[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('shortonoil', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')ight now, today, people in poor countries are starving. People in rich countries are mad they cant drive their boat AND go on vacation.

Still think Peak Oil is a serious threat to rich countries??

[Micki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he rich will still be eating. The middle class will still be eating.

Those of us in first world countries have a loooooong ways to fall before we risk starving to death. There will, literally, be BILLIONS that have died before we're at risk of starving to death.

[frankthetank]

MarkJ-

By looking at that chart, i guess idling doesn't yield good mpg? Weird. I would have thought just a slow cruising speed would get you good mileage. My guess would be that once you get on "plane" the hull lifts out of the water causing less drag. The slower the speed you go on "plane" maybe the better the mileage? That would make sense.

Big heavy boats can be pushed around by humans. I watched a guy at the boat landing last week push around a smaller houseboat by himself (he was on a dock). That had to be 1000's of pounds of boat he was moving. Once he initially got it moving, he pushed it around pretty easily.

Boat traffic was, from what my eyes could see, down a lot for a beautiful holiday weekend. I think people are scared.

[k_semler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWbjSnU1OCM

[municipal]

There is a real advantage to these gas prices:
When you filll up, you can always top it to the next 5 dollars.

Parhump!

It is so expenisev that rats are carpooling from New Jersey!

Pahrump!

President Bush announced his plan to increase the number of barrels (of oil) produced. You hear his plan? He wants to make smaller barrels.

rumpa-rumpa-pump!

Gas is so expensive SUV now stands for sport utility victim

Pahrump!

Gas prices have risen again. Prices are so bad here in L.A. that guys in Beverly Hills are hiring hookers to siphon gas out of other people's cars

rumpa-pumpa-rarump.


How many have seen 'March of the Penguins'?...You know why they're marching? They can't afford gas

rimshot- pahrump


gas prices are going up!In other words, President Bush is back from vacation and back on the job.

pahrumpa-rumpa-rimshot-pump

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('k_semler', 'h')ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWbjSnU1OCM

[pictishbroch]

Answers here.

http://gasoline-germany.com/international.phtml

Let´s here it for Hugo Chavez!!! at 5cents a Litre!

seriously folks.As you see from the chart the Europeans are paying way higher than the rest with the exception of Turkey who are having to pay by far the most.
In Europe and the UK we pay high taxes on fuel.

Germany

Fuel taxes in Germany are €0.4704 per litre for ultra-low sulphur Diesel and €0.6545 per litre for conventional unleaded petrol, plus Value Added Tax (19%) on the fuel itself and the Fuel Tax. That adds up to prices of €1.19 per litre for ultra-low sulphur Diesel and €1.37 per litre (approximately USD$7.615 per gallon) for unleaded petrol (Sep 2007).

and

United Kingdom

Main article: Hydrocarbon oil duty

From 2007-10-01 the main road fuel (petrol and diesel) duty rate in the UK is GBP£0.5035 per litre. The rate for biodiesel and bioethanol is £0.3035.[1] Value Added Tax (VAT), currently at 17.5%, is also charged on the price of the fuel and on the duty. At a pump price of 128.8p/litre (typical for diesel as at May 2008), this would put the combined tax at 69.53p/litre, or approximately USD$5.20 per US gallon. Thus without tax, the retail price would be 59.26p per litre, making a combined tax rate of 117%.

reduce taxes has to be the answer for us Europeans at least??

anyone any thoughts on this?

[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pictishbroch', 'r')educe taxes has to be the answer for us Europeans at least??

anyone any thoughts on this?

[cudabachi]

Actually, here in Venezuela, using the black market exchange rates for the U.S. dollar, 91 Octane costs $0.07/gallon and 95 Octane is priced at $0.11/gallon!

[misterno]

In Turkey, they pay $11.5/gal yet car sales are not declining

[Peakoilpost]

Here in The Netherlands we pay $10 per US gallon.

You'll get used to it

[pictishbroch]

well I guess we will just have to get used the new price paradigm!

jeez I remember when I first went to the pub a pint of beer cost 20 pence! really 20 pence a pint now a pint costs circa 1 pound 80 pence.

so in a few years when Petrol costs €2 a liter we will look back at the cheap good ol days same way we do with beer!

[pup55]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s you see from the chart the Europeans are paying way higher than the rest

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pup55', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s you see from the chart the Europeans are paying way higher than the rest

[pictishbroch]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pup55', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s you see from the chart the Europeans are paying way higher than the rest

[Peakoilpost]

In The Netherlands you have an mandatory, affordable basic health assurance, commercial insurance companies can't refuse you. For a better coverage you can upgrade for a few hundred bucks a year extra. (here companies can select, but the competition is healthy). There is no relationship with employer/employment. I believe I pay approx. $2.400, for a single coverage top package ...

You're right, wouldn't want to trade it for $4 or $3 gas....

[Starvid]

We pay $8,5 a gallon.

I read this interview with people they pick up from the street. A middle aged couple, they drove 70.000 km per year. Almost two laps around the world. They grumbled and said a good price would be $7,5, and damn it, if prices reached $12,5 per gallon they would buy a horse!

Of course they won't.