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That'll be my local then 
Also unfortunately the one closest to the Dealership so I have to put all my cars fuel in there
Also unfortunately the one closest to the Dealership so I have to put all my cars fuel in there
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Is that the same time as we all stomped down to the refineries and couldn't get fuel anywhere...
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I just filled up, drove 5 miles to a station that is nearly £1.16 ltr fro diesel as opposed to my local ones which are £1.19 and £1.20 - just bloody obscene.
There has been an email going round suggesting everyone boycot just BP and Esso as the two biggest, they will then drop their prices and the others will have to follow suit to keep customers....Great in principal, but trouble is, no one would actually make such a huge concerted effort all at once to make the difference anyway
There has been an email going round suggesting everyone boycot just BP and Esso as the two biggest, they will then drop their prices and the others will have to follow suit to keep customers....Great in principal, but trouble is, no one would actually make such a huge concerted effort all at once to make the difference anyway
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I bet if you go in after 12 o'clock it would go down to about 30p i.e. the real'ish cost ...
I guess someone is just winding you up .. ...
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So us lorry drivers are only useful for getting the fuel costs down - 
& not for getting the food you eat into stores... In fact just about everything for everyday life, mmmm its sooo nice to see that we are actually wanted for somethings then & not just for the most important things in like FUEL blockades 
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How much is a 25 litre drum of cooking oil these days? 
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thats not fair.. lorry drivers are really useful for saving us fuel costs in other ways.
like pushing us sideways along motorways LOL
I seem to remember that the govt changed a couple of laws after the 2000 protests to effectively make them illegal :nono:
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Probably afraid of some lovely bias reporting against them and people getting angry that other goods wont be delivered and claiming that they should be lucky to have jobs in this economic downturn......or does that argument only work when the out come isn't beneficial to us?
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i paid 1.17 for a litre didnt realise till it was too late and that was just the normal not premium
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Diesel has been £1.33 before.
Petrol prices close to record as fuel duty rises
Petrol prices are close to breaking the record average of 119.7p a litre
The price of petrol and diesel has edged closer to a record high at the pumps following a one-pence rise in fuel duty which came in at midnight.
The motoring body the AA is predicting petrol could hit a record average of 120p a litre in the next few days.
The duty rise comes on top of steady a rise in the wholesale price of fuel, made worse by a weaker pound which makes imported fuel more expensive.
It is the first of a three-stage fuel duty increase announced in the Budget.
Fuel duty was meant to rise by 3p a litre on 1 April, but Chancellor Alistair Darling decided to phase in the rise instead. There will be further 1p rises in October and January.
The average price of unleaded petrol is currently 117.93p a litre. Diesel is on average 118.51p, according to the AA. The penny rise will see petrol move closer to the record average high of 119.7p set in July 2008. Diesel peaked then at 133.25p.
"Where we go from here is difficult to say," the AA's Andrew Howard told the BBC.
"It depends on how the pound reacts to the general election result and the impact of any tax changes that follow the election."
A year ago, fuel at the pumps was about 30p a litre cheaper. But it has risen steadily since then.
"The things that have really put the cost of petrol up more recently has been the fact that our currency has been weaker against the dollar, and that's actually had a bigger impact than the duty itself," Brendan McLaughlin from price comparison site petrolprices.com said.
"In 2000, the fuel tax was 73.5%. And now, it's running at about 60%. So tax on fuel, as a percentage, is actually lower at the moment."
Petrol prices close to record as fuel duty rises
The price of petrol and diesel has edged closer to a record high at the pumps following a one-pence rise in fuel duty which came in at midnight.
The motoring body the AA is predicting petrol could hit a record average of 120p a litre in the next few days.
The duty rise comes on top of steady a rise in the wholesale price of fuel, made worse by a weaker pound which makes imported fuel more expensive.
It is the first of a three-stage fuel duty increase announced in the Budget.
Fuel duty was meant to rise by 3p a litre on 1 April, but Chancellor Alistair Darling decided to phase in the rise instead. There will be further 1p rises in October and January.
