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I think we are just showing the goverment that we are willing to accept fuel prices up to a certain point to which they then seem to make this a target to see if they can push that little bit further each year. Do what the French do and block off the ports and even the airports---seems to work for them.
 
markyboy.1967 said:
I think we are just showing the goverment that we are willing to accept fuel prices up to a certain point to which they then seem to make this a target to see if they can push that little bit further each year. Do what the French do and block off the ports and even the airports---seems to work for them.
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I totally agree, and was gonna post exactly the same but you beat me to it...
 
Gary said:
thats not fair.. lorry drivers are really useful for saving us fuel costs in other ways.
like pushing us sideways along motorways LOL
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:lol:

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Gary said:
why is fuel priced at .9 of a penny anyway? i'm guessing they round it up when you pay for it which means they probably owe me £100 overall
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Why can't other things be sold per .9 too.

How do they compute it at the pumps/tills? Anyone got receipt?

If I buy 2 litres (min allowed) @ 120.9 pence the total is 241.8 pence, I can't pay .8 pence, another rip orf?
 
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Arkady said:
And keeping the turnaround of hookers in East Anglia up-to-date...:lol:
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OMG :D:D:D


Meh...petrol, can't really go without it, can we? They've got us all by the knackers, and they know it.


However, in a petrol station shop, a litre of water can be dearer than a litre of petrol...
 
Yv said:
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
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Yeah but that email is just one of those 'forward me to everyone in your address book' types, same as the 'there is a huge virus coming which will burn your hard drive', etc. Sad thing is, people fall for these and really think that their computer is going to catch fire. :nono::thinking::shrug:
 
Trig's said:
Oh such Joys of the auto-bahn... (Said with tongue in cheek)
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True, I was barging my way up the A-2 at 130mph yesterday which may have affected my overall MPG figures...:lol:
 
Arkady said:
True, I was barging my way up the A-2 at 130mph yesterday which may have affected my overall MPG figures...:lol:
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Handy now that there's 4 lanes upto the M25 :naughty: ........ Yet people still hog the 2nd & 3rd lanes.... Why oh Why...:bang::bang:
 
Arkady said:
And keeping the turnaround of hookers in East Anglia up-to-date...:lol:
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:D
 
hepburn said:
a couple of stations near me are over £1.20 now. I think the cheapest is Asda at £1.16.
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:thinking: Give it a week and no-doubt the likes of Tesco & Sainsbury's will follow suit with a price war :bat:
 
Trig's said:
Handy now that there's 4 lanes upto the M25 :naughty: ........ Yet people still hog the 2nd & 3rd lanes.... Why oh Why...:bang::bang:
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im always tempted to do a lap of those people (undertake, out to the otherside of them, slow down so they overtake, move back in and undertake again) to see if they really are asleep or are just plain stupid.

(not that i would officer.. (my car doesnt have the grunt lol))
 
Flash In The Pan said:
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:D
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I just love the way that they all try & drive these like their 200k+ cars.... 1st, 2nd etc etc :cuckoo:
 
neil_g said:
im always tempted to do a lap of those people (undertake, out to the otherside of them, slow down so they overtake, move back in and undertake again) to see if they really are asleep or are just plain stupid.

(not that i would officer.. (my car doesnt have the grunt lol))
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:thinking: If I remember - according to the highway code :rules: ...

Aren't you allowed to undertake on the inside - if your making an exit, turning left & if the vehicle is going slower than you are?? (not having it to hand to quote it word for word)

No doubt I will be corrected at some stage & being told that us lorry drivers have or are a law unto ourselves :bonk:
 
The more expensive petrol is, the greater my 5% discount is worth :D

I still wish it were the price I remember my father paying - four gallons for a £1.
 
Gary said:
a lot of it has to do with the exchange rate tough. apparent fuel duty is quite a lot less than it was ten years ago (percentage wise)
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its too expensive whichever way you slice it.. current price is 80$ a barrel for brent crude, 140$ in julyish last year. im sick of being robbed. I may cry
 
matty said:
its too expensive whichever way you slice it.. current price is 80$ a barrel for brent crude, 140$ in julyish last year. im sick of being robbed. I may cry
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And in the meantime, Tor Bay is full of tankers full of crude waiting for the price to go back up before they unload.
 
Trig's said:
:thinking: Give it a week and no-doubt the likes of Tesco & Sainsbury's will follow suit with a price war :bat:
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Strangely enough, Tesco in Colchester are always 1p/litre more expensive than Asda. I have quite gone off Tesco in recent years and rarely shop there now. :shrug:
 
I avoid Tesco after they had that problem with their petrol that time..... Coming to think of it since they messed up our delivery :razz: as well & ended up going to their store to collect it & THEN having to scan it whilst all the staff were round the corner chatting....
 
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As a motorist i get pished off at the government raising the tax on fuel at the same time as the oil companies raise their net price. The 17.5% VAT is going to be larger as the net price goes up so we get a double kick in the nuts.

The other argument is the exchange rate. When were the last fuel blockades, 2001?

Can someone find out the exchange rate between the $ and £ back in 2001 and also the cost of a barrel and the cost at the pumps.

Then do the same for today's prices.

