the liquid gold thread "PETROL"

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

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.

Take your pick of anything you want, will likely have more space inside and use less fuel.
4x4s are bloody terrible so IMO pointless if you're not going to actually utilise the 4wd for getting stuck up trees and stuff.

That said I'd have one* if it wasn't for the £3000 insurance. Robbing worthless c**ts. Hope they sh*t hedgehogs.

*A big simple diseasel that you can run on veggie. That isn't going to last long though, already 25p a liter and likely to go up.

Originally Posted by tom-k6

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

Bikes aren't much better, my SV, albeit non standard, uses more juice than my stepdads astra TD. They are worse these days because of all emissions crap and fashion.
They need to go back to making some proper usable 250s and 350s that are just fast enough to use but economical and cheap. Dare I say it but ninja 250 is on right lines. Could do with just being bigger, simpler and less plastic.

As for LPG, what is it now 75p a liter? Used to be 35p or something when people started with it. Of course once you've sunk cost of conversion kit you can't hardly stop using it either.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

Exactly what a lot of people are feeling Viney. When it starts to affect if you get the bike out or not, its make folk feel damn downhearted. I too remember when I could fill up the SV for a tenner, I don't even know how much it costs these days!
TBH its not even worth pulling them off SORN, purely because of the size of the potholes round here

We're looking to consider a big diesel, Skoda Octavia, or a new Fabia vRS estate, maybe when Peg finds his millions I'll have my Yeti Its rediculous how much more mileage we can get out of them, and indeed the much cheapness of the road tax!

You know the new Fabia vRS doesn't have a diesel?

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Viney

If i rode to work, it would be one and three quarter tanks a week (210 mile ish) that including just the wear and tear on the bike is around £160 a month. Its £150 on the train and i can fall asleep and not die...just end up in Stanmore which i did the other morning!)

But if you're anywhere else in the country public transport is a waste of energy to think about.

For me to go to Leeds uni was a 20 min bus, 40 min train, 20 min bus, plus waiting times IF you get there at all 'cos the c*ckweasels only put 2 carriages on.

Or a 35 minute ride, where you may get wet but won't stink or catch AIDs from the seat.

[Viney]

Originally Posted by Mr Speirs

Petrol/Fuel is the new housing market. Over inflated prices to falsely inflate the economy.

Apparently inflation is up from a level not seen since Nov 08. Pretty much all down to the 20% VAT rise and the rise in fuel duty.

The governments done a good job right?? The figures say so

Anyway its vastly short sighted. The cost of fuel goes up, the price of everything goes up. Everything needs to be transported somewhere by lorry/car/boat/plane. As fuel costs rise small businesses fold, people get laid off from big businesses to counter balance the extra cost in fuel.

and the only thing not to go up is our salaries to pay for it all. i havent had a rise in 5 years, nothing, not even a cost of living rise.

a mate at work has a small haulage business with just one lorry that just transports scrap, he told me last week his diesel bill weekly is £1300!! it does 6 to the gallon!

[Viney]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

But if you're anywhere else in the country public transport is a waste of energy to think about.

For me to go to Leeds uni was a 20 min bus, 40 min train, 20 min bus, plus waiting times IF you get there at all 'cos the c*ckweasels only put 2 carriages on.

Or a 35 minute ride, where you may get wet but won't stink or catch AIDs from the seat.

Hey, its no bed of roses here. Its a 450-50 min journey on the bike and 1hr 30ish on public transport, 1hr 45 when i move to my actual office. Bus, train, tube, tube, bus

[21QUEST]

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

LISTEN PEOPLE, I HAVE THE ANSWER!








Get yourselves a 125

I spend about £9.00 a week on fuel which fills my tank and stretches to 200 miles (with about 10-30 on reserve). It only used to cost £7.50 a tank so 9 is taking the mick! I dare not even contemplate getting a bigger bike atm, I'll have a heart attack the first time I fill up!

You do realise you can get up to 380 miles(350 miles should be dead easy) per tankful on that wee bike....right

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid

You know the new Fabia vRS doesn't have a diesel?

I do, but when you are comparing 20 mpg(pegs foot on the pedal) to a fabia vRS estate at 45mg, both on combined use and petrol....its a much better alternative.....and the yeti does the same mileage....hint hint peggy

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Take your pick of anything you want, will likely have more space inside and use less fuel.
4x4s are bloody terrible so IMO pointless if you're not going to actually utilise the 4wd for getting stuck up trees and stuff.
.

you forgot climbing out of potholes for using its 4x4 potential, which lets face it, gets used every journey thats made round here!. So having one is a must

As much as I despise the cost of fuel, it really isn't the oil companies fault and I belive we pay them a fair price.

For around 45pence per litre, they spend £££ 10s if not 100s of millions on research to find oil, drill god knows how many holes to find oil in extremely harsh environments,when they finally find it they have to pump it 1000s of meters through the earth where it is then shipped in huge tankers or piped many miles to a refinery in which less than half of it can be turned into petrol, it is then transported many miles on land by tankers to a petrol station who then sell it on to make a profit. I mean i think 45pence is a fair price for a litre of fuel considering he work that has gone into it, i mean we pay around over £1 a litre for cans of fizzy drink which is just sugar and water.

So i cant understand why people moan at the fuel companies and complain when they make a profit, of course they are going to make huge profits they sell a hell of a lot of product and for the amount so i think it is a justified price.

HOWEVER

I am absolutely disgusted by the fact that after all of the above, the government can just slap on 90 pence per litre for doing feck all, in fact they do worse than feck all they give all the money to scourging cnuts that cant be arsed to work rather than repairing the roads.