Petrol

Post by **Nellyboy** » Mon May 09, 2011 9:33 pm

Ye Gods, did I just work out that a gallon is Â£6.13p?

I might just sell the car and be done with it. It's criminal.

Post by **Trig** » Mon May 09, 2011 11:35 pm

I'd bike to work if the missus could drive, she could drive the A2 and do all the running around and I could get fit

Post by **ryanside** » Mon May 09, 2011 11:42 pm

cycling is the way forward! I've done it for a year solid now. Not going to lie though, it is crap in the rain/winter but saves you a small fortune.

Post by **Claw** » Tue May 10, 2011 2:18 am

The car we use the most is an older Diesel Fiesta which we run on Vegetable Oil. At the moment 20 litres of Veg Oil is Â£1 per litre. So, at current rates we're saving about Â£8 to Â£16 per fill depending how much we put in. (We can only get the oil in multiples of 20 litre containers)

Post by **Raz** » Tue May 10, 2011 9:27 am

Wow, does vegetable oil produce the same energy as whatever diesel is at the pump?

Post by **Nellyboy** » Tue May 10, 2011 1:25 pm

Been cycling in for a month or so now. Feel great for it.

Post by **Legthigh** » Tue May 10, 2011 5:22 pm

I have a fuel card with work, it costs Â£60 to fill my Skoda fabia 1.5 diesel.

If I did not have this fuel card, I would not own a car. Its insane.

Post by **andrew** » Tue May 10, 2011 6:55 pm

Â£85 last night at morrisons

, certainly seems to be slowing people down !

edit:
I remember seeing the litres going up faster than the pounds, not the other way round thats whats the shocking bit !

Post by **Claw** » Wed May 11, 2011 8:36 am

Raz wrote: Wow, does vegetable oil produce the same energy as whatever diesel is at the pump?

Diesel engines were invented to run on Peanut Oil.

I can't drive due to medical reasons, but my wife says the Veg Oil (VO) gives the car a bit more kick... (improves performance)

We've not needed to modify the engine in any way, but newer diesels my need modification, possibly due to differences/changes in the injection system. This is why we keep our older 1.8 Fiesta as more than just the run-about.

At one time you had to pay a fuel duty if you drove more than 2.5K miles, but several years ago the Government changed that to 10K miles.

Every now and again we'll drop in a fuel system cleaner, Red X or something like that, or just a good mix of diesel and VO.

Tis good stuff.

Post by **andrew** » Wed May 11, 2011 5:59 pm

Driving home tonight the price of derv seems to be coming back down a bit....... about a week after the price of a barrel of oil fell a fair bit.....

Its still a one way trend though !

Post by **Trig** » Wed May 11, 2011 9:20 pm

tbh if as a road user I could see where the extra money they rape us for went then I might be more inclined to not moan about it.

Road tax goes up, the state of the roads is bloody shocking.
Insurance goes up, I havent had any accidents.
Petrol goes up, I'm still using as much as I have done for a while and still drive the same car.

Post by **Claw** » Thu May 12, 2011 11:40 am

Trig wrote: tbh if as a road user I could see where the extra money they rape us for went then I might be more inclined to not moan about it.

Road tax goes up, the state of the roads is bloody shocking.
Insurance goes up, I havent had any accidents.
Petrol goes up, I'm still using as much as I have done for a while and still drive the same car.

That puts the entire issue in a nutshell Trig.

I've done a 'Nelly on the Net' and found this article: <a href="http://www.thetaxguide.co.uk/what-does- ... y-for.html" target="_blank">What does Road Tax pay for?</a>

According to that article, and the follow-up discussion, we haven't paid any road tax since 1937. It was changed to Vehicle Excise Duty, which is more of a big pot for several types of taxes and spent where and as desired the Government choose.

Post by **Tumble** » Fri May 13, 2011 12:03 am

Â£6.80 for a gallon of Diesel here now

my van was Â£113 to fill last time. Glad I've got a fuel card!

Post by **Claw** » Fri May 13, 2011 3:26 am

Sadly, the next concern is how this is going to affect the company you work for that is providing you wth that card? How will this affect uour next pay review?

Post by **Tumble** » Fri May 13, 2011 8:22 am

Claw wrote: Sadly, the next concern is how this is going to affect the company you work for that is providing you wth that card? How will this affect uour next pay review?

Essentially, if the van hasn't got any fuel, I can't do my job, which loses them more money than they're paying me - and I can't afford to run a vehicle on that scale in order to do my job. I can just about keep the missus' car running. They get the VAT back on the Diesel anyway - apparently as long as my tools are in the back, I'm "on call" and therefore every mile is a business mile

Not that there's a lot of milage you can do over here, I'm in it all day every day and rarely do more than 20k a year.