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so talking about petrol prices 1ltr of unleaded by me in the midlands is £1.27 and diesel is £1.32 :( how is this affecting everyone?

my car does pretty sh##ty mpg but i dont really travel long distances so it doesn't really affect me to badly but i am feeling the pinch, £30 of unleaded now goes nowhere? my last £30 got me 110 miles in my car!! WTF!!

if you commute 30+ miles a day this must chop a large part of your salary off before you even start paying ASDA and the likes the obscene prices that food costs now :(

rant here! what is your views?

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its disgusting and i cannot see the fuel strikes happening again like they did before. no-one will do it because people just havent got the money to do it. some people say its so we all go onto green energy efficient cars but if we all just up and changed, we would soon start paying road tax on these "green" cars

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Daimo was ranting before the weekend too!

As I said in his thread, my dads petrol costs are on the up every week, hes paying around 20 quid just to get to work and back, and half of it disappears in the Leeds rush hour jams on the M62.

Even though we love our Landy to pieces, we're going to have to let her go for something less thirsty....but not necessarily smaller.

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i would say just sort the landie out with a LPG conversion, but the rising cost of LPG now is making the conversions take so long to pay for itself, its no wonder so many people are buying new bikes now

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It's unbelievable. I do a 30 mile each way commute to work and with diesel costing 134.9 a litre it's costing me a fortune!

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I looked into LPG but my local LPG specialist quoted me £1800!!

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i've slowed down-drive at 60 on mways when there busy , if empty 55 but thats after a backshift in the early am, come better weather i'm gonna bike it everyday-big difference between 17 quid a week on the bike and 80 odd in the landy.

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not worth the conversion costs, like kwak says its circa 1800 quid, I got more important things I can think of doing with that sort of cash, and apart from anything else....thats half the cost of the car, would you be bothered with converting a ten year old car? Besides, last landy I saw that was converted, it took up the entire boot space, again defeating the object of having a 'do everything car' no room for prams and dogs!

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lpg aint worth it -better off buying a biodiesel processor and making your own diesel.

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Its affecting me a lot and has been for a while. Im on a very tight budget at the moment. Really since it jumped avove a quid a litre it has stopped my pleasure riding and its even now stopped me from commuting on the bike. I'm away on the bike this weekend to Wales, but i have saved up for a couple of months to enable this. As an example. The dya i bought the sv (02.12.00) it cost £10.20 to fill it up, last time i filled it, it was £19.10 of standard UL.

As for the car, it hurts. over £80 to fill up and round town which is most of my driving, thats £340 mile'ish (2.0L '97 S40) Most of my friends live a fair distance from me, and 'popping' to see them has been reduced which is a pain. Ok maybe not all down to fuel, but that combined with my limited funds, doesnt help.

My next car WILL be an oil burner thats for sure. I wont downsize but look for a 2.5L+ diesel. BMW 330cd is what i will seek.