petrol Prices

[Wycombe Fox]

OMFG!!!! There's a place down here charging £6.59 a gallon for diesel!!! 144.9p per litre.

[MC Prussian]

How about doing a car sharing thing? At least, try to fill a car with two people.

More fun when you have someone to talk to than just always doing the "lone cowboy" thing.

Plus, it's cheaper (per capita).

But I guess, it's always cheaper to moan.

The amount of people that consider a car a must-have gadget still baffles me.

[Guest]

OMFG!!!! There's a place down here charging £6.59 a gallon for diesel!!! 144.9p per litre.

Jesus H Christ that's alot!

[shen]

Biking to work tomorrow

Good lad! Biking isn't that bad actually! If you live in the vicinity of work and stuff, biking can even be faster than taking the car

[Maybes]

Good lad! Biking isn't that bad actually! If you live in the vicinity of work and stuff, biking can even be faster than taking the car

there is actually no chance of me doing it. Work is 12miles away.

Just have to keep paying £55 to fill the beast up

[fox123]

I'm greatful that work pays for my Diesel, as the car they gave me is a 1.9cdti.

I would never be able to afford to run that on me own!

[Thracian]

Is this the same sort of logic that meant it was alright to drink drive and kill people if you're a woman.

I think that's policemen as often as anyone, with or without drink. And usually at excessive speed.

[shen]

there is actually no chance of me doing it. Work is 12miles away.

Just have to keep paying £55 to fill the beast up

How's the public transport alternatives?

[Maybes]

How's the public transport alternatives?

Getting a bus into town would cost me £4 return and then another bus would be requierd probably costing £2. Therefore actually cheaper to drive.....

[Head Honcho]

I've just got a new company car (Pick it up on thursday) , a diesel, and although diesel is topping £1.30 a litre at the moment, I will be doing circa 60,000k a year. So surely I will benefit????

If it's a company car aren't your firm picking up the fuel tab?

[potter3]

Getting a bus into town would cost me £4 return and then another bus would be requierd probably costing £2. Therefore actually cheaper to drive.....

What about a daysaver

[Maybes]

What about a daysaver

They dont do them on my bus service. Thats how sh!te it is.

[Matt]

Cost me 31 quid today to fill up

It normally doesn't cost me anything over 20 quid a week, I have been to Birmingham Airport once this week but it isn't a 11 quid worth of petrol journey really.

Besides when I drive to Leicester for a game (20 mile trip) it costs me around 15 quid a week certainly no more than 20 quid, Birmingham Airport is also a 20 mile trip give or take. Just shows the increase in just those few weeks.

[Guest Bilo]

Cost me 31 quid today to fill up

It normally doesn't cost me anything over 20 quid a week, I have been to Birmingham Airport once this week but it isn't a 11 quid worth of petrol journey really.

Besides when I drive to Leicester for a game (20 mile trip) it costs me around 15 quid a week certainly no more than 20 quid, Birmingham Airport is also a 20 mile trip give or take. Just shows the increase in just those few weeks.

Cost me 58 quid to fill up a 1.8 Vauxhall Signum last week. It only lasts about a week and a half.(The petrol, not the car) Not funny when work is only a 20 minute drive away. Any fuel protests, if and when they happen, have my full support.

[Matt]

Cost me 58 quid to fill up a 1.8 Vauxhall Signum last week. It only lasts about a week and a half.(The petrol, not the car) Not funny when work is only a 20 minute drive away. Any fuel protests, if and when they happen, have my full support.

Exactly, My work is less than 5 minutes drive away (2 minutes on a good day) and it cost's between 15 and 20 quid on average. Pathetic.

And they plan to pull our pants down even more and raping us by putting the price of tax up.

