Fuel Price Rant Thread. HOW MUCH???????

[Shep Shepherd]

Pog, I can see from your post that you've read Jalopy magazine and have watched Fonejacker

[Station]

Birkenhead has no parking spaces that aren't either pay for or residents parking only. This is 3 miles from Liverpool which has quite a few 'free pay' spaces, within 10 minutes walk into town. As a consequence, nobody used it over Xmas, which is good, because it's shit.

 

My local cheapest petrol station, 126.9 went up 128.9 today (which I saw from my bus going past).

[M'coli]

Voice recognition in a lift in Scotland sketch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JcHhA7M-Y

[Negative Creep]

133.9 for petrol today

[Polystratus]

Most of the people I see on the road must get their fuel for nothing, as they seem to be driving like they want to get burn as much as possible. And they all appear to have shares in a company that makes brake pads and brake light bulbs...

 

You know I see the same thing every day, must be some cheap source of fuel somewhere !?

 

The "paddy" tows a caravan, in which the driver lives.

[Pete-M]

Y'know, I'm actually considering downsizing from the Heep.

 

Been offered a very tidy old VR6 for it. Hmm. I hate Mk3 Golfs.

[trigger]

My work mate has his 06 plate Astra 1.7 CTDi Club up for sale at the moment, Someone today rang him up asking if he wanted to do a straight swap for a 06 plate Astra 2.0 Turbo SRi Coupe because of the fuel costs.

[meggersdog]

I drove through a place called Long Sutton today,£1.37 for petrol and £1.40 for diesel.I didn't stop as I think they still eat their young out there and everyone has webbed feet anyway.On a brighter note,Tesco's veg oil is less than a quid a litre atm.I clocked the price when I went shopping on Sunday.Leave basket in the isle go fetch trolley.

[Des]

Some years ago I began to wish the price of fuel would double, my reasoning being that I would get a significant bit more MPG if such a price hike would remove the vacuous dreggy braindead shit that constantly fill every road, orchestrating rolling roadblocks, obstacle courses, testing my reaction time every bastard where I go, and fuck off back to whatever amused them before easy credit liberated the futile pointless scum.

The price of fuel has near enough doubled, and it's only got worse out there.

Although,,,, this year, I'm starting to notice monthly cycles of extra bad clusterfuckery on the roads at the beginning of the month, and then maybe 20ish days where it's a bit calmer. Menstrual? Or perhaps some fuel tanks only getting filled on payday.

[darkfour]

Just passed above $3.50/gallon here

[STUNO]

Here's a rhetorical question on buses, trams and trains: when the first one leaves the depot in the morning, and the last one arrives back at night, how do the staff get to and from their place of work?

 

Where I work, by car, bicycle, motorbike and even on foot !

[Cavcraft]

Good point Des.

 

I probably drive quicker/make more unneccessary journeys when the tank is full and as it's running out I slow down a bit so the payday theory makes sense to me.

[scooters]

I drove through a place called Long Sutton today,£1.37 for petrol and £1.40 for diesel.I didn't stop as I think they still eat their young out there and everyone has webbed feet anyway.On a brighter note,Tesco's veg oil is less than a quid a litre atm.I clocked the price when I went shopping on Sunday.Leave basket in the isle go fetch trolley.

 

Long Sutton on the cambs/Lincs border? near wisbech?

 

yaaarrrgghh!

 

I have spent many many days there - the company I used to work for has one of the largest food canning factories in europe. They make soup, bachelors peas, combat rations, tined vey and Fray Bentos Pies!

 

I know some love the flat land of that part of East AnGlar but being of caledonian birth, the lack of hills was very odd indeed.

 

My main recollections apart from the six fingers and sloping foreheads (present company excluded) was sooooo much veg and all being sold for peanuts at the road side. I used to stock up on sprouts and spuds before driving home.

 

My typical Thursday would be to leave Haertfordshire, drive to Long Sutton - pull a day there and leave for Edinburgh at 1700....it would take an hour to hit the A1 at Peterboro and then you had the nice warm knowledge that you had at least a 6 hour drive and more likely a 7-8 hour one to get home to scotland.....

 

 

ahhhh....those were the days!

[messerschmitt owner]

Good point Des.

 

I probably drive quicker/make more unneccessary journeys when the tank is full and as it's running out I slow down a bit so the payday theory makes sense to me.

just filled up today at 132.9 for diesel (no £1 a litre oil in my Tesco) - well, I said I filled up, but I only got to 74 litres at the £99 cut off point, which means I will be due another £10 worth or so to fill to the brim!

