yeah acording to that site they are paying $3us per gallon
that works out to $4au for 3.7liters so "just" over $1 a liter

Nothing to do with Iraq, but instead the massively expanding economies
in Asia.

Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

Yeah, it's ironic. The real biggie for the yank way of life, their economy,
everything, is petrol. They still use oil to heat their homes! And LPG is
really expensive over there (not sure why).
They are super dependant on oil, more than us. For this to be happening is
going to enrage even the right wing rednecks who support anyone who goes to
war.

First; it's 2.5Ah i.e. 2.5 amperes for an hour (NOT per hour).
That's the chocolate wrapper because the rating is actually
determined on a longer (10-hour discharge) and the cell will have
significantly less capacity when discharged more rapidly. Even when
discharged slowly, it represents only about 11kJ in energy. (1.2V *
2.5 A * 3600)

Compare that to 1 kg of biodiesel which "contains" about 40 MJ.
Even allowing for thermal/combustion cycle inefficiencies, you'd
nett around 15 MJ ... at 250kJ/kg (I'm being generous for NiMH)
that's 60 kg of NiMH cells.

To carry the equivalent of just 5 litres of biodiesel, your electric
vehicle then needs 300 kg of NiMH AA cells.  Range is likely to be
somewhat less than 100 km.

Hardly efficient or practical. Nor economically feasible because of
the capital expenditure, the life of the batteries (probably around
3 years) and the energy required to make the batteries.

And then you still have to charge them. A full charge of about 45kWh
for the pack would cost around $7.50 when charged overnight in 10
hours, off the grid (17c/kWh) from a 3-phase power point ... and you
still have to try to resolve how electricity gets ONTO the grid...

If you buy the vegetable oil, methanol, etc, biodiesel costs about
90 cents a litre to produce. So the equivalent "recharge" cost is
under $6.00 and could take place almost anywhere in less than 3
minutes - if you dawdle.