£80 to fill up!

Really didn't realise how much fuel has gone up, last time I filled up diesel was around £1.10 a litre.

Good job I'm paying around £10 a tank in my 2.0 Mondeo :p Biodiesel for the win
 
I decided to drive like a 90 year old woman down to Birmingham yesterday evening.

Managed 57.6mpg by the time I'd parked up. Pretty awesome. Highest I'd previously had it was 47 on a trip down to Cornwall

Shame I'd die of boredom if I drove like this all the time or I'd save a fortune
 
Steedie said:
I decided to drive like a 90 year old woman down to Birmingham yesterday evening.

Managed 57.6mpg by the time I'd parked up. Pretty awesome. Highest I'd previously had it was 47 on a trip down to Cornwall

Shame I'd die of boredom if I drove like this all the time or I'd save a fortune
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A fortune?

Assuming average 12k a year and diesel @ 1.389 a litre thats a saving of £292 or just over a fiver a week - hardly worth driving like a granny for.
 
Costs me about £70 to fill my Zafira up with Diesel. Getting beyond a joke really. When I started driving it cost about 60p a litre. Thing is, the train is not cheaper than the car and train prices rise as and when fuel does, so it's not like I can get to work cheaper. the train would have to become a fair bit cheaper than a car for me to do it. If it costs the same then obviously always I would chose a car, but currently trains costs 1.5 to 2x as much for me.
 
Ricochet J said:
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I'm getting 37MPG out of a 97 mile motorway cruise at 70mph. If I drive carefully my car's tank will last 410 miles. The reason I'm suprised is because I read that performance cars achieve more than this! For example, Fox stated he took a 335i on a test drive:


Yet my car is a poxy 1.6L 4 cylinder non-performance car. Is my car broken? Or has the leap in technology over the last ten years made a better relationship out of performance and economy?
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The latter mostly but the efficiency penalty of a big engine is much less on the motorway.

On a similar 100 mile motorway journey I can get 34MPG at 70mph and that's with a 300bhp 4.2 v8 automatic! The gearing helps a lot as the car is running at around 1800rpm at 70mph, even cruising at 85 it can return 32 but around town, even driving sensibly, we're into the very low 20's - high teens if I'm not being sensible.
 
A 1.2 Micra will struggle to do less then 50mpg anywhere, on motorway only I imagine it'd go up another 10 or so

34 does sound good but the engine size is still affecting it a lot. Anyone got a car that shuts down half the cylinders or did that idea never really work out
 
bitslice said:
It used to be £55 a few years ago (TDi mondeo) :eek:

this is killing me as I do 70 miles a day, I'm going to pull all my money out of the bank and stockpile diesel, it's the only thing that is increasing in value as fast as gold.
In my last job I only did 20 miles a day and it cost peanuts to run a car, now it's practically my biggest outgoing.


Meh, just ranting post shock :(
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Diesel is cheaper than as it was 3 year ago in gold grams and half the price it was last year if was priced in silver ozt's

It's a lot easier,cleaner and safer to stock pile gold,silver and platinum group metals than bulky flammable diesel and petrol l:D

http://www.goldmoney.com/
 
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Ricochet J said:
Hi

I'm getting 37MPG out of a 97 mile motorway cruise at 70mph. If I drive carefully my car's tank will last 410 miles. The reason I'm suprised is because I read that performance cars achieve more than this! For example, Fox stated he took a 335i on a test drive:


Yet my car is a poxy 1.6L 4 cylinder non-performance car. Is my car broken? Or has the leap in technology over the last ten years made a better relationship out of performance and economy?
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On the motorway I get 35 mpg average cruising at 75. Revs at 1700 ish in 6th gear just sat happily.
 
fester said:
Diesel is cheaper than as it was 3 year ago in gold grams and half the price it was last year if was priced in silver ozt's

It's a lot easier,cleaner and safer to stock pile gold,silver and platinum group metals than bulky flammable diesel and petrol l:D

http://www.goldmoney.com/
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I did hear that recently. Obama says there is no silver bullet for gas prices rising.
Ironically if you paid with silver, petrol is cheapest its been for 80 years because silver prices have risen.

In USA its 20c a gallon of petrol if you just put savings into silver instead of plain cash. Gold would be similar I guess


Over here we pay a lot of taxes so the idea its cheaper then ever wont apply but still it would be a lot cheaper then cash


That does rely on people believing that petrol and silver prices have been rising this last decade for the same reason.
No one can say that is true for sure but it seems obvious to me the link between inflation, those prices and the government banks printing off new money out of nowhere.

If oil goes to 200 dollars a barrel and the guy in the street figures out that link and its basically government created inflation just like Zimbabwe did then people are going to get mad.

For now, its not realised. This is why I always thought Obama could be a 1 term president, regardless of who he is its getting out of hand




 
you lot need to shape up im getting 12 to the gallon stop whining :D
 
Downside : £62 to fill mine up the other day. :eek:

Upside : Last fill was in February, so hopefully I'm sorted for a couple of months :D
 
Conscript said:
Well, you seem to post every other day about buying some new piece of high powered exotica, so I'm guessing fuel prices are of little concern to you? :)
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noi no dont get me wrong fuel is depressing there is however the bus:)
 
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