[QUOTE=Sobotnik;28508333]If they keep this up then those smug bicyclists who ride down roads showing everybody their bony backside and taking up whole lanes will end up taking over the roads.[/QUOTE]
I started cycling the 10 mile trip to my work now, saving bags of cash and dont have to go yo gym at all, saving enough money to buy my own flat soon hopefully aswell! Also get home in pretty much the same amount of time as I would have done driving, so bonus all round.
Oh yeah and public transport is a fucking joke, its cheaper for me to buy a car, insure it, fill it up with fuel, and to also use it not just for communiting and it still works out cheaper than public transport, not to mention the fact what is a 1 hour journey on my bike is a 3 hour journey by bus or a 1 and a half hour by train, total wreck of a service to be honest.
[QUOTE=SilentOpp;28507894]Interesting. I live in Arizona around the Phoenix area, and we pay only for the first bus and every bus after that we have to take is free for up to an hour or something like that. Maybe your public transportation system actually pays for itself while ours is sucking money?[/QUOTE]
we also have a goddamn bus that picks up people for free
The taxation is the worst bit, I was in Saudi a month ago and worked out their price for fuel.
5p a litre.
5p.
You bet your ass I ended up renting a massive 4x4 and hammering it around Taif.
Also up North our bus system is reliable but expensive, would cost me £2 to get to work each way (about £200 quid a month) and the trains are ridiculously expensive for something so terrible.
jesus christ $10 a gallon and I thought paying $4 was bad.
[QUOTE=TheHypnotoad;28510193]The taxation is the worst bit, I was in Saudi a month ago and worked out their price for fuel.
5p a litre.
5p.
You bet your ass I ended up renting a massive 4x4 and hammering it around Taif.
Also up North our bus system is reliable but expensive, would cost me £2 to get to work each way (about £200 quid a month) and the trains are ridiculously expensive for something so terrible.[/QUOTE]
My brother lives and works in Dubai, fuel is so damn cheap. Only costs the equivalent of a few pound to fill up.
[QUOTE=Catdaemon;28507825]£1.20 to get on the bus (although you can go anywhere on that route but they're all quite short).
£2.20 to get on the bus if you forgot your Oyster card or forgot to top it up.
£2 to get on the train (goes up to £7-8 max, zone based pricing).
£60-70 ish to get on the train anywhere reasonably far away
better public transport? and that's just london, out here in hertfordshire it's even worse. That said I'm not so sure of the public transport costs elsewhere.. but this is extortionate when it used to be 70p for the bus only a few years ago.[/QUOTE]
I agree, kids fare here in Nottingham is £1.00, used to be 60p.
The NHS is one big thing to fund
[QUOTE=AnotherGuy;28509028]Whilst I was in America, it cost $40 to fill up a fucking Mustang; fucking cheap when it costs £50 to fill up a Vauxhall Corsa here.[/QUOTE]
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That's a 1.2 Corsa, 41 litres of a 47 litre tank, £8.92 VAT
[QUOTE=TheHypnotoad;28510193]The taxation is the worst bit, I was in Saudi a month ago and worked out their price for fuel.
5p a litre.
5p.
You bet your ass I ended up renting a massive 4x4 and hammering it around Taif.
Also up North our bus system is reliable but expensive, would cost me £2 to get to work each way (about £200 quid a month) and the trains are ridiculously expensive for something so terrible.[/QUOTE]
All trains going south are nice & clean.
Alternative fuels
Sort them out
[QUOTE=smurfy;28510527]Alternative fuels
Sort them out[/QUOTE]
No one wants them if there isn't profit in it.
[QUOTE=TheHypnotoad;28510193]The taxation is the worst bit, I was in Saudi a month ago and worked out their price for fuel.
5p a litre.
5p.
You bet your ass I ended up renting a massive 4x4 and hammering it around Taif.
Also up North our bus system is reliable but expensive, would cost me £2 to get to work each way (about £200 quid a month) and the trains are ridiculously expensive for something so terrible.[/QUOTE]
Math isn't adding up... Did you have to go to work multiple times in one day? Because if you pay £2 to get to work and £2 to get home, thats what? £4 a day? So if you went to work every single day Sunday-Saturday, it would cost you only £112 a month....
Apparently it would cost me just over £70 to fill my cars tank fully.
I've never filled it fully.
$3.36 a gallon here. Still costs over $70 to fill up though.
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That's the price per litre here, so stop complaining.
Edit: Holy shit thats $8,75 per gallon.
Still cheaper for me to drive than take public transport. £15 to get a train 9 miles then £3.70 bus fare for a mile or so. Absolute rip-off because they know they can make it as expensive as they want and people will pay because they need to, and if they don't then they can drop a shit load of fines on them.
