Can you believe it? Petrol $1.60 in Melbourne.

1. No

2. I thought this forum was about sharing information and experiences relating to travel, camping, 4wding etc. That's all I'm doing.

Jim.

Jim
Every few days or so, you bang on about the cost of Gas vs petrol /diesel.
All power to you, champion - whatever makes you feel good, but, really, you've flogged this to death (yes you have). Move on - who cares?

You are under no obligation to read my posts.

I am entitled to post relevant information as I see fit.

How polite was that? LOL

good for you champ, keep floggin' it! LMAO

Heading that way in Perth, saw it for 181.9!!!

And the B.......s will find a way, probably working on it right now

No,

At a saving of $80 a week it will take me 6 months to pay off. nearly there, ROFLMAO.

Without your philanthropic donation it would take me one year. Expect to keep the ute for a minimum of three years. You can see why I'm smiling.

And I've paid my fair share of tax over the years. A lot more than most, but never complained because I believe higher income earners should pay more.

Jim.

Jim
By my calculations you will save $110 per 1000ks over a similar machine running petrol,

However you will only save $54.50 per 1000ks over a diesel engined vehicle.

So to save $80 a week over diesel you must be travelling around 1500 ks per week! 75000ks per year! No wonder you only plan to keep it 3 years. On gas it will be worn out at 225000ks!

So a normal person doing 25000 per year is only going to save $27 a week. ($1350 per year)

As I said before, it will take years to pay off.

AND this is assuming the Govt doesnt tax gas. Unlikely!!!

Ian


By the way, you still haven't told us your actual gas useage per 100ks

Ian your calculations are wrong.

I said I was saving $80 a week as compared to running my vehicle on Petrol.

Jim.

Wrong Jim, You made a broad statement ----"At a saving of $80 a week it will take me 6 months to pay off. nearly there, ROFLMAO".

Nothing about petrol.

I believe you sold a diesel to buy the petrol/gas car. Therefore you are not saving as much as you think, had you kept the diesel.

Because you can/will not supply real figures to back up your claims we can only work out the figures as we can best estimate. I have owned two LPG vehicles in the past and I know they are cheaper than petrol. I also know that gas will only get you about 80% of the distance of the same qty of petrol. I have always said (using my confirmed figures) that to be worth the conversion cost LPG needed to be 33% of the price of petrol. It hasnt been that for years. (When petrol was 60c gas was 18c)

Anyhow who cares. Last trip to Melbourne I got 8.5 l/100ks out of my 3.0 l Nissan Nav. Beats your 18-20l/100 out of gas. And look at all the greenhouse gases you are putting into the atmosphere with all that fuel used!!

Thats the beauty of mathematics!! One can prove just about anything is something else altogether.!

Anyhow Cheers
Ian

Ian,

I've never owned a Diesel, I just don't like the way they deliver their power. That may sound foreign to many here but I do love horsepower.

My 4L V6 delivers 16L/100km on a run at 65c/L equals $10.40 per 100km. Your Nav 8.5L/100km at $1.75/L equals $14.88 per 100km. Thus Adelaide to Melb (800 km?) you'd spend another $35 odd dollars.

There's also a safety issue. When it comes to overtaking, the less time spent on the wrong side of the road the better. In this regard a 3L TD can't even get near a screaming V6. Now if I'd had the dough at the time I would have bought the new Nav with the 200 kW V6, but I got too good a deal on the Courier to even consider it.

My view is simple, I get better performance for less cost.

Anyway, horses for courses. We all have different requirements from our cars.

Cheers,

Jim.