The average price of unleaded petrol is currently 117.93p a litre. Diesel is on average 118.51p, according to the AA. The penny rise will see petrol move closer to the record average high of 119.7p set in July 2008. Diesel peaked then at 133.25p.
"Where we go from here is difficult to say," the AA's Andrew Howard told the BBC.
"It depends on how the pound reacts to the general election result and the impact of any tax changes that follow the election."
A year ago, fuel at the pumps was about 30p a litre cheaper. But it has risen steadily since then.
"The things that have really put the cost of petrol up more recently has been the fact that our currency has been weaker against the dollar, and that's actually had a bigger impact than the duty itself," Brendan McLaughlin from price comparison site petrolprices.com said.
"In 2000, the fuel tax was 73.5%. And now, it's running at about 60%. So tax on fuel, as a percentage, is actually lower at the moment."
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial] [/FONT][FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]Petrol Prices[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]Since March 1983 I have kept a detailed record of fuel prices and fuel consumption, spanning fourteen different cars, both privately-owned and company. This table records the movement in fuel prices over that period, taking in each year the first fuel purchase in March. Prices are for leaded 4-star up to 1988, and unleaded thereafter. This roughly corresponds to the point when unleaded took over from 4-star as the standard fuel. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]The table shows that the price of fuel in real terms is now 4% lower in March 2009 than in 1983, the oil price having fallen substantially since March 2008. However, this disguises the fact that "real" fuel prices fell between 1983 and 1992, encouraging a boom in road traffic, but then rose sharply due to the "fuel duty escalator", resulting in the fuel protest of 2000. At this time, fuel prices had risen by over 50% in five years, which undoubtedly caused much hardship. The rate of Retail Price Index inflation has also fallen slightly between 2008 and 2009. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]The table also does not show peak prices in my local area, which were 224.6p/gallon (49.4p/litre) in October 1990, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and 390.5p/gallon (85.9p/litre) in June 2000, just before the fuel protest. Around this time I even paid 404.1p/gallon (88.9p/litre) in the Scottish Highlands. It seems that peak prices tend to occur in the autumn, and March, just as winter demand is tailing off, is often a low point in the year. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]In 2005 there was a marked rise in the international price of oil, leading to a peak price of 426.9p/gallon (93.9p/litre) in September and October. Also since the beginning of March 2008 there was a further sharp spike in the international oil price, with unleaded reaching a startling peak in July of 540.5p/gallon (118.9p/litre). [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]Of the March 2009 price of 89.9p/litre, 64.1p or 71.3% goes to the government (52.35p fuel duty and 11.7p VAT). [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]For information about current fuel prices in your local area, take a look at PetrolPrices.com. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]
[/FONT] Petrol Prices 1983-2009 Year Price per Litre (p) Price per Gallon (£) Retail
Prices
Index Petrol Price
in constant terms
(1983=100) 5-year
% increase ¶ 1983 36.7 1.670 83.1 100.0 - 1984 38.7 1.759 87.5 100.0 - 1985 42.8 1.946 92.8 104.3 - 1986 38.2 1.737 96.7 89.4 - 1987 37.8 1.719 100.6 85.0 - 1988 34.7 1.578 104.1 75.4 -5.5 1989 38.4 1.746 112.3 77.4 -0.7 1990 40.2 1.828 121.4 74.9 -6.1 1991 39.5 1.796 131.4 68.0 3.4 1992 40.3 1.832 136.7 66.7 6.6 1993 45.9 2.087 139.3 74.6 32.3 1994 48.9 2.223 133.1 77.6 27.3 1995 50.9 2.314 147.5 78.1 26.6 1996 52.9 2.405 151.5 79.0 33.9 1997 57.9 2.632 155.4 84.3 43.7 1998 60.9 2.769 160.8 85.7 32.7 1999 61.9 2.814 164.1 85.3 26.6 2000 76.9 3.496 168.4 103.3 51.1 2001 77.9 3.541 173.1 101.8 47.2 2002 69.9 3.178 174.5 90.6 20.7 2003 77.9 3.541 179.9 98.0 27.9 2004 77.9 3.541 184.6 95.5 25.8 2005 79.9 3.632 190.5 95.0 3.9 2006 88.9 4.041 195.0 103.2 14.1 2007 87.9 3.996 204.4 97.4 25.6 2008 103.9 4.723 212.1 110.9 33.4 2009 89.9 4.087 211.3 96.2 15.4
