Also the Falcon is cheaper to service than the Yaris and every 15,000Ks the Yaris was every 10,000Ks but obviously the tyres will cost a bit more but like i said not needing a chiropractor anymore is priceless…LOL

I just said exactly that last night to my partner!

“Falcon LPG wagon and my fuel bills are 2 dollars per 100k’s cheaper in the city than the Yaris and 4 dollars every 100/Ks cheaper on the highway”

I’ve never heard an E Gas Falcon owner complain about fuel consumption, my mate just got one and also raves about it. But you do need to consider depreciation when comparing running costs of your Yaris vs Falcon and also the duty on LPG starts in 2010.

So its soon time for Bio-LPG based on methane, The kit will come with a pre packaged curry, some garden hose and you to o will be able to run a Falcon for free!! All men know, theres at least 500MJ on free energy just going to waste each day :D

The only real light at the end of the tunnel is that petrol and diesel prices will eventually have to plateu, as alternative methods of production become sufficiently profitable to entice oil companies to switch methodology of oil production. Mainly things like algae-based bio-diesel production.

Though everyone smashes the oil companies and OPEC specifically for the price of oil, remember OPEC sell their oil on the free market, and the free market sets the price. Where OPEC can and do screw people is by setting production levels, if they want prices to go up, simply produce less and people will have to pay more to get the smaller amounts of oil on the market.

A large part of the increase in oil prices comes from market speculators and future fund firms. Its because of these groups that when there is say grumblings over Libya’s goat market the price of oil goes up $5. They profit from increasing price of oil, as they buy oil at todays lower price, and then sell to large companies and industry future contracts whereby they’ll say ‘for the next 6 months I’ll sell you oil for $150 a barrel’, even though the current price may be $145. Industry like this because its makes their business bottom line less volatile. The effect is that large amounts of oil and removed from the market at above the going price, which forces prices upward as there is less oil available. So the price of oil is artificially increased beyond what normal supply and demand mechanisms would allow.

So are they solely responsible for oil prices increases? No, not even close. Its a combined affect of rising cost of oil production combined with artificial increases due to future funds and market speculators, and OPECs interest in future preservation. OPEC knows it has limited oil, so its in their interest to keep production low enough to maximise their viable duration of their supplies but high enough to not cause the price to go up so much that their is a mass market shift against oil.

Unfortunately for us, the interests of market speculators, future funds and OPEC clash directly with our interests as both an industrial country, and as motorists.

As some market watcher put it, if you think that infinite growth in a finite world is sustainable, then you’re crazy. The solution is to find a source of energy that is much closer to infinite than our very finite amounts of oil in the ground. When all those methods become more profitable compared to current oil production methods, then thats where the price of energy and oil will plateu.

Hmm anyone noticed less stories of Hoons on the news? Fuel Prices are working!!!

I never managed to get even close to the claimed fuel consumption figures….as for the Ford i manage to get the claimed figure constantly!!!

If it proves popular they should develop an LPG hybrid universal platform so that station wagons, SUV’s, Utes, hatches and sedans can be offered at a reasonable price!

Hyundai’s build quality has improved so much that i would gladly buy one.

Don’t forget LPG is an Aussie fuel and we have heaps of it instead of importing crude from countries that don’t particularly like us very much we should strive to be self sufficient with our massive natural gas supplies and also work hard on Hydrogen technologies for the long term!

In the mean time we have to try and use as little oil as possible because most of this oil is making terrorist nations that hate us richer and richer

Remember demand is increasing 4 times the amount of new supply of oil is being discovered these days and sooner or later we wont be discovering new supply but actually losing supplies, Emerging industry countries like China will be asking for more…

As said in all the other petrol articles, we need to get off oil based energy sooner than later.

Car manufacturers will need to refocus their sustainability efforts and start producing more alternative powered vehicles, but im guessing the oil coalition will obviously pressure against this…

Therefore the price difference to petrol is only going to get greater. If you own a diesel, then get used to the price difference getting bigger even as petrol rises.

Oh, for the “green” diesels. It’s a false claim as their legal emissions are far more than is legal for petrol.

Also consider that 17% more CO2 is produced for 1 litre of diesel versus petrol.

Once it gets there, which I’m sure it will, we’ll see economies around the world responding. There may be minor recessions in some countries, but I doubt it. Why? The world’s people are breeding like rabbits, that’s why. They are breeding fast enough to keep countries out of recession just as a result of feeding them, let alone the demand for clothing, education, etc.

I’ve lived long enough to have been through both previous quadruplings, and I can confidently say everyone will live through this one as well.

Remember that even if all our disposable income went on food, we could still afford to cut the Aussie food bill in half, which might cut the cost of clothing since there would be fewer acre-asses and a garment could be made with half the fabric.