Food Prices

Z-Cook said:
Fuel prices have spiked here from 2.89 to 3.19/gal last week to 3.59 yesterday at the local gas station. Thats just shy of a 25% increase.

There's always pretty quick knock-on effect on everything else.
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Let's put it this way. A $ 1-per-litre increase for a 100L tank is $100 extra per tank than before. Or about US$70 or GBP50 a tankful extra
 
badjak said:
And cruisers like to drink....
Great cars but not the most fuel efficient
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Tell me about it. This is the 4.5L v8 model with an LPG fuel conversion as well. Runs off 91-98 octane or LPG when it worked. With me not using her much, we run her on 95 most of the time; the fuel degrades in the summer months, and she won't start if it were 91 octane.

It already costs AU$160-180 to fill her up (ish). I know she underrecords by between 5-10% because of the off-road tyres, but this fuel rise is going to take the price of 1 tank of fuel over the AU$250 mark, which is about US$175, or GBP125, and I get a mumble mumble to a tank full (550 km or about 350 miles to a tank). I typically only fill her up once a month, thankfully. At these prices, if I can find a repair shop and someone selling LPG, it will be cheaper to repair the LPG system and use that (if I can find someone selling LPG, that is.)
 
badjak said:
How many km to the litre?
I'm on about 8, but that's longer distance and definitely no speeding
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About 6-6.5km/l (ish), but it is hard to establish exactly because the fuel indicator is always lower than the actual fuel level (the float is filling with fuel and not as buoyant as it should be). I tend to be able to drive for around 200km with the fuel light on, and the actual indicator will be off the bottom of the gauge! It is more a question of how far we are prepared to drive while she pretends to be empty of fuel! We don't have many petrol stations around here (I'm guessing it is the same for you), so you have to be able to get at least 125km on what is in the tank when leaving somewhere with fuel to go home.

Also, we have a long section of dirt track (slow and lots of gear changes) and then a steep hill - just have to sit that one out in 2nd (high ratio). Then she is usually on cruise control for the highway. I don't typically take her much above 100km with the speedo not being "legal" and in the wrong direction. We know it is 5-10% out. It was 10%, but as the tread is wearing down on the off-road tyres, it is now down to only 5% out. So 100kph was 110kph and is now 105kph. I just deduct 10 from anything over 50kph for a speed limit and 5 from everything else. She is about as aerodynamic as a brick - better since we removed the roof rack though!

She has never been very economical, sadly. Perhaps not our most sensible purchase from that point of view, but there have been times when she has been the only thing that could leave our area after storms.
 
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