Fuel Prices

[timwilky]

Well, my local Asda yesterday dropped to 92.9. Lets us hope this is the start of a trend.

Still the tax man has finally revised his prices and set I can now have 10p/mile for the cage

Ok the gauntlet is down....I think I may have set a record here but please shout out if you have beaten it.

Yesterday I did 201 miles up the M1 past Leeds across to Otley and back down between the towns past Holmfirth etc to Glossop then down the A57 back to Chesterfield.
Another mixed bag but gentle riding, anywhere between 50 and 70mph, a little blast for the last 10 miles or so.
Lots of 30 and 40mph speed camera avoidance though but to counter that it was stop-start riding I guess 30% urban....30% M'way the rest country lanes and A roads.

Average fuel consumption 71.74mpg
Didn't have to try particularly hard. Still overtook a handful of cages!

I love this bike!

Strange time of year for fuel prices to be falling but they've lost a lot of money because of the poor weather people haven't been driving for fun. As with everything else, no sales = lower prices!

[northwind]

I've got absolutely no idea how much I pay, it's always around £15 for a refill so that's all I think about.

PS, anyone putting Super in an SV or similiar and complaining about the prices gets

Originally Posted by Ed

Just back from France, where I paid €1.06 (that's 71p at today's exchange rate) at the hypermarket in Calais for a litre of diesel. I didn't look at petrol prices that closely but IIRC it was maybe slightly less.

I spent 2 weeks in France back in June, all the autoroute (motorway) petrol stations were about 1euro 42cents (about same price as here), while in the towns/villages where I was (the ARDECHE region) it was about 1euro 25-30cents, which is still about 90 pence a litre, not that much cheaper than over here.

My local area DARLINGTON is about 94.9p per litre.

I remember when I was in the RAF stationed in Germany (late 80's & early 90's) and getting TAX FREE petrol, but whinging when I came back to the UK and it costing £25 to fill up my XR3i from redlight to full.

PS, anyone putting Super in an SV or similiar and complaining about the prices

True....the SV only needs something like 91 RON and we ordinarily put 95 RON in the tank so we are already over-octaned!
Which means we are losing a little power and not getting as many miles per gallon as we should from our precious liquid plus we are paying more for the higher octane when we don't need it???!
Stick 1p on every gallon and it makes 1.5 billion for the treasury in a year.

Rip-Off.....who said that??

If 20% of commuters went out and bought SV's tomorrow just imagine what difference that would make to the petrol sales over the next year!
Congestion would almost disappear overnight, pollution would be heavily reduced, carbon output down, Al Gore would have a big grin on his face, (no change there then). 20% of people wouldn't be late for work any more. Less man-hours lost as a result. Industry gains. People gain through more pay for less lost hours!
Oops...sorry...just having that nightmare again!

I read somewhere that the only engines to require 98 or above are old sports cars and club racers. It was also said that the latest transistorised ignition systems are so accurate that pinking is resigned to the history books these days! Rich, Sid, help?

Q/ Whats the difference between and SV and an SUV?

A/ About 60mpg!

which is still about 90 pence a litre, not that much cheaper than over here.
My local area DARLINGTON is about 94.9p per litre.

Yes but....

If you get on average 50mpg and you cover 10,000 miles a year you use about 200 gallons.
If the petrol is just 5p per litre cheaper then you save more than £45 over the year. Thats paid for most of your road tax! Or 3 free tanks full of fuel!

That 5p doesn't look much but.....

Sainsbury's are doing the ...spend £50 on shopping get 5p off per litre at the moment which is cool.

Originally Posted by northwind

PS, anyone putting Super in an SV or similiar and complaining about the prices gets

I aint complaining... but.. Bp's 2 stations in Grangemouth seem to be the most expensive in the central area.. the one Right outside the gates of the Refinery that supplies all of the Petrol stations is the worst. few weeks ago there was only 2p a litre between standard and super. Duke gets the posh stuff but with the price so close the Blandit was getting super for a while too. Last i checked, 95 unleaded was 96.9 and super 100.9.

Wife.. How you getting to work this week? ...15 quid to fill the tank on either bike.. or 65 quid to fill the car?.. i'll be taking the bike

If your feeling tight about it use this http://www.petrolprices.com/

[Wideboy]

last petrol station i can remember from today was 94.9

they're slowly creeping back up again