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]¶ Note: this column represents the % increase over 5 years in the non inflated adjusted petrol price. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial](Last updated April 2009) [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]Since March 1983 I have kept a detailed record of fuel prices and fuel consumption, spanning fourteen different cars, both privately-owned and company. This table records the movement in fuel prices over that period, taking in each year the first fuel purchase in March. Prices are for leaded 4-star up to 1988, and unleaded thereafter. This roughly corresponds to the point when unleaded took over from 4-star as the standard fuel. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]The table shows that the price of fuel in real terms is now 4% lower in March 2009 than in 1983, the oil price having fallen substantially since March 2008. However, this disguises the fact that "real" fuel prices fell between 1983 and 1992, encouraging a boom in road traffic, but then rose sharply due to the "fuel duty escalator", resulting in the fuel protest of 2000. At this time, fuel prices had risen by over 50% in five years, which undoubtedly caused much hardship. The rate of Retail Price Index inflation has also fallen slightly between 2008 and 2009. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]The table also does not show peak prices in my local area, which were 224.6p/gallon (49.4p/litre) in October 1990, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and 390.5p/gallon (85.9p/litre) in June 2000, just before the fuel protest. Around this time I even paid 404.1p/gallon (88.9p/litre) in the Scottish Highlands. It seems that peak prices tend to occur in the autumn, and March, just as winter demand is tailing off, is often a low point in the year. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]In 2005 there was a marked rise in the international price of oil, leading to a peak price of 426.9p/gallon (93.9p/litre) in September and October. Also since the beginning of March 2008 there was a further sharp spike in the international oil price, with unleaded reaching a startling peak in July of 540.5p/gallon (118.9p/litre). [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]Of the March 2009 price of 89.9p/litre, 64.1p or 71.3% goes to the government (52.35p fuel duty and 11.7p VAT). [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]For information about current fuel prices in your local area, take a look at PetrolPrices.com. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]
[/FONT] Petrol Prices 1983-2009 Year Price per Litre (p) Price per Gallon (£) RetailPrices
Index Petrol Price
in constant terms
(1983=100) 5-year
% increase ¶ 1983 36.7 1.670 83.1 100.0 - 1984 38.7 1.759 87.5 100.0 - 1985 42.8 1.946 92.8 104.3 - 1986 38.2 1.737 96.7 89.4 - 1987 37.8 1.719 100.6 85.0 - 1988 34.7 1.578 104.1 75.4 -5.5 1989 38.4 1.746 112.3 77.4 -0.7 1990 40.2 1.828 121.4 74.9 -6.1 1991 39.5 1.796 131.4 68.0 3.4 1992 40.3 1.832 136.7 66.7 6.6 1993 45.9 2.087 139.3 74.6 32.3 1994 48.9 2.223 133.1 77.6 27.3 1995 50.9 2.314 147.5 78.1 26.6 1996 52.9 2.405 151.5 79.0 33.9 1997 57.9 2.632 155.4 84.3 43.7 1998 60.9 2.769 160.8 85.7 32.7 1999 61.9 2.814 164.1 85.3 26.6 2000 76.9 3.496 168.4 103.3 51.1 2001 77.9 3.541 173.1 101.8 47.2 2002 69.9 3.178 174.5 90.6 20.7 2003 77.9 3.541 179.9 98.0 27.9 2004 77.9 3.541 184.6 95.5 25.8 2005 79.9 3.632 190.5 95.0 3.9 2006 88.9 4.041 195.0 103.2 14.1 2007 87.9 3.996 204.4 97.4 25.6 2008 103.9 4.723 212.1 110.9 33.4 2009 89.9 4.087 211.3 96.2 15.4
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial]¶ Note: this column represents the % increase over 5 years in the non inflated adjusted petrol price. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,helvetica,arial](Last updated April 2009) [/FONT]
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I don't want lorry drivers deciding whether or not I can buy fuel, thank you very much. I didn't elect them, they don't represent me.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1262603/AA-jetpack.html
Interestingly eveyone seems to think the next on is too but it is real.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...n-armed-bow-arrow-leaps-water-smack-face.html
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1262603/AA-jetpack.html
Interestingly eveyone seems to think the next on is too but it is real.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...n-armed-bow-arrow-leaps-water-smack-face.html
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In the past, I've always done accurate (well, as accurate as I could) MPG analyses of cars I've had but these days, I really canm't be bothered. What difference does it make knowing how much it costs in fuel to get a mile down the road? I don't like paying the current price for fuel - I don't think anyone does but IMO, it's a far better use of my cash than paying Stagecoach to take me from 1/4 mile away from home to 1/4 mile away from where I want to get. Hell, putting money in a fruit machine's better than paying Stagecoach! A return to the city centre was about £2.50 last time I HAD to take the bus, and that's the same as 6 hours' parking. I'd rather walk than get the bus.
