Personally, I don't think we are even close to the point at which we all stop buying.

But what price will you have to stop or at what price will you stop?

I will pay anything I guess? ............ the roads will be totally empty by the time I am driven off them due to cost!

Pete

 

Given many seem to put their cars before everything else, and even with these high prices, don't want to reduce their consumption, I reckon £5/litre before many would consider using less

BBC news website last week had quotes from Americans about high fuel prices. Many were eating less just so they could afford fuel. Nutters.

Quite sad in some respects the lengths people will go to just to get in their cars.

 

I've just got back from Florida n theres a few out there who could do with eating less!

 

when i get my diesel car......obviously.

 

At what point does it become cheaper to make your own out of milk?

 

£1.50 and i am outta here.

 

ill pay what ever only enjoyment i get these days

 

Just got back from Majorca, those poor sods have to pay
1 euro for a litre !

 

I'm pretty close to stopping - the car only gets used a couple of times at the weekend. £20 barely gets me an hours spirited driving certainly more expensive than sitting in the pub for an hour.

 

Yes but thats 68 pence sterling!

So we are getting it a lot cheaper, at current prices in the UK ure paying close to €2 a ltr,

whos a poor sod now

 

Already have, just use the wifes car Seriously, I now walk if I can.

 

I will never stop driving all together - but as the price goes up I will drive less and less...I guess that's the effect the government wants

 

The problem is in the current age of health and safety, PC'ness etc performance cars are about the only enjoyment you can get on your own these days.

Everything else is slowly being outlawed.

 

W4nking has been made illegal????????????

When the foooook did that happen, I must have been temp blind at that point!!

Pete

 

Scooby will go if the price hits £1.20+ I will have to really look at where I live and where I work if the price goes to £1.80 a litre as I paid that for a gallon back when I first started driving!!!

 

Not really, don't be misled by the environmental angle, they want you to drive as much AND pay more cause of the whopping great tax on petrol. Its an uncomfortable situation cause it will reach a point where people just can't afford to put petrol in their car and ideally they want to stay just below that point.

A similar quandry exists with cigarettes, as smoking relating illnesses put a big strain on the NHS, BUT the more people who smoke, the more revenue they get from the large duty placed on that.

It's easy to be hip, in theory!


PMSL at Pete, you really shouldn't be driving a performance car if that activity may have impaired your eyesight!

Tath, what pub do you drink in? £20 for an hour seems very reasonable when you're from London!!

 

Its hard to know what you will do, but one thing is for sure, if it keeps going up it will just not be affordable to drive anymore. Im already thinking about cycling to and from work although it is quite far.

 

Ah yes, we'll all go on and use the rail if petrol goes up...

...and the rail companies are putting prices up because they're overcrowded at peak times.

Some great joined up thinking going on here. It's not like we can blame the government for the public transport situation as, well, it isn't owned by the public any more is it?

 

Dont really care what price petrol is, dont need to use the car much so its mainly for pleasure driving if its too wet to take the bike.

One positive outcome will be if it makes people think about how much they use their cars when they dont need to though - how many people jump in the car to drive somewhere that would only take 5 - 10 minutes to walk ? how many people drive to work on their own, when they could easily car share with people from the same area ?

And if it gets more of the poor people and young chavs off the road in their crappy motors that get in our way, so much the better ;0)

 

Im thinking of getting a 125cc motorbike, fancied doing it for a while anyway, will use the car if the weathers too bad, and for weekends.

Less petrol and still lots of fun on a chicken chaser!

 

What happens to the economy though when it gets far too expensive to work anywhere more than 5 miles from your home, so all the city companies and employers, or those companies based out of town cant get any staff?

We certainly haven't got the public transport system in place to cope with mass car boycotting.

The mention of walking/car sharing above is a fair point, but the freedom to drive a car on your own is one of the last freedoms we have, and when I did work miles from home the people I worked with who lived near me I certainly wouldnt want to sit in a car with them for 45 minutes

Oh, and PMSL at Pete's reply above

 

I'm not sure I think if its going to cost me more than £100 a tank to fill up I would have to look at other options. That said I need to get to work so stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Shell in Basingstoke was 101.9 for a ltr that was £52 to fill up so a fair bit to go.

Daves99

 

Unfortunatley, I need a car for work - I travell round carrying / delivering all sorts of computers and computer bits.

I don't use the scooby for that though. If petrol got too high, I guess I would investigate the Veggie Oil option for a diesal.

 

whats the highest we have had to pay in this country?

 

My mate at work has just told me that there is a garage in Marlborough, which is asking 105.9 for super unleaded thats got to be close.

 

Will go back to a 1.0litre buzz box before I would completely stop. I like being able to go places when I like , at whatever time and go where I need. But if it gets much higher the scoob will go, its only a car at the end of the day. The other week when I was between cars, I had to use the wifes saxo, and after a day it didnt really bother me. I just got used to the fact I had to pottle about, it still did 80mph on the m-way, what more do I need and returns about 45mpg

 

Just off to Tescos to fill up in a few minutes - will make sure I make a big show of getting Super Unleaded ( the most expensive ), putting in as much as I possibly can, then paying with my gold card ( allowing the sunshine to glint off its surface so the other drivers can see it ).

 

when there's none left at the petrol station.

 

Will that be because the Americans have bought up all the supplies?

 

I think petrol stations might soon notice an increase in people driving off without paying!