Fuel up/down again

Draeger · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:55

Dredd said:
Lotus exige

Nice.

Nearly as quick as my bike.

Smokey26 · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:56

Draeger said:
Nice.

Nearly as quick as my bike.

And a lot safer and warmer.

Dredd · 2 Jan 2011 at 23:01

Smokey26 said:
And a lot safer and warmer.

Today was going to take it for a spin with the roof down, maybe not warmer

joey1211 · 2 Jan 2011 at 23:09

Peerzy said:
As annoying as the price of fuel is, the price could double and I wouldn't stop driving. I'd maybe do less pointless miles but the freedom of having a car and my general hatred for public transport means there isn't much that would stop me feeding my cars petrol addiction.

Which is exactly why they keep pushing it up. Not criticising, the same myself. Well there is no public transport here.

Smokey26 · 2 Jan 2011 at 23:12

Dredd said:
Today was going to take it for a spin with the roof down, maybe not warmer

Is with the roof up though. Was gona also say radio, but wasn't sure your exige had one.

Draeger · 2 Jan 2011 at 23:15

Smokey26 said:
And a lot safer and warmer.

Yeah, I'll give you that. Home comforts like warmth and radios are something that you have to sacrifice for outright speed and point to point performance I suppose.

Smokey26 · 2 Jan 2011 at 23:17

And looking like a power ranger.

You can't go that quick when your under a chavs bonnet either.

rypt · 2 Jan 2011 at 23:19

Brimmed the MR2 today, and then spent a nice 2 hours driving around with the top down using up about 1/4 tank

Draeger · 2 Jan 2011 at 23:21

Chicks dig Power Ranger bikers.

Never been under a chavs bonnet, passed loads of them though.

Smokey26 · 2 Jan 2011 at 23:35

Draeger said:
Chicks dig Power Ranger bikers.

Never been under a chavs bonnet, passed loads of them though.

They can't see you, lol.

We could do this all day mate, im always at it with a mate.

Lets leave it at that.

Draeger · 2 Jan 2011 at 23:37

Roger that, I'm cool with it m8.

Robdav · 3 Jan 2011 at 00:02

rare said:
It's 1.32 here already and that was yesterday :/

it's £1.34.9 here for the black stuff and that's without the additional VAT... :mad:

rypt · 3 Jan 2011 at 00:47

£1.22.9 for petrol at ASDA here, which is where I filled up.

Cheapest price I saw all day mind you, while driving around plenty of places selling at around 1.30, with BP taking the **** at 1.33 or smth

Funnily the ESSO that is usually stupidly expensive was at only 1.23.9 lol

MaX_PoWah · 3 Jan 2011 at 01:10

Its pretty sickening that the government are increasing the vat but not lowering the fuel duty to help us out, and don't even get me started on the state of the roads

EvilDreams · 3 Jan 2011 at 01:33

joey1211 said:
Which is exactly why they keep pushing it up. Not criticising, the same myself. Well there is no public transport here.

If they can get away with it, they'll keep doing it. It's been the same with cigarettes over the last 10 years.

Lakeland · 3 Jan 2011 at 01:53

Felix said:
I was at Tescos the other day and there was a hummer infront of me with a £122 fill up!

My van takes £100 of fuel, always funny watching the person in the station saying how much :eek:

is this all your own fuel

Lakeland · 3 Jan 2011 at 01:54

MaX_PoWah said:
Its pretty sickening that the government are increasing the vat but not lowering the fuel duty to help us out

It is when they said they would stop this happening :mad:

Aleksandrs · 3 Jan 2011 at 04:10

nas said:
1985

also 4-star

MrMoonX · 3 Jan 2011 at 09:58

anyone noticed the prices going up before the duty increase, the fuel companies are sickening, the government arnt helping, you can tell there are a load of tory pigs in power! they after all invented the fuel duty escalator

JRS · 3 Jan 2011 at 10:10

MrMoonX said:
the fuel companies are sickening

Shock as businesses try to make money!

What percentage of the pump price actually goes to the fuel company revenues these days? Maybe a third? Fuel duty is the main component of the pump price, followed by the product itself, then VAT (soon to go up of course!) and then the retailer maybe gets 4-5p per litre.

And then the fuel company pays tax on that 1/3rd of the pump price anyway as it's revenue. Direct your bile at the government, not Shell or Jet