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How much is a 25 litre drum of cooking oil these days?
ask a local chippy. You should be able to use their old chip fat
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or making us drive at economical speeds when they overtake each other at 0.001mph difference on a dual carriageway
or making us drive at economical speeds when they overtake each other at 0.001mph difference on a dual carriageway
Oh that's my all-time favourite - thank you so much, Lorry-Drivers, you're the best!!!
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Probably afraid of some lovely bias reporting against them and people getting angry that other goods wont be delivered and claiming that they should be lucky to have jobs in this economic downturn......or does that argument only work when the out come isn't beneficial to us?
to be fair, they were still doing jobs, just demonstrating. Its not like they stopped poeple going on holiday or delivering post...
And they wont be able to run the lorries that they have the jobs in..fuel prices are forcing costs up when there is no need. If the morons running the country hadnt sold allt he gold off when it was at its lowest value it might not have been a problem. /rantindeed.
Its not about whether you can buy it, its about whether you can AFFORD to buy it. Costs me £60 to fill up my car, and it lasts a week. I dont recall voting for a regular eyewatering bot-stretch with no warmhand reacharound...
What is your MP doing about the cost of fuel?...Costs me £60 to fill up my car, and it lasts a week. I dont recall voting for a regular eyewatering bot-stretch with no warmhand reacharound...
A week...? What are you doing? Driving @ 10mph???
The only way I can make a tank-full last a week is to stay drunk and not drive the car at all... Bloody tank-full lasts me a sodding day if I'm lucky, the distances I have to drive...
Last trip back to the UK and up to Leeds and back cost me nearly £300 in fuel...
Had I known the hotel was only 5 minutes from the airport...ah... but I had to repair and MoT the car - more bloomin' expense...
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It's about the same price here in France :thumbsdown: The only difference is that we don't have VED (Tax disc) to pay in addition
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Mmmmmmm If I remember rightly, lorries have to pay additional tax to use your roads - shame that drivers from overseas get away with not paying anything here... Am I "Proud to be British"?? Not any-more thanks Gordan
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Oh, I do!!
Especially since I clearly remember Tony Blair's TV appearance during the last lorry drivers' and farmers' protests when he was feeling a bit threatened by them.
I clearly remember he didn't say 'I was elected to represent you!' which is what I had always thought elections were for. What he actually said on TV was "I was elected to govern!"
Probably worth remembering next time there's an election.
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ask a local chippy. You should be able to use their old chip fat
If I remember rightly (or as someone told me) - The Shogun can run on that stuff... althou after a while the fuel pipes will need a clean out... Diesel versions that is & not petrol model.... Just incase someone tries it in their petrol chelsea tractor :bonk:
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up and down the m20 everyday...40min commute to work. the old 1.8tdci isnt so lean anymore, its only returning 40mpg! that company car better make an appearance soon...:bang:
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Oh such Joys of the auto-bahn... (Said with tongue in cheek)
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Become a trucker & get shown how to drive "ergonomically" as one wise old driver trainer once said