What in the Hell happened to tire prices? - Page 3

 wrote:



 In US $
Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91
Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78
Egypt Cairo $0.65
Nigeria Lagos $0.38
Venezuela Caracas $0.12

 I would rather see these prices. Anyone ever ride in Venezuela? You
could fill a motor home for $5 and your bike for $.35

 And why is it $0.12 in Venezuela and $4.92 across the border in
Brazil?

 Sounds like your Government is screwing you as well Tiago. It's no
wonder the USA is looking into how Brazil gets away with being
independent of foreign oil.

 Murray

 On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:26:36 GMT, scrapeNOTHANKS@nc.rr.com wrote:


oops, meant premium pump gas - @ I wish it was that cheap here-@
$US0.79 cents/litre by my bad maths.

 On 28 Apr 2006 07:56:44 -0700, "Tiago Rocha"



I thought I saw somewhere recently that Brazil was almost self
sufficient in transport fuels using ethanol-is this correct?

keith

 
Keith wrote:

well... yes... and no...

I have a ethanol powered car - sturd, if those karts are methanol then
I know now that methanol and ethanol smell completely different...
Makes sense though. My RM when using full synthetic two stroke oil had
a smell that remembers (far away...) that kart smell.

We are self sufficient 1st because we can pump oil from places deep in
the ocean and we found a source almost 2km deep and started pumping it
these days. 2nd reason is the country is not growing. We are stale in
this department, while the production rises, the comsumption doesn't.
3rd reason could be due to ethanol. Sure, if it wasn't for alcohol
powered cars, we would need to import a lot of oil...

 Tiago notes:


Yes, methanol is sort of sweet smelling.  I ran a mini  (XR80) on
it for years in my back yard.  In the winter I'd change to gasoline
for riding on the ice because the vapor pressure of the methanol
is so low you couldn't start the bike.  The stuff in the exhaust
pipe from the methanol would still smell for the whole winter -
4 or 5 rides.


Go fast. Take chances.
Mike S.