Thread: the price of fuel

everyone seems to have lost the main point in that motorised vehicles are a luxury item anyway (be they 4x4 or otherwise) so stop complaining about the price of fuel!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a Land Rover Discovery.
I don't tow anything or have a tribe of kids.
I didn't buy it to show off (I find it hard to believe anything but a very small percentage of 4WD owners buy them for a sense of power or show :confused: )

I bought it because I wanted it, what I do with it is up to me.

My other car is a ute which uses a whole lot more than the 95L per 1000kM I get from the Landy.

Perhaps all the whingers should chip in and buy a big 4WD to tow around the band wagon

Cheers, Jack

Originally Posted by Dion N

2. A Hilux is not a prestige vehicle. I think a $50000+ 4WD is (eg Range Rover Prado etc)

Have you seen the price of a Hilux lately?

I do 60 km's per day, 5 days a week to get to work and back. I'm in Melbourne and the alternative is $10/day and 2.5 hours on public transport/day.
So far the car is cheaper (Holden stationwagon) only because of the time factor.

So I'm now in the market for a Dedicated LPG Falcon.

How much more am I going to pay for the cost of fuel in my grocery bill??
So I'm putting in a garden.

Fuel costs suck. Public Transport, when you don't want to go in to the city, sucks. However the simple fact is that the oil is almost used up, and in energy terms we are living beyond our means. I can only see worse to come.

And I'm sitting around at home today 'cause I can't afford to go out due to fuel costs.

Originally Posted by Clinton1

And I'm sitting around at home today 'cause I can't afford to go out due to fuel costs.

Get out to the shed man.....youve got a perfect excuse to lay on SWMBO so get out there and make some sawdust!!

These may be appropriate

gday all a lot of interisting replys as i suspected mostly agenst 4wds how ever we must use 4wd to get to town and often need low range on a 20k streach of road after rain a 4wd is not a toy to us but a nessesty as to fuel econemy my td5 landie on the hwy towing a large boat (1600kg) gets 8.5 ks to 100ltr so stick that in your falcodore and try and better it.

shep

Originally Posted by shep

as to fuel econemy my td5 landie on the hwy towing a large boat (1600kg) gets 8.5 ks to 100ltr so stick that in your falcodore and try and better it.

shep

At current fuel prices that would be $ 139.50 for a mere 8.5 ks. My Ford fairmont does 300 ks for $ 30.00 which I think is a tad better.

Of course I only run on gas.


Peter.

4x4's are only safer if you are the occupant and you hit another car or something softer such as a bike, etc. I would much rather be in well designed car in an accident with a sationary object like a tree or power pole.

I drive a land cruiser everyday at work, and sometimes my job would be impossible without low range, but I get to work on a bicycle or if I am in a very slack mood drive a car.

There are definately situations where 4x4's are required and the original post is one of them. The dozens that drive past here on the way to our local private school every morning are just rediculous though. Mind you it is fun watching incompetant drivers trying to park them.

The current fuel prices have caused quite a problem here. The local mafia are so embarrassed by the high prices, that they are contemplating selling all their petrol stations. Trouble is, the government is the only mob with the hide to buy them :eek:

RIchard

Originally Posted by Rowan

everyone seems to have lost the main point in that motorised vehicles are a luxury item anyway (be they 4x4 or otherwise) so stop complaining about the price of fuel!!!!!!!!!!!

They may be a luxury item if you live in an area that has public transport or you're not a tradesman that needs to cart around a lot of tools and materials. I don't compalin about the price of fuel, waste of breath, not like I can do anything about it anyway.

For the record - public transport around here consists of a hiace van (11 seats?) which goes up and down the hill to Cairns a few times a day.
As a self employed tradesman, public transport is simply not an option.

I own a 4wd, have done for about 15 years now. 4wd gets engaged infrequently, sometimes every day for weeks on end, somethimes not for a few months. When it gets engaged it's not for fun, it's so I can get to where I'm going without having to spend half a day digging and winching. I could of course just hire a 4wd when required, however often you don't know it's required until you find yoursef skewing backwards down a track.

No one has raised it yet, but no doubt some 4wd basher will - bullbars. Yes they are innapropriate on a lot of vehicles, however I will fight tooth and nail to be able to keep mine. What they get used for:
Attachment of carry racks for long lenghts of timber, pipes etc.
Attachment point for recovery gear
Jacking point for hi-lift jack
Pushing over saplings etc when required
Minimise damage when a roo or calf runs out in front of you
Somewhere to mount lights (there's no lighting of any sort in a lot of areas)
Somewhere to hang a winch from.
Somewhere to mount a vice to
Handy for knocking shopping trolleys out of the way

Mick - the evil, forest raping, oil burning, status symbol driving redneck

HeHeHe Still running the bike in and re learning how to ride.
4.11Litres for 96km

4.28 L per 100k.

Stick that up yours you fuel companies.

Originally Posted by shep

gday all a lot of interisting replys as i suspected mostly agenst 4wds how ever we must use 4wd to get to town and often need low range on a 20k streach of road after rain a 4wd is not a toy to us but a nessesty as to fuel econemy my td5 landie on the hwy towing a large boat (1600kg) gets 8.5 ks to 100ltr so stick that in your falcodore and try and better it.

shep

I can better that Shep.....I use a couple of donkies to pull my boat......costs me about $10 a week in hay and the donkey sh*t saves me buying fertilizer for the garden

So how do we convert sawdust to gas??