Bad gas

[bouche]

There you have it, I thought I'd seen it all when our local gas station flipped over to 101.2 per litre. I know that yesterday there were prices over 120 in toronto and vancouver, but it hit Ottawa today.

Ottawa gas prices

Our local gas station is at about 124/litre

IT's basically going to cost people twice the price it did this time last year to go to labour day weekend festivals like moe.down and CTMF.

Poor poor Huxy. Tealy is going to be pretty pricey to get to Waterford

I wonder if it's cheaper to rent a hybrid ?

[dave-O]

129.9 this morning in New Brunswick.

[MarcO]

huh. the title of this thread made me think it was about Booche.

go figure.

[Basher]

Hybrid's do not get better gas mileage on the highway.

[SmoothedShredder]

And people know the real value of a litre of gas because?......

[headymamamyrna]

I thought the same thing!

[headymamamyrna]

I was thinking the same as MArco

[c-towns]

94.9 in Calgary, still too much.

[Kaidy Mae]

huh. the title of this thread made me think it was about Booche.

Hahahaha! So did I.

[Hux]

For Sale:

1998 Jeep Cherokee Sport

Teal, V6, 4x4

154,000 km's

Includes CD Soundboard recordings of selected Ratdog shows.

Make me an offer!!

[Blane]

94.9 in Calgary, still too much.

Ummm, not compared to this man: 134.9 down the road from my place in Montreal.

Gas hasn't been below a dollar here in many many weeks.

however, seeing that I travel by bike it doesn't really impact me much.

[Cosmic ChrisC]

Ollie thinks the end of the world is around the corner.

[ollie]

Ollie thinks the end of the world is around the corner.

Yep. I give human civilization two years tops. The paranoid guy inside me thinks the price is going up because we are running out faster than anyone will admit.

[Ms.Huxtable]

Running out of oil would sure change things wouldn't it?

Perhaps alternative fuel inventors and environmental organizations would get rich instead of greedy oil mongers.

Bring it on.

[Cosmic ChrisC]

Yeah, I'm relying on environmental geniuses right now. Stop smoking pot and get to work, dudes!

[Large Marge]

Join us!

[Davey Boy 2.0]

in a sense the rising price is a good thing, maybe people will pause to consider walking or biking to the corner store instead of driving

and if the oil does run out in 100 yrs then perhaps global warming will slowly start to right itself

probably not mind you, considering the powers that be, but one can always hope

[Sunshine]

Ollie thinks the end of the world is around the corner.

Yup....kinda scary. I think about it all the time!!!

Something fishy is up, and it scares me.

[bouche]

will the grease car do?

[SteveThe Owl]

Why this car is automatic

It's systematic

It's hydromatic

Why it's Greased lightning.

Okay, I'm sorry. That was utter uncalled-for. I will never do that again. Well, not today.

[Tooly]

our friends in BC actually did the conversion bouche, from an old VW deisel to run on veggie oil, smells like a french fry all the way downt he highway, but, and this is what makes me want to do it, they drove from BC to PEI and back, they spent about 400 dollars on oil.

anyone else wanna say holy fack? i sure did.

VW is now offering to switch any of their cars over to deisel engines, im sure theres some catches, but its worth it.

my boss drives a smart car, drove to ottawa and back to hamilton for less then 20 dollars., says it costs him about 5 bucks a week in deisel to go to, from work every day, and do the running around town that is inevitable every week.

holy fucking gas eh. 125.5 today here in hammer

and as a closer, the end is totally closer than we all think, considering america reached peak oil in 1970, and half of the oil producing nations in the world have already hit peak oil, were going to see ppl shooting each other for gas sooner then later.

by that time, me and my woman hope to be living far away from cities, growing our own food, on our land, you guys are invited if you want to start up somnethimng, were rocking the 5 yr plan now, im sure some of youse guyse are more furthur along in your plans but thats ours.

fucking stupid cars and their fucking gas.

[Large Marge]

our friends in BC

Our friends in Victoria have the right idea... they're now fighting for a four lane cycling highway! Sorry about the format:

By Miro Cernetig

The Vancouver Sun

VICTORIA (CP) - In this sleepy capital, where driving hazards usually

consist of slow-moving horse-drawn carriages and the occasional

geriatric driver, road rage is as rare as snow.

But things are suddenly getting big-city tense - at least on the

Galloping Goose bicycle trail.

"There haven't been fisticuffs, that I know of, yet," says John Luton,

the head of the Capital Bike and Walk Society. "But there's the

equivalent of road rage out there on the trail."

What's fuelling this mini-crisis in Canada's bucolic biking capital is

some of the highest gas prices in the country. With as many as 5,000

people a day cramming onto the three-metre wide, 60-kilometre path,

there's now a bicycle rush hour.

"Check your dog!" shouted Luton, encountering a women the other day

who let her retractable leash extend across the path he was whirring

down on his way to work.

"Check your bike!" she fired back, giving no ground.

It isn't exactly life on the bike paths of Beijing, the world's biking

capital. But the Galloping Goose, so named for a rail car that once

trundled along this train route years ago, is now seeing daily run-ins

between pensioners on electric scooters, horseback riders, dog

walkers, inline skaters and serious commuters, described by cyclist

Gord Ayer as "Riding like Lance Armstrong on crack."

Nobody expected such conflicts when the trail was quietly created 18

years ago. But Canadians everywhere can expect to see more of such

confrontations, cycling advocates predict, if the price of gasoline

continues to climb.

While building bike paths isn't nearly as in vogue with cash-strapped

governments as it was in the 1970s, predictions are the number of

Canadians using trails will climb across Canada.

"You can figure that every 30-per-cent increase in the cost of

something translates into a 10-per-cent change in behaviour,"

estimates Larry Roberts, a planner with he regional district.

"So there will probably be more people on the bike paths."

That has sparked a hot debate in Victoria. Is it time to spend some

money on the Galloping Goose, the protect the city's status as the

country's most bike-friendly locale? At the moment, about six per cent

of Victoria's commuters go to work on two wheels. That's about three

times the rate of Vancouver and Toronto.

"Does Victoria bill itself as the cycling capital of Canada?" Vic

Lindal challenged in a letter to the local newspaper, demanding that

the trail be widened.

"Yes . . . four lanes are a must."

Todd Litman, an economist who heads the Transport Policy Institute,

says rush hour on the Galloping Goose is a good sign - it shows

well-planned bike lanes can convince large numbers of people to leave

the automobile behind.

So far, Victoria's planners aren't biting. But they must warns Luton,

who foresees a nightmare for pensioners putting along Victoria's

favourite bike lane on their scooters.

"Wait until these electric bikes and Segways (human transporters)

start showing up on the trail," he warns.

"They're fast and they're all going to be crashing into each other. It

won't be pretty."

(Vancouver Sun)

19:36ET 27-08-05

Edited September 1, 2005 by Guest
fixed the formatting for ya

[Blane]

I spent a bunch of time online yesterday looking for a green energy investment fund to drop some money into. can't seem to find any in Canada. I found one in the US that earned 40% interest last year!!! If you're looking to invest, put your money behind a green economy. We're going to have to head that way anyhow.

[Guest Low Roller]

I was hoping to fly home for Christmas, but I'm not sure I'm prepared to apply for a loan just yet...

[Velvet]

Gasoline is starting to get as expensive as Coca-Cola.