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Wish i had it right now as i am currently mid way between melb and canberra but as usual the au is just purring along. Cruise control on. Speedo says 115 but the recreational flying gps says 111. Filled up with lpg as i left melb at 48 cents a litre...cheap motoring

Can someone check my figures? NOTE, everyone may have their own opinion on the figures i have used but it is a starting point Fuel cost as of today at the local petrol stations in melb and canberra Petrol $1.40/ $1.31 LPG $0.50/$0.64 Diesel $1.20/$1.31 Travelling canberra - melb - canberra is 1,300 kms per fortnight plus running around so say 750klms per week = 39,000klms per year Car stated average litres per 100klms for petrol and diesel is 10.5/8.2 - driving style would change this but unknown Conversion cost of LPG is $4,500 and diesel option is extra $3,250 - could negotiate on tese prices Litres used petrol or LPG is 4,095 and diesel is 3,198 per year at 39,000klms Fuel cost per year of melbourne and canberra is Petrol $5,733/$5,364 LPG $2,047/2,621 Diesel $3,838/$4,189 This would give a payback period of LPG over diesel of only 1 year and a saving of around $1,500 on fuel with LPG over diesel for each year after that at 39,000klms per year or $375 per year at 10,000klms plus cheaper servicing cost Seems to me if the above figures are even somewhat correct, going LPG is a no brainer in the financial sense

Is that because of the diesel? In my mind, the high sales of diesel cars could lead to the fuel companies capitalising on this in years to come and move the price of diesel up for more profit...tomorrow diesel will be the petrol of today. Perhaps LPG may be the go besides the good old trusty 4.1 litre ford engine is unstoppable. The service guy in Canberra I go to was telling me that one of his customers came in to get his ford serviced and complained that his was starting to use a bit of oil, went from full to add in the life of a service and it was an LPG converted one...the car had just clocked over 1 million ks...mind you it was a taxi though which are always running hot but still, the 4.1 is one hell of an engine. The only problem I see with LPG is in 10 years time more and more service stations could begin to drop it, not all as it will still be needed but i may have to search for one to fill up instead of just going to the local. Overall i think the cost of LPG per klm would be cheaper than diesel so the payback period would be sooner i.e. $1,500 extra overall would be around 30,000 to 40,000 klms and with doing canberra - melb - canberra every 2 weeks that would be 3 years and my work contract is for another 6 months but with 2 x 1yr extensions. Real crystal ball stuff though

In my dual fuel BA series 2 fairmont ghia i had to have new injectors put in at around 90k on the clock but i have never had to touch the au. One stupid thing is the au always used oil on a big trip like 2 litres of oil doing a melb to brisbane. It has been like it ever since the lpg was done, all 170ks untill a couple of months ago when i had it serviced. The guy doing the service said that he replaced some metal washer or something with a plastic one so it shouldn't use any oil now. He was correct, it hasn't used a drop of oil doing canberra to melb to canberra 5 times since. The service people i use in canberra who also do lpg conversions really know what they were doing so lesson learnt is that not all lpg conversion people are the same and i would hate to think how much i have paid out in oil over those 170k

The au gas conversion was one of the earlier types which resulted in less power and more lpg used than petrol but when we got a BA series 2 it was much better and that was 8 years ago. The current dual fuel systems i believe are almost 1 to 1 with petrol in terms of power and usage. You are right Nev, a very hard decision and one i am having trouble trying to decide on. Although irrelavant to the decision, the one thing i do like about the lpg is i have never had to worry about when to fill up...i just drive the car on lpg till it is empty and then say perhaps i need to look for the cheapest fuel soon. This also enabled a good mix for the engine with some petrol use for the seals etc running say 90/10 between lpg and petrol

I am considering buying a new ford territory and need advice on the best fuel system for me. Firstly i am driving a ford au fairmont wagon and for the last 17 years it has had lpg duel fuel. It has done 170k in those 17 years and the dual fuel option has been great. Possibly for the next 2 years i will be driving the territory doing a round trip of Melb – Canberra – Melb every 2nd weekend but with very little driving around Canberra in between. After 2 years it may average 10k a year as a normal family car. The Territory I am looking at getting is the RWD only Titanium which already has ample boot space if I went for LPG dual fuel with a donut tank and the spare wheel in the boot. Diesel naturally has more torque bit dirtier, servicing cost, smaller engine and higher fuel per litre cost. But the difference in cost between a new diesel Territory versus a petrol version and dual fuel addon would possibly be around $1500 more for the LPG. I would expect to keep the car up to 15 years like my au wagon now 17 years old. What type of fuel would you go for?

