Fuel tax up again 1st April

[Howard]

Couple of quid extra per tank for me too but it's the principle that annoys me far greater than the additional cost

 

[SB118]

Hopefully the lorry drivers will do another fuel blockade ...

People bitch and moan but do nothing about it.

After changes brought in after the last time the public got the serious hump about fuel charges, any overt activity to distrupt fuel supplies is now viewed as terrorism and responded to as such.

 

[Gaygle]

Mind you it will cost a bit to fill them up.

But they are diesel?! They'll get amazing MPG won't they?

Oh.... 26.1 litre V12 with 1200bhp...

 

[DiG]

Yeah I do. I use to put in £20 a week when it was 108.9p now its gone up to 112.9p its costing me an extra £5 a week. Its either down to them buying rubbish petrol and Im using more or the cold weather making me use my heaters which is using it all up.

£20 / 1.089 = 18.36 Litres of Fuel
18.36 x 1.129 = £20.73

So that's £2.93 a MONTH or a total of £35.04 a year extra

Fuel would have to rise to 136.1 before it actually cost you an extra £5 a week

 

[firefilesuk]

It's at times like this I am glad that I only use £20 a month in fuel on average. I would find it hard to justify 22mpg over 12k a year.

eh, surely you'd only get 100 miles out of your car for that

 

[dave1983]

But they are diesel?! They'll get amazing MPG won't they?

Oh.... 26.1 litre V12 with 1200bhp...

wow wats the the MPG for that 7-10, that must be expensive to run. ouch

My 2 litre gets about 35mpg

 

[Janesy B]

wow wats the the MPG for that 7-10, that must be expensive to run. ouch

My 2 litre gets about 35mpg

Probably about 2-3 MPG on a good day.

 

[dave1983]

Probably about 2-3 MPG on a good day.

pfft i nearly spat out my drink, cheap to run then lol

 

[Firestar_3x]

Probably about 2-3 MPG on a good day.

Odds are less, the US M1 gets 0.33mpg but thats a gas turbine enigine.

 

[dave1983]

Odds are less, the US M1 gets 0.33mpg but thats a gas turbine enigine.

what vehicle is it?

 

[Janesy B]

M1 Abrams Tank, Gas Turbines use a lot more fuel than diesels. Anyway, back on topic.

 

[Trifid]

To do list:
Buy a V8 sooner rather than later.

 

[matt_fsr]

M1 Abrams Tank, Gas Turbines use a lot more fuel than diesels. Anyway, back on topic.

But nobody wants to talk about the topic as its too depressing

Challenger 2 approx 1MPG. It's reckoned to be 3x more efficient than the gas turbine in the M1A2

 

[Janesy B]

But nobody wants to talk about the topic as its too depressing

Challenger 2 approx 1MPG. It's reckoned to be 3x more efficient than the gas turbine in the M1A2

Yeah, I saw the page google bought back on the topic

 

[Sime]

Doesn't this go round in circles anyway? Petrol goes up, people moan, business fail and it comes back down again. Rinse and repeat.

This.

 

[1ofaKind]

Well it's 116 here for petrol, 117 for diesel and I filled up with 97 octane at 1.26 at lunch time a cheeky 56.55 for 3/4 tank in my car :O

Just wondering why everyone went mad etc before at a quid a ltr now its going to be another 20% more and there are no rumblings about blockades etc?

 

[Clarkey]

Well it's 116 here for petrol, 117 for diesel and I filled up with 97 octane at 1.26 at lunch time a cheeky 56.55 for 3/4 tank in my car :O

Just wondering why everyone went mad etc before at a quid a ltr now its going to be another 20% more and there are no rumblings about blockades etc?

This has been covered already, you blockade, you get detained as a terrorist.

 

[BigglesPiP]

There is nothing we can do.

Indeed, while the strike was fun, It had no impact whatsoever on prices and it required the fuel haulage industry to do the actual striking.

 

[r3loaded]

Would it be possible for diesel cars to be converted to run on jet fuel? IIRC, jet fuel isn't taxed at all - sounds like a plan

 

[Firestar_3x]

Yeah, I saw the page google bought back on the topic

Megafactorys was on Discovery HD lastnight, covered the M1A