How to encourage fuel conservation

[JimC]

I love it when y'all talk redneck or southern!

You ought to feel an affinity, being from our Deep North...

[pErvinalia]

Right, Jim, that's it! I'm going to pack my port from grade 12 and come down there to learn you a thing or two!!

[Jason]

It's not that radical of an idea. Some telecommunications companies already use it, except with a negative coefficient, to insure brand loyalty in lieu of contracts. It seems to work well.

[Warren Dew]

Is David Cameron 'deeply' concerned enough to take on OPEC?

The funny thing about OPEC is that all the member nations are food importers.

Indeed. The only problem is that we subsidize them indirectly by subsidizing the agriculture industry. As if we didn't already send enough of our money to OPEC.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Is David Cameron 'deeply' concerned enough to take on OPEC?

The funny thing about OPEC is that all the member nations are food importers.

Indeed. The only problem is that we subsidize them indirectly by subsidizing the agriculture industry. As if we didn't already send enough of our money to OPEC.

Try cutting off their food supplies and see what happens...

Within a year, all that oil is burning away, fuelling desalination plants from Morocco to Tehran while we hitch horses to our Beemers.

[JimC]

Is David Cameron 'deeply' concerned enough to take on OPEC?

The funny thing about OPEC is that all the member nations are food importers.

Indeed. The only problem is that we subsidize them indirectly by subsidizing the agriculture industry. As if we didn't already send enough of our money to OPEC.

Try cutting off their food supplies and see what happens...

Within a year, all that oil is burning away, fuelling desalination plants from Morocco to Tehran while we hitch horses to our Beemers.

Hello, Mr Desalinisation Plant.

Meet Mr Drone...

[Warren Dew]

Is David Cameron 'deeply' concerned enough to take on OPEC?

The funny thing about OPEC is that all the member nations are food importers.

Indeed. The only problem is that we subsidize them indirectly by subsidizing the agriculture industry. As if we didn't already send enough of our money to OPEC.

Try cutting off their food supplies and see what happens...

Within a year, all that oil is burning away, fuelling desalination plants from Morocco to Tehran while we hitch horses to our Beemers.

I know. I don't want to cut off their fuel supply, though - I just want to charge them what it costs to grow the food they buy.

JimC: As far as I know, we haven't got solar powered drones yet.

[Jason]

Is David Cameron 'deeply' concerned enough to take on OPEC?

The funny thing about OPEC is that all the member nations are food importers.

Indeed. The only problem is that we subsidize them indirectly by subsidizing the agriculture industry. As if we didn't already send enough of our money to OPEC.

Try cutting off their food supplies and see what happens...

Within a year, all that oil is burning away, fuelling desalination plants from Morocco to Tehran while we hitch horses to our Beemers.

Hello, Mr Desalinisation Plant.

Meet Mr Drone...

Funny and apt. Twenty points!

[JimC]

Is David Cameron 'deeply' concerned enough to take on OPEC?

The funny thing about OPEC is that all the member nations are food importers.

Indeed. The only problem is that we subsidize them indirectly by subsidizing the agriculture industry. As if we didn't already send enough of our money to OPEC.

Try cutting off their food supplies and see what happens...

Within a year, all that oil is burning away, fuelling desalination plants from Morocco to Tehran while we hitch horses to our Beemers.

I know. I don't want to cut off their fuel supply, though - I just want to charge them what it costs to grow the food they buy.

JimC: As far as I know, we haven't got solar powered drones yet.

Ethanol powered, then!

Iowa has to be good for something!

[Hermit]

This must be a joke.
The petrol price has been held up to be artificially high due to taxes.

Yes! And wages are artificially low due to taxes too!

ABOLISH TAXES!!!11!1111!!111!!!!!!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I love it when y'all talk redneck or southern!

Ain't nothin' to it.

[Mysturji]

Make the price you pay at the pump an exponential function of the volume you buy.

Example: The current price for a litre of gasoline is about $1.35. Assuming an average daily usage of 30 litres per vehicle, the equation could be something like

price = litres^(2.5/2)/48

30 litres would cost you $43.88 or $1.46 per litre.

20 litres would cost you $17.62 or $0.88 per litre.

40 litres would cost you $83.83 or $2.10 per litre.

So it would discourage people from using excessive fuel while rewarding those who use less (a single litre purchase would cost a single penny). If this was put in place with a program to control number of times a person may by fuel per day it would encourage lower fuel consumption while indirectly jacking up the price of fuel. Environmentalists and oil barons are both happy. Also, the prices on gastation signs would be given as equations!

Fix

So you're one of those people that think only half-filling your tank each time means you use less fuel?
Reality check: It just means you have to fill (half) up more often, and you increase your chances of running out in the middle of nowhere, thus causing the AA to use even more fuel to bring you 5 litres at double the price.

Also, you seem to have neglected the effects of every cheap cunt at the petrol station in the queue ahead of you taking an hour EACH to fill their tank 1 litre at a time.

And anyway, didn't you see "Whoops Apocalypse"? The reason Jimmy Carter's Iranian hostage rescue mission failed is because the dickhead helicopter pilot only put in half a tank!

How to use less fuel?
Drive less (if/when possible).

[Tyrannical]

Is David Cameron 'deeply' concerned enough to take on OPEC?

The funny thing about OPEC is that all the member nations are food importers.

Indeed. The only problem is that we subsidize them indirectly by subsidizing the agriculture industry. As if we didn't already send enough of our money to OPEC.

Try cutting off their food supplies and see what happens...

Within a year, all that oil is burning away, fuelling desalination plants from Morocco to Tehran while we hitch horses to our Beemers.

Yeah, I don't think so
They don't even have the skills or manufacturing equipment to build the infrastructure they'd need. Maybe Saudi Arabia can build their own desalination plants without Western contractors, but even then I doubt they could manufacture the parts needed to build a lot of them on their own. On top of that none of the countries have the manufacturing infrastructure to make farm equipment, fertilizer or enough people who even know how to farm.

[FBM]

Waste (not fresh) veggie oil instead of diesel. I forget exactly when I started but it's been about 5 years now.

[Mysturji]

Waste (not fresh) veggie oil instead of diesel. I forget exactly when I started but it's been about 5 years now.

You must eat a LOT of fish & chips.