£100 to fill my car up
23 April 2011, 08:38 AM
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£100 to fill my car up
at sainsburys yesterday. had a 5p per litre off so I went in to fill the Lexus LS400. £99.82 
this is just getting beyond ridiculous. will probably get about 400 miles out of that as well 
this is just getting beyond ridiculous. will probably get about 400 miles out of that as well
23 April 2011, 09:14 AM
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Getting bad isn't it.
I make a point of not letting it drop below half a tank, at least it doesn't feel as bad filling it up. Doesn't actually save you anything but doesn't sting quite as much as £100 in one go.
I make a point of not letting it drop below half a tank, at least it doesn't feel as bad filling it up. Doesn't actually save you anything but doesn't sting quite as much as £100 in one go.
23 April 2011, 09:35 AM
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23 April 2011, 09:46 AM
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Watched a guy in a Range Rover put £114 in his motor to fill it....
Still @ 400 miles for £100, that is still an improvement on my scoob, and most sti scoobs i would say....mine = £60 to fill and a less than 200 mile return...
Still @ 400 miles for £100, that is still an improvement on my scoob, and most sti scoobs i would say....mine = £60 to fill and a less than 200 mile return...
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23 April 2011, 09:51 AM
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Friends of friends have cancelled a caravanning trip to Scotland when the fuel costs went over £600 As you say, geting stupid and WILL get worse.
The fuel companies will keep pushing until we stop them, but Lying Labour made THAT a terrorist offence
B@st@rds!
As you say, geting stupid and WILL get worse.The fuel companies will keep pushing until we stop them, but Lying Labour made THAT a terrorist offence
B@st@rds!
23 April 2011, 09:56 AM
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I suppose you can only look on the positive side of things.....there will be less people on the roads so less traffic jams.
The price is only going to go up, oil companies can charge what they want as they are a cartel. The government is going to add as much tax as they can, for as long as they can. £2 a litre, here we come, no seriously, its not going to be that much longer before we are there.
The price is only going to go up, oil companies can charge what they want as they are a cartel. The government is going to add as much tax as they can, for as long as they can. £2 a litre, here we come, no seriously, its not going to be that much longer before we are there.
23 April 2011, 10:02 AM
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It's scandalous. This Country really is in a mess with us lot being the biggest losers
23 April 2011, 10:10 AM
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It won't. Fossil fuels are a finite resource of which we have very little of in our own country. We depend on them, and the countries which have the resources are going to make a mint in the next century (assuming you think they have not done so already).
23 April 2011, 10:18 AM
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Mine is less than £40 to fill up still 
I can do 300 miles on it too. People need to get with the programme and buy smaller engined cars 
I can do 300 miles on it too. People need to get with the programme and buy smaller engined cars
23 April 2011, 10:18 AM
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23 April 2011, 10:19 AM
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Why would it end?......very little oil left now.....charge what you can, when you can?
Personally i cannot see how it can be the oil companies fault?....
still fuel costs little more than a litre of Coca Cola, and less than a litre of lager in the pub!......yet oil is blasted(often) out of rock miles under the ocean, or sucked out of the bowels of the earth, pumped onto a rig where hundreds of people are at risk, then pumped to shore, then shipped often half way around the world to a refinery, then it gets fractionally distilled, then they actually alter the once crude oil at a molecular level, then onto a tanker, then into an underground tank, then up the pump to your car; think about all the potential environmental disasters that are possible, and all the lives that are put at risk along the way......but hey Lager is Water, hops, malt & barley....all of which are plentiful..
Maybe a car that runs on lager is the answer!.....The TAX on fuel is of course a disgrace, the cost involved in terms of the raw product from the oil company is to my mind not such an outrage..
Personally i cannot see how it can be the oil companies fault?....
still fuel costs little more than a litre of Coca Cola, and less than a litre of lager in the pub!......yet oil is blasted(often) out of rock miles under the ocean, or sucked out of the bowels of the earth, pumped onto a rig where hundreds of people are at risk, then pumped to shore, then shipped often half way around the world to a refinery, then it gets fractionally distilled, then they actually alter the once crude oil at a molecular level, then onto a tanker, then into an underground tank, then up the pump to your car; think about all the potential environmental disasters that are possible, and all the lives that are put at risk along the way......but hey Lager is Water, hops, malt & barley....all of which are plentiful..
Maybe a car that runs on lager is the answer!.....The TAX on fuel is of course a disgrace, the cost involved in terms of the raw product from the oil company is to my mind not such an outrage..
23 April 2011, 10:25 AM
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Which is why it is so important to invest in developing our own independent source of energy. Use our strengths, we are an island so waves and sea are in abundance, add to this the wind that comes from off shore and we would only have ourselves to blame if we are still relying on foreign oil with £££ draining straight out of our economy and in to the middle east.
23 April 2011, 10:26 AM
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23 April 2011, 10:35 AM
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national geographic suggest there is between 25 and 40yrs of oil left in the world at todays rates of use.
If places like China and India continue to develope that usage will go up...a lot..., if large new deposits are found of course that will aid the length of use, but in many of our lives we will see the *** end of oil.
If places like China and India continue to develope that usage will go up...a lot..., if large new deposits are found of course that will aid the length of use, but in many of our lives we will see the *** end of oil.
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23 April 2011, 11:11 AM
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As well as bitching about it, go over to fairfueluk and sign the petition.
http://www.fairfueluk.com/documents/petition.html
It takes seconds and if a petition with 1,000,000 signatures drops outside No10, and Camoron thinks about what 1,000,000 fewer votes would mean, it might help.
http://www.fairfueluk.com/documents/petition.html
It takes seconds and if a petition with 1,000,000 signatures drops outside No10, and Camoron thinks about what 1,000,000 fewer votes would mean, it might help.
23 April 2011, 11:14 AM
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I did mine this morning £75.00 I've got a 260 mile trip to do this afternoon.Its stupid already not getting,and yet if you deduct the fuel tax AND vat,it would be quite cheap...
23 April 2011, 11:44 AM
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It's beyond me why the government is using fuel to milk more money out of us. They're relying upon the private sector to lead the recvery and yet everyone relies upon petro/diesel vehicles be it as part of their work or to simply get to/from work and they're making it so expensive.
Oh hang on, they're a bunch of self centred, self serving c**ts, silly of me to forget that!
Oh hang on, they're a bunch of self centred, self serving c**ts, silly of me to forget that!
23 April 2011, 12:11 PM
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The price is only going to go up, oil companies can charge what they want as they are a cartel. The government is going to add as much tax as they can, for as long as they can. £2 a litre, here we come, no seriously, its not going to be that much longer before we are there.
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still fuel costs little more than a litre of Coca Cola, and less than a litre of lager in the pub!......yet oil is blasted(often) out of rock miles under the ocean, or sucked out of the bowels of the earth, pumped onto a rig where hundreds of people are at risk, then pumped to shore, then shipped often half way around the world to a refinery, then it gets fractionally distilled, then they actually alter the once crude oil at a molecular level, then onto a tanker, then into an underground tank, then up the pump to your car; think about all the potential environmental disasters that are possible, and all the lives that are put at risk along the way......but hey Lager is Water, hops, malt & barley....all of which are plentiful..
TX.