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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Flipside on March 27, 2004, 02:51:08 pm

Title: I'm not surprised they do it, that's extortionate! ;)
Post by: Flipside on March 27, 2004, 02:51:08 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=business&cat=oil_and_gas

Title: I'm not surprised they do it, that's extortionate! ;)
Post by: kasperl on March 27, 2004, 02:55:44 pm

high gas prices?

If that's in the states, they've got something seriously wrong.

Title: I'm not surprised they do it, that's extortionate! ;)
Post by: Flipside on March 27, 2004, 02:59:16 pm

It is, people are having to pay up to $40 for a full tank ;)

That's about £22 (33 Euros) more or less. Remembering that the tanks in American cars are bigger than European ones IIRC

Title: I'm not surprised they do it, that's extortionate! ;)
Post by: kasperl on March 27, 2004, 03:02:25 pm

and really,how much fuel do those cars use per kilometer?

Title: I'm not surprised they do it, that's extortionate! ;)
Post by: Martinus on March 27, 2004, 03:04:45 pm

[color=66ff00]A tank IIRC[/color]

Title: I'm not surprised they do it, that's extortionate! ;)
Post by: Flipside on March 27, 2004, 03:06:51 pm

LOL Exactly, it seems to me that car manufacturers might actually have to start coming in line with the rest of the world and designing their cars to be (a) efficient and (b) smaller.

Title: I'm not surprised they do it, that's extortionate! ;)
Post by: kasperl on March 27, 2004, 03:12:49 pm

smaller=bad.

i'm 1,87meters, and i can't even fit in an VW Sharan and quite a lot of other of those van like things. That, and when my dad sits in front of me, either his knees are touching the steering wheel, or my knees are getting squashed against his chair.

but more efficient cars ough to be possible. and you don't need a bloody Hummer to bring the kids to soccer....

Title: I'm not surprised they do it, that's extortionate! ;)
Post by: Flipside on March 27, 2004, 03:15:36 pm

Hmmmm... Well, I think there will always be cars for larger people, after all, average height is increasing anyway. But I think efficiency is the main requirement here, and, as you say, cars that are 'proportionate to their task'... I think that's more accurate than 'smaller' ;)

Title: I'm not surprised they do it, that's extortionate! ;)
Post by: StratComm on March 27, 2004, 03:18:42 pm

I for one am thinking it's about time that we actually paid as much for gas as the rest of the world.  I'm not crazy about it, by any means, since I have to pay it one way or another.  But I do drive a suitably efficient car (30MPG, not sure what that translates to in metric).  It will be nice to see the trend of bigger and bigger things (I can't call them cars, and they aren't utilitarian enough to be trucks) start winding down though, as sharing the road with them can be annoying at best, a bit scary at worst.

Title: I'm not surprised they do it, that's extortionate! ;)
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 27, 2004, 03:37:37 pm

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