[Daggers]

Here's an idea that's pretty left-field:

If you are that bothered about the price of petrol and want to protest then buy less. All I hear are people complaining about it and yet each year brings even more traffic onto the roads. Cycle, walk or car share - that'd learn the nasty petrol companies

[AoWW]

Here's an idea that's pretty left-field:

If you are that bothered about the price of petrol and want to protest then buy less. All I hear are people complaining about it and yet each year brings even more traffic onto the roads. Cycle, walk or car share - that'd learn the nasty petrol companies

Sorry, but it really pisses me off when people bang on about 'you shouldn't use your car so much'.

Yes, tis all fine and dandy if you live in a city with decent public transport options or if walking/cycling actually gets you anywhere useful, but for a significant number of people these simply aren't viable options. I have no option other than using the car to get to work (12 miles away in the nearest town from the village where I live). The local bus service helpful goes to the town at 5pm and returns at 8am the next morning!

Anyway, I like driving - fast, in a gas-guzzling car! Go me!

[Guest]

Sorry, but it really pisses me off when people bang on about 'you shouldn't use your car so much'.

Yes, tis all fine and dandy if you live in a city with decent public transport options or if walking/cycling actually gets you anywhere useful, but for a significant number of people these simply aren't viable options. I have no option other than using the car to get to work (12 miles away in the nearest town from the village where I live). The local bus service helpful goes to the town at 5pm and returns at 8am the next morning!

Anyway, I like driving - fast, in a gas-guzzling car! Go me!

Agreed, and that for me is the crux of the matter, it's not simply a case of use it less, for some people that is simply not an option and those people are being hit hardest. Living in london my public transport options are good and i never drive in London, only to get out of it. Yet for most of the country they do not have such easily accessible and affordable public transport alternatives. I'd be willing to bet that if every town had such good public transport, the use of cars would decrease exponentially.

But hey, why provide regular and affordable public transport (which in turn would surely reduce Co2 emissions) when you can tax the public even further than they already are.

Having just bought a new Golf GTi and gotten rid of my Alfa GTV I agree with the last statement too

[AoWW]

Agreed, and that for me is the crux of the matter, it's not simply a case of use it less, for some people that is simply not an option and those people are being hit hardest. Living in london my public transport options are good and i never drive in London, only to get out of it. Yet for most of the country they do not have such easily accessible and affordable public transport alternatives. I'd be willing to bet that if every town had such good public transport, the use of cars would decrease exponentially.

But hey, why provide regular and affordable public transport (which in turn would surely reduce Co2 emissions) when you can tax the public even further than they already are.

Having just bought a new Golf GTi and gotten rid of my Alfa GTV I agree with the last statement too

You got rid of the GTV and you didn't give it to me?! How could you?

[The People's Hero]

I like driving.

[Bellend Sebastian]

I like driving.

Do you really?

I find it a massive chore, and I don't even have to do it that often. And that's from a man with half leather seats

[Raj]

Do you really?

I find it a massive chore, and I don't even have to do it that often. And that's from a man with half leather seats

I agree.

Most boring thing in the world.

Along with watching City and entertaining the in laws.

[Tabou]

Do you really?

I find it a massive chore, and I don't even have to do it that often. And that's from a man with half leather seats

I wish we were friends.

I despise driving. I only tend to enjoy it on a cross country route, on the way home in the summer evenings when it's light, other than that, 700 miles a week on the motor way is mind numbingly boring.

[Bellend Sebastian]

I wish we were friends.

I despise driving. I only tend to enjoy it on a cross country route, on the way home in the summer evenings when it's light, other than that, 700 miles a week on the motor way is mind numbingly boring.

Crikey, I wouldn't be able to do that. When I was driving to Nottingham every day (which took less than half an hour) that was bad enough. I walk to work, and it would take A LOT of cash to make me do any different. Obviously, not everyone has that luxury, but at the same time, lots of people drive shorter distances than I walk, and that's what I cannot get my head around

[Guest]

You got rid of the GTV and you didn't give it to me?! How could you?

Sorry. I did wonder whether to advertise it on here but I didn't want to muscle in on craigadams22/23's territory. if I ever win the lottery (or in some other way come into oodles of cash), I'll make sure I buy you one (Of course this means I have to start playing the lottery first )