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I have an EH sedan and I know the price of petrol has me considering selling as I am finding it difficult to run my normal every day car on top of having to find the money for petrol for my once a week run for my EH.
Perhaps I may just have to face up to the fact I can't afford 2 cars and the EH will have to go...... but guys it would break my heart to have to do so !!!
Do you think the cost of petrol will force ordinary income earners to sell their classic car and how do you think the petrol price will affect the sales value of these cars ?
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hi ejeh,
I am surprised no one has put there two bobs worth in your topic??
for me i would think the speculators causing the price of fuel to be where it is, will be shut down? if not, then the selling of cars will be last thing anyone will be able to d |
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When it reaches $2.00 I'll scrap our v8 and just use the 6 cylinder, that is untill it reaches $3.00 and at that stage it'll have to give up the hookers just to pay for the fuel.
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When it reaches $2.00 Ill scrap our v8 and just use the 6 cylinder, that is untill it reaches $3.00 and at that stage itll have to give up the hookers just to pay for the fuel.
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that would be a terible thing for u rodder, if the price gets to $3.00,
what a sacrifice you will have to make? bugger!!
i am already cutting down on driving heaps, and considering making a trike for a daily runner?
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This "fuel crisis" is a major beat-up by the oil barons,limiting the amount of oil produced,pushing up prices of a barrel of oil.Funny how the car manufacturers have seen the light and have decided to push on with alternative fuels and suddenly Saudi Arab
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one good thing is high prices keep a lot of idiots off the road.
but the new v8 s are getting 30 mpg so that is pretty good economy, but to hit the oil price the only response is for everyone to stop buying from the one company till the price goes down s
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Convert to gas...my EH has been on it for 10 yrs..way before it was fashionable to do so...they even subsidise it now.
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This is what I do.
Only drive the old holden on special occassions. Ie not commuting..
Ride the pushy where possible.
Have a crappy cheap runabout to use. (We got a mazda a 626 for 3 grand. Looks lame but cheap to thrash around in)
Take the train wh
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My Monaro is on gas (great) but i have to use my commie for work.
Just watching the late news.....BP servos bumped up the price to $1.71 and some Caltex.....18 cents above wholesale.
Soon as the cameras got there the prices lowered to $1.69....Pr@#ks
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I have a couple of v8 classics ,I take them out mainly on club runs which is once a month or a couple of trips in between so the cost is no big deal, I would spend more in one night if I went out on the piss than petrol for a couple of cruises.
People ha
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hey guys,i dont know what your petrol prices are at over there but here in ol NZ its up to $2.30 at the mo for 98 octane BP,(need to run that in moto x bike) cost me 80 odd bucks just to do race on the weekend,its beyond a joke!!
For normal 91 octane its
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A news article on the front page of the local fish and chips rapper about fuel prices made me laugh.
She said she did 100 kms a week in a Tarago, and it was costing too much, but dropping the kids to sport during the week and trips from Newcastle to Po |
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Hi Guys.
Some very good points have been brought up here. We are in a recession & things are tough, budgets will be stretched.
Petrol is a rip-off, but it's not the Arabs this time, just some pr**ks on the stock exchange, but many people are over re |
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Hi Guys.
Some very good points have been brought up here. We are in a recession & things are tough, budgets will be stretched.
Petrol is a rip-off, but its not the Arabs this time, just some pr**ks on the stock exchange, but many people are over rea |
If at first you don't succeed, just call it Version 1.0 |
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i have given up smoking to pay for my weekly drive in my HQ haha!
the worst thing is they have put up the price of white cans (jim beam cans) so with the cost of fuel causing me to drive less gives me more drinking time but i cant afford to drink becaus
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Id rather drive my 253HQ Tonner that gives me about 18/19 MPG than some rice-rocket that gives 35MPG, no matter what the price.
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I'd rather drive my 253HQ Tonner that gives me about 18/19 MPG than some rice-rocket that gives 35MPG, no matter what the price.
Bambino
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i see a depression on the way with petrol and diesel going up and up even lpg at 70 cents notr to mention the slump in the stock market people will be abandoning their cars when they run out of petrol how they cope now is beyond me i run on gas and i am w
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