How much are you willing to pay for a litre of Petrol ?

[milanbenes]

How much are you willing to pay for a litre of Petrol
before you decide to change your transport habits and
use the bus / bicycle / train etc ?

Me I now go to work on the S-Bahn.

Milan.

[The Late, Great JC]

How much are you willing to pay for a litre of Petrol
before you decide to change your transport habits and
use the bus / bicycle / train etc ?

Me I now go to work on the S-Bahn.

Milan.

However much it costs. But then again, I'm not a .NET code monkey. Sorry you've fallen on hard times, you'll just have to sell the skoda.

[planetit]

I quite fancy a trip to the Southampton boat show this weekend or next. Thought I might do my bit for the environment (and Guinness profits) by taking the train.

Cost of train tickets - £110 for the two of us.

Cost of petrol and parking – about £35

So I reckon petrol would have to be around £3 a litre to make it economically viable to use the train.

[xinetd.d]

I now go to work on the S-Bahn.

Milan.

Is "S-Bahn" a bike?

[AtW]

Smokes, booze, sugar, salt, fuel for cars are all unelastic products demand for which is pretty much stable until the point when people can't physically buy it -- and the price for this is way over £1 per liter.

This means that all this talk of preferences is pointless -- you will have to pay as much as you get charged for, unless you have alternative means of transport which in many cases is simply not the case.

[The Late, Great JC]

I quite fancy a trip to the Southampton boat show this weekend or next. Thought I might do my bit for the environment (and Guinness profits) by taking the train.

Cost of train tickets - £110 for the two of us.

Cost of petrol and parking – about £35

So I reckon petrol would have to be around £3 a litre to make it economically viable to use the train.

I'm going down to Southampton at the weekend, particularly to drool all over the Predator 108. If only I had 4.7 million to spare... (Actually if only I had 4.7 million!!!)

[xinetd.d]

I'm going down to Southampton at the weekend, particularly to drool all over the Predator 108.

What's "predator 108's" real name? Derek? and why "drool" over him?

[The Late, Great JC]

What's "predator 108's" real name? Derek? and why "drool" over him?

Laugh? Er no, actually I didn't.

[The Late, Great JC]

Smokes, booze, sugar, salt, fuel for cars are all unelastic products demand for which is pretty much stable until the point when people can't physically buy it -- and the price for this is way over £1 per liter.

This means that all this talk of preferences is pointless -- you will have to pay as much as you get charged for, unless you have alternative means of transport which in many cases is simply not the case.

The thing is AtW, people will continue to buy fuel for their vehicles whatever the price... However, the money for non-essentials will not be there anymore. People will work purely to put fuel in their cars and pay their council tax... Just think what that's going to do for morale!

[AtW]

The thing is AtW, people will continue to buy fuel for their vehicles whatever the price...

That's what I said, I suppose I should have used more down to earth words rather than saying the obvious from Economics 101 that fuel is a classic example of an "inelastic product"