The silver lining...

[Shugster]

There have been a few threads regarding the spiralling cost of Oil.

Whilst this is bad news for everyone but Shell, BP etc etc there are some positives that will come from all this...

1. Battery / Fuelcell powered cars. - These have been looked already but no one was going to buy a car that has a limited range, limited power and costs more than a coventional motor. If fuel prices do indeed double, car producers will have a very hard time selling new cars and will have to invest heavily in hybrid cars if they wish to survive.
So investment will increase sharply in the future and the cost of these new cars should fall.

2. Public transport will become viable again as less and less people can use their cars every day. (Although I don't think the government will invest anything it anyway).
DT_Xtremez_25:

 

[pie sandwich]

Well HONDA have started to produce a Hydrogen car, its only going to be released in small numbers in America to start with. But they do say once they can increase production and more refueling stations with Hydrogen they will be more available.

 

[Realist78]

The only snag is that the government will then hike taxes on Hydrogen, just as they did on diesel after conning the public into buying diesel cars with a low taxed fuel.DT_Xtremez_09:

 

[pie sandwich]

So cynical for one so young DT_Xtremez_30:

But they did the same with LPG, when that first came out it was about 15p per ltr now its three - four times that.

If they invented a solar powered car they would tax you for the sunshine used to fill it up. The robbing cnuts ::/:

 

[Realist78]

So cynical for one so young DT_Xtremez_30:

But they did the same with LPG, when that first came out it was about 15p per ltr now its three - four times that.

If they invented a solar powered car they would tax you for the sunshine used to fill it up. The robbing cnuts ::/:

The state of cynicism does not exist!DT_Xtremez_28:

 

[rest have risen above me]

Whats LRP?
That's being sold at 99.9p a litre here.

I assume Lead replacement petrol but I'm not sure.

 

[Heilan]

LRP Is Lead Replacement Fuel, but even that is being phased out, as there isn't the demand for it.

 

[Rich_P]

I thought LRP went out years ago. Very surprised to hear that some places are still retailing it. DT_Xtremez_41:

 

[rest have risen above me]

I am quite north though.
The garage here is selling LRP for 99.9 just wondering whether it's worth the risk of doing for the cat in my car lol

 

[Realist78]

I am quite north though.
The garage here is selling LRP for 99.9 just wondering whether it's worth the risk of doing for the cat in my car lol

Off Topic There's another con! Engines with fuel injection systems generally can pass the emissions test easily - without a cat, fecking californians!!!

 

[Rocket_Ronster]

There have been a few threads regarding the spiralling cost of Oil.

Whilst this is bad news for everyone but Shell, BP etc etc there are some positives that will come from all this...


2. Public transport will become viable again as less and less people can use their cars every day. (Although I don't think the government will invest anything it anyway).

Whoa there fella. We don`t want you. We`re maxed out already, with no new stock anywhere on the horizon.

(Big thanks to John Major for "privatising" the railway, a step that even Maggie thought was too far.)

 

[MontyPlumbs]

Whoa there fella. We don`t want you. We`re maxed out already, with no new stock anywhere on the horizon.

(Big thanks to John Major for "privatising" the railway, a step that even Maggie thought was too far.)

Agreed, although investment wasn't exactly forthcoming during the BR days either. It's only due to luck and the fact the Victorians were so good at building railway infrastructure that the whole lot didn't cave in years ago!

 

[pie sandwich]

RR

Please bear in mind this is in no way a dig, However if you were in charge and thought that selling off public transport could save your government i.e. us, a few bob you would do it. But they would have thought long and hard about doing it but they could in no way foresee how it was going to turn out 20 years later.

The whole network was almost on its arse back then. But like all businesses they are out to make a profit which means more bums on seats for more money.

They will always put their share holders before the customers so unless they have a change of heart and put us first and not themselves then we will be sh1t out of luck when it comes to public transport.

 

[Ex-Bay]

[/rant on]
What p1$$es me off about the whole thing is the assumption that Public Transport will be there for general use. It might work in a City but in the Rural areas - forget it.

I remember ol' 2-jags Prescott muttering about it a while or two back. Thre was no response round my area at all. Perhaps someone could tell these idiots that it's a good idea to have the Public Transport system up and running FIRST, and only then tell folk to get out of their cars.

I used to work at a secret military base with a Wolves postcode, a distance of about 16 miles up the motorway. When my car was in for a service, I first tried the bus (there was none) and then the train (change in Wolves) and a longish walk to the office. The so-called Public transport cost more per day than my car, took longer and I was late home; the carriages were cr*p, crowded and insufficient.

I really do wish that some politico would try and see things from a rural perspective a bit more often!.

[/rant off]


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