[editline]9th March 2011[/editline]
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That's the price per litre here, so stop complaining.
Edit: Holy shit thats $8,75 per gallon.[/QUOTE]
Don't forget that we need to pay ~£2000/year to just legally have our cars on the road.
that doesn't include fuel prices or road tax.
[quote]the average price of diesel also hit a new record at 137.92p[/quote]
The one thing good about the north
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[QUOTE=smurfy;28510527]Alternative fuels
Sort them out[/QUOTE]
I have found the solution to our problems.
[img]http://imgur.com/FUE7D.png[/img]
[QUOTE=lead_farmer;28511465]$3.36 a gallon here. Still costs over $70 to fill up though.[/QUOTE]
that's cheap as hell compared to most countries
[QUOTE=Gareth;28511619]Still cheaper for me to drive than take public transport. £15 to get a train 9 miles then £3.70 bus fare for a mile or so. Absolute rip-off because they know they can make it as expensive as they want and people will pay because they need to, and if they don't then they can drop a shit load of fines on them.
[editline]9th March 2011[/editline]
Don't forget that we need to pay ~£2000/year to just legally have our cars on the road.
that doesn't include fuel prices or road tax.[/QUOTE]
If the £2000 isn't road taxes what is it called?
I pay about 10000 dkk a year for insurance (i'm 19) and 2400 dkk for road tax.
That's a total of about £1400 in tax and insurance, so yeah it isn't bad here. It's just our fuel price thats ridiculusily high.
Edit:
Ive allways wondered why car insurance in England is so expensive. Is it because theres lot of taxes on the insurance or?
[QUOTE=mrpirate;28511763]If the £2000 isn't road taxes what is it called?
I pay about 10000 dkk a year for insurance (i'm 19) and 2400 dkk for road tax.
That's a total of about £1400 in tax and insurance, so yeah it isn't bad here. It's just our fuel price thats ridiculusily high.[/QUOTE]
I think he's talking about insurance, tax varies, for a 1.2 litre car it's £125 a year
[QUOTE=JDK721;28511761]that's cheap as hell compared to most countries[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I know. I feel bad for you European folks. Those prices are ridiculous.
[editline]9th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Chickens!;28511727]I have found the solution to our problems.
[img_thumb]http://imgur.com/FUE7D.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
brb going to the patent office
[QUOTE=lead_farmer;28511851]
brb going to the patent office[/QUOTE]
Too slow i already got it.
[QUOTE=Chickens!;28511901]Too slow i already got it.[/QUOTE]
ill see you in court
I can't afford to drive there can you come to my house instead?
[QUOTE=matt.ant;28511787]I think he's talking about insurance, tax varies, for a 1.2 litre car it's £125 a year[/QUOTE]
Here if the car is from year 1997 or before, then the road tax depends on weight of the vehicle (wich makes perfect sense). A 2 ton vehicle cost about £700 a year in road tax. For cars after 1997 it depends on how much they polutes (wich is bullshit).
[QUOTE=mrpirate;28511938]Here if the car is from year 1997 or before, then the road tax depends on weight of the vehicle (wich makes perfect sense). A 2 ton vehicle cost about £700 a year in road tax. For cars after 1997 it depends on how much they polutes (wich is bullshit).[/QUOTE]
It's based on polution here, which isn't really working anymore because a brand new car polutes so little that you don't have to pay tax
I'm considering getting an electric motorcycle instead of a car, these prices are just going to go up and up.
The Zero S looks pretty good, costs £8k, 60 mile range, 30p per charge.
[img]http://i.bnet.com/blogs/2011-zero-s-electric-motorcycle-lg.png[/img]
Doesn't look terrible like most electric cars too.
[QUOTE=B-hazard;28513933]I'm considering getting an electric motorcycle instead of a car, these prices are just going to go up and up.
The Zero S looks pretty good, costs £8k, 60 mile range, 30p per charge.
[img_thumb]http://i.bnet.com/blogs/2011-zero-s-electric-motorcycle-lg.png[/img_thumb]
Doesn't look terrible like most electric cars too.[/QUOTE]
Bikes are way cheaper than cars, give me £1000 and I could buy and insure a bike and maybe have a little left over.
[QUOTE=Rosek;28514016]Bikes are way cheaper than cars, give me £1000 and I could buy and insure a bike and maybe have a little left over.[/QUOTE]
Well if you get a petrol motorcycle you would still have to pay for fuel and road tax. With this, you pay for the bike and insurance, then only have to spend £2 a week for charging it.
[QUOTE=matt.ant;28511787]I think he's talking about insurance, tax varies, for a 1.2 litre car it's £125 a year[/QUOTE]
tell me who your getting your insurance from, not even my dad (who drives a 5 year old 2litre and hasn't been in a car crash his entire life) gets it that cheap.
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