Oil prices set to rise again - feeling the pinch?

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It's costing me over £75 to fill my tank with diesel and that can go in 2 days sometimes - today it cost me £70 in diesel and £11:50 Severn Bridge toll before I even started to earn. All of my customers are feeling the pinch, so there's a limit to any increase I can make.
Estimates are that motor fuel will rise at least 5p a litre in the next week or so and there will of course be a 'knock-on' effect on heating lighting etc and virtually everything else ... and who knows where it will end?
What are you doing to limit the effect that all of this has/will have on you and your business?
Taking shares in British Gas who announced 24-30% increase in profits last year?
 
What can any of us do except keep paying?
We have to fill our cars, we have to run our businesses and we have to go to work. About the only thing that we can realistically do is to unite against the theiving politicans who seem to think that our hard earned money is their unearned money, and force them to reduce taxes so that prices don't go up in real terms.

There was something about this on a shooting forum that I belong to - the members tend to be spread far and wide and to have fairly specialised jobs, so often know more of what's going on than most people. Everyone agreed that the present unrest in the African/arab states is going to reduce oil production significantly and increase prices. The thinking behind this is that the foreigners have dropped their tools and run and the local people aren't capable of maintaining supplies even if they want to...
 
Can't say as I am really feeling the pinch, I may in summe when the weather's better and i actually want to travel to take some photos!

At present £20 a week keeps me in fuel, double what it was when I first started driving but still not bad.
 
And it will get worse if the idiots in the Bank of England put up rates which seems likely. They fail to understand that the main reason why we have high inflation is down to fuel. Not only do most of us own cars which are costing us more to fill up, public transport has to put prices up, as do hauliers which means if you sell any type of goods or travel for work, you have to increase prices to cover the extra costs. We were promised a fuel stabiliser but like most promises made by politicians it was a lie!

Simple, reduce the tax and costs will come down which will reduce inflation and mean we dont have to put up interest rates.
 
Does make you wonder where it will end up if the unrest moves towards the Middle East!
 
AndyB1976 said:
Does make you wonder where it will end up if the unrest moves towards the Middle East!
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I thought it had :thinking: ..... Or did you mean the middle East of Scotland :D
 
Splog said:
I thought it had :thinking: ..... Or did you mean the middle East of Scotland :D
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Well its north Africa is it not? But lets not fight over borders eh - they can do that for themselves :lol:

I guess Grangemouth refinery is apprx middle east here :p
 
Nothing will happen even if it goes to £1.50 a litre
I was talking to a truck driver who'd driven through France when the pension protests were on, the french farmers were setting fire to sheep carcasses in the street to create blockades, nothing like that will ever happen here.

I'm convinced every time there's an increase the government sticks their head out of the window to see if anythings happened but we're all driving about like it's 30p a litre so it just keeps going up
 
Fuel prices rose at the refineries today by 7p per litre + vat. That is what retailers are going to have to pay extra to fill forecourt tanks.
It will have to be passed onto us the retail customer.


Kev.
 
kevshore said:
Fuel prices rose at the refineries today by 7p per litre + vat. That is what retailers are going to have to pay extra to fill forecourt tanks.
It will have to be passed onto us the retail customer.


Kev.
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Yep! and in a few weeks the government will still put the price up :shake:
 
Although there is crap weather, i am glad i ride my bike all year. Just under £6.00 will fill my tank up and get me about 90 miles. That will get me to work and back for 2 weeks.
 
It's not good, i was planning on going to the Peak District & Nth Yorkshire Moors/Whitby this summer/Autumn, running a home is expensive enough without trying to run a car 125miles a week to work.
 
If I were to run mine dry and fill it up, it would be about £166. But I tend to refill it when I've still got a bit in and it's about £120-£130ish.
That's an increase of about £60 0n a tank full in the last year or so.

Kev.
 
I'm glad I walk or cycle to work.... and my wife has just started working from home instead of the hour drive everyday.

Tescos seem to have already put up their home delivery costs, or maybe that's due to half term?

I try and use the car as little as possible. Our car is now costing over 30 quid to fill.... gotta love the picanto :)

I don't envy you guys that need transport for work :( I sold my 3 series when it hit 60 quid a tank, and that was four years ago... I hate to imagine now!
 
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kevshore said:
If I were to run mine dry and fill it up, it would be about £166. But I tend to refill it when I've still got a bit in and it's about £120-£130ish.
That's an increase of about £60 0n a tank full in the last year or so.

Kev.
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What do you drive.... a tank?
 
SHould have a driving economically thread...

Starting by not driving with a full tank - a litre of fuel is about a Kg, so if you have a 100 litres tank, like Kevshore, then you are dragging around an extra 100kg of fuel, which is the same as driving around with a 15 stone bloke in the car. Extra weight = extra fuel.....
 
lawrie29 said:
SHould have a driving economically thread...

Starting by not driving with a full tank - a litre of fuel is about a Kg, so if you have a 100 litres tank, like Kevshore, then you are dragging around an extra 100kg of fuel, which is the same as driving around with a 15 stone bloke in the car. Extra weight = extra fuel.....
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Indeed! :thumbs:

Using Helium in the tyres instead of air also helps......... ;)
 
But don't you talk funny when you get a puncture???
 
Graham00 said:
It's not good, i was planning on going to the Peak District & Nth Yorkshire Moors/Whitby this summer/Autumn, running a home is expensive enough without trying to run a car 125miles a week to work.
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I drive everywhere, all the time. Always out exploring too. Anything under 3 hours I consider a short journey, but I keep forgetting that it costs me so much in petrol!
 
