mart360

£1.32 pl


Ok it was a local garage, and not a major retailer, but FFS this is getting stupid.


My local Tesco's is £1.28 PL yet UL is £1.15

the difference used tp be 5p PL now its 13p.


At this rate it will be £2.60 a lite by the end of the year.


How long are we going to put up with being rogered sensless by rising costs + the double taxation?

Mart

SiPie

BBC NEWS | Business | Oil soars to new record over $135

Coupe-Se

I paid 121.9 on saturday per litre of diesel and today its 126.9 ................. 5p a litre increase in 4 day ffs!!!!

A refinery uses less crude oil to produce a litre diesel than a litre of petrol, but petrol is not rising in price faster than diesel?? If the price of crude oil was dictating fuel prices, the price of petrol would be overtaking diesel.

Someone is scamming the **** out of diesel car owners in this country!!

dpb

im on the way back to petrol before too long

if we all keep changing Gordo will have to give up 2nd guessing razz:

Tam the bam

Kinda thinking the same way myself

The Zohan

and think of the UK haulage industry - already in difficulty and now gettibng worse by the day - literally.

will be down to Tesco to pick up some cooking oil for ourPug 406 Sh*tter this weekend 50/50 mix works a treat

kingofturds

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Too late vegetable oil has gone up to 124p a litre there now we have a little corner shop here though that is selling euroshopper veg oil for 79 p a litre

stilover

Old man tanked up his R8 last night with V-Power.

£1.25/litre.

I'm not due to tank mine up till next week. Could be £1.30 by then.

Government must be loving this. They must be getting £150m + extra a week by now.

Immigrants can ask for a better home now.

J4CKO

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Yes, based on this I have bought a new vehicle, one that runs on lard and old spare tyres.




















Gentlemen, behold

J4CKO

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Also, have taken the AA's advice and started driving to speed limits, coasting, not accelerating or braking, basically using the prevailing winds to get to work and my rather thirsty Saab Aero has gone from 23 MPG to 33 MPG.

PeteBrant

Petrol to immigrants in 8 posts.

Only on Scoobynet

The Zohan

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

The 406 sh*tter does 45-50mpg so it could be worse and i am sure it will get worse soon

The Zohan

Fab and for once it wasn't me (as shaggy says)
I wonder if you can make diesel or petrol out of immigrants if you squeeze them hard/long enough?

Bound to be some pc-EU ruling on it not being or humane/fair thou...

PeteBrant

stilover

I only caught the thread this morning. Otherwise it would have been posted earlier.

The Zohan

LMFAO!

Now that is funny!

BuRR

I love paying the most tax in Europe FOR EVERYTHING I DO OR BUY

Do you want the shirt off my back, too, Mr Brown?

speedymonkey

Ive been doing a bit of that myself recently too

corradoboy

If by coasting you mean dipping the clutch or rolling in neutral then this isn't the most economical method. You probably mean over-run, where you use your existing momentum, or gravity when going down hill, and lift off the throttle whilst in gear with the clutch engaged. Most modern engines will switch off the injectors on over-run, meaning they use no fuel at all until you ease the throttle back into play. Coasting will see then engine sit at idle where it needs fuel to maintain tick-over.

Highest diesel near me yesterday was £1.29.9, cheapest £1.22.9

mad555

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Currently paying 128.9/litre for diesel,hearing storries of 180p/litre before the end of the summer.

Deep Singh

Is anybody here thinking of selling their high performance car for something more frugal because of the price of fuel? I'm certainly thinking about it as I'm burning £££££££s at a ridiculous rate. Problem is I'll take a massive hit on my car as I was hoping to keep it for another year or two to even out the deprec.

I don't understand who'll be able to afford to run anything thirstier than a Golf GTi soon except the super rich

dpb

So if exise duty is the same albeit exhooorbitant ( )

Its striaght fwd profiteering for sure on the party of the fuel co. to charge this much more for diesel ..!

mad555

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They know they have you by the *****,they could ask £2.50/litre for fuel and we will still buy it.

bugeyeandy

I wouldn't - I already go to work on my bike (have done for last 2 years) and rarely use my car other than for long journeys or trackdays. If it rises to £2.50 a litre it will be just trackdays only.

As for someone above complaining that diesel is being hammered - it's apparently the lack of refinery capacity due to every man and his dog buying diesel cars now. Don't see how this works really as there's no shortage at the pumps just high prices!

Petrol is the least of my worries - I work for an airline and we will be in serious trouble if the price remains this high for more than a couple of years!

To be honest I reckon that a small bunch of people are making a lot of money at our expense and certain countries are stockpiling oil in a typical panic buy scenario which is only making matters worse.

The advantage of owning a Scooby is that you can ditch it for a small diesel when the price hits £2.50 a litre and be no worse off than before

Gear Head

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My fiancee's little 1.3 yaris sr got 51mpg yesterday.

Only getting around 35mpg in my 1.8 focus though. Doh!

So glad I gave up the scoob when I did.

GC8

I managed 47mpg in my elderly 1600cc VW-engined Skoda Felicia, on this years Scumball rally...

Gear Head

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But that 51mpg was around town!

f1_fan

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There speaks someone who hasn't seen the prices of secondhand Scoobs recently. Prepare to be worse off. A lot worse off

corradoboy

I got 51mpg out of the missuses Octavia (2.0 PD140) on a Dales run last week, and I wasn't hanging around either, just driving cleverly. A learner asked me what was achievable around town in my Fabia vRS, so in the 5 miles back to his house after passing his test I managed 61.3mpg.

J4CKO

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Yes, someone else told me this today, I did mean coasting in neutral, I can see why being in gear is better for modern engines, cant imagine theres muchg difference between idle fuel consumption and in gear coasting but will try both methods. Up to 34.1 now !

Its amazing how many people say coasting is a bad idea, someone told them in 1937 that it is and they still think its true, nobody can give and explanation as to why its a bad idea, your explanation re fueling makes sense but its a modern development, I think the old theory is to do with the driving test and before that because cars had woeful brakes and you had to partially slow down with the gears to ease the burden on the drums n crossplies ! I suppose if you need power quickly its not good to be in neutral but how often do you need power that instant if you are in the speed limits ?