Watching the news tonight and they said demand for gasoline has dropped 20% over the past 5 years. Perhaps £1.32 a litre might have something to do with why we are not using our cars as much as we use to. OPEC can so alter this.
I know what you mean mate. But for me to get to Aylesbury it's a 40 mile round trip on a bike every day or a 12 mile bus journey to Oxford just to catch a bus that will take me to Aylesbury, then the same back again. I'm not good with engines but I'm sure buses use gasoline!
It's not the oil companies it the government tax. I think it was 70% of the price at the pump is tax, 5% is the stations leve and the remaining 25% is the oil companies share and the government says the the oil giants need to drop their prices to make things cheaper for the motorists....... Erm, lower the tax you greedy £&@%#!
the biggest problem is the way we buy fuel we dont go and buy 20 litres or 5 gallons or fill up with 60 litres. we go and put £10 worth in or £30 etc. we fill up and it costs £75 or £100 but how many litres did you buy? we buy a value of fuel instead of an amount so we dont really know how much we get if we went to the petrol station with the intention of buying in litres then the price hikes would be even more obvious. so if you are one of the millions that dont fill their tank but just add an amount then try looking at the volume and not just the cost
Whats Gasoline ;D I tend to fill up when nearly empty rather keep visiting the garage for £10 hear and there you still spend the same amount in fact you save by not having to go to the garage so often I think petrol is still cheep when you compare it to other stuff like mineral water etc We are to dependant on it, a lot of people now work miles from where they live and take there kids to schools miles away in big cars. At the end of the day its only going to get worse oil is running out and is getting more costly to find and extract
Force of habit. I was bought up on American muscle car road movies. Petrol/gasoline. It's all the same stuff.
The personal freedom that cars give us have allowed us to lead lifestyles that we would not previously have had. When mass industrialisation happened in this country because of the industrial revolution, the overwhelming majority of people lived in cities because they had to be close to work. I'm sure if you look at the distance between people's workplace and their home these days, a lot of people live further away. This is because we have been given the freedom to choose to live somewhere, rather than it being dictated by where we work. Look at housing before car ownership was as widespread as now - people who worked somewhere tended to live all roughly in the same place, and fairly close to their place of work. (Look at Port Sunlight and Bournville as examples of this). These days, a lot of people live in places because either it's their choice, or in a lot of cases, because they can't afford to do what we all used to do - live near work, because it's so expensive (bus drivers in London, for example). The car as an invention has allowed us to do this. However, now that fuel is becoming more and more expensive, we have a choice - it's either going to cost us all a lot more money to carry on living as we have, or we will have to change how we live. So, those who choose to live far away from work, and could actually afford to live closer, may have to do so. Those who live far away from work because they've been priced out of the area don't have this choice, for them it is going to take some decisive government policy to create affordable housing closer to key areas of employment. We have become so reliant on our cars that there is going to have to be some significant change in the way we live in order to deal with the future shortage of petrol, unless someone is able to come up with a viable substitute to the internal combustion engine.
One thing I forgot - the other way of continuing to live further away from work is to use alternative forms of transport, and for many of us that will only be viable with significant increases in funding for public transport, and for some people that will never be possible (people living in the country with only very occasional bus services, for example).
