Fuel rant whinge moans hate fuel prices bah

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Originally Posted by Binky

Supply and demand. Get public transport, cycle, walk and save your money to put petrol in the bike, which is really whats important/fun.

Cycle and walk defo... but public transport is insane money.

Return trip to london by train £130 from nottingham, same trip by car £40

I would love to be able to walk or cycle to work though

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Originally Posted by G

I just fitted a 22ltr tank to the hyper which is going to cost near as damn £30 to fill, hopefull getting 200 or more miles to the tank.

Better than the 12ltr tank it did have, although it was nice filling up and rarely putting in more than £10.
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Brilliant mod. Hardly noticeable too.

Reckon they must punt a fair few of these kits. Maybe enough to make the manufacturers to take notice and fit some decent sized tanks on stuff. (I dont paticularly care about mpg if it has a big tank or the spec sheet additional kg.)


I predict a seat mod in the near future though!? Reckon the original might get a bit "nippy" with no stopping?

Originally Posted by thedonal

I am surprised that the protests haven't come yet. Though, now we're well past the £1/litre barrier, perhaps people care less?

Worst thing is- the cost of EVERYTHING is going up and up and we're not seeing anything back for it.

Certainly not the condition of the roads. They're a joke.

I was chatting to some friends about this the other night.

Back in 2000 the uk average for unleaded was just under 75p per litre and the country went mad, blockades went into place and the people said "no".

10 years+ later, were heading for damn near £1 more a litre (may as well be by the end of the year) and we just sit back and take it.

Everything has gone up except wages and we do seem to be getting less and less for our money.

Roads are a mess and even reporting pot holes as big as your head gets you nowhere as "its been surveyed and doesnt meet criteria yet" is often the answer.

Originally Posted by Reeder

I'll have you know that I was behaving myself on the rideout so I didn't look like a ****... unlike some

Mate, Its not your riding that makes you look a ****.



You turned up on your first rideout looking like a giant green gnome dildo in the biggest, flappiest fishing waterproofs known to man...

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I remember the petrol protests in 2000, i'd just started college and it was around 80p a litre I think? Of which 80% of that was tax. Still, seems pretty appealing nowadays!

Not to really **** on your chips but if you've got mortgages or loans, the next thing to expect is rising interest rates

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

I'm still impressed with the fact they can build a rig in the middle of the sea, drill, extract, refine, transport, do some chemistry stuff, transport it to the petrol station and sell it at £1.30 a litre with billions of pounds of profit each year....

All depends on how many tens of thousands of barrels per rig they can produce a day...

At ~ $90 a barrel, with companies having say 10 rigs in the north sea, some with more, so some simple sums...

Most of the North Sea rigs are 20-40 years old, so there is no cost of building new rigs, most of them are held together by rust.

And remember, oil is refined into many other products, petrol is just a part of what they can make from oil...

Yeah, but I do 30 miles a day, in all weathers, so when it comes to the weekends and evenings, I like to blat and stop. Besides, in kent we've only got a few directions to go in

And yup, got a mortgage, and yes im hoping the rates stay low for the next year.

Originally Posted by speedplay

Mate, Its not your riding that makes you look a ****.



You turned up on your first rideout looking like a giant green gnome dildo in the biggest, flappiest fishing waterproofs known to man...

Served a purpose

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Wanna know how much it costs to fill up and run a 2.5l V6 Freelander?





You really don't want to know! Well actually I'd like to know how much it costs to fill it right up, as I haven't done that for months!

This is what I mean.

Im on a respectable wage, not great, but its not bad. Sure half my wage goes into my house, but I see people who you know havent got much cash, driving round in big 4x4 3.0 TDs from the 90's, or big 3.0 v6 petrols, and I think, how the hell do they run them? Fuel tax etc? Yet I complain about the Bandit doing 45mpg

Only cars in my list are VW Lupos/Seat arosa, or a Smart car? I dont think I could afford to run anything else (ok 106 1.5D, but no, just no)