2022 Gas Prices - Will $2(+) per Litre slow you down?

[PrivatePilot]

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GM picked a bad time to start making pickups in Oshawa again. I hope it doesn’t effect things - gotta figure $2/L will be a mental barrier for many once we cross it.

That being said even at $1.60 a litre today I still see people driving 150KPH on the 401 in their bro dozer pickups, so I guess they either don’t care, or are (more likely) crying endlessly about gas prices but not making one tiny bit of effort to use less by, you know….slowing down.

 

[Georg3__]

My car does not care 120 - 150 km/h. My score lately has been bad 40-60s

 

[mimico_polak]

In talks to go hybrid work model so it evens out the bike use .

Cancelled a trip to Quebec




@mimico_polak - that drive gonna suck

I'm never taking the X to work. I have done the 401 on a motorcycle, and a manual transmission car...never again.

It literally killed everything I found enjoyable in riding. No thanks.

The drive will suck, but I'm pushing to work 7-3 instead of 8-4 and if that flies it won't be so bad. Will have to wait and see. If COVID comes back (which I expect it will) and start tearing through again, we'll probably go back to a WFH. But I'm in construction, hard to do this job from home.

 

[mimico_polak]

I ordered a bronco sport , I did order the big engine pkg LOL ,4 cyl turbo
I only keep cars 3 yrs so if it’s no fun, it goes away.

I’m thinking my triumph 1050 tiger needs a new home , big engine and I don’t go far .


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Nice. Looking forward to a review of it.

 

[mimico_polak]

My car does not care 120 - 150 km/h. My score lately has been bad 40-60s

Your car might not care...but 50 over and you're sitting by the site of the road.

 

[GreyGhost]

Your car might not care...but 50 over and you're sitting by the site of the road.

No car can beat physics. Faster equals more energy consumed per km.

 

[Mad Mike]

My bikes get better gas mileage than my car, so soon I'll switch.

My smallest bike is a 125, it gets about 90MPG and has a top speed of about 105KMH -- that will be my around-town transportation this summer.

My biggest hurt will be marine fuel, generally more expensive and 500-liter fillups are gonna sting.

 

[ReSTored]

If you want to save big bucks assess your need for that 2nd car. We went from 2 vehicles to 1 in 2020. Including depreciation that 2nd car can cost you a minimum $10k - $15k a year. If you can make it work, then big savings in after tax dollars.

 

[cycling]

I will regardless. Bikes are not cheap. YOLO.

 

[Nikola Tesla]

That’s why I bought the versys x300, plan to use it to commute year round, no car for me unless I absolutely need one which I doubt I will!

 

[caje]

Will certainly be riding the Versys X 300 more often now vs the Z900. Those 3-4 hour weekend trips add up, especially with premium.

 

[crankcall]

I dont even want to consider marina gas, we run 10 outboards coach boats from 25hp to 140hp for the sailing school 6-8hrs a day for 4 months. And our horrible 350ci 4barrel tank of a committee boat .
Last yr fuel bill was 16k , it should easily be 20k this yr.

Thank God my 2GM 14hp yanmar in the sailboat is super efficient .

The Triumph actually gets the worst mileage of anything we own , but I'll still ride

 

[LePhillou]

I'm never taking the X to work. I have done the 401 on a motorcycle, and a manual transmission car...never again.

It literally killed everything I found enjoyable in riding. No thanks.

The drive will suck, but I'm pushing to work 7-3 instead of 8-4 and if that flies it won't be so bad. Will have to wait and see. If COVID comes back (which I expect it will) and start tearing through again, we'll probably go back to a WFH. But I'm in construction, hard to do this job from home.

ive done the commute on the x, along lakeshore rd, it was alright

worked on my reflexes like a charm

 

[mimico_polak]

If you want to save big bucks assess your need for that 2nd car. We went from 2 vehicles to 1 in 2020. Including depreciation that 2nd car can cost you a minimum $10k - $15k a year. If you can make it work, then big savings in after tax dollars.

We went to a single car when I was flying FIFO as it was just sitting there. Now that I'm back, and now that I have to commute again 3/5 days (hopefully never back to 5/5) it's not even an option.

How do you like the 300 @Nikola Tesla? It's on my short list as it's more off road friendly than the 500X from all I can see.

 

[Nikola Tesla]

I dont even want to consider marina gas, we run 10 outboards coach boats from 25hp to 140hp for the sailing school 6-8hrs a day for 4 months. And our horrible 350ci 4barrel tank of a committee boat .
Last yr fuel bill was 16k , it should easily be 20k this yr.

Thank God my 2GM 14hp yanmar in the sailboat is super efficient .

The Triumph actually gets the worst mileage of anything we own , but I'll still ride

Lol yup, I did some work a couple years ago for the port authority, outer harbour marina in Toronto, the money people spent on fuel is nuts, even just regular folks… I remember one guy said he was doing a little vacation trip to some islands down south and planned to spend 40k on fuel alone, boat wasn’t even a yacht or anything that big…

 

[Nikola Tesla]

How do you like the 300 @Nikola Tesla? It's on my short list as it's more off road friendly than the 500X from all I can see.

I pick it up on april 22 in chilliwack, ya it looks good on specs and reviews!

 

[Sochi]

History repeats itself. my gf's sister is historian and she found us some newspapers articles from the old days when inflation was over 20% (50s) and 15%(80s) with all those conversations about muscle cars future - those died out but came to life recently... what's next you would guess

 

[crankcall]

We have had relatively "reasonable" fuel costs for a long time , I'm sort of surprised it took this long .

 

[mimico_polak]

 

[Sochi]

BTW
The gas prices in Germany already 2.5CAD (2USD) - they have taxes on gasoline way higher than here in N-A, plus inflation...

Germany gasoline prices, 07-Oct-2024 | GlobalPetrolPrices.com

We show Octane-95 gasoline price data for Germany from 2014-10-27 to 2024-10-07. The average gasoline price during that period is EUR 1.50 per liter with a minimum of EUR 1.15 on 2020-04-27 and a maximum of EUR 2.20 on 2022-03-14.

www.globalpetrolprices.com

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