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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%
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Old 30-11-2011, 01:15 PM   #1
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Default Buy a Fiesta diesel, Toyota Hybrid or similar ?

So the question I would like to pose is how are you planning to cope with the pending
problems that might be caused by Peak Oil ? Some experts are predicting a massive
shortage of oil later this decade with demand supply imbalance forcing prices
dramatically higher, (2008 is probably a portender of much worse to come IMO).

So is this affecting your vehicle choice right now or soon, or is it a problem you'll
worry about when petrol and diesel hit say 3, 4 or 5 dollars a litre ?
Have you thought about it and what's your strategy if any ?

If you own a high performance car which might have an urban fuel consumption of
close to 20 litres per 100 km's when driven with common-sense, much worse is
possible as we all know), does it make sense to have a city car during the week and
reserve your performance car for the weekends, something like a Ford Fiesta econetic
or the regular TDCi or does the Prius i-tech with all its technology appeal ? (3.9 litres
per 100 km's for urban consumption along with all the tech of a Prius i-tech, I must
admit has some appeal to me, perhaps I'm losing the plot as I get older

Does the many decades of abundant LPG make the new liquid injected LPG Falcon
the perfect solution or is something like the new Titanium diesel Mondeo with 5.4
litres per 100 km's consumption the perfect allrounder answer ?


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