powering house

[millman56]

Do you mean Spencer?    He`s the one who although given that he has a lot of experience in this subject, broadcasts many of his findings/assumptions/theories as empirical fact and when challenged with regards to the veracity of these he resorts to being offensive to his inquisitors, to put it mildly.   

Mark.

[Oiler]

                 Land of cheap fuel? Folks, if you are in USA you are standing in it!  OK, some Arab countries are wasting their birthright by selling it at their production cost, and some third world
 countries are going bankrupt by giving subsidies on vehicle and cooking fuels, but in the developed world,the average European would pay twice the US price, and here in Australia we would be over 1.5 times US prices.
                Average European family car is probably a 1.5 litre Diesel, and here in Oz it's probably less than 2 litres. Our 4wd's and light commercials would be round 2.5 litres and mostly Diesel. Our
distances and road speeds would be quite similar to US, but we live with fuel prices higher than the equivalent of $6 per gallon and rising in the cities, and closer to $8 in remote regions, and the sky has not fallen in yet. You just need to build or import some of the great li'l Jap or Korean Diesels we have here, and you will find you can survive when the crunch comes.You may yet be able to leave some oil in the ground for the next generation.  Good luck,  Combustor.

Spot on Combustor. At this very moment we pay as much as 8.28 pr us. gall here in Denmark but our small VW UP gives us 57 MPG and a standard familly stationcar is about 42 MPG so i guess we sould be able to live with it.......

[bschwartz]

Hmmmmm.... twice the cost for fuel, but vehicles with twice the efficiency.

Guess it's a wash (in cost only).

[dieselgman]

Hmmmmm, do I smell a conspiracy? 

dieselgman

[millman56]

 Conspiracy?  More like outright robbery, little wonder we chase mpg over here, tax accounts for over 82% of the price of UK road fuel.  The oil companies are bit players in this epic but get the blame for every price hike.

Mark.