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It's because they have a captive market by having the millions of users already on apple devices most (not all) users tend to stay with what is already preloaded and ready to go on their device and apple already have your credit card details etc

Apple is out to destroy everyone. Take for instance this latest apple music, there are 30 other providers of this which creates good competition but soon those 30 companies will be destroyed because of apple. They already make billions but now are set out to destroy all the small companies and industries putting many people out of work etc...i will not touch an apple device

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/17/algorithm-identifies-future-trolls-from-just-five-posts

http://recode.net/2015/04/18/when-the-iphone-vs-android-fight-comes-to-blows/

What time is the barby tomorrow volsky. Hope to be there

I need to ask an urgent question relating to how my company is set up so is there any cpa accountants on here...If you can help me can you please pm me a contact phone number...thanks if you can

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I know a user of this site that doesn't have a high or even moderate level of education and command of the English language but posted away to the best of his ability until one day he got attacked...he doesn't post any more and he is one of the nicest guys around...pity

Thanks volksy, bit bugged for tonight but will get to the barby at Goulburn

Well, I am in Canberra now and staying in an apartment 100 meters from the Air Services building, no I am not working for them, but this apartment is only for short term until I find a cheaper one but work is paying for a week in this one. If anyone reading this is in Canberra, let me know and perhaps we can hook up for a drink some time...what else is there to do in Canberra

Thanks Don, I remember one time when the family and I went there for a visit many years ago and we stayed at a caravan park in one of their units. We woke up in the morning, couldn't have a shower, no water to make a coffee...all the water had frozen in the pipes. The caravan park owner had to come over with an industrial size hair dryer to heat the pipes up. I was dying for a coffee by the time he had got the water flowing again.

I have obtained a position with a Government Agency in Canberra and I start on Monday the 16th March, 6 month+ contract so I was wondering whether anyone here would happen to have a 1 bedroom apartment available for rent in Canberra. Better to help someone here first than to go to the agents. If so please let me know ASAP, thanks

If you remember years ago there was an advert with a dentist brushing his teeth and the voice over said "This is ???, a dentist so we can't show you his face...", well that was actually a teacher at my children's school who acted in commercials on the side

I have sat back over the years watching tv ads for new super duper toothbrushes and shavers and always asking the question how marketing is telling us that our previous toothbrush or shaver can be improved. I mean at what point do they stop, throw another blade in a shaver, WOW a 2 blade shaver is better because the first blade pulls the up and the following blade cuts it, now 5 blades are even better. The new toothbrush is designed to get in between teeth but the next new one gets in between teeth and has a specially shaped bristle. When do they stop and have the perfect shaver or toothbrush because there is only so much you can do with these...until now http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/17/oral-b-pro-7000-smartseries-with-bluetooth-review/#mcyIEw:Ayp

Did you know that the size of an iPad came from sheep and they were the first aviators? This is a interesting/funny article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11389922/21-things-you-never-knew-about-sheep.html Go Shaun

I really want one of the new 12inch surface pro 3 tablets from MS but the two big things stopping me is in this day and age mobility is what tablets are all about and who in their right mind would make a fantastic tablet that doesn't have connectivity outside of wifi. The only way you can use this tablet away from wifi is to carry around a dongle with you to connect to the internet when on the go. The other major drawback with it is the way the pen just attaches to the side, i bet you will lose a few of these over time unlike other tablets where the pen inserts into the housing.

I use 8.1 adjusted to win 7 look and feel and have found it a lot better than 7 or 8...very quick, no issues like BSOD and very nice with the 7 start menu and gaphics etc

It is most probable that it is strategic. This will have a huge impact on developers and development not only with the new browser, hopefully they will abide by browser rules this time and not create their own rules, but also that windows 10 being cross platform. I can see that if you have an android phone you can dump android and install windows on it. This will send app developers straight to windows and MS will get loads of income from apps. It will, in my opinion, cause a huge shakeup in the whole IT industry especially against Google and Apple