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Thorn Sherpa

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This is all means bike prices will become sterner more stealable as people move to bike-commuting. Look after your bikes and get an extra lock if necessary.
Thats a very good point, always a knock on effect and it probably will be reflected in bike prices and thefts. Especially in places round London I think it's already a problem with bike thefts
 

Gillstay

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Judging by the amount of people who still leave their engines running at level crossings, while parked on double yellows, while waiting for their friend in the shop, or messing with their phones, fuel is not expensive enough yet.
 

Milzy

Guru
Judging by the amount of people who still leave their engines running at level crossings, while parked on double yellows, while waiting for their friend in the shop, or messing with their phones, fuel is not expensive enough yet.
I agree if it’s £4 a litre I don’t care. Keep the SUV gas guzzlers off the road. If it gets high I’ll ride 10 miles to work.
 

gzoom

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These fuel costs are going 'kill' large displacement combustion cars.

A V6/8 doing 15mpg is going to cost £6 per 10 miles in fuel if we get to £2/l :hyper:.
 

Brandane

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Costa Clyde
These fuel costs are going 'kill' large displacement combustion cars.

A V6/8 doing 15mpg is going to cost £6 per 10 miles in fuel if we get to £2/l :hyper:.
I hope you'll be rejoicing as much about the cost of road transport for almost every item you buy. An artic does about 8 mpg..... But hey; let's blame price rises on drivers getting an extra pound per hour :rolleyes:.
 

Cerdic

Senior Member
Judging by the amount of people who still leave their engines running at level crossings, while parked on double yellows, while waiting for their friend in the shop, or messing with their phones, fuel is not expensive enough yet.

Thing is, at idle an engine uses bugger all fuel.

At work, a couple of years back, we had a car that had somehow got locked with the keys inside and the engine running. It sat at the back of the yard for about three DAYS before it ran out of fuel!
 

Cerdic

Senior Member
These fuel costs are going 'kill' large displacement combustion cars.

A V6/8 doing 15mpg is going to cost £6 per 10 miles in fuel if we get to £2/l :hyper:.

For people who can afford a car like that the price of fuel is not an issue…
 
Thing is, at idle an engine uses bugger all fuel.

At work, a couple of years back, we had a car that had somehow got locked with the keys inside and the engine running. It sat at the back of the yard for about three DAYS before it ran out of fuel!
But why ? It's not like the doors open when it's out of fuel ?
Or were his keys getting posted on or something ?
 
I hope you'll be rejoicing as much about the cost of road transport for almost every item you buy. An artic does about 8 mpg..... But hey; let's blame price rises on drivers getting an extra pound per hour :rolleyes:.
True that transport and all costs will go up but imagine if it was just goods vehicles on the road. No congestion !
 

Cerdic

Senior Member
The keys were locked inside the car so we couldn’t open it to turn the engine off. The spare keys are all held at head office who were a bit slow posting them out to us!
 

Oldhippy

Cynical idealist
Ultimately unless there is a catastrophic event, environmental or otherwise that gives humanity no choice but to change their way of life there will be so many people who continue to carry on as 'normal' regardless of cost. Despite overwhelming evidence of the damage vehicles cause, health, environmental without a societal sea change and the political will they will be regarded as essential to existence.
 

Ming the Merciless

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And no hospitals or schools or care homes functioning as their staff can’t get to work.
what about buses, they can certainly cause congestion in London.

How on earth does a bus cause congestion? Surely it’s down to the volume of private vehicles on the road, both those being driven somewhere, and those parked up reducing the width of usable road?
 
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