Paid the most Ive ever paid for fuel last nite
29 December 2010, 11:03 AM
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Paid the most Ive ever paid for fuel last nite
£1.33 litre - Vpower at shell garage in portsmouth, will it go up more when VAT increase happens? not at all funny 
29 December 2010, 11:06 AM
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Will it go up more when the VAT increase happens ?
Surely you can try to work that one out all by yourself
Surely you can try to work that one out all by yourself
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29 December 2010, 11:24 AM
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What the tories did talk about was reducing duty on fuel by the amount that oil increased, capping the price at the pumps. But, as usual, that's all they did......talk about it.
Hyper inflation is on it's way peeps, so hang on to your wallets!
29 December 2010, 11:24 AM
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Well the Tories said they would look at reducing the duty when the oil price was high and putting it back up when it comes down to make the increases are less dramatric, but they seem to have forgotten about that idea now they are in power and it wouldn't work anyway as the price never really goes down.
Bend over and take it is the attitude we sem to adopt.
Bend over and take it is the attitude we sem to adopt.
29 December 2010, 11:26 AM
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Labour would have done the same.
What the tories did talk about was reducing duty on fuel by the amount that oil increased, capping the price at the pumps. But, as usual, that's all they did......talk about it.
Hyper inflation is on it's way peeps, so hang on to your wallets!
What the tories did talk about was reducing duty on fuel by the amount that oil increased, capping the price at the pumps. But, as usual, that's all they did......talk about it.
Hyper inflation is on it's way peeps, so hang on to your wallets!
29 December 2010, 11:28 AM
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I don't know if they are any worse than Labour, about the same in my book as nothing has really changed. U tiurns aplenty, promises broken and keeping people in the cabinet when they should be long gone... jobs for the boys... just like the last lot
29 December 2010, 11:35 AM
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http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/files/oi...etrol_0510.jpg
You can see that fuel is linked to price of crude oil albeit (a) petrol & diesel now about the same price (b) the gap between oil vs fuel does seem to be getting wider ergo it's a bit of a stitch up ... it's a good revenue generator though so we'll always get screwed on fuel. BTW if enough people switch over to leccy then just watch the price of that go through the roof too!
TX.
You can see that fuel is linked to price of crude oil albeit (a) petrol & diesel now about the same price (b) the gap between oil vs fuel does seem to be getting wider ergo it's a bit of a stitch up ... it's a good revenue generator though so we'll always get screwed on fuel. BTW if enough people switch over to leccy then just watch the price of that go through the roof too!
TX.
29 December 2010, 11:41 AM
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Would never say vote for tories. It made me cringe when I heard people say that tories were the answer.
We all want too much for too little. Until we realise that we cannot afford to house the lazy gits and pay them for the privilage, the deficit will continue to grow.
One thing that does worry me though is the dictatorship that is Opec. They basically, run the world.
We all want too much for too little. Until we realise that we cannot afford to house the lazy gits and pay them for the privilage, the deficit will continue to grow.
One thing that does worry me though is the dictatorship that is Opec. They basically, run the world.
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29 December 2010, 11:48 AM
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It's 128.9 for diesel here and it's getting to the point where i'm now thinking whether I actually need to go out in the car or if it can wait until I need to go out for something else as well. It's just getting stupid.
Whilst away at a relatives recently the wife decided we'd use the bus to travel a few miles to the local shops as the kids wanted to go on a bus. £4.50 return for an adult and £1.50 for a child ticket for a couple of miles ffs so not even public transport is cheap. So that was over a tenner to go to the shops. I'd wish i'd put that in the car as fuel and got a lot more than a few miles
Whilst away at a relatives recently the wife decided we'd use the bus to travel a few miles to the local shops as the kids wanted to go on a bus. £4.50 return for an adult and £1.50 for a child ticket for a couple of miles ffs so not even public transport is cheap. So that was over a tenner to go to the shops. I'd wish i'd put that in the car as fuel and got a lot more than a few miles
29 December 2010, 11:48 AM
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Your paying roughly £5 per tank full for the privilege of 3 Ron points
Normal UL - 95 Ron
Super UL - 98 Ron
But if you go to Halfords and purchase
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...Id_165750#dtab
or
http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.p...s28p2403&rs=gb
They will add up to 4 octane numbers for £1 a tank full
saving you £4 every time
Mart
29 December 2010, 12:26 PM
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http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/files/oi...etrol_0510.jpg
You can see that fuel is linked to price of crude oil albeit (a) petrol & diesel now about the same price (b) the gap between oil vs fuel does seem to be getting wider ergo it's a bit of a stitch up ... it's a good revenue generator though so we'll always get screwed on fuel. BTW if enough people switch over to leccy then just watch the price of that go through the roof too!
