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Paragon
16-06-2008, 12:17 PM
MONDAY JUNE 16
Gazprom: Oil To Climb To $250 For 'Foreseeable Future'
At $250 a barrel for crude oil, food prices double. The U.S., Japan and Europe plunge into deep recession. Companies go bankrupt. Airlines are nationalized. Sport-utility vehicle sales dry up as gasoline tops $7 a gallon. So envisions a story out today, that bases its extrapolations on a certain energy industry CEO’s remarks

Have a nice day!!
jeffrey
16-06-2008, 12:30 PM
MONDAY JUNE 16
Gazprom: Oil To Climb To $250 For 'Foreseeable Future'
At $250 a barrel for crude oil, food prices double. The U.S., Japan and Europe plunge into deep recession. Companies go bankrupt. Airlines are nationalized. Sport-utility vehicle sales dry up as gasoline tops $7 a gallon. So envisions a story out today, that bases its extrapolations on a certain energy industry CEO’s remarks

Have a nice day!!

Great news for UK: petrol @ only £3.50 per gallon (i.e. reduced to 77p. per litre). Rock on!
Paragon
16-06-2008, 13:15 PM
Great news for UK: petrol @ only £3.50 per gallon (i.e. reduced to 77p. per litre). Rock on!

I'm not sure on petrol, but gasoline would be an equivalent price of about £2/litre, wouldn't it?
jeffrey
16-06-2008, 14:25 PM
I'm not sure on petrol, but gasoline would be an equivalent price of about £2/litre, wouldn't it?

No. Their "gasoline" is our "petrol". $7 per gallon= £3.50 per gallon = 77p per litre.
Only discrepancy: USA gallons are different from Imperial gallons. Litres are the same, though.
starlettings
16-06-2008, 22:34 PM
No. Their "gasoline" is our "petrol". $7 per gallon= £3.50 per gallon = 77p per litre.
Only discrepancy: USA gallons are different from Imperial gallons. Litres are the same, though.

.... well i went to devon on Friday and picked up my new toy, a 20 seater Hummer H1 limo with a 6.5 ltr turbo DIESEL engine...beats the BTL job, great fun!!!!!
jeffrey
17-06-2008, 09:48 AM
.I picked up my new toy, a 20 seater Hummer H1 limo with a 6.5 ltr turbo DIESEL engine.

How many gallons to the mile does it do?
starlettings
17-06-2008, 17:24 PM
How many gallons to the mile does it do?

15 tops, but i think i will get £250 per hour for it!
gdturn
18-06-2008, 12:54 PM
20 seats? Wow!! Don't you need a special licence to carry more than 8 passengers? How does that work?
Mrs Dingle
25-06-2008, 13:20 PM
£250 per hour? For carting 20 lagerlouts around for one hour hanging out of the window shouting obsenities!! Nearly as cheap as the bus. Good luck with that one.You will need it. Don't forget sick bags and cleaning kit for the jouney:D
jeffrey
25-06-2008, 13:36 PM
...hanging out of the window
Hanging what out of the window?
Mrs Dingle
25-06-2008, 13:44 PM
Hopefully soft things.Anything else might damage the paintwork!:D
jeffrey
29-06-2008, 23:06 PM
a 20 seater Hummer H1 limo
Hope that it's licensed as such. See recent newspaper articles (inc. Sunday Times 29 June) re new licensing scheme.
Mrs Dingle
02-07-2008, 17:05 PM
A category D licence ( full bus licence) is required for 20 seats if they are fare-paying.If their not paying thats ok on a car licence.
jeffrey
02-07-2008, 17:10 PM
A category D licence ( full bus licence) is required for 20 seats if they are fare-paying.If their not paying thats ok on a car licence.

Not so now, for the stretched limousines.
Mrs Dingle
02-07-2008, 19:33 PM
A car licence entitles you to drive a vehicle with up to 8 persons for hire or reward. Up to 16 without reward.The stretch limo rules are a minefield at present.The Hummer being the only stretch vehicle (at present) with a coif to carry more than 8.
starlettings
02-07-2008, 22:40 PM
A car licence entitles you to drive a vehicle with up to 8 persons for hire or reward. Up to 16 without reward.The stretch limo rules are a minefield at present.The Hummer being the only stretch vehicle (at present) with a coif to carry more than 8.


Wrong. You cant coif a hummer...too few exits. An excursion can be coif'd though.

J. You can drive a limo on a car licence...FACT. You can carry up to 8 for reward. But as many as you like if you dont charge....

Scenario. Customer books limo for 8. I cancel booking with no refund!! ( i dont have to refund in my terms and conditions if cancellation not my fault) BUT i give customer a free hire for 20 to say sorry....FREE so legal!
Mrs Dingle
03-07-2008, 09:25 AM
See www.hummerzine.co.uk.

You have explained carefully one of the ways to get around the law.Its common practice,apparently.Beware the police and councils are clamping down due to the expected 50% rise in the number of stretch vehicles.

Enjoy while you can.:D
jeffrey
03-07-2008, 09:53 AM
Wrong. You cant coif a hummer...too few exits. An excursion can be coif'd though.

J. You can drive a limo on a car licence...FACT. You can carry up to 8 for reward. But as many as you like if you dont charge....

Scenario. Customer books limo for 8. I cancel booking with no refund!! ( i dont have to refund in my terms and conditions if cancellation not my fault) BUT i give customer a free hire for 20 to say sorry....FREE so legal!

Maybe so. Do you know if this argument has ever succeeded as a defence to a prosecution?
Sorrel
03-07-2008, 14:41 PM
Starlettings, please tell me you got the really classy candy pink paintjob or perhaps even the zebra print one? As well as the 'night club' interior!
Mrs Dingle
03-07-2008, 23:00 PM
A car licence entitles you to drive a vehicle with up to 8 persons for hire or reward. Up to 16 without reward.The stretch limo rules are a minefield at present.The Hummer being the only stretch vehicle (at present) with a coif to carry more than 8.

My mistake.The Hummer is not alone. The Ford Excursion also has this privilege.