The gasoline/petrol price thread.

[leo-rcc]

[Coito ergo sum]

How come you haven't socialized the fuel industry, so that gasoline is free to the user and paid for through taxes? That is, of course, the best way to serve the needs of the people, right?

Oh, and don't you need to take a few minutes to clean up your 500 square foot "flat" and then hop on a bus to get somewhere? Or, are you going to splurge, and drive your luxurious Ford Fiesta into town today?

[leo-rcc]

[Coito ergo sum]

Luxury automobile in the UK:

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

[leo-rcc]

I don't live in the UK.

[Coito ergo sum]

I don't live in the UK.

Equally applicable to the Netherlands. Except add that you can walk from one end of your country to the other, long ways, in about 15 minutes, so nobody needs a car in the first place...

[leo-rcc]

We don't produce cars with engines below 200 horsepower that still require 8 cylinders or more and then bitch about the petrol prices.

[Coito ergo sum]

We don't produce cars with engines below 200 horsepower that require 8 cylinders or more and then bitch about the petrol prices.

[leo-rcc]

Wrong

[Coito ergo sum]

Wrong

Are you referring to the tin cans you have slave labor assemble in Ethiopia?

[leo-rcc]

Nedcar
Spyker
Donkervoort

[Coito ergo sum]

Nedcar = Mitsubishi
Spyker = Swedish Automobile, NA owned Spyker but sold it to an American hedge fund. According to Financial Times, Spyker Cars is currently unprofitable and has not sold a car since 2009, when just 36 vehicles were sent out. http://www.torquenews.com/106/swedish-a ... quity-firm
Donkervoort - has between 20 and 25 employees...sells about 5 cars a year.

[leo-rcc]

Not the issue is it? You claimed we don't produce cars, we do.

[Coito ergo sum]

Not the issue is it? You claimed we don't produce cars, we do.

No, Mitsubishi produces cars. That's a Japanese car company.

But sure -- o.k...

I'll stand corrected. Two Dutch novelty companies have produced maybe 100 toys in the last three years.

[leo-rcc]

Right, so the point still stands that we don't produce cars that require 8 cylinders or more just to get moving and then bitch about the petrol prices.