Treasury Dept. announces new $20 bill....

dalecosp

Here.

😉

piersk

Huh? I don't get it...

pohopo

He is saying that it now costs $50 bucks to get the same amount of gas you used to get for $20 bucks.

dalecosp

Or, in Brit: now it takes 50 pounds to buy 20 pounds worth of petrol... 😃

Thing is, it's true, pretty much, here in the USA, and just in the last year or so.

Finally, everybody understands (maybe?) the "finger"? The old guy in the photo at bottom is doing something that I have seen before with a similar sentiment, but located with hand in crook of elbow. Does that translate at all?

bpat1434

Hahaha!!!

Now's when I'm happy I'm vehicle-less....

Elizabeth

Yes, and we love the fact that Exxon made $8.4 billion in profit for the first quarter of 2006. Warms Americans' hearts.

vaaaska

Entropy™.

Weedpacket

Gee; that reminds me. Time to revisit this question and see how things have changed since?

Hm... here, 96 octane is about 3.92 USD/gal now. That's a 25% rise in a little over two years.

piersk

Here it's about £1 per litre for unleaded, so it's nearly £4 a litre. Thats about $7.35 a litre!! Wow I didn't realised it was so expensive.

Jason_Batten

Take a bus.

piersk

I don't drive anyway

bpat1434

AshtrayWaterloo wrote:
The secret to lowering your country's gas prices is simply by taking over the country that drills for the most oil. Come up with some silly reason (say, weapons of mass destruction are there) and you'll be home free.

I vaguely recall somebody trying this recently, can't for the life of me remember who....

:-)

Ash

P.S. Relax, I'm only joking with you! waits for hatemail to begin

I'd like to point out that this in fact DOESN'T work!! Well, it might if we had a competant leader... but alas.... 51% of the freakin US voted Bush 🙁 But I guess he was the lesser of two evils....

I once heard that two engines were created that ran on no or very little oil based fuels (one on magnetism to be exact, the other on like corn oil or something like that) but the automakers gobbled it up to help keep the oil companies in business (and rich). My question is this: Where are they now? If it's true, that vehicle would totally make a killing. You could guarantee people they could run their car on their daily trash!! (Back to the Future: part II) Seriously!!

I hate my government.... and it's not gonna change for another 2 years... unless someone has an idea as a nice way to revolt against a bad government.... anyone? crap... didn't think so....

piersk

Don't hybrid cars run on very little fuel?

bpat1434

Debatable.... you still have to fill up every now and again though. And they aren't that more efficient than regular cars. Look at the MPG ratings.... you get like 5 extra miles.... not a whole lot.

What I was referencing was a vehicle that didn't require an oil based fuel/petrol to be used. So the engine would run on magnets or something, or on a ethanol fuel or something like that. Now that I think about it... wasn't there are car that would run on water? or hydrogen... Hydrogen... I think that was it...

Off to google...

I Knew It!!
BMW H2R
MIT article
This... just... too good to be true...

Elizabeth

Wish Cincinnati had a decent mass transit system, but alas we don't. I don't know how do-able it would be for me anyway, as I'm always in the car going from home, to work, to my daughter's school, to my school to teach, and back again. I'm glad I'm able to work at home a few days a week, though- that saves tremendously.

dalecosp

Weedpacket wrote:
Gee; that reminds me. Time to revisit this question and see how things have changed since?

Hm... here, 96 octane is about 3.92 USD/gal now. That's a 25% rise in a little over two years.

My quote for low-grade then was $1.39, and last week the same fuel was 2.79. That's 51% higher. And during last September's Hurricane "scare" (if you will), I think I bought 20 gallons or so (in cans) at 2.93.

So, I suppose I should've made my little rant/joke page with a $42 dollar bill, but I couldn't find a photo at the Treasury site.... 😃

bubblenut

We've just had a Bio Fuel car entered into the British Touring Car Championships if I'm not mistaken. I can't seem to find it on the BBC website at the moment but I'm sure I watched a clip about it over the weekend. Runs on ethenol made from grain. Hopefully this will shut some of the "but you just can't get the same performance" petrol-heads up.

I think one of the factors which people often seem to forget is the environmental aspect. Luckily the two go hand in hand over here (UK) at the moment because of government subsidies. A friend of mine fitted an LPG unit to his car and made his money back in less than six months. The cost was kept to the minimum by fitting it himself but still, it's a considerable saving and you get to drive around with that warm fuzzy "I'm better than you" feeling. Of course, I'm better than everyone because I just get the train and the bus everywhere 😃 😉

bpat1434

Of course, I'm better than everyone because I just get the train and the bus everywhere

Does that mean I'm better than you because I take my bike and feet everywhere? Can't be much more environmental friendly than that!! 😉 😃

dalecosp

bpat1434 wrote:
or on a ethanol fuel or something like that.

IIRC, thirty years ago I was reading about someone in Mexico running a bus on methane from chicken "litter".

Lord knows people that raise 'em would like it if we all did that ... neighbor to the North spread "turkey litter" on his fields y-day. We went to town to eat 😉

goldbug

piersk wrote:
Don't hybrid cars run on very little fuel?

The problem with hybrid cars is cost, as they exist currently. We did the math on hybrid versus "normal" cars a while ago and came to a shocking conclusion: cost-to-operate for the hybrid model was higher than the cost of the equivalent gasoline-only models. Lots of car salesman try to trumpet the fuel-savings aspect of hybrids, and it really does add up. The problem: the fuel savings does not add up as quickly as the cost of replacement batteries (every 10 yers or so)--they are quite expensive. Add that onto the additional cost of the hybrid model over the fuel-only model, and it's a losing venture.

Therefore, imho, the reason to by a hybrid is not to save money, but rather to reduce emissions.

Saving money driving using current technology = diesel.

The best way to reduce both, obviously, is to combine trips when possible, walk when possible, or ride bikes or take public transportation.