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View Poll Results: How are you planning to cope if / when fuel prices go ballistic ?
Don't worry, be happy !! Peak Oil is so far away I'm not concerned at all. 16 23.19%
Buy a small highly efficient car for weekday use, keep the performance car for the weekend 14 20.29%
My current / next vehicle will be an efficient allrounder 9 13.04%
Australia has heaps of Cheap LPG and the new liquid injection LPG Falcon is the perfect answer 21 30.43%
I'd rather walk, cycle, bus or crawl than own a hybrid or similar 9 13.04%
Voters: 69. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-12-2011, 12:26 PM   #61
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Default Re: Buy a Fiesta diesel, Toyota Hybrid or similar ?

In my opinion, the problem isn't that there's insufficient alternatives, the real problem is the lead time for major projects, such as shale and nuclear can be many, many, many years to get clearance for environmental, resource and all the other approval hurdles and then there's the process of getting all the machinery and infrastructure in place, meanwhile tick tock, tick tock, lots of middle east oil fields run dry in 2015-2016. If I could buy LPG for under 60 cents a litre the solution in the medium term for me would probably be a liquid injection LPG Falcon and therefore I'm not surprised this is the clear favourite in the poll.
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Old 02-12-2011, 02:52 PM   #62
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Default Re: Buy a Fiesta diesel, Toyota Hybrid or similar ?

Problem Solved !! There definitly should have been a sixth option. Peak Oil ppfffttt, no problem I'm going to buy one of these, the 2.2 diesel model uses only 1/3 rd of the fuel of a SC FPV on the urban cycle !!
http://www.caradvice.com.au/126438/2...uar-xf-review/
I'd like to change my vote to this option, it would be a real "hardship" owning one
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Old 03-12-2011, 01:00 PM   #63
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Default Re: Buy a Fiesta diesel, Toyota Hybrid or similar ?

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Originally Posted by EFFalcon
Bikes are dangerous when there are so many cars on the road.
Just sounded a bit derogatory is all, thinning the herd.

I've never been fined or in trouble with the law on two wheels, I pride myself on being sensible and untarnished record when on two.
But unfortunately to a degree, there are a lot of idiots on bikes out there, they make the rest of us look bad.
I guess no different to being called a hoon because you are a car enthusiast.
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