Just to make you feel better I'm being robbed on car insurance and parking.
I'd use a lot less petrol if I didn't have to go through 400+ lights on my 7km commute to work.
£80 to fill up!
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Just to make you feel better I'm being robbed on car insurance and parking.
I'd use a lot less petrol if I didn't have to go through 400+ lights on my 7km commute to work.
Yeah I saw that you said on another page you pay a couple of pence more, but just cos your countries more of a rip-off doesn't stop Britain being a rip-off too
Well I should probably be happy that the UK no longer has the most expensive petrol in Europe but im more sad that its because a couple of other countries have surpassed us and not that our price has dropped.
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This equates to £1.34 for unleaded but only £1.20 for diesel.
But this is mostly as a result of weak sterling - at the more typical rate of 1.20 EUR to 1 GBP (Which might give us a more accurate comparison point, given the people in Europe are unaffected by the weakness of sterling), that would be..
£1.26 for unleaded and just £1.08 for diesel.
I cannot find accurate current data for Belgium unfortunately.
Interestingly before the financial crisis tanked Sterling, in 2007 £1 was worth 1.5 Euro - if we had that rate today, a litre of French diesel would be just 90p.
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Diesel's at €1.333
95's at €1.530
V-Power's at €1.679
and that's at the cheapest station around here.
Max price for 95 is currently €1.66 and the max price for diesel is €1.463
http://www.brandstofprijzen.be
Anyway, comparing UK to EU now is difficult because the Sterling is worthless.
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Similar to France then.
This is the problem - everything in Europe looks expensive to us because Sterling is worthless - it wont feel 'as expensive' to the natives as it looks to us, I doubt people in Europe feel like they are paying the equivilent of 7 quid for a McDonalds.
To be honest I think it says that fuel is, relatively speaking, cheaper in Europe than it is in the UK.
Not that stupid surely, ideally public transport should be cheaper than a single person in a private car.
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I got 28 litres today in exchange for 40 of her majesty's sterling. 
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£65 to fill her up from almost empty, that should get me 400 miles, with a daily commute of 35 miles.
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I'm only ever brave enough to put £40 at a time in my Forester Turbo. Guessing it's going to be a good 380 to fill it.........to do just over 300 miles....
Time to get rid pretty soon me thinks......or LPG conversion....
Time to get rid pretty soon me thinks......or LPG conversion....
Hmm going by the vectra taxi which can quite happily drink £60-80 a double shift day. I pray for much pain and accidents for all those political types that see fit to rob us for fuel
Something like 76p in the £ for fuel goes to the government
More interesting is the fact it goes
Fuel + fuel duty + vat on that combines figure. Solo we pay vat on fuel duty ie tax on a tax. Only in British would you be taxed on a tax
Something like 76p in the £ for fuel goes to the government
More interesting is the fact it goes
Fuel + fuel duty + vat on that combines figure. Solo we pay vat on fuel duty ie tax on a tax. Only in British would you be taxed on a tax
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£4.90 to fill up.....95-105 miles to the tank, and that's on the Bromsgrove - Brum roads!
....only 125cc though!
(£15 / year road tax; £99 / year Fully Comp insurance)
....only 125cc though!
(£15 / year road tax; £99 / year Fully Comp insurance)
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For small distance commutes I'd definately consider a 125, pretty bargainous way of getting around.