TX.
You can see that fuel is linked to price of crude oil albeit (a) petrol & diesel now about the same price (b) the gap between oil vs fuel does seem to be getting wider ergo it's a bit of a stitch up ... it's a good revenue generator though so we'll always get screwed on fuel. BTW if enough people switch over to leccy then just watch the price of that go through the roof too!
TX.
No way did unleaded drop to about 86p/litre in Dec 2008.....it didn't go below £1/litre round here!
29 December 2010, 12:28 PM
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I did have a list of the active ingriedients of Vpower. So if you wanted to go home-brew there is nothing stopping you using 95RON and just adding what you need.
Alternatively remap the car using 95Ron fuel, you maybe suprised that it doesn't make too much difference.
My Jag has to use a minimum of 98 RON octane fuel. Its not mapable, so I have little choice barring adjusting static timings and baseline enrichment (which is a bit usless, as stock static timing at idle is zero degrees, as most of the advance on this particular engine is controlled by the manifold vacuum and centrifugal advance).
If Tesco 99 Ron goes up any further, I think I may start experimenting myself.
Alternatively remap the car using 95Ron fuel, you maybe suprised that it doesn't make too much difference.
My Jag has to use a minimum of 98 RON octane fuel. Its not mapable, so I have little choice barring adjusting static timings and baseline enrichment (which is a bit usless, as stock static timing at idle is zero degrees, as most of the advance on this particular engine is controlled by the manifold vacuum and centrifugal advance).
If Tesco 99 Ron goes up any further, I think I may start experimenting myself.
29 December 2010, 03:19 PM
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Its a bit of a worry.
I don't think they are any bigger liars than NL, they would really have to work at it to achieve that, but they deserve 0 out of ten for keeping promises!
Les
I don't think they are any bigger liars than NL, they would really have to work at it to achieve that, but they deserve 0 out of ten for keeping promises!
Les
29 December 2010, 03:53 PM
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I use the millars diesel booster.
You put one measure to 50L of fuel
It says if you want a performance pep to use two measures per 50L
and i tried it back to back ..
One tank with one shot .... one tank with two shots...... one tank with one shot
Yes you can feel the difference with the double shot,
However this means you only get to treat 5 tanks as opposed to 10
nip into halfords and have a reas of the bottles
Mart
Nb, i was diluting it to 60L of fuel, so not quite the correct ratio, but still noticed the difference
You basically run the tank to empty, dump two shots in, then fill up
NB if you go down this route its for you to decide / your responsibility
I'm not responsible if your fickle scooby lump goes pop
Hope this helps
Oh and i use this site as well
can make some good savings for the sake of a few miles
http://www.petrolprices.com/
Mart
You put one measure to 50L of fuel
It says if you want a performance pep to use two measures per 50L
and i tried it back to back ..
One tank with one shot .... one tank with two shots...... one tank with one shot
Yes you can feel the difference with the double shot,
However this means you only get to treat 5 tanks as opposed to 10
nip into halfords and have a reas of the bottles
Mart
Nb, i was diluting it to 60L of fuel, so not quite the correct ratio, but still noticed the difference
You basically run the tank to empty, dump two shots in, then fill up
NB if you go down this route its for you to decide / your responsibility
I'm not responsible if your fickle scooby lump goes pop
Hope this helps
Oh and i use this site as well
can make some good savings for the sake of a few miles
http://www.petrolprices.com/
Mart
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