i got a bonus check on tuesday.
it's no coincidence i was able to fill up my truck the same night.

if i save enough i can fill the vette up also.

 

I'm one of those lucky guys that has been paying over $4.00/gal for months. My 1 ton Cummins Megacab does pretty good for a rig its size at 18-19 mpg on the highway, but at $120+ to fill her up, it sure is hard to swallow. How does the cheapest fuel to refine cost more that premium gasoline? The thing that kills me is that no one has an answer for that one. They know that all of the truckers are going to pay whatever the oil companies ask. It pretty much sucks.

 

I use cam2 went from $8.00 to $9.50 here

 

Did that include a car wash?

 

Everything you use or buy is tied somehow to fossil fuel. Once another source of fuel becomes widespread there will be no relief. Its proof that a monopoly will take advantage of its customers

 

How are you folks in these other countries w/ gas at $9-$10. a gallon getting by?
Whats your minimum wages there?, rents etc... are the mass majority of people walking to work? Just curious......

 

Actually...you get a free car wash for certain amount...but...no way with the vette...I should have saved receipt and come back with the DD....

 

Thanks, Now that a great idea

 

I generally alternate the vettes on our monthly runs...our 4 banger DD's get 36 & 40 mpg....and I have 4 lakes within a 10 mile radius...using the Kayak...paddle power...
I'm just wondering how much they will push prices up...from past patterns,they go up,slightly down,then level off...but gas prices have more than doubled since 2002...
I noticed those running for Prez are avocating repealing the gas tax...LIARS...

 

Part of the answer is that the dollar is crap against the EURO and the oil companies are shipping diesel to Europe for more profit. I'm no rocket scientist, but if I can sell the same product for $1 in the US, or $1.56 in Europe, guess what?

Last time I filled my GMC Duramax it was $235.00. $4.099/gal

 

G'day,
In Australia, we buy petrol and diesel by the litre. One litre is within cooee of a US quart, so four litres is almost one US gallon. The Australian dollar is running about 93 US cents ( AU$1.00 = US$0.93), and we pay AU$1.40 to AU$1.50 per litre in Melbourne.

So, we pay about AU$5.60 to AU$6.00 for a US gallon, roughly about US$5.50 per US gallon. Many of our motorists and about 99% of taxi drivers use LPG, liquefied petroleum gas, which is a butane/propane mixture, and costs about AU$0.60 per litre.

Australia has almost unlimited reserves of LPG and we sell it by the shipload to China for about FIVE CENTS PER LITRE!!! But the tax paying motorist pays twelve times that. Sucks, doesn't it?

I've heard of one Corvette that has had the petrol tank removed and the car runs solely on LPG, but the rest of us run 93 to 97 octane petrol. There is a lot of interest in fitting overdrive gear boxes and/or taller diff ratios and bigger wheels (to a degree) but most of our Corvettes are basically stock.

As to the basic wage, we have it all over you blokes. I'm not sure of the exact figure, but the minimum adult wage is well over AU$10.00 per hour and has been for decades. An average worker gets a reasonable wage and this is why tipping is not common in Australia, except at posh restaurants.

I drive a bus for a living and the rate is over AU$19 per hour for a 40 to 50 hour week. We get time and a half after eight hours work and double time after 11 hours. Saturday morning we get time and a half and from midday Saturday and all Sunday, we get double time. When we work Public Holidays, we get double time and a half (In my case almost AU$50 per hour!) And we have eleven public holidays per year!

At the rate the US dollar is dropping, and the Australian dollar is climbing, many economists are predicting equity before long (i.e. AU$1.00 = US$1.00). That means US Corvette parts will become cheaper for us to buy, so Willcox and Mid America, etc. should expect some extra sales Down Under before long.

I know I've strayed a bit off topic here, but most of you blokes know bugger-all about how we live down here and what conditions are like, so I thought I'd tell you a little. If you want to know more, ask me anything and I'll tell you what I know.

Regards from Down Under

aussiejohn
15 months to go