[urq] High fuel prices?

[Keith Lloyd]

Stop your whinging all. You're making me feel hard done by. - I have to pay 
£6.17/gallon that's $10:00 for a smaller gallon than you.
If I ever filled my quattro to the brim it would stop working from the shock 
of it.
And Diesel is £6.49/gallon!

Regards
Keith (under financial siege in a grey, wet England)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Del Tergo" <mdeltergo at hotmail.com>
To: <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: [urq] High fuel prices?


>
> From: laraa at sympatico.ca
> To: <quattro at audifans.com>, urq at audifans.com
> Subject: [urq] High fuel prices ?
> So you 'staters think that 4$ a gallon is expensive ?
> Today, in Montreal, 1.42$ a liter (5.37$ a gallon). And that's for 
> regular.
> So filling my urQ with Premium 91, that would be a whopping 140$ !
>
> Yikes !
> Louis-Alain
>
> While I think it is more expensive than last year, and so on, I do not 
> think it is "expensive" compared to the price some have paid trying to 
> make sure it keeps flowing here "cheaply".  I'm damn fortunate that I can 
> afford to fuel my cars at todays levels and may still be able to should we 
> approach Germany levels that Ingo mentioned.  While I don't care for 
> politcizing car forums I will say that any American who thinks, short term 
> price ebbs and flows aside, that we will be able to avoid paying the true 
> world price for oil and its byproducts (and many other commodities by the 
> way) has missed the Canadian dollar surpassing parity with the US$, they 
> have missed the A$ at it highest rate vis a vis the US$ in 25+ years and 
> you have definately missed the millions of Chinese (every month) who want, 
> and very shortly will be able to afford a car in every driveway and petrol 
> to fuel it.
> In 2008 we thought China car sales would top the US in 2015-20120.  It 
> happened last year.  They are building roads at a rate that would make 
> Eisenhower blush.  A society with the wherewithal to displace 4 million 
> people for a dam project to meet future power needs.  I could go on.
> I am making no judgement good, bad or indifferent.  It may be fair to say 
> they are England of 250 years ago with 100+X the population.  Maybe the US 
> of 100 years ago with 20+X the population.  Who is to say they are not 
> entitled to seek their destiny today the way these other countries did 
> then?  Then of course factor in India and a few other countries and $8.50 
> gas may seem like a deal.  I am just saying there will be huge global 
> ripple effects as these countries "come of age".  I take a little comfort 
> in the Brazilian model.  (not that kind of model, though it would also be 
> comforting!)  For all intents and purposes they are energy independent. 
> (even without 1/2 their deep water oil)  Sugar beets being their bio fuel 
> of choice vs corn here.  You can take your Audi, and your GM or Ford for 
> that matter to any fuel station and pick either petrol or an ethanol style 
> blend, which ever is cheaper or suits your fancy.  You don't have to flip 
> a switch on your car, swap lines or fil
> ters etc, just choose.  Go figure, Brazil.  Here I need an act of 
> Congress, almost literally to put a wind turbine in my back yard. 
> Something has to give and it probably won't be fun, so I'll take my $4 gas 
> while I can get it and "be happy".
> This is my one and only post on the sbject though happy to chat offline. 
> Just food for thought.
> Mike
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