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[strider]

My Dads a retired baby boomer. He seems to follow petrol prices with deep interest. Follows all the cycles and will fill up at the lowest time.
Then tell everyone about it and how stupid they are for paying top dollar.

And theres something wrong with that?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Do you think pensioners care about anything more than their pension?

That and subsidised healthcare for seniors. So they don't want the government spending its tax money on other shit!

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

My Dads a retired baby boomer. He seems to follow petrol prices with deep interest. Follows all the cycles and will fill up at the lowest time.
Then tell everyone about it and how stupid they are for paying top dollar.

Last week I drove to the city and noticed petrol at $1.37 but kept going, saw heaps more expensive stuff so kept going. On the way back I needed fuel so I stopped and it was $1.37. Then when I passed the original place it was $1.73, only a couple of hours later.

 

[hindy111]

And theres something wrong with that?

Well he has a 1.4lt and does 150km a week. How much impact could it have on his life if he got the cycle wrong?

 

[hindy111]

Last week I drove to the city and noticed petrol at $1.37 but kept going, saw heaps more expensive stuff so kept going. On the way back I needed fuel so I stopped and it was $1.37. Then when I passed the original place it was $1.73, only a couple of hours later.

Great story

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Great story

People underrate your intelligence.

 

[hindy111]

People underrate your intelligence.

Lot of effort and no punch line was the issue.
See I am funny. Genuinely funny

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Lot of effort and no punch line was the issue.
See I am funny. Genuinely funny

If it was supposed to be funny you'd know. Or maybe you wouldn't.

 

[84 Baby]

If it was supposed to be funny you'd know. Or maybe you wouldn't.

Wait until he discovers $1.37 is 85% of $1.73

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Impeach Gronk.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Well he has a 1.4lt and does 150km a week. How much impact could it have on his life if he got the cycle wrong?

150 km/week is equivalent to 7800 km per year.

If we assume a typical 1.4 L car gets approx 4L/100km then that means he would consume 312L of petrol every year.

Now if he f**ks up his cycle and fills up when petrol is expensive it could be anywhere from 10 cents to 20 cents a litre more costly. Lets average that out and go with 15 cents a litre.

By saving 15 cents a litre, he is saving close to $47 a year.

That is almost enough to buy three $16 gins.

 

[strider]

150 km/week is equivalent to 7800 km per year.

If we assume a typical 1.4 L car gets approx 4L/100km then that means he would consume 312L of petrol every year.

Now if he f**ks up his cycle and fills up when petrol is expensive it could be anywhere from 10 cents to 20 cents a litre more costly. Lets average that out and go with 15 cents a litre.

By saving 15 cents a litre, he is saving close to $47 a year.

That is almost enough to buy three $16 gins.

Yeah no wonder hindy is baulking at $16 gins ... us petrol tight arses are rolling in them

 

[Bandwagon]

Well that article was written by a journalist who is married to a former Labor politician. You'd be hard pressed calling him right wing.

Yet if you did, you'd be correct.

Gai Brodtmann and Chris Uhlmann have always been one of Canberra's most intriguing couples. Not just because of their jobs (she is a federal politician, he a nationally recognised journalist charged with keeping those politicians in check). Not just because of their politics (she in the right faction of Labor, he is somewhat ''more conservative''. Uhlmann, a former trainee priest, once stood on the ticket of conservative Christian independent Paul Osborne in the ACT Legislative Assembly election of 1998 and later worked as his senior adviser.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/chr...nn-a-very-canberra-couple-20140620-3ajmd.html

Rather than assume that the women who he married's political leaning determines his political leaning, you'd do better to asses him on his actual political leanings.

He's no ultra right wing not job or anything, but he's very clearly right of centre.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Interestingly, I found the following quote from the article:

"There have been whispers Brodtmann missed out on a parliamentary secretary's job when Labor was in power because of the perception Ulhmann is biased towards the Coalition."

In other words, right of centre, right wing, not left...

 

[Gronk]

Interestingly, I found the following quote from the article:

"There have been whispers Brodtmann missed out on a parliamentary secretary's job when Labor was in power because of the perception Ulhmann is biased towards the Coalition."

In other words, right of centre, right wing, not left...

Since Ulhmann left the ABC to 9 as the replacement for Laurie Oakes, he has really shown his true right leaning colours. I follow him in twitter and he at times posts stuff that deffinately comes from a right lens. It's a shame bc I always viewed him as a straight shooter. One if those merkins that who base their reporting on vigorous investigations, rather than looking for alternative facts to boost their leanings.

 

[Gronk]

 

[hindy111]

150 km/week is equivalent to 7800 km per year.

If we assume a typical 1.4 L car gets approx 4L/100km then that means he would consume 312L of petrol every year.

Now if he f**ks up his cycle and fills up when petrol is expensive it could be anywhere from 10 cents to 20 cents a litre more costly. Lets average that out and go with 15 cents a litre.

By saving 15 cents a litre, he is saving close to $47 a year.

That is almost enough to buy three $16 gins.

The cycle is 40 cents.
And what cars gives youd 25km per litre. But also you taking into account hitting the height everytime. So even though I could push the figure from $47 to about $75 I reckon would only maybe hit it 20% so where talking under $20

 

[Gary Gutful]

The cycle is 40 cents.
And what cars gives youd 25km per litre. But also you taking into account hitting the height everytime. So even though I could push the figure from $47 to about $75 I reckon would only maybe hit it 20% so where talking under $20

Fine. You piss your money away then, sucker.

 

[hindy111]

Yeah no wonder hindy is baulking at $16 gins ... us petrol tight arses are rolling in them

If I had a dust buster I would slap you with it right now while the thing was turned on HIGH

 

[hindy111]

Fine. You piss your money away then, sucker.

I also fill up on cheap days when I can but it just isn't the focal point of my daily conversation.