Petrol Prices

[c43 amg]

Without giving too much away, I paid around 50p a GALLON when I first started driving - in London!

You must be as old as me!

 

[Oily Rag]

It cost me £8 to fill my Mk II Cortina in 1979.

 

[johnsco]

They take something like 75% of every litre in tax! And due to the underlying cost of oil rising they get billions of extra tax. They could reduce it to help the motoring public.

I think many years of them treating the motorist as a cash cow have shown us what they think of us.

I think we know exactly what they think of us ...

You're being stuffed.
You know you're being stuffed.
You know that we know that you know you're being stuffed.
etc.
etc
And you know that there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

 

[thebook]

I paid 124.9p per litre earlier today for super duper, go faster, further, quieter diesel at Shell - it is becoming a little annoying now...

 

[stevieb15]

My mum used to give me £1 a week in 1972 to fuel up the mini which gave me about 110/120 miles so....

Bristol 1972 32p per gallon= 0.07p litre
Leek 2010 1.179p litre

any bets on where it will be in 38 years, on this basis it will be almost £20!

 

[wemorgan]

My mum used to give me £1 a week in 1972 to fuel up the mini which gave me about 110/120 miles so....

a measure of how engine technology has moved on is that a small diesel engine today will cost less per mile.

 

[kwakdonut]

I paid 124.9p per litre earlier today for super duper, go faster, further, quieter diesel at Shell - it is becoming a little annoying now...

Don't buy it then!!! Buy the normal stuff - I cannot even remotely imagine your car benefits from the so-called 'Ultimate' Diesel!!

 

[Swozza]

Don't buy it then!!! Buy the normal stuff - I cannot even remotely imagine your car benefits from the so-called 'Ultimate' Diesel!!

I don't know about the diesel stuff, but I do know I get around 2 days extra motoring than I would if I purchased the normal petrol. I've tested most and I'd have to say Texaco High Octane is the best and IMHO justifies the extra 8p.

 

[scumbag]

as promised.

£0.92p/ltr for 98ron. strangely today £0.91 for normal stuff. usually about 4p difference.

ho-hum.

 

[mbenz76]

Read in Auto Express this evening that the 1p price hike by Brown and his merry bunch of half wits is actually more likely to be 2.5p as they have cut the subsidy for bio fuels, and since all fuels have a 5% minimum bio fuel element it will hit us all.

Now he didn't tell us that one did he!

Screwed over by Brown again! So what's new.

Auto Express expect it to hit £1.30/litre as a result!

 

[James Rothwell]

OH FOR GOD SAKE.

Why can't it just be 80p a litre and tax something else heavily or spread the tax out more evenly. Make alchohol or tobacco more expensive and lessen petrol tax a bit.

 

[gazzz]

Argument A:

High fuel prices means high transport costs which means higher costs for practically everything we consume. People living in rural areas pay proportionally more for their essential personal transport needs.

Argument B:

The world is suffering through the escalating use of diminishing fossil fuels. High fuel taxes put a brake on fossil fuel use and stimulate the creation of fossil fuel alternatives.

 

[scumbag]

If the money taken from Argument B was used to lessen the issue in Argument A, probably by developing the products argument B is all about, then argument A, and by definition that means global people unable to find their own source of oil, then we would all be better off.

except that those who are collecting the money, don't want to spend it on that.

Some say the world has changed!

 

[Gridlock]

 

[mbenz76]

I have unusually for me got barely 1/4 tank full at the moment.

I am running it dry as the dealer has promised to fill it if I say nice things in the post sale MB survey good thing is I would have any way

 

[DME]

We all need to stop buying petrol from the two biggest in the UK. BP and ESSO and force them to start a price war. Consumer power!!

 

[scumbag]

We all need to stop buying petrol from the two biggest in the UK. BP and ESSO and force them to start a price war. Consumer power!!

perhaps you want to check how much the forecourt sales actually puts into their coffers first!

 

[NICKYB]

on the rise again then!!!!

 

[Swozza]

We all need to stop buying petrol from the two biggest in the UK. BP and ESSO and force them to start a price war. Consumer power!!

I'm guessing you've had the email that doing the rounds. Isn't BP and ESSO the only UK oil company? Seems silly going after the UK company and pluming all our good money into the others.

 

[219]

Hey guys - it is ELECTION TIME .

Just start asking the hopefuls and the canvassers WHAT THEIR PARTY IS GOING TO DO FOR THE MOTORIST , remind them that almost all motorists are VOTERS , make them realise that pleasing the motorist is a big issue and a major vote winner . Fuel prices , blanket coverage with dumb speed cameras instead of intelligent police officers , inappropriate speed limits and more are all VOTE LOSERS .

If enough people ram this point home , they might just sit up and take notice . Any time you have them at your door or see them spouting in the high street over the next few weeks , ask what they are going to do for us - if the questions get asked often enough , they will HAVE to take notice .