Petrol cost soon below £1.00

[brickwall]

I'm about 15mpg so I'm a masochist  

[Junkman]

Thats a fucking disgraceful way to refer to me and my good lady sister.

 

I wasn't referring to you rural gentlefolk, I was referring to the soggy bumchucks with one eye in the middle of their foreheads surrounding you out there.

They also all look the same to me.

[richardmorris]

I swapped my 38mpg petrol Citroen c5 for the 26mpg Mercedes as I thought if I was spending money like Peggy Guggenheim I'd rather be in something I liked. I also decided to cycle more to make up for any possible cost issues. So far so good- got the merc at the £1.40 high spot, so it's actually been getting cheaper.

 

I run the fiat on superdooper unleaded as it likes the octane rating, it used to be run on 4* at £1.50! But it only did 200miles a year which is half a tank, so cost wasn't an issue.

 

Don't forget the fuel protests in 1999 were over 85p a litre. When I bought my first car in 1993 unleaded was 52.9 at sainsburys- had to fill up every other day too!

[SamR380]

Upside, I've just bought a V8 75 with all the money I've made working offshore.

 

Downside, I probably won't be working offshore much next year.

[richardmorris]

I justify multiple cars by convincing myself that bonuses pay for them not salary. Sometimes this is even true.

[captain_70s]

103p in Aberdeen over the weekend, 113p out here in the sticks.

 

Still, better to be dailying the 43mpg Honda at those prices than the 25mpg Dolly 1850 at 135p a litre like I was doing a couple of years ago!

[rml2345]

Drive about.

Fill up.

Drive about.

Fill up.

Drive about...

In saying that, I did fill the car up at ASDA when they did 99.7p purlely for the experience of having a bigger fuel number than money. Stung a bit when fuel was £1.28 a litre and the Volvo estate did 24mpg right enough but it's a neccesary thing so you can't do much about it.

[garbaldy]

 

I put £23 of derv in on Sunday which brimmed the tank from just over 1/4 on the needle. I then put another 8 litres of heating oil in earlier, despite doing many extra clicks on the pump.

 

 

I certainly wouldn't be posting that up on a public forum, even with only 8 litres the chemical trace is still evident and a big fine will wipe out any savings you make for years, the vosa or whatever they are called have just finished a blitz down here and knabed quite a few for running bent fuel and rumour has it one of them was a bus running kero.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

As I found when looking for a car in September, there just aren't any petrol engined cars to be had since about 2008.

The last thing I wanted was a potentially troublesome diesel and cheap fuel meant I could afford the everyday costs .

Plenty of E350 and E500 Mercs , 530i and 545i BMWs on 04-07 plates, but from then on ,zilch!

The recession and CO2 based company car tax effectively killed off the non sports ( M5,E55) medium sized executive* car in the UK.

The other thing is that I don't seem to have any extra money in my pocket from this almost 30%,saving on fuel and I probably buy more of the stuff with my own money than most here.

Since Buying my E280cdi in September I've done 35,000 miles, at an average of 38mpg that's 921 l. of diesel.

Based on £1.06 a litre that's £976, if diesel was still £1.40 that would have been £1,289.

That's a saving of over £300, so where is it ?

If I'd had an E500 averaging ,say 25 mpg it would have cost £1456 - only an extra £500 I doubt I'd have noticed that either to be honest. It's about £5 a day, I could save that by either washing my own car or eating breakfast at home.

Verdict: fuel cost differences are inconsequential to actual real life.

[lincolndanny]

Getting Close here in Lincoln, 101.9 today.

[Taff]

I'm happy. Call me old fashioned but I would rather pay less for petrol.

[Lacquer Peel]

I for one welcome our Wahhabist overlords.

 

We really need to be less reliant on OPEC oil, and soon.

[PhillipM]

I'm about 15mpg so I'm a masochist

Yeah, it's cheering me up with the V6.

 

Mind, if you think that's bad we get 3mpg with the buggy...

[Junkman]

As I found when looking for a car in September, there just aren't any petrol engined cars to be had since about 2008.

 

 

Since the last cars were made in 1986, I don't see a problem there.

And to make this perfectly clear, all cars built between 1974 and 1986 were a bit shit already.

[CHRIS1980]

I'm suspicious of the new low fuel cost.

Me too,is it to piss off the Russians? Morrisons near me is selling at 99p and diesel at 103p.

[CHRIS1980]

As I found when looking for a car in September, there just aren't any petrol engined cars to be had since about 2008.

The last thing I wanted was a potentially troublesome diesel and cheap fuel meant I could afford the everyday costs .

