The price of petrol

[flyingsausage]

That is a big difference in the miles to gallon between two cars JonesyI know the diesel is dearer to buy but you will make saving in the long run.I will be getting a new car this year and will also change to diesel and will hope for the same increase in miles per gallon

 

[Spudnik]

40mpg from my Astravan!

 

[nickblake]

think im going to take my engin out and install some peddles , like they had in bugsy , keep fit as well , will need a sleep when i get to site though

 

[simpson93]

think im going to take my engin out and install some peddles , like they had in bugsy , keep fit as well , will need a sleep when i get to site though

goverment would find a way of taxing you for it.

 

[flyingsausage]

If you had peddels instead of an engine your own personal co2 output would rise with all that effort and you would need to be taxed according to your own personal co2 output

 

[Lofty]

If you had pedels the goverment would probably put a huge tax on shoes !.

Cheers,
lofty

 

[Mr Mark Sparks]

by now we all know where the cheepest fule is but this is a good little site

Free UK fuel prices. 11,041 petrol stations covered - PetrolPrices.com

 

[grantr37]

I saw diesel 1.45 yesterday not a motorway service station either. Petrol was 1.39. As stated before there possibly is other ways to run cars on water etc but do the big petrol companies want people doing that?? It's not going to get any better!!

Look at how LPG crept up, and veg biodiesel (chip oil) is 69p a litre Duty + VAT, getting robbed for burning food waste in our cars/vans now as well.....thats all it is food waste LOL.....I can almost be sure that they will start adding DUTY+ the VAT to Electricity once people start driving electric cars, it will be a separate special meter, and the power company will bill for fuel excise duty and VAT added onto each unit sold....and bump up the price of household use electricity as well with "urgent funding for a greener fairer infrastructure" as an excuse...

 

[SirKit Breaker]

That is a big difference in the miles to gallon between two cars JonesyI know the diesel is dearer to buy but you will make saving in the long run.I will be getting a new car this year and will also change to diesel and will hope for the same increase in miles per gallon

Its all down to the maths mate. Not in anyway disagreeing with you, but i recently nearly made a very expensive mistake. After sitting down with a car salesman at the local Suzuki dealer i was all set to buy a Diesel Grand Vitara, i was convinced i wanted a diesel for the same reasons as you have said. After he sat me down and worked out our (the wifes) annual mileage at about 7 or 8k, the difference in price between diesel and petrol, the £1000 i was to save buying a petrol model, and keeping it 3 years i ended up buying a 1.6 Petrol which was a year newer, had done 2000 miles less,and cost £1000 less I agree that in general diesel goes further, but at nearly 30p per gallon dearer you need to sit down and do the maths first before changing from diesel to petrol and vice versa. If you clock up big mileages then diesel is an obvious no brainer. Just as a side note, Suzuki sell more 1.6 petrol Vitaras than any other model.

Cheers.........Howard

 

[SirKit Breaker]

just got rid of my 1.8 focus got a bloody xszra piccasso now its an extra 15 mpg

average prices ive seen is petrol 1.35 diesal 1.39.9 so far this week the van has had 200 quids worth of fuel plus 10 quid robbin git conngestion charge dont help gettin lost in london

I assume you had the 1.8 petrol. I had the 1.8TDDi Focus estate a couple of years ago, but before that i had the 1.8 Petrol Mondeo. Focus 50-55 MPG, Mondeo 30-35MPG.

The Focus was an awesome car, in 5 years it never let me down, and it turned those MPG's in regularly fully loaded and at warp speed on the motorway, if you took it steady at 60, i was getting into the 60mpg ranges.

 

[Jonesy83]

I assume you had the 1.8 petrol. I had the 1.8TDDi Focus estate a couple of years ago, but before that i had the 1.8 Petrol Mondeo. Focus 50-55 MPG, Mondeo 30-35MPG.

The Focus was an awesome car, in 5 years it never let me down, and it turned those MPG's in regularly fully loaded and at warp speed on the motorway, if you took it steady at 60, i was getting into the 60mpg ranges.

yep was a 1.8 petrol it was a v reg absaloutly brilliant motorway driving but the missis uses it for work as a community carer got so town driving it just drinks her wages away the xsara piccasso even tho its a bigger car its more economical on juice in towns with a smaller engine also need a fammily car with 2 kids

 

[flyingsausage]

I seen the most expensive petrol I have seen yet at £1.40.9 for petrol and £144.9 for Diesel you have to ask when will this end I have to plan every journey now as it is so dear.It must be worse in rural areas where you have to drive 20+ miles to get to the supermarket,doctors etc

 

[nickblake]

I seen the most expensive petrol I have seen yet at £1.40.9 for petrol and £144.9 for Diesel you have to ask when will this end I have to plan every journey now as it is so dear.It must be worse in rural areas where you have to drive 20+ miles to get to the supermarket,doctors etc

yep you right there mate diesel round here is between £1.36/9 and £1.44/9 not easy it soon goes hence the reason i want peddles ,having said that where im working at the mo is right on the beach at the bottom of a 1/4 hill that goes down for 2 miles great going down but a pig getting back up , well its the budget next week isnt it so we can all expect another 2p per ltr

 

[flyingsausage]

We will need to wait and see if we are going to get hammered as usual in the budget,but I think the time has come that they realised the working class man has passed the limit on what he can afford to pay for.I

 

[Phil]

We will need to wait and see if we are going to get hammered as usual in the budget,but I think the time has come that they realised the working class man has passed the limit on what he can afford to pay for.I

supposed to be an extra 5p per ltr in the budget. lets see if they try to whoo us with not putting it on

 

[brucelee]

I used to get 7 gallon almost, for £20 in 1990s now its more like 3 lol we used to use petrol to drive for fun soon they will be killing for it

at asda in leigh petrol £1.28 always cheaper than any of the other petrol stations if it carries on like this I will be getting my mountain bike out of retirement its been in the shed for last 15yr or more lol

 

[Phil]

I used to get 7 gallon almost, for £20 in 1990s now its more like 3 lol we used to use petrol to drive for fun soon they will be killing for it

at asda in leigh petrol £1.28 always cheaper than any of the other petrol stations if it carries on like this I will be getting my mountain bike out of retirement its been in the shed for last 15yr or more lol

£134.9 ltr round here mate

 

[brucelee]

phil get a hosepipe extra long and i send you some lol are you any good at siphoning dont swallow though lol

 

[Phil]

phil get a hosepipe extra long and i send you some lol are you any good at siphoning dont swallow though lol

dont go there with syphoning mate. 17 years old little apprentice me got told to syphon anti freeze with a hose pipe. mouth full of the dam stuff. quite sweet in a way though, bit like whiskey an acquired taste

 

[brucelee]

yes mate thats a good way to tell if ya enough antifreeze in car radiator dip finger in if it tastes really sweet theres enough in lol thats what my mechanic mate says anyway