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I wished my wallet filled up as quickly as my fuel gauge goes down :LOL:
 
Dont remind me. I'm driving to scotland in May, 250 miles there and 250 back. Plus what ever i'll be doing in the week i'm there. I'm paying 114.9p at the mo
 
Brilliant. New avatar. ;-)
 
Should get a little car then tut tut All you boys with your big cars :LOL:

Big isn't always beautiful :LOL:

you want a 1.1 mate (y)
 
V8 on LPG hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm chocolate :LOL:
 
i just want rid of a government that isnt doing anything to prevent the rapid (and grossly unfair) fuel inflation, more than likely on 'green' issues, however if i lived in london or anywhere else that has a good public transport link id quite happily use it and leave the car at home, sadly i dont, public transport is on the whole utter ***** outside cities, so i have to use my car, me and probably 80% of the populus......


aparently BP and shell have recorded record profits from the start of this year as well......
 
Techno-Geek said:
Should get a little car then tut tut All you boys with your big cars :LOL:

Big isn't always beautiful :LOL:

you want a 1.1 mate (y)
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Come back and tell me that after you've done a big run in a 1.1 :eek:


Diesel is 1.19 here :( and the big fuel companies have made billions in just 3 months :annoyed:
 
I've got both ends of the spectrum here, a megane that's averaging about 55 mpg and a Navara which isn't.
 
wanna borrow my daughters 1.0 micra.
mind you my 900cc yamaha is a bit more fun.
according to the bumf it averages 46 mpg. ive done 50+ on a long slow(ish) run.never worse than 42.and more power than my 1600 escort.
0-60 5ish i think.
my little old crappy honda does 60+mpg.
 
mattyh said:
Ooh... which Navara have you got?
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A "sport" :) Having said that it's the wife who drives it all the time, I'm hardly ever in it
 
I still find it comical when people blame the oil companies. If you think their profits are high, just consider how much the gov. are making with their 70 odd percent taxation!

As I've said before though, they do have a war to pay for ;)
 
Lets not forget that the VAT is on top of the duty, so that would be a taxed tax! You couldn't make it up!
 
NathanJT said:
Lets not forget that the VAT is on top of the duty, so that would be a taxed tax! You couldn't make it up!
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That is the bit that really ****es me off. It's the same with alcohol and cigarettes.
 
The cost of oil is bonkers, including heating oil (for those of us who live in the sticks and have oil fired central heating). Heating oil was about 15p/litre about five years ago, around 35p last year, currently 50p! :puke:

LPG is great: I don't know why more people don't use it. Our V8 Disco runs on LPG (48p). LPG kits start at £300 or so for older (simpler) cars ~ we'd save that in not much over a couple of months at today prices.
 
As for BP and Shell, we must remember they are OIL companys not petrol companys. They make a huge part of their profit selling oil that is used in nearly everything you can think of like plastics and so on, petrol is more or less a waste product left over after refining all the other uses out of oil.

Fuel cost are high because of TAX TAX TAX don't blame BP blame BROWN
 
whiteflyer said:
Fuel cost are high because of TAX TAX TAX don't blame BP blame BROWN
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Very true!! And considering the process petrol goes through, from expeditions to find it in the first place, through to your forecourt £1.10 a litre is cheap compared to lets say, bottled water!!

Doesn't bother me in the slightest not owning a car though :D
 
Davec223 said:
holy c**p I am averaging 800 miles a week, All I can say is thank christ it is a company car and that I don't have to pay the fuel bill
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Same here mate:(

Forecasts say that it may hit 160p by summer, bloody hope not :bang::bang:
 
Thats ridiculous.
I honestly don't mind minimal increases.
When my wife was paid monthly, we used to top up once a month roughly, so a couple of pence on a litre, was what, a £1 at the till? Thats fine and dandy TBH.
But it's going up by a penny or so a day, or at the very least a few pence a WEEK.

When I got this car (my first diesel) a couple of years ago, I started working out mileage and recording how much fuel I put in it every week.

14/03/06 it was 94.9
then by 11/02/07 it was down to 86.9

Now it's whooshed back up to 119.9 (what it is at our local Tesco...I assume Asda is still 117.9 or 118.9)
With the independants (or Esso's etc) even dearer.
 
Scary

Currently costs around £80-90 a week for approx 800 miles, if it hits 160p that is going to add another £30-£40 pr week.
Doubt if i would get a wage increase too match:( This is gonna bite a lot of people hard:shrug:
 
Filled up this morning @ £119.9 lets hope £1.60 doesn't happen, I wonder how many people will lose their jobs due to that, especially reps.

:eek:
 
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