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what is it recently with higher fuel prices? they seem to have gone up about 10 p a litre in the space of 4 weeks? my local supermarket was selling diesel at 98.9/l today!
I know! What's all that about???
done a bit of research and seems to be american related (as usual) coupled with what's going on in the middle east
kwak zzr
15-04-06, 08:22 PM
yep nearly £1 per litre!!!!!! :shock: dont know about you guys and gals but i run the sv and a 1.8 focus and my fuel bills are getting ridiculous!!! :(
get rid of the focus and spend the money on petrol for the bike!
kwak zzr
15-04-06, 08:42 PM
i cant get £60 of shopping in my ruck sack or i would. :)
I wish it were only 98p here. We're back up to silly money again, £1.07 last week and I heard it went up another tuppence today. :evil:
This just means I'm going to have to start commuting on the bike next week. Bit of a hassle when you've got a uniform but needs must. At 22mpg the car's expense is getting ridiculous.
Peter Henry
15-04-06, 08:58 PM
It's hitting here also..unleaded now 1 euro per litre! :shock:
Diveboy
15-04-06, 08:58 PM
Its a p*ss take. I have an SV and a 1.9 TDI Golf. Only a 34mile round trip to work but its costing a ruddy fortune with all the ride outs on the bike as well. I just don't understand how diesel is more than petrol. You can use veggie oil ffs.
kinesin
15-04-06, 09:14 PM
Its a p*ss take. I have an SV and a 1.9 TDI g*lf. Only a 34mile round trip to work but its costing a ruddy fortune with all the ride outs on the bike as well. I just don't understand how diesel is more than petrol. You can use veggie oil ffs.
Isn't it because diesel is taxed less than petrol, so any change in the oil price affects diesel more than petrol, as the 80% tax acts as a buffer on petrol.
It's hitting here also..unleaded now 1 euro per litre! :shock:
Peter mate, I've got a really long hose in the shed, i reckon it could be made to stretch. I'll be round before you can say 'Gordon Brown's a money grabbing bas....'
Peter Henry
15-04-06, 09:25 PM
Haggis wrote:
Peter mate, I've got a really long hose in the shed, i reckon it could be made to stretch. I'll be round before you can say 'Gordon Brown's a money grabbing bas....'
:P :P
Nexus242
15-04-06, 11:08 PM
done a bit of research and seems to be american related (as usual) coupled with what's going on in the middle east
Look we are getting screwed as much as ya'll are. Exxon is raking in the money and just gave the retiring CEO a $4,000,000.00 golden parachutte on the way out. :shock:
We're currently paying about $2.85 per gallon of regular 87 octane (1 gallon = 3.79 liters) and it should be closer to $3.00 if not over by summer. Sure your prices are higher but pre Hurricanes last year, paying $1.80 a gallon was unheard of!!!!
fuel in oz is @ $ 1.39 per litre , only last week it was $ 1.20 per litre . oil company's profiting on people's easter break . it sux's big time . it's become a luxury to ride my bike / car.. f*#k all governments for doing nothing to control oil giants , as our gov makes a very tidy sum on oil taxes. :x
SVTONYB
15-04-06, 11:48 PM
Up here it is 89p per litre......
northwind
15-04-06, 11:53 PM
Funny, here the premiums seem to stay the same price but the regulars fluctuate. I was in a Shell station a while back and the regular was only 1p less than Optimax.
I payed $2.57/gal for my last fillup but I think the last time I rode past my regular fillup station, it was $2.61/gal
labor Day weekend last fall, I paid $3.84/gal for one fillup
Diveboy
16-04-06, 08:31 AM
I payed $2.57/gal for my last fillup but I think the last time I rode past my regular fillup station, it was $2.61/gal
labor Day weekend last fall, I paid $3.84/gal for one fillup
Wouldn't it be nice to complain that petrol was £0.39 a litre :roll: instead of £0.91. I wonder what would happen in America if they had to pay $1.59 per liter or $6 a gallon :lol:
Wouldn't it be nice to complain that petrol was £0.39 a litre
it is! it's the tax that kills us!
Dicky Ticker
16-04-06, 07:41 PM
When you use 2000lts a week you realise how much more it is costing,but when I put the haulage rate up the price only gets passed on to the consummer SO
you Mr Public are being taxed twice Mr Brown is no fool What you win on the swings is backed up by the roundabouts
kinesin
16-04-06, 07:59 PM
When you use 2000lts a week you realise how much more it is costing,but when I put the haulage rate up the price only gets passed on to the consummer SO
you Mr Public are being taxed twice Mr Brown is no fool What you win on the swings is backed up by the roundabouts
One positive side effect of high oil prices is that everyone's pension funds should be doing better, as the oil businesses get their stock price pushed higher, and return better dividends back into the major pension fund holders.
Dicky Ticker
16-04-06, 08:07 PM
By which time everything will have gone up in price to make your pension increases worthless
I payed $2.57/gal for my last fillup but I think the last time I rode past my regular fillup station, it was $2.61/gal
labor Day weekend last fall, I paid $3.84/gal for one fillup
Wouldn't it be nice to complain that petrol was £0.39 a litre :roll: instead of £0.91. I wonder what would happen in America if they had to pay $1.59 per liter or $6 a gallon :lol:
Well for the rich people it wouldn't mean a thing. But, for us working folks you will see a lot more car pooling, more use of public transport. I'm sure if you listen, you'll here a lot more swearing too.
