Petrol cost soon below £1.00

[forddeliveryboy]

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.

 

But remember 21 omgpg must be divided by 8, unlike a nasty inline 4 - so it's 42, relatively speaking. And if you were dizzle-Vagging 62mpg then you'd only use it more and more until it wore out and cost even more than the depreciation.

[LessThanEqual]

Filled up for 99.7p today in a local Asda, that full tank should last me a good 150 miles with a broken thermostat.

[michael1703]

LPG hasn't dropped yet though, still 53-57p per litre

[Christine]

I had to wait for ages , Morrisons station  was full of old people buying £15 worth of petrol .. they saved about 20p i reckon .

[Junkman]

Isn't this all delightfully first world?

[PiperCub]

Just what I was thinking!!! 

Oh well, we might as well enjoy it while it lasts. 

Until little Gideon decides to add a bit more tax to the taxed tax that's already on it. 

[forddeliveryboy]

I always take delight in seeing people at tax filling stations, whether queuing or not. To me, it's all a bit third world.

fdb doesn't do smug, but when there's little spare money in the wallet, 15ppl and often free is the closest it gets.

 

Owners of EVs must feel equally good as they sweep past fossil-fuel-fillings, even if it is nukes/gas/oil/coal which makes the power. If only for the total cheapness and lack of tax-rape.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

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.

 

Oh!

I suppose it shows I have no idea what I spend on fuel then, shit I'm going to buy a Leaf.

The way I look at it, if I'm buying fuel I must be earning money, it doesn't help that I lose* every other fuel receipt.

[warren t claim]

Oddly enough I have a problem with fuel economy. I had a new Chevolet Matiz on hire that only averaged 38 mpg overall but I could regularly get 22 mpg out of a V12 XJS HE and 33 mpg out of a 4.4 litre V8 5 series.

[doobietoo]

Owners of EVs must feel equally good as they sweep past fossil-fuel-fillings, even if it is nukes/gas/oil/coal which makes the power. But only until they get 10 miles down the road and have to plug in for another 2 hours to get home.

FTFY

[purplebargeken]

We had to swap our currency for groats at the Norfolk border. They had righ vicious looking guard cows too. 

 

T*sco was 99.9 ppl last night as I coasted the i10 in on fumes. 

[Junkman]

Oddly enough I have a problem with fuel economy. I had a new Chevolet Matiz on hire that only averaged 38 mpg overall but I could regularly get 22 mpg out of a V12 XJS HE and 33 mpg out of a 4.4 litre V8 5 series.

 

Oddly I have similar experiences. Even the biggest yanks I ever had were content with 20-24 mpg, whereas I never really got anything more than 31

from even the most dismal mobility scooter on steroids.

[HH-R]

I used to get 45-47 MPG out of Fiat 1.2s without really trying, there are claims of mega MPG on forums from these engines but trying I could never really better those figures, I suppose the reason for that is below.

 

Get 35-37 out of my Kia 1.4 50% sitting in shitty traffic, stopping every 30 yards for traffic lights and slowing for 3.9 million speed bumps a day, 50% NSL roads. It does way better on a run.

[Partridge]

It won't make much difference for me, really. I tend to just to just fill the car up with Shell V-Power anyway as it runs like a bag of arse on anything else. It's a nice bonus though.

[garethj]

Going against the grain here, but I like cheaper fuel.  There are many, many drains on my salary and if I can save £50 a month on fuel that's £600 a year which is equivalent to a pay rise of a grand.  That's worth having as long as the driving experience isn't too dismal.

 

A year ago I was doing 15,000 miles a year commuting so it didn't take long for the difference to show up.

[rantingYoof]

It's nice that I'll soon be able to whack 60 litres in for less than £60, but I've learnt not to worry about fuel economy that much.

 

I was rolling around in a 3.0 Omega and driving 1.6 miles each way to work and back and getting 16mpg to a full tank, and then I suddenly got a job a whole TEN MILES AWAY, and knee-jerked into a Rover 45 2.0TD.

