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2007-06-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran begins fuel rationing with official cars

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-06-15 00:10|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 90 liters per day?

I drive a full-sized car with a big thirsty V8. It would take Me almost 2 weeks to go through 90 liters. These are "ordinary drivers," not long-haul truckers.

Does everyone over there drive a Rolls or Maybach? Or a F-850?

Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds">Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-06-15 00:41|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-06-15 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Filling station workers said they were now limiting government-owned cars to 300 litres a month.

As government animals are in average thrice more equal then others, the figure 90 l must be per month.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-06-15 00:48|| 2007-06-15 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe the 90 litres per day is for the whole country.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-06-15 02:48|| 2007-06-15 02:48|| Front Page Top

#4 That's 5 litres a day to consume and 85 litres a day to smuggle outside the country.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2007-06-15 03:05|| 2007-06-15 03:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't think it would go outside the country C_L. Straight to the parallel market.

Government planning, is there anything it can't do?

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-06-15 04:31|| 2007-06-15 04:31|| Front Page Top

#6 "Does everyone over there drive a Rolls or Maybach? Or a F-850?"

I once had a 91 Caddy Sedan de Ville that got between 7 and 12 to the gallon. Most comfortable car I ever had... Expensive to use today, though...

Posted by Mark E. 2007-06-15 08:22|| 2007-06-15 08:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Heavy subsidies which drain state coffers make fuel so cheap it encourages waste, analysts say.

Still haven't figured out that supply / demand market thingy...

Posted by Raj 2007-06-15 08:22|| 2007-06-15 08:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, and thinking back even further, I had a 1960 Jaguar Mk IX Automatic (!). It had 2 gas tanks, and it got really low milage. Hard for me to really remember, but less than 10 mpg, certainly. I owned it back during the price spike in the 80s, of course...

Posted by Mark E. 2007-06-15 08:38|| 2007-06-15 08:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Does everyone over there drive a Rolls or Maybach? Or a F-850?

Nope. They drive P51s, F4U3s, F6Fs, P40s...

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-06-15 09:16|| 2007-06-15 09:16|| Front Page Top

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