i pay 3.20 for 93 octane here in mass

 

Petrol last year in Queensland Australia was $ 1.00 a litre with reward programs etc you could get down to $ 0.90 a litre and now fuel has come down a few cents but on th enews the other day I heard to could be up to $2.00 a litre by chrristmas. There are a lot of loyality programs around currently we have one when we get up to 15 cents a litre off. We are a very lucky country.

 

There always someone saying that it going to be bad and the world would end by next xmas, but Live for today.

I could easily deal with a $3.00 petrol price, wouldn’t like it, but I could handle it.

 

Yes you are right but unlike many countries we have had it too good for a long time here in Aus and I myself have a 100 ks trip to the next town unfortunately we dont have a regular public transport system in the rural town unlike the cities, so thats why I sold a couple of my toys ( Boat and second car ) so that I could enjoy the CBR

 

If the price for gasoline would rise to $ 3, my gas cost would increase with about $ 7000 per year, just for the car driving, I would not be really happy with that. To cover such cost increase by higher salory in Sweden, it would require $ 20 000 increased salory per year before tax. Just wanted to put it into our perspective.

 

I forgot, Sweden has high taxes, for me, my fuel spending is abot 4.5k to 5k which I would take it out of my gross before Tax.

My point was that you could get through

 

I left proserpine (on the east coast Bruce Highway in queensland australia) at $1.29/L and headed west on the weekend. Filled up at $1.36/L and then again at $1.43/L.

Fuel for the weekend around $75/80. Flat tyre with no repair kit = pumping up at each fuel station and riding to the next one until the spike fell out and the air rushed out as fast as i could put it in. $40 to get a mate with a trailer to pick me up to get me home... tyre is screwed now, but it was already too old so it's forced me to get a new road pilot 170/60 for $290. Rim is luckily undamaged!

Expensive weekend... but like rx7man says (not an actual quote)... if you come away with a smile on ur face, it is well worth it!

I don't go to pubs much Rx7man, they are where people dream about the way we live our lives

 

Part from the tyre, you could have gone to the pub for the day and spent $150, what would you rather do?