I'm a community nurse in North |Yorkshire covering one of the biggest patches in the UK. OK I get mileage allowance but each time petrol goes up that's a big pinch out of my pocket....mileage goes towards general wear and tear too.

I firmly believe this is just the start of worse things to come.

JOD....the Doom and Gloom merchant....but I might be right.
 
Yep, its now costing me over £50.00 to fill mine. Fortunately I do get roughly 550-600 from a tank.

My place of work now charges everyone the same rate for parking for the year so they can subsidise bus passes to try and get people out of cars.

It really ticks me off as I have no option with living 20 miles away in a small village with very limited public transport. So I'm getting screwed to pay for others travel to work and still having to put up with the fuel hike. No-one else lives on my route to lift share with.
 
4 vans - £120 for a full tank, each one gets filled twice a week :gag:

Can't see it being much longer before we're forced to increase our delivery charges.
 
staffitaxi said:
Yep, its now costing me over £50.00 to fill mine. Fortunately I do get roughly 550-600 from a tank.

My place of work now charges everyone the same rate for parking for the year so they can subsidise bus passes to try and get people out of cars.

It really ticks me off as I have no option with living 20 miles away in a small village with very limited public transport. So I'm getting screwed to pay for others travel to work and still having to put up with the fuel hike. No-one else lives on my route to lift share with.
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Thats because all the anti car people live in big cities with a public transport system. Would love to see them move out to the sticks and try to cope with a bus service then!!!
 
As much as I miss my old Audi TT, buying a CDI Smart Car with a whole 54bhp, free road tax and 85mpg was a very very good decision! I've had it a year now, done 12k and Its fantastic!

I do enjoy rubbing it in when I go and see my brother who drives around in a 6.0ltr supercharged VXR8!!
 
Jump said:
As much as I miss my old Audi TT, buying a CDI Smart Car with a whole 54bhp, free road tax and 85mpg was a very very good decision! I've had it a year now, done 12k and Its fantastic!

I do enjoy rubbing it in when I go and see my brother who drives around in a 6.0ltr supercharged VXR8!!
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And i bet he enjoys taking the mick out of your 54bhp as he roars away from the lights in a cloud of rubber smoke, petrol fumes and noise!!
 
cambsno said:
Thats because all the anti car people live in big cities with a public transport system. Would love to see them move out to the sticks and try to cope with a bus service then!!!
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You don't even have to move out to the sticks before it falls down

I got the train from blackburn to warrington a couple of months ago

20min walk to the railway station
train from blackburn to preston
train from preston to warrington
10 min walk to the bus station
bus home

I set off from blackburn at 5pm
I walked in my front door at 8-50pm

Utter joke

back on topic

I was in a petrol station a while back, next pump was a guy filling up a bentley, he was filling when I got there, car in front of me, guy walks to the shop, queues up, pays walks back, I fill up from empty, queue up, pay walk back, and he's still filling up the bentley

Still I suppose people with bentleys will be the last ones still on the road as the price of fuel is the cheapest part of owning a bentley
 
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Firkin crazy

Have to use the car for work, pushing £100 to fill it up now but what choice have i got

Pay it or quit working, not much of a choice really:shrug:
 
A message from an oil worker in an arab state who apparently is now on a military aircraft that isn't there, driven 300km to the airstrip in an APC by a regiment that isn't there, his message is to fill up now, he says that all oilfield production will be down within a few hours.
 
Garry Edwards said:
A message from an oil worker in an arab state who apparently is now on a military aircraft that isn't there, driven 300km to the airstrip in an APC by a regiment that isn't there, his message is to fill up now, he says that all oilfield production will be down within a few hours.
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cojones!
 
cambsno said:
Thats because all the anti car people live in big cities with a public transport system. Would love to see them move out to the sticks and try to cope with a bus service then!!!
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Hopefully as fuel prices increase it might make people realise that living nearer their workplace makes more sense than living in some quaint village miles from anywhere with their large expensive 4x4's to get them to the office each day.
 
boliston said:
Hopefully as fuel prices increase it might make people realise that living nearer their workplace makes more sense than living in some quaint village miles from anywhere with their large expensive 4x4's to get them to the office each day.
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i drive 40 miles to work. i dont want to live near it, as if i did, the kids would have to travel miles to go to school and the wife would have to find other work. it takes me 40 mins to drive to work, which is 15mins quicker than the train, not including the long walk from the station, and its cheaper. £30 a day rail ticket, or £50 a week fuel? plus its a s***hole near work.

So let me get this right...we produce oil off the coast of scotland, or in america, or russia, but we have massive hikes in prices when the arab states have a bit of argy bargy?

its all *******s, the government needs to get a grip and cut tax on fuel, its not going to be long before people here start taking the studen route to protesting..:thumbsdown:
 
Originally Posted by Garry Edwards
A message from an oil worker in an arab state who apparently is now on a military aircraft that isn't there, driven 300km to the airstrip in an APC by a regiment that isn't there, his message is to fill up now, he says that all oilfield production will be down within a few hours.
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cojones!
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Best wait and see then, you can't both be right.
 
there is more than 1 oilfield in the world. the arabs already offered to up production to stop any shortages. oil companies are laughing all the way to the bank. best hurry up and invent cold fusion Garry, Lencarta will make a mint from that.
 
The worst thing about all this is that the price will rise because of the conflict. Thats fine but when the conflict ends the price will not drop. Where is the logic in that?
 
For me i would love to take the train to work because i can spend the time on the train to do something more usefull than spend 2 hours on the M25 but it would cost me three times more to take the train than it does to drive.

If anyone knows of a cheaper alternative to get from North London (Arnos Grove) to Fleet, Hampshire everyday please let me know :)
 
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