Cheers!
Anonymous
17-04-06, 11:12 AM
Its just topped 98p at the BP garage near me. Thats per litre regular unleaded. Couldnt see an advertised price for Premium stuff.
Nexus242
17-04-06, 03:44 PM
Wouldn't it be nice to complain that petrol was £0.39 a litre
it is! it's the tax that kills us!
Yeah they did a break down of what make a gallon of US gas cost what it costs and taxes are more then I thought. On top of the raised refining costs the oil companies are charging for future growth and develpment of plants that aren't even onthe drawing board.
:)
I paid 98p at one of the little garages in Helmsley the other day - daylight robbery however i can understand that these smaller places cant compete with the likes of Tesco. On Avg its about 93p around here.
If it hits a £1 then i think the threshold of patience will be broken again and it'll hit the headlines.
The price of gas has gone up but not hurt me cause I get reimbursed for most of my milage I get standard IRS rate, they adjusted it up last year, right after the hurricane, then back down a couple ¢ in January, if the price of furl goes up a dramatic amount, then my milage rate will go up too
Filipe M.
18-04-06, 02:28 PM
It's hitting here also..unleaded now 1 euro per litre! :shock:
Gotta go there, then... €1.30+ here... more than 50% of which is tax. That and the millionaire retirements our main petrol company shells out to it's board of directors... and top execs... and whoever they please... :evil: :evil: :evil:
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quikstu
19-04-06, 10:40 AM
When you use 2000lts a week you realise how much more it is costing,but when I put the haulage rate up the price only gets passed on to the consummer SO
you Mr Public are being taxed twice Mr Brown is no fool What you win on the swings is backed up by the roundabouts
Agreed.
My cousin owns a small haulage company with 5 trucks.
His MONTHLY diesel bill is £15,000!!!!!!!!!
He is soooo lucky though, the government give him a 3p per litre rebate on the fuel!!!!!!
:shock:
prices seem to have gone down in my area slightly - petrol is 92.9 today, it was 94.9
DanDare
19-04-06, 10:52 AM
The Worlds economy and survival depends on Oil production.
Now I'm not one for conspiracy theories but it makes you wonder if the fuel companies are quietly sitting on an alternative technology for fuel for the eventual day the oil runs out.
If you actually sit and think how much that would shake up the planet, its quite scary. :shock: :?
tomjones2
19-04-06, 10:51 PM
The Worlds economy and survival depends on Oil production.
Now I'm not one for conspiracy theories but it makes you wonder if the fuel companies are quietly sitting on an alternative technology for fuel for the eventual day the oil runs out.
If you actually sit and think how much that would shake up the planet, its quite scary. :shock: :?
I dont reckon the oil compaines are activtily sitting on alternative fuels, i mean how much would that sort of technology be worth on the open market.
Even if they came out with the solution to the internal combustion engine tommorw the western world is still going to be dependent on oil for the next 20odd years and the develpoing world for a lot longer than that.
Saying that i bet there not investing much into renewable, just enough for the adverts and shareholders to belive they are actually trying.
I heard the UK has the cheapest fuel pre-tax of any western country, does anyone know if this is true or not.
When you use 2000lts a week you realise how much more it is costing,but when I put the haulage rate up the price only gets passed on to the consummer SO
you Mr Public are being taxed twice Mr Brown is no fool What you win on the swings is backed up by the roundabouts
One positive side effect of high oil prices is that everyone's pension funds should be doing better, as the oil businesses get their stock price pushed higher, and return better dividends back into the major pension fund holders.
Pah! That's if you have a pension. My last employer, civ eng company Wrekin Group plc in Telford, cheated me out of mine. Oh yeah, petrol price - just as well the commute's only 3 miles.
The Basket
20-04-06, 07:55 PM
Cor...Morrisons petrol was 92p per litre last Friday and now it's 95p per litre.
Is this why we invade countries? For more expensive petrol?
If it goes on like this, I may have to ride my bike instead of using the car :D
Gazza77
20-04-06, 08:49 PM
I want to know why I can't mix & match the car & the bike....... 50+mpg with 9k service intervals & tyres that last 20k!
I want to know why I can't mix & match the car & the bike....... 50+mpg with 9k service intervals & tyres that last 20k!
been done,
the gilera runner was the result :)
I want to know why I can't mix & match the car & the bike....... 50+mpg with 9k service intervals & tyres that last 20k!
I tried that ... it went a bit wrong, I've ended up with a car that does 20mpg (On a good day), service intervals of 4,500 miles and tyres that last about the same :P
Fun though :D :D
SVeeedy Gonzales
21-04-06, 08:46 AM
To some extent fuel/car/energy companies *are* sitting on technology, not because they're evil and out to rule the world (though some give that impression) but more because it's easy to go with what's already there. We have oil, lots of things use oil, let's keep it that way until we have to change. Basic human laziess... plus currently they have control. Change to fuel cells, solar power, etc. and you open it up to new competitors... they don't have to risk that and they don't have to change, not yet, so they won't.
The Basket
21-04-06, 09:05 AM
The price of oil is going to go up and up.
China and India are using huge amounts which never happened before...so there will always be strong demand.
It is said that if Iran is attacked...oil will be super dooper pricey.
A litre will cost more than the car it's put in :D
It is said that if Iran is attacked...oil will be super dooper pricey.
A litre will cost more than the car it's put in :D
Already does with my car. :lol: :lol:
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