I would bet a tank of fuel that differences are not proportionate to each other.

edit: another thing that gets me is the amount of euro registered cars on the road. fair enough they can come over here for a bit. But i have a CZ registered van, on my street, which has been in this country constantly for 2 1/2 years. Does not pay tax, no way has UK insurance and will never get prosecuted if speeding. I have reported it to the DVLA twice and the local police twice and still nothing. Imaging the amount of road tax and speeding fines the government could be losing nationwide.

<RANT OVER>
 
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MG TF 135 said:
Can someone find out the exchange rate between the $ and £ back in 2001 and also the cost of a barrel and the cost at the pumps.
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The exchange rate was near enough the same as it is today, a barrel of oil (adjusted for inflation) $28, cost at the pumps around 80p per litre (not adjusted for inflation).

If you adjust a lot of the figures for the price at the pumps during times of crisis (Suez, the Arab-Israeli war etc) such as now you'll find that they are broadly similar to those today.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
The exchange rate was near enough the same as it is today, a barrel of oil (adjusted for inflation) $28, cost at the pumps around 80p per litre (not adjusted for inflation).

If you adjust a lot of the figures for the price at the pumps during times of crisis (Suez, the Arab-Israeli war etc) such as now you'll find that they are broadly similar to those today.
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Some more initials for Flash in the Pan after that quote.......... MEP for Glasgow South.

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ha ha... lorry leapfrog, we call it! I think the record I have witnessed is about 4.5 miles to overtake another lorry.

Seems that 1.45 Euros a litre in germany is a tad more than £1.20 a litre here..
1.67 Euros though... ouch!


And keeping the turnaround of hookers in East Anglia up-to-date...
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So so wrong, but I chuckled! :lol:
 
MG TF 135 said:
edit: another thing that gets me is the amount of euro registered cars on the road. fair enough they can come over here for a bit. But i have a CZ registered van, on my street, which has been in this country constantly for 2 1/2 years. Does not pay tax, no way has UK insurance and will never get prosecuted if speeding. I have reported it to the DVLA twice and the local police twice and still nothing. Imaging the amount of road tax and speeding fines the government could be losing nationwide.

<RANT OVER>
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Think it has something along the lines of as long as they take it back to get it mot'd &/or their plates changed it doesn't matter over here.. I can only go on what a German friend of mine said 10yrs ago as they had a German registered car and were living over here perm....
:shrug: But then again it may have changed since then...
 
Trig's said:
Think it has something along the lines of as long as they take it back to get it mot'd &/or their plates changed it doesn't matter over here.. I can only go on what a German friend of mine said 10yrs ago as they had a German registered car and were living over here perm....
:shrug: But then again it may have changed since then...
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Yep - it works both ways - as long as I have UK MoT, tax and insurance I'm good to go over here.
Plus my insurance is 1/3 what it would cost me over here as well...

Seriously thinking about not BFG'ing my car for the last 6 months that I'm in the Army after my posting to Herford in June...the amount of money saved by getting cheap fuel coupons would be more than offset by the enormous faffage of registering, TuV checks, headlight swaps, insurance sting and then doing it all in reverse again in November (I'd have to get insured by a German company according to BFG regs) - funny old thing: the US Armed Forces based in Germany don't do any of this: they just tell the German Govt to poke it...
 
Thank god for fuel cards, with the constant increase in fuel costs the money I pay in tax for having the card far outweighs the amount I would have to spend on fuel if I didn't but that's a perk of the job.

The govt know they have motorists by the nads, we have become so dependant on our cars we will pay whatever is thrown at us, they've now put a huge sting on bigger cars with the showroom tax whch came into force today, for us 370Z is not £950 for the first 12mnths RFL!!!!
 
Lynton said:
ha ha... lorry leapfrog, we call it! I think the record I have witnessed is about 4.5 miles to overtake another lorry.
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try the m26, 2 lanes of overtaking stupidity at its best :gag:
 
When I first started driving 6 years ago it was 79p a litre :(
 
Hurrah! Price dropped to 1,65&#8364; for Super-Plus (100ron) this weekend!!!
 
canonrebel said:
It was 30p a gallon when I started driving, and NO I am not t hat old...hahaha(well 52);)
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A gallon or a litre... If a gallon then I would imagine alot older than 52 :naughty:
 
When i first came to Guernsey 10 years ago it was 52p a litre for unleaded it is nor a staggering 97p a litre bloomin shocking.

spike
 
Just filled up at £123.9....

£77 for 3/4 tank it's getting worse!
 
Trig's said:
A gallon or a litre... If a gallon then I would imagine alot older than 52 :naughty:
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:nono: A GALLON, mate! Three gallons for £1 when I passed my test in 1974 ... I'm 53 too ... and that was after the Yom Kippur War and first big price hike in the price of petrol!
 
Yves Geza said:
:nono: A GALLON, mate! Three gallons for £1 when I passed my test in 1974 ... I'm 53 too ... and that was after the Yom Kippur War and first big price hike in the price of petrol!
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Ah yes the fuel shortages :thumbs: great fun huh?
IIRC 'twas 4 galleons to the doubloon
I mean Gallons to the £ when I passed me test
( bloody outrageous prices even back then)
I was earning a little over 16 squid a week!
 
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