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Old 12-10-2006, 07:25 PM   #31
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Lol sadly I can't say goodbye to it :(
Yeah but you can trundle around the suburbs off boost safe in the knowledge that if need be.... :

Gotta love the rex for that :Reverend:
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Old 12-10-2006, 07:32 PM   #32
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How does oil demand rise over Christmas? Do people not drive in July?

They sell all their oil so what do they care. Now they get to sell less oil for pretty much the same price.
It's coming in winter on the northern side, most use oil for heating.
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Old 12-10-2006, 07:33 PM   #33
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Yeah but you can trundle around the suburbs off boost safe in the knowledge that if need be.... :

Gotta love the rex for that :Reverend:
What would be the point in that :P Would go against why I bought it!
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Old 12-10-2006, 07:46 PM   #34
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What would be the point in that :P Would go against why I bought it!
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Old 12-10-2006, 07:47 PM   #35
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Old 12-10-2006, 09:56 PM   #36
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Lol, outrageous is it not?

A decade ago, OPEC used to cut production to encourage the price back up to $20 USD per barrel.

A funny world we live in

I think its called business..you know that corporate world of supply and demand and outrageous profit and CEO pay.

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Old 12-10-2006, 11:10 PM   #37
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I think its called business..you know that corporate world of supply and demand and outrageous profit and CEO pay.

"What good will it profit a man to own the world..but to lose his soul"
I just watched "Enron: The smartest guys in the room"
It's amazing to see what people will do when they can control the supply of an important commodity, in this case electricity in the state of California.

As has been said earlier, unfortunately OPEC is just about beyond regulatory control, so we have to basically grin and bear it, or in my case, stay off boost!
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Old 13-10-2006, 01:22 AM   #38
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Give Macgyver a Rubber band, paper clip, piece of paper and can of baked beans and i reckon he could solve all our problems with Opec.
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Old 13-10-2006, 08:18 AM   #39
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Bec is going to hate it ... poor thing has to fill up the Territory ... me ... well ... LPG will remain the same as always.

LPG is only cheaper for another year or so isnt it? once the excise discount is over then, lpg wont be much cheaper will it? Cant remember the exact deal, but i know its something like that :p
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Will only go up a maximum of 12.5c/L over 5 years (something like 2.5c/L per year) ... starting from 2011 I believe.

It's nowhere near the increase of petrol though ... which skyrocketed about 50c/L over 2 years.
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I think its called business..you know that corporate world of supply and demand and outrageous profit and CEO pay.

"What good will it profit a man to own the world..but to lose his soul"
Hahaha - indeed. Although you wont find the OPEC model in any textbook.

If a group of people selling the same product got together under any domestic jurisdiction and ran around calling themselves a cartel... they'd be thrown in jail.
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Old 13-10-2006, 12:11 PM   #42
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every time i suggest Ford should release a diesel-electric hybrid powertrain for their cars, people on here tell me to get real. But they also complain about fuel prices. High Oil prices encourage us to try new methods of energy which then is better for the environment. a diesel-electric falcon could potentially perform much better than a petrol powered one, and get under 3L per 100km (and we should be using 3L of B100 Biodiesel) - but people don't want to change their mentality.
Bring on high oil prices i say, and bring on the new technology (actually diesel-electric is really old technology, but new to cars)
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