 

Now the Rover 45 was, admittedly, proper Autoshite territory - no history, no manuals, just a log-book and a single key, bought with cambelt due but purposefully ignored - but a 20 mile daily commute would have upped the fuel economy in my large wafty barge to around 25mpg. From 17mpg, this represents an improvement of just under 50%, so relatively speaking I would have noticed a slower depletion of finances and continued to enjoy ridiculous luxury in one of Vauxhall's finest large saloons ever made in the 21st century (mine was registered in the year 2000!).

 

I then bought a Mondeo diesel and continued doing around 18-20 miles a day, until that went phut because it wasn't actually getting "diesel warm" over a journey.

 

After that I thought "fuck MPGs" and decided that simpler petrol engines were the way forwards. This is why, since then, I've owned a 2.4, a 2.0 HOT, a 4.0 V8 and now a 2.0 5cyl turbo. All nice, simple engines.

 

 

Wait....

[Partridge]

Going against the grain here, but I like cheaper fuel.  There are many, many drains on my salary and if I can save £50 a month on fuel that's £600 a year which is equivalent to a pay rise of a grand.  That's worth having as long as the driving experience isn't too dismal.

 

A year ago I was doing 15,000 miles a year commuting so it didn't take long for the difference to show up.

I've convinced myself I'm saving money in the long run because the Rover seems to get better MPG out of the decent stuff. Some say it's the opposite, so I guess just depends on the individual car. When I used to use my Mum's little Polo the OMGMPG was much improved with premium...yet in my company Datsun which I had for a few months there was no change at all, it just run slightly less loud.

[anonymous user]

I doubt I shall notice any difference, I'll still stick £40 in at a time and as it's going in the Land Rover I might get a few extra yards out of that, as long as I remember to push the choke back in.

[purplebargeken]

The i10 auto is shit on MPG. Not helped by a small tank I think, heavy R foot and a healthy general dislike of going the short way round. 

[HMC]

Timing good for someone running v6 and v8 dailys. In truth I often cycle and my weekly mileage is small. Still I filled the range rover up at 99.9ppl at morrisons today.

[doobietoo]

the last time crude oil was at $35 a barrel petrol prices were 0.81p a litre !!!

[richardmorris]

The esso and shell stations I passed today were 103.9 and 104.9. And the esso was on a reduced fuel cost day too.

[willswitchengage]

Is George Osborne taxing it more though despite the fact the Government is still running a deficit? Nope.

 

Can we still afford petrol even though it's 30 cheaper per litre than it was five years ago? Yes.

 

...

[FakeConcern]

Petrol set to drop to just 550 per cent of the price of oil

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/petrol-set-to-drop-to-just-550-per-cent-of-the-price-of-oil-20151211104658

 

[Guest Renault20tx]

If you account for inflation, only the early 1990s saw cheaper petrol than we enjoy today - and then not by much!

[New POD]

Filled up with BP's version of SuperUnleaded 97 Ron this morning at 7am in Miseryside at a M&S simply food/bp service station. and Paid £1.08 a litre. I think the standard was £1.02.

 

I calculate 33.6 mpg at erm 70 mph

 

Filled up 212 miles later at "The largest Tesco store in Wales" in Cardiff at about 11am and put the standard stuff in at 99.9p a litre.

[garbaldy]

the last time crude oil was at $35 a barrel petrol prices were 0.81p a litre !!!

And the oil companys still made billions so how come its all doom and gloom this month with threatening more job cuts.

[Junkman]

Note to self: include big bloody yank ownership in New Year's Resolution.

[Justin Case]

And the oil companys still made billions so how come its all doom and gloom this month with threatening more job cuts.

As i understand it, we all have oil coming out of our ears, so we don't need to look for any more, and unfortunately that means a lot of jobs in places like Aberdeen will be lost.

Part of the reason is the slowdowdown of the Chinese economy, especially, steel-making. This means a lack of demand for scrap, so therefore as Shiters we should be welcoming the appearance of the £99 car every bit as much as the 99p gallon

 

J Case, Autoshite economics correspondent, AS Towers, Nether Wallop.

[Craig the Princess]

Just off to fill Mrs the Princess' Metro at the village garage at £1.109 a litre, will pay an extra £2.30 ish but it's nice to have a garage in the village and they don;t take the piss (I'd expect a hefty drop the next time they get a delivery, that seems to be how they normally go).