understand why fuel and everything else is happening you must look at the big picture.I watched the Zietgeist movie last night and i urge everyone to see it.......

no one questions why water is more expensive than petrol.... anyone wishing to watch zeitgeist, please pm a postal address and i will send you a free copy

evlPanda said...

stribo said...

To understand why fuel and everything else is happening you must look at the big picture.I watched the Zietgeist movie last night and i urge everyone to see it.......

Stribo, meet teabagg.

Yes it's all a horrible, horrible conspiracy and we are all suffering slaves.

Look at these, poor, miserable slaves. They have no idea how good the world could truly be. If only they woke up:



I prescribe this:
Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
Ballantine Books, March 1996, ISBN 0-345-40946-9, 480 pgs

Amazing how close we are to slipping back into the dark ages. It really is.

Panda this picture can change overnight and it has before.....
Yeah i watched it and it's pretty plain as day whats going on...but hey what can i or anyone do about it???? Jack schitte i'd say
So i'll keep sinking piss and windsurfing for as long as i can[}:)]

easty said...

evlPanda said...

Fuel is cheap

And it's cheaper than orange juice.

Yes but if orange juice were cheaper I could use my skills learned building an orange powered radio to construct an orange juice powered car using old remote control jet hopper engines. Krudd could give me a grant.

evlPanda said... I live work and breath in society, but really I'm somewhere else

Quote of the year!

timomo said...

stribo said...

Just a thought panda but i wonder how many windsurfers are in spiraling mortage and credit card debt and a day on the water is their only escape from their enslavery.................

Oh woh is me, id rather be working 15 hours a day in a field, eating my one meal with th e 3 knarly teeth I have left, and have ten children in the hope that one of them will survive long enough to care for me in my old age.

Watch the movie timomo.The alternative does NOT have to be the dark ages......

Over 100000 people in Australia homeless,troops at war,rising intrest rates/inflation,etc.etc....yeah where doing alright.....

timomo said...

stribo said...

Just a thought panda but i wonder how many windsurfers are in spiraling mortage and credit card debt and a day on the water is their only escape from their enslavery.................

Oh woh is me, id rather be working 15 hours a day in a field, eating my one meal with th e 3 knarly teeth I have left, and have ten children in the hope that one of them will survive long enough to care for me in my old age.

perhaps we can dispence with the houses and road and medicine and all that realy anoying stuff,
move into to teapeas and kiss butterflys

I think stribo was exaggerating the enslavery bit, but yes...

To expand on my fuel is cheap rant: we have really, really got it good compared to 100 years ago. Science and technology have really improved our standard of living and our health, enormously. Who can't say "thanks science for making me feel better at some point in my life"?

Bit like "Life of Brian". "And what have the Romans ever done for us, eh? Apart form the roads, schools, sewerage..."

Stribo is right though, empires can and do collapse overnight.

PS I'd like to see the govt. at least consider inflating our way out of debt, a little bit.

Sure, I agree but the purpose of society is to move forward and does, we havent finished yet, not by a long shot the idea is that colectively we solve problems, 150 years ago horses shat and pissed everywhere and in new york they generated swimming pools of the stuff everyday, then someone made the car and everyone thought how clean and wonderous, now we know its a piece of ****, its not easy to change over night but it will because in the end we as society are working towards inproving things.politions may be tools but I dont believe they enter the world of politics to make life worse for everyone, if it was all consipacy and toss, we would all be slaves (i dont mean mortgage slaves, you choose how to spend your money, no one else) and have no choices, prospects, education,money, partners, children or quality of life. we certainly wouldnt have marvelous sailing equipment currently brought to you by wonderous petroleum products!

yes, I can picture you teabag, sitting next to your teapea weaving your hemp kite while sipping ginseng to cure your teburculosis. good one.