The Price of Oil...
The Price of Oil is expected to hit $200 a barrel in 6-24 months according to Goldman Sachs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7387203.stm
If it's going to start costing me £175+ to fill my tank then my G's days are short lived indeed.
Even veg oil is sitting around the £1/litre price at the moment....
Anybody want a 2000 G300TD?
i think im just going to have a nice g55 to have in my garden then. thanks mr bush and blair
make friends with your local chip shop
i think i will move to saudi :!:
:shock:
There's someone on Gumtree Edinburgh setting up a co-operative for used oil, http://edinburgh.gumtree.com/edinburgh/57/23563357.html
maybe there is someone doing something nearer you.
Now that the weather is a little warmer I will be using the 50/50 mix of veggie and diesel.
There are kits on the market that allow you to use 100% veggie, and with the current price of diesel, it's only costs about 3 tankfuls. I'm going to give this serious consideration.
aghhhhhh! CRAP! :cry: :x :(
Spider1V
spider, whats your mpg or how many miles do you get out of a tank out of curiosity?
spider, whats your mpg or how many miles do you get out of a tank out of curiosity?
Depends..... (if the 'cat' is 'I’ll think I’ll get a G500' curiosity will most certainly kill it!) :P
Per tank, I can range from at best 401 - gentle driving, no harsh acceleration etc, etc. (circa 17.8-18 MPG on the computer thingy) and most of all do NOT go over the magic 80MPH. At worst about 290 Miles per Tank - i.e. Oxford the other week. :wink: well over 80MPH, serious acceleration, loads of hard braking etc etc (computer thingy had 12.6MPG) but a huge smile on the face!
Although, I am currently monitoring the MPG as I have been using the aircon the past few days - on the last journey down to the office Ipswich (round trip 238 miles) the journey back was with aircon and I avg. about 15.8 MPG
Over the last 2488 miles I have avg. 15.2 MPG (just checked on the comp)
Hope that helps?
Spider1V - aka BP-Esso-McShell
to recap slightly the price we pay for petrol now because its primarily tax is the equivilant of over $320 a barrel,
prwales - so $200 a barrel would make it what?
spider - interesting to see. l can get significantly better mpg than you when outside London and driving like a saint (70mph > 22-25mpg) and even booting it I can usually get 17mpg or so....
And while it will happily do 90-100 mph, I find that the 70 is the magic number for me. Beyond that and my smaller engine is drinking like there is no tomorrow.
But living in London I think I have yet to get more than 375 miles out of a single tank and more often than not 335 miles or so.... :(
prwales - so $200 a barrel would make it what?
spider - interesting to see. l can get significantly better mpg than you when outside London and driving like a saint (70mph > 22-25mpg) and even booting it I can usually get 17mpg or so....
And while it will happily do 90-100 mph, I find that the 70 is the magic number for me. Beyond that and my smaller engine is drinking like there is no tomorrow.
But living in London I think I have yet to get more than 375 miles out of a single tank and more often than not 335 miles or so.... :(
Interesting - I have looked into going the 'chip fat' route, but naw! Would like to know what any other 500 owners are getting. reading the posts from some of the AMG owners it looks as if 10-14 seems to be the norm....
What a dilema we are in - the govenment force us to try and go green, we end up starving the third world and paying for it at the pumps! Oh the joys of eco fundimentalism!
Spider1V
you can't do the chip fat route as you have a petrol not a diesel.
and as someone said "We'll all die of starvation sitting in a traffic jam...."
the answer to that is who knows! at $200 a barrel, maintaining the current tax take on that would mean a near doubling the price but that would be untenable so I would guess that the govt could lower the proportion of its take as the price rises but this could be done in such a way that would barely affect the amount they take as a tax revenue.
I expect the price to rise but not to double I also think that there will be an economic turn down in China but this won't start until after the olympics. Given that its China driving the oil price it should fall back though probably not below $100 a barrel. In short we have a few more years to use our gas guzzlers before it becomes to dear or we resort to distilling sugar beet.
Spider - Re mpg from a 500 ....have seen 20mpg over a 90 mile round trip - driving up to the 60 limit and easing off on the downhill bits. This week, round trip of 300 miles to Lincolnshire with aircon cranked up all the way there and back, and an hour stuck in a crawling queue cos the road from Nottingham to the EMids airport was closed by the police yet again (when are they going to fix the A453?????) - both of us driving (not at the same time) and booting it up the motorways - gave just about 18mpg. It is a SWB and no kids, just a 5 stone labrador in the back - maybe that makes a difference? On the other hand, was about half a hundredweight of dead flies stuck on the front end when we got home.
I am regularly achieving 18-19 on the daily drive. On a long run at 70 is 20. Who needs to rush
Spider - Re mpg from a 500 ....have seen 20mpg over a 90 mile round trip - driving up to the 60 limit and easing off on the downhill bits. This week, round trip of 300 miles to Lincolnshire with aircon cranked up all the way there and back, and an hour stuck in a crawling queue cos the road from Nottingham to the EMids airport was closed by the police yet again (when are they going to fix the A453?????) - both of us driving (not at the same time) and booting it up the motorways - gave just about 18mpg. It is a SWB and no kids, just a 5 stone labrador in the back - maybe that makes a difference? On the other hand, was about half a hundredweight of dead flies stuck on the front end when we got home.
Many thanks for the update - you have that lovley SWB black 500, (and no kids - what a great mixture! :P ) Ah yes - the flies- one thing they don't mention in the sales literature! My wife recons after a long blast we will be measuring them in inches on the front!
The problem I have is the V8 rumble, just sounds soooooo good when you floor the 'go-go' pedal, I find it hard to stay below the magic 70. Although I did shock myslef the otehr day and did a rest on the computer and it registered 27 MPG - for about 4 seconds! :P
Spider1V
I am regularly achieving 18-19 on the daily drive. On a long run at 70 is 20. Who needs to rush
Me :P :wink:
Spider1V
I use to speed quite a bit but in the last few months I have taught myself to drive at 70mph or so. I've also started coasting a lot more - I find that the weight of the G lets you coast quite a while without any noticeable change in speed.
I keep the computer on mpg and it has become a bit of a game to see what the lowest figure I can achieve is.
Although the frustrating thing is when I bought my G we drove back on the autobahn at speeds between 80-95mph and by the time we got to London my computer had an average fuel consumption of only 28mpg!!!!
Sure that wasn't 28l/100km? When we came back from Moroc at those sorts of speeds we were down to 13mpg. I can't be bother with speed anymore it's just too nice driving it. Mind you I had to go in a mondeo for 2 hrs to oxford. What a terrible vehicle couldn't get comfortable, no wonder they drive fast just to be able to get out of it
Not sure if it is all downhill to the UK from Northern Germany and it certainly didn't feel like we had a tailwind..... but it was definitely km. The reading was 10.3 litres/100km. Most of it was at about 130km/h but Bill took it up to 165 for a bit. I think he was trying to show off to the convoy of Wolfs....
Ya I'd want to hurry and get out of a Mondeo too. I'm actually quite enjoying this new driving speed. Feel so much more relaxed. Just make sure there are some good tunes on the radio and a coffee in my thermos....
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