Petrol prices

At $1.40 p/L, the bike is going to cost me roughly $6.30 per hundred
km's in fuel alone.

At 44.9c p/L for LPG, the Falcon costs me about $6.75 per hundred k's.

I wonder how long until that gap is closed?

--
SL

"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over
to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they
succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it"

Joseph Goebbels - Nazi Minister of Propaganda, 1933 - 1945

 

im now paying 1.38.5 here for fuel

It now costs me around 100 a week to drive to work and back, since i live in
the country in a fuel efficient toyota.

the 600 probably would see about 30 bucks a week depending how i ride it.

but im going to register an old 250 i have and use it, for about 10 bucks a
week.

some bikes are more fuel efficient than others.

 

It's already well and truly closed and overtaken when you take into account
increased servicing costs and other outgoings like tyres... on a sports bike
when petrol was around the $1/litre mark the cost of rubber would match it
about dollar for dollar... it's probably a bit less than that now, though
still a significant number.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

Not too long. The feds are "looking closely" at the excise on
LPG........just like they "looked closely" at diesel a few years ago
now......

Regards, Andrew.

 

They're saying to themselves, "**** me, think of the cash we could generate
if we taxed gas up to the same price as petrol"

 

I ride a 1000cc twin for the reason that it's economical?

Takes me 35 minutes to get to work every morning....Rather that than sitting
in traffic although, I'm not too sure Mr TMU appreciates that.

justAL

 

Convert the bike to LPG


Best of both worlds

 

I still reckon I spend more on bike tyres than bike fuel, but I can't be
fucked doing the sums.

Conehead

 

My brother has a 916. Rear tyre $350, lasts 6000 kms, 5.8 cents per km.
Fuel, 1 litre gets him 20 kms, at $1.20 thats 6 cents per km. Then there's
the front tyre.

Theo

 

Won't all these people be pissed off then...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1456103.htm

Gary

 

yeh pretty much the general rule for biggish sports bikes

tyres and fuel run around the same quantity

 

$1.20 a litre - crikey, where's THAT? Just under $1.40 here.... *sigh*

shiney

 

Theo Bekkers wrote:

Hmmm, I'm impressed!

regards,
CrazyCam (howzat for creative snipping?)

 

Too bad they haven't bothered to do the sums before they commit the
dollars. In my case, it was going to take me 100 weeks of my usual
driving to recoup the cost of a new LPG install, and that doesn't take
into account the extra maintenence and potentially LPG going up and fuel
coming back down a little mid way through the 100 weeks. Some people who
drive more may pay it off in a year, but I do 160 miles( convert it for
yourself) a week, so should be average if not more.
Then there's the fact that most LPG gear seems to die after around 5
years, so more money to factor in.
No wonder I bought a bike.

Regards, Andrew.

 

Don't cars converted to gas have a lower resale value as well, and what
about servicing costs (more oil changes?).

I drive a 5.7 litre Commodore and whilst the fuel consumption averages 16
litres/100 kilometres it is less than half the price to service of the Honda
Accord that I traded (we wont talk about the cost of tyres).

A turbo diesel VW Golf might just be the solution.

Boxer

 

Cost me a bowl of cereal to fire my engine for my ride to work.

P

 

I'd spend about $60 per 1000km on tyres and $65-odd on fuel but I ride a
bike because I HAVE to.
I go mental if I don't ride.

 

Yeah but you were in the toilet cranking it for a long time before it
spluttered into life!

 

Go?

Johno


Beer mate?

 

Which pollie would that be ?

JL
(I'd vote for him if that's true !)