the liquid gold thread "PETROL"

[MisterTommyH]

Originally Posted by thulfi

Inflation! Live in London for a while and you realise what a joke prices are down here, not just petrol, every measly aspect of life is virtually a rip off, which includes trying to be eco friendly and using the tubes and buses.

Don't you get paid more in London though?

Well considering the difference in house prices you're getting given peanuts more in the grand scheme of things, you're still worse off.

And if you commute from a nearby commuter town, that'll be the difference in salary spent on waking up at 6.30am and sharing trains with sorts.

Originally Posted by thulfi

Well considering the difference in house prices you're getting given peanuts more in the grand scheme of things, you're still worse off.

And if you commute from a nearby commuter town, that'll be the difference in salary spent on waking up at 6.30am and sharing trains with sorts.

However, in London and the like, chances are if you are seriously injured your nearest open A+E won't be 77 miles away. Chances are, the range of services available to you will be miles better than the services available to everyone else. Etc Etc...

There are pros and cons to every single place in the UK. You pay more for somethings, I pay more for other. I.E...Dumfries and Galloway...public transports...whats that then???

Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid

However, in London and the like, chances are if you are seriously injured your nearest open A+E won't be 77 miles away. Chances are, the range of services available to you will be miles better than the services available to everyone else. .

London or the wilderness? I'm pretty happy for an inbetween, a place like Milton Keynes where Ive lived most my life.

Quarter of a mill people, ambulances/police/fire, used 'em all before and respond in no time. And for the same price as a 2bedroom flat in a not so great area in London, you'll have a nice house with a garden and garage. I know which one I'd choose, and if you feel like going to London it's jus 50miles away anway.

Actually, when I had my off in central London at about 5pm on a weekday in blackwall tunnel, traffic backed up so far on the 2lanes that the police took a while and the ambulance took an even longer while. Good job it wasn't a bad one. Not easy filtering through all those cars in cramped old london when you're a big old ambulance or fire truck.

Stop whinging about cr*ppy mpg. The 7.3 litre V8 Diesel Ford F250 i'm using at the moment only gets 9 mpg and 15 mpg on a good run. The 2 tanks cost £190 - £200 to fill dependent on prices. Fortunately i get my Focus back soon. The the truck can again be used just to shift the caravan to the next work site

Originally Posted by cb1000rsteve

Stop whinging about cr*ppy mpg. The 7.3 litre V8 Diesel Ford F250 i'm using at the moment only gets 9 mpg and 15 mpg on a good run. The 2 tanks cost £190 - £200 to fill dependent on prices. Fortunately i get my Focus back soon. The the truck can again be used just to shift the caravan to the next work site

in the quitely wispered words of the virgin mary, "come again"

I put £60 to £90 in my tank every week. Nothing will be done and the government wont budge. Fuel going up again soon too.

[L3nny]

There are a few advantages.

1. You can buy fast cars for peanuts cause they cost a fortune to run.

2. It works out cheaper for me and the Mrs to go to the pub for tea rather than drive the 30 mile round trip to her mums

Seriously though I am lucky in that I can walk to work. Problem is that I have been looking at other jobs which would be the next step up the ladder but they are all a few miles away. Once you factor in the cost of commuting paying £50 - £80 a week out of your already heavily taxed salary plus extra maintainenece costs the extra five grand a year soon dissapears.

Originally Posted by northwind

Sure it's mostly tax, but, petrol and diesel's still stupidly cheap for what it is and what you get. But it's limited and non-renewable yet it's still cheap. Cider costs twice as much and it's just squashed apples. Sure I wish it was cheaper, it's just about my single biggest cost but in terms of bang for buck it's still pretty damn good. And there isn't enough oil left and it's getting harder to extract, so, it's not going to get cheap any time soon.

(I may have said the exact same thing in the last fuel thread. Still true)

Northy, I think you are missing the point slightly. Fuel "may" be cheap considering what you are getting, but it's the increases that are affecting people not the cost. It is pretty necessary for most people who work, cider is not. 15 to 20% increase in the last year or so is quite a lot to stomach. I probably pay in the region of £200 per month in private miles, so an increase of this magnitude probably costs me in the region of £400 per year extra. That's a significant amount of cash out of my disposable income. I also have a company car. The government rate for diesel is 12p per mile. This doesn't cover the cost of fuel at current pump prices. If I claim over and above this to actually cover my fuel costs, it would be considered a taxable perk...so I am paying more frikken tax.

[Viney]

Originally Posted by thulfi

Inflation! Live in London for a while and you realise what a joke prices are down here, not just petrol, every measly aspect of life is virtually a rip off, which includes trying to be eco friendly and using the tubes and buses.

Its cheaper for me to do my commute using my monthly oyster card than it is on 2 wheels currently.

Originally Posted by Tommy H

Don't you get paid more in London though?

No. That is such a huge misconception. I have a couple of friends that do similar roles to me located around the country and they earn the same if not more than i do in my role. I suppose that in say the lower end of the job market then yes maybe, but what people fail to realise that there is a bigger 'office' industry down south, with the banks and suchlike, where up north there isn't that, so it looks like we are all rich, but we ain't that's fo sho. Shizzle