So, is the petrol running out and stuff?

[Edrof]

Good hello!


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Just wanted to edit this OP to say that I didn't really mean this to be about 4x4 hatred - I just wrote it quickly (and badly!) and didn't read it back before posting. I meant it to be more of a "So I dislike gas-guzzlers because it's reported in the media that we're running out of petrol and so they seem very selfish. But is the media just scare-mongering as usual and should 4x4s be given a break?"

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So...I started to become rather annoyed at all the massive 'Chelsea tractors' that I see pootling around the place doing 1-inch-to-the-gallon; mainly because I thought: "How can you justify using up 5 times the amount of petrol for the same journey than sensible people do? All so you can feel superior."

Selfish people are everywhere and I can't help being idealistic (naive) and thinking how much better our society would be if people stopped being egomaniacs. Anyway, I digress.

Now, I haven't done any research into this oil malarky and so I pondered that perhaps the whole "We'll have no oil by 2020" and "Aargh: petrol where you going, dude?" type of 'news' headlines are all a load of rubbish and scare-mongering (like a lot of things in the news).

So what's the truth GD?

 

[Edrof]

I'm not saying we should all drive around in the most efficient cars (although if oil is indeed finite, why wouldn't we want to strectch it out as much as possible?), I'm just saying what got me thinking about whether it was all scare-mongering by the press.

What's all this about five times the fuel consumption and an inch. The diesel versions of the BMW X5 have a fuel consumption of around 38mpg. So you should join your hippie save the planet friends and jog on.

Yeah, because A) I mentioned the BMW X5 specifically and B) 1-inch-per-gallon figure wasn't a tongue-in-cheek figure at all.


Oh, and forget that hippie rubbish - it's too easy a label.

 

[Edrof]

What's making the petrol prices rise steadily at the pumps? Is it that the current oil supplies are becoming harder and thus more expensive to extract and refine?

I can't understand why people buy 4x4s without ever planning on taking them off-road.

It's like buying a set of golf clubs to use as back scratchers.

They think they look rich/cool?

 

[Edrof]

lol 4x4 haters gonna hate ...good luck to ya, I'll keep my land rover thanks, it would have been a v8 as they have generally done far less mileage, but it would have been beyond my current budget to run, so I have a 300tdi instead.

It's 14 years old and I'm keeping it, so you guys carry on being weighted down with that chip for all the difference it makes to me and my low annual mileage. And judging by some of the comments, I'll enjoy driving it for as long as possible, because if mopeds are the answer, I'd rather walk. 2-stroke engines the 'lubricating oil burning as part of normal engine running' saviour of the planet

People who think buying a rangie or other land rover is so we can 'lord it over other drivers' need a reality check - I have the advantage of better road visibility; if I'm not paying attention to you it's because I'm watching the road, silly
I don't 'off-road' in mine, but it's used to take up to 7 people and lots of stuff places, towing and even the occasional recovery of grateful car drivers, but I don't have to justify myself, any more than some of the petrol-heads here have to justify their sports coupés or mad jap cars. I own it because I like it.

Yup, that's all fine with me. I have nothing against people buying products that are used as their purpose intends. I've just edited the OP as it didn't come out how I meant it to. I added this:

Just wanted to edit this OP to say that I didn't really mean this to be about 4x4 hatred - I just wrote it quickly (and badly!) and didn't read it back before posting. I meant it to be more of a "So I dislike gas-guzzlers because it's reported in the media that we're running out of petrol and so they seem very selfish. But is the media just scare-mongering as usual and should 4x4s be given a break?"