Plenty of E350 and E500 Mercs , 530i and 545i BMWs on 04-07 plates, but from then on ,zilch!

The recession and CO2 based company car tax effectively killed off the non sports ( M5,E55) medium sized executive* car in the UK.

The other thing is that I don't seem to have any extra money in my pocket from this almost 30%,saving on fuel and I probably buy more of the stuff with my own money than most here.

Since Buying my E280cdi in September I've done 35,000 miles, at an average of 38mpg that's 921 l. of diesel.

Based on £1.06 a litre that's £976, if diesel was still £1.40 that would have been £1,289.

That's a saving of over £300, so where is it ?

If I'd had an E500 averaging ,say 25 mpg it would have cost £1456 - only an extra £500 I doubt I'd have noticed that either to be honest. It's about £5 a day, I could save that by either washing my own car or eating breakfast at home.

Verdict: fuel cost differences are inconsequential to actual real life.

It's true but I wish it wasn't . As a result of falling fuel costs we should start to see the price of lots of things drop but that won't happen because the fat cats need more cream.

[andy18s]

Me too,is it to piss off the Russians? Morrisons near me is selling at 99p and diesel at 103p.

It's an attempt to make fracking so unprofitable that the Yanks will give up on it

OPEC has decided to keep over producing to drive the price down,even though the Saudi's are alleged to be losing over $40 per barrel......

 

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[Des]

My fuel cost is set to increase if / when the cheaper fuel leads to more cars on the road, nothing knocks the MPG like a gridlock.

[steved40]

Morrisons now 99.9p/litre - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35066242

 

And before you ask, no I don't work for them!

[Junkman]

I just filled up for 99.9p/litre. The thrill was fascinatingly exhilarating.

It doesn't really save me much though, because the Rover is really frugal with the old pez, returning a whopping 21 OMGMPG.

[doobietoo]

Also filled up today at 99.9p but only got £30 in as the PPE has a small tank..... first time I have ever filled up and paid contactlessly.....

[jonny69]

Good to see at least one or two tin foil hats on about lower fuel costs. Forum never fails to deliver

 

Does the fuel price affect your choice of car and/or driving habits?

 

No. I've had the same car since petrol was 62p/litre.

I make it as fuel-efficent as I can, within reason. I'm an engineer/scientist. I make my car more fuel efficient for the simple reason that fundamentally it's using too much petrol for the amount of work that it does, not because of what it costs.

[Matt]

I'M A BELIEVER. 99.9p at Tesco today but 105.9 at a local Esso.

[Junkman]

I make it as fuel-efficent as I can, within reason. I'm an engineer/scientist. I make my car more fuel efficient for the simple reason that fundamentally it's using too much petrol for the amount of work that it does, not because of what it costs.

 

From an engineering/science point of view it is fascinating what little amount of energy contained in petrol is used to propel cars and that the enormous rest is simply wasted.

[Stroller133]

 

 

Since Buying my E280cdi in September I've done 35,000 miles, at an average of 38mpg that's 921 l. of diesel.

Based on £1.06 a litre that's £976, if diesel was still £1.40 that would have been £1,289.

That's a saving of over £300, so where is it ?

If I'd had an E500 averaging ,say 25 mpg it would have cost £1456 - only an extra £500 I doubt I'd have noticed that either to be honest.

 

Big mistake here! you've actually used 921 gallons and therefore used 4190l. The extra cost £1.40 would have been more £1500. The extra cost for the E500 would be more like £2250 - about £25 a day.

[Parky]

Cheap oil equals less revenue for ISIS and lower revenues for states who really need it in order to support their economies. Venezuela must be in a right mess by now. And let's not forget the number of jobs in Scotland that will no doubt be lost as revenues keep falling. And Georgie Boy will need to keep his tax revenues up so if he can't get it from oil and fuel he will have to whack it on income tax. So I might spend a fiver a week less on jungle juice but am awaiting the payback in some other way.

 

But on the bright side less fuel means fewer trips to Sainsburys and less opportunity for Mrs P to say "actually while your getting petrol, can you just quickly pop in the shop and get (insert list of obscure items)"

[castros_bro]

The fact you fail to mention is fuel is only APPEARING  to reduce in price per litre BECUASE of the EU mandated reduction in the size of the litre .

[jonny69]

LOLUWOTM8?

[Pillock]

Just buy it in gallons instead.

[Jimmycrackcorn]

99.7 here in Gateshead tonight at Asda, what a coincidence on the day the Jaaaaaag passes it's MOT.