gasoline hit a new record in our area...$4.24 a gallon

[Dave]

I was informed that CASE-IH has A new tractor out uses natural gas instead of diesel.....I told the salesman to get me one of those as soon as i get a place to fill it.
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BAck in the late 1990's and early 2000's, we put a team of researchers together to talk to local industry about using natural gas vehicles. Several public transport bus companies, cab services, FEDEX and UPS all said that if we (meaning DOE) built the filling stations, they would buy the fleet cars to use. We tried to get the funding but couldn't obtain it. There are many companies that would use the infrastructure if it was available.

One of the last ill-considered snafu's I saw like a week before I retired was the natural gas station they built on our grounds. We were about to receive a fleet of several dozen, dual-carbed, duel fuel, natural gas vehicles (they always had gasoline backups) and we needed the filling stations to make them work. We had offices 60 miles apart and those were the cars that everyone was to use to travel in between and to Washington DC (it's like 4 hours away from us)...
The station that some non-engineer bought and installed could fill four cars in eight hours only with supervision.
Talk about the definition of FUBAR and SNAFU and cluster fuck. check all of those boxes.

I know what you mean about that tractor.

[xxy--eun]

What are u folks talking about.
Here in Sweden we have to pay 15:04 SEK per 1 liter, diesel
15:24 SEK per 1 liter, petrol/gas


One liter is 0,264 US gallon

[kristoff]

That's about $US 9.00 per gallon. Seems to be pretty typical of much of Europe.

[moi621]

That's about $US 9.00 per gallon. Seems to be pretty typical of much of Europe.

They should pay twice as much because they drive half as much miles!
Seems fair to me. And Western should pay the least because the government guided those areas to automobiles while financing all that rail in the east.
Seems fair.

[JessicaH]

I paid a little over $8/gallon here in Mozambique today. The people here can afford these prices far less than us westerners here but I haven't heard anyone complain about the price! It's common to see small motor cycles all over the place (50 cc or less) and 20 people jammed in a toyota minivan or 12 people standing in the back of a samll truck. They make due and they don't waste fuel driving 300hp vehicles with one person in the vehicle.

The minimum wage here is about $120 US a month for a six day work week and I paid $4 for a quart of milk in a box. I have really found my time here to be a life changing experience and I will never look at things the same. We complain about 5 dollar/gallon petro and while others complain about getting Malaria for the second time this year (horrible sickness) and having water to drink that wont make you sick.

[Riverwind]

Alltho sometimes its a bit inconvenent, and I do notice the rise in food costs, sense I no longer drive, the price at the pump does not effect me much.

River

[tomas.toohey]

Here in Western Victoria we can range from 1.389 c/l to 1.599 c/l for Unleaded fuel. BTW that is cents per litre (1Gal = 3.79L)

[IEunuch]

Yup, suck it up you Americans. Vancouver area here, today's pump price was 1.429 CAD/litre. Google helpfully informs me that works out to: 5.47 USD/gallon and change. Every prediction is that we'll cross $6 USD by summer.

Helpful tip for those who don't know. Google calculator is a very powerful tool. Test it for yourself, just go to google.com and type in: 1.429 CAD per litre in USD per gallon

Presto, instant conversion. (Replace units and currencies as appropriate.)