 

All four road going vehicles are full of diesel or petrol - on the assumption that the fuel in your tank is better than money in the bank!

[dollywobbler]

Crikey. I've just discovered that the Scimitar has a 77 litre tank! That'll be over £100 to fill it then. Bugger.

[AXrescuer]

Price of petrol is a fucking joke now. just paid £1.45 in North London, if it carries on like this, I won't be driving any more come Christmas.

Once these greedy fuckers have driven us all off the roads, what'll they tax us on next, our footsteps?

[messerschmitt owner]

Price of petrol is a fucking joke now. just paid £1.45 in North London, if it carries on like this, I won't be driving any more come Christmas.

Once these greedy fuckers have driven us all off the roads, what'll they tax us on next, our footsteps?

and yet I can get it for £1.28.9 here in Gloucester - I can't believe that some of this price hiking isn't blatant opportunism from petrol retailers!

[wuvvum]

Asda in Norwich was 127.9 for unleaded last night (probably gone up a couple of times since then though). That's about the cheapest [least expensive] round here. I stuck £15 in the Innocenti - when I bought the car, £15 was half a tank; now it's just over a quarter.

[Mash]

I'm pretty lucky in that I have a car that will do 45mpg and I live 6 miles from work so it's not affecting me too greatly but it will eventually I'm sure if it keeps on rising. I live in a village with a sporadic bus service which would cost me more to use than driving anyway whatever the price of fuel was I imagine. This is made worse by the fact I can only use the bus if I go to work and hour and a half early an hour late or if I walk to the next village first which is on the main route

 

Car sharing is an option for me with quite a few people here at work but I've generally found that most people want their own space and are prepared to pay the price of fuel to get that rather than share!

 

On the bright side - looking at the cost of living rises over the last 40 years, I'm fairly certain that booze and fags have gone up more than fuel, hard as it may be to believe. Added to which a lot of other stuff nowadays is much cheaper than it used to be and a lot of people are living beyond their means with debt and so on that the fuel rises are an easy thing to moan about. I'm not condoning the high price and duty but I'm just pointing out my take on it.

 

I live on my own by the way and do it quite frugally.....

[trigger]

I've just back from filling the Mondeo up at Sainsburys, 38.4 Litres @ £134.9 = £51.80

 

Or in other words just over 1/2 a tank and 300 miles.

[dollywobbler]

35mpg? That's a bit awful - would have expected better than that. Have you been enjoying it?

[trigger]

I don't know how to work out MPG, the computers say 41.9mpg but that must be wrong, I guess i might have been "enjoying" it a bit!

[dollywobbler]

38.4 litres, divide by 4.54 to get gallons. Then take that figure away from the miles.

[garethj]

38.4 litres, divide by 4.54 to get gallons. Then take that figure away from the miles.

 

I think you mean the miles divided by the gallons, not taken away from

 

Signed

A. Pedant

[dollywobbler]

Sure do! I'm crap at maths...

[Cavcraft]

I have to say I haven't noticed much stuff that's cheaper now than it used to be. Fuel ale and bifters are a right royal rip off IMHO and cost the average person a fortune. Regardless of the rights or wrongs with driving, smoking and drinking they are pleasures for millions of people.

[messerschmitt owner]

I have to say I haven't noticed much stuff that's cheaper now than it used to be. Fuel ale and bifters are a right royal rip off IMHO and cost the average person a fortune. Regardless of the rights or wrongs with driving, smoking and drinking they are pleasures for millions of people.

but none of them truly an essential!

 

They're a luxury!

 

Price of fuel is going up, ditto fags and booze - we're all doomed, I say, doomed!

 

Frankly, I'm more worried about the cost of chocolate and veg oil

[Negative Creep]

I have to say I haven't noticed much stuff that's cheaper now than it used to be. Fuel ale and bifters are a right royal rip off IMHO and cost the average person a fortune. Regardless of the rights or wrongs with driving, smoking and drinking they are pleasures for millions of people.

 

 

Electronic goods, cds and dvds are cheaper. But essentials, especially food, seems to be going up all the time

[Father Ted]

Morrisons Leyland

£1.26.9/L for unleaded.

Just filled the Micra. £37 and it wasnt even empty. Sheesh.

[pogweasel]

Nice to see gorgeous george really doing something in his budget.

 

1p off, so less than 1% hardly addressrs the fact that the cost of fuel has risen 40% in 6 months, and to fund this, he will up the tax on the oil companies by 8%... How does that work?

 

Surely the oil companies will simply pass this on with even higher pump prices, meaning we get raped again?