How’s this for an interesting idea.
The government rations you to 1500 litres of petrol per year per adult.
Would this make people choose more efficient vehicles?
Obviously there would be a other caveats. e.g. you must have a license and a vehicle that is taxed.
If you own 2 vehicles you still get 1500 litres and you share it how you please.
Discuss
There’d be an instant black market for Petrol then 
But…Mr Brown.
I have a diesel car and a petrol bike. How will that be split then???
ya think there will be alot more people driving off with out paying
Yep, could cope with that!
1500 litres about 10,000 miles on bike or diesel car + wife’s allowance, currently do about 30,000 miles pa between us, so need to cut back around a third of wasted journeys! :w00t:
That wuld last me around 10 weeks:unsure:
Veggie oil is £1.20 a litre, I’d buy an older diesel car and use that mixed with a little parafin 
So people with partners who stay at home are instantly in a better position in terms of ability to cover more miles. Old relatives, those unable to drive? Can we barter for their ration? No incentive to declare anyone dead then, or a huge black market in passing people through driving test just to buy their ration off them. Government ministers would be exempt of course.
Are we regressing back to the 40s and 50s? We haven’t had to fight a World-spanning conflict for 6 years that destroyed Europe so I don’t understand what the problem is.
My wife doesn’t have a licence, I still drive her to places or she goes on the back of the bike, but I wouldn’t get her allowance? That’s not right.
I suspect many more people with no interest in driving would get a licence (even if it’s something easy like a bike CBT) just to get the petrol allowance and then sell it on. Surely that can’t be a good thing.
As a weekend and leisure time rider, I could probably just about live on that.
What bothers me more as the price of oil products goes up is theft of fuel - and rationing would have the same effect. My 2nd tank (2 gal) has a simple screw cap and the day is fast approaching when some scrote starts nicking from it.
Far worse is the “Albanian” theft method of drilling a small hole through the underneath of a vehicle to drain the fuel out. As the oil price is unlikely to fall (analysts I’ve been reading for the past 3 years or so have always predicted $200/barrel once the demand hits criticality), watch out for crap like this starting Real Soon Now.
Yup,
You must be joking!
You meant 10 years, didn’t you ? 
What planet are you on?
He’s on Planet Arnie.
It’s a large mass in a strange orbit, displaying many characteristics which confound modern scientists…
A very elliptical comment. The large mass must result in extreme gravitational forces. More friction between surfaces is an obvious progression upon this data. Can you reccomend a suitable and efficacious lubricant?
1500 litres would never be enough…As for the the oil price / demand thing… demand is actually fairly flat, and certainly not experiencing the sort of explosive growth that the tabloids would have us believe.Oil prices will fall but, i fear, not until after the $200 / barrel has been hit.Prices are artificially high through a variety of profit-making rackets…
I`d convert my car to run on gas.
But thats more expensive than petrol! don’t you mean £1.20 a gallon;)
Unfortunately not - I paid £1.32 a litre for diesel this week . . . and Sainsbury’s have their cheapo low grade cooking oil at £1.20 a litre, it used to be 48p/litre when I used in my last car.If diesel does go up to 1.50 or higher a litre then the old veggie oil will get more attractive again.
