The cost of petrol.

In a few months its gone up 30p a litre round here and its gone from £38 a fill up to about £55 a fill up.


A tank is lasting just over a week I will go insane if it goes up anymore, its getting to the point where i am struggling to run a car :bang:


My raise at work (cost of living) was 3% seriously what goes up by 3% a year now. Our council tax has gone up more than that. Food, gas, water electric.


ARRGGGHHHH

sorry i needed to vent

I have to walk to my mums now

I would like to cycle but I cant get back up the hill

tell me about it!

128.9 for diesel round here

i have thought about biking it to work to save money but its a long way from llanymynech to wrexham ind estate. takes me best part of an hour in the car

I'm going to have to get the Tipo back on the road soon so I can afford to drive the Bravo on the weekends

I want it to go up more, means the roads will be quieter and can go out "just for a drive"



But seriously it is rediculous especially the kindda mileage I do in a week having to pay for it myself

Hs panda could be filled up for about £30 to fill the panda and now its £40+

It's slowly getting to me too - paid £1.38 a litre the other day in hereford for diesel

I'll be looking to convert to SVO pretty soon I think!

i cant see an end to it and thats the worrying thing. They know we'll pay it but when is it going to be enough?????

Everything's going up and up I don't spend much on fuel generally, certainly nowhere near as much as you with your long commute, I would cry if it did But I have noticed my bill has pretty much doubled the last couple of years

Helz said:

Everything's going up and up

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some things.
umbrellas are going up
snuff is going up a pinch
knickers are coming down though

i bored of all these price of petrol threads

The thing is we (uk) have the cheapest fuel in europe, but pay the most tax on it at iirc 58 %, we don't even import that much either 5%iirc - it will get to the point that people will go beyond protests and break out into poll tax style rioting resulting in (hopefully) Pm stepping down Thatcher style.

Takes £75 for a full tank on my Stilo now.

Just use your car less outside of work hours

Its disgusting that a few people at the top of a few companies can dominate how an entire civilisation lives their life.

Break the mould, if you dont buy petrol, they go out of business. They need us but the image is very much turned around and thrown back into our faces when they rape us with price increases.

Get a bike, get the bus, walk, etc. Save yourself money in the process so you can go out and buy some nice clothes for a night out etc etc

fenton_jd said:

buy some nice clothes for a night out etc etc

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but clothes have gone up in price because off delivery prices & taxis on a night out have gone up becaues petrol has

fenton_jd said:

Just use your car less outside of work hours

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my car is hardly ever used for anything else than commuting to work....

The other bad thing is for me anyway, is it costs more on public transport than to use my car - wtf is the point using public transport then.

Some of us can't do our jobs without our cars. I'd pretty much have to live at work as public transport is so dire.

fiattech said:

The other bad thing is for me anyway, is it costs more on public transport than to use my car - wtf is the point using public transport then.

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good point.........£4.20 to get into town on bus or 40p petrol by car

This is the catch 22 that said oil companies/governments hold people in.

They could put the price up to £5 per litre tomorrow, and people will pay it because they dont see any way around it.

In the 80's, households had 1 car for the whole family. Nowerdays, this can be up to three/four.

My friend for example: He has an MX5, his sister has an oldskool bravo, Father has a Transit Van for work, and mum and dad share a new bravo. ALL parked in and around the same semi detached.

etc etc

So it's literally, carry on just paying the increase for consumables every time through, gritted teeth, until eventually you lose your house/cannot afford the rent OR change your lifestyle so that they arent squeezing you dry.

The general idea apparently, is (not just financial, look at all the focus on yobs constantly in the media etc), that the goverment have us "living in fear" so that we turn to to them and beg them to put a stop to whatever is going wrong for us.

It's deep stuff, but it constantly re-occurs throughout history, which is why I keep going on about it, but some people just dont see it or are ignorant to it.

Doesn't matter how many cars you own... You can only drive one at a time!