pabs

It's getting so expensive to keep the scoob running...
thoughts anyone?

Power Junkie

iTrader: (1)

Not good But I just got Optimax for 94.9 Ticket said 95.9

JTaylor

My advice to all petrol heads is enjoy it while it lasts....track Days, sunday morning blast on the moors and a girls car or a diesal for everything else. It's gunna get worse folks.

kingofturds

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its only 99.9 p a litre round here seriously though i think the goverment could afford to do something with the extra revenue they are raking in on these sky high prices.

Swen6

I now use Tesco's 99 Ron Super Unleaded and that's just under 94p, not only is it cheaper than the big guns but you don't have the added cost of Octane Booster
Also it al depends where you live, i'm based in Hemel Hempstead Jct8 of the M1, here BP and Shell are around the 96p range i drive alot [Van] and some places i go do make me laugh, i havn't seen a garage charge the magic 100p yet, but it can't be far away.

SirFozzalot

I think you are right!

pabs

I'm basing it on Reading where it's 99.9p per litre of BP ultimate. They are always the most expensive but there are so damn many BPs everywhere - you really have no choise but to get your petrol with them

IN THE STICKS

Some petrol stations will have trouble displaying their price on their posts soon because they don't have room for 3 figures before the decimal point . Then I bet the price will start to go up in 1p increments instead of 0.1p soon too

Swen6

It's alright you don't have to pretend with us, we all know you've got your eye on something in Argos, your just collecting your Necta points arn't you .

pabs

Yeah, a bike!

JTaylor

paulhsti

97 ron Super unleaded at 90.9 in Ipswich - I have run on this and Optimax and the bum dyno could tell no difference - paid 98.9 in Maidenhead for ESSO last weekend - ouch!!

dmc1980

Maxol near my parents house had ther SUL at £1.04. Was in with the missus one evening when she was getting UL for her car and I lifted the pump to see as they hadnt got it displayed on the board. near **** myself. Neadless to say i dont EVER use that station, BP near me are charging 97.9

what would scooby do

Garage opposite my office is £1.10, and £1.29 for SUL

Keeps the plebs with crappy cars away I bet, no end of ferrari's filling up...

JTaylor

Just think.....there are are young men being born as we speak, who may never get to experience the utter pleasure to be had from running the internal combustion engine.

We'll all being saying "it was much better in my day" to which they'll respond
"but you couldn't get carbon fibre batteries and you used to have peak torque figures - WTF was that all about?".

What's the shelf life on petrol? Did the States have the right idea when they started stock piling their own oil and annexing everyone elses? So many questions.......

kingofturds

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reckon they should abolish all welfare payments then do away with fuel duty altogether .chav scum starve to death reducing crime ,untaxed ****ters on the road(reducing congestion) and freeing up housing. all the countrys problems solved!

JTaylor

pwhittle

£1, plus OB @ £3.50 (bulk purchase), for 50L = £1.06 / L
20mpg = 4.4 m/l, 11 gallons x 20 =220 mile per tank (optimistic!)
so at 20mpg, that's 24p/mile by my Friday afternoon maths.
Not good.

pabs

From the pov of the petroleum companies oil prices are rising to very high levels, one of the reasons being the growth/industrialisation of China...the fact that the US refuse to do anything to make there cars more efficient (ie smaller engines) does not help the situation either. But it is the UK government that take the biggest portion out of each litre of petrol sold...I think that's the first solution, get the truckers out again!

Dark Blue Mark

Yup, I work for an oil company and get a fair bit of abuse when the prices rise. I could go on all day, but simple figure says it all:

2004 : oil $28/bbl, petrol 75p/l
2005 : oil $60/bbl, petrol 90 p/l

Who's creaming the profits? New Labour

MB

JTaylor

I read an article in the Guardian about a year ago predicting massive oil / petrol consumption in China as economic growth continues - I ignored it and went for a blat (in a Prelude - aahhhh how I miss the dual personality of VTEC). In Turkey early this year and this chap I got talking to (bright, well read, a fellow petrolhead etc) said he doubts petrol will be everyday affordable within 10-15 years. I went into denial again and thought the best remedy was to get into tuning Scoobies .

Anyway, now I'm beginning to believe - in fact sometimes I get quite concerned. The remedy, chopped in my UK Car for a tuned RA .

**** it boys - if you can afford it, make the most of it

johnfelstead

i remember when we were all ****ting bricks at the thought of the £1 gallon. Just like then the £1 litre will pass and we will all continue to drive and pay for fuel, we have no choice.

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

hmmmm i bet my nova could wipe the floor with that buying an RA doesnt increase milage just gets you there quicker

JTaylor

mgcvk

Car companies are still on the whole turning out big engined saloons as well as the 1 litre every day cars. I'm assuming there is still plenty of oil left. 25 years ago at school we were told there was only 20 years supply left. I was talking to an American woman recently who was complaining that she was now paying just over 2 dollars for a gallon of fuel???? Whats that, about 25pence per litre? No wonder they needed to invade Iraq.

Our dependence on fossil fuels is a bit daft though. I'm going to get my car converted to run on dolphin poo.

pappasmurf

...Get yourself something sensible like a Transit...plenty of lugage space...three seats...elevated view of the surroundings....and runs on vegetable oil at 43p a litre.

So...Petroleum companies can go take a long walk off a short pier.

ReggieMY99

i read somewhere recently that petrol is actually some 15 % cheaper then 15 years ago if you look at what ppl earn on income today in 2005 then they did 15 years

maybe a little consolation there...

THOMO

its so expensive.its a rip off .so its a good job i dont pay for my fuel

Swen6

Coming home from the RS owners national day at donnington park and was running low, stopped at Watford Gap, BP's Ultimate UL 99.9!!!!

THOMO

BP's Ultimate UL 99.9 i wish that was the octane rating