Has it really affected you?

Luckily now I work about a mile away from home, so have been walking a lot lately (to keep fit as well) so it's not really affecting me much.
 
There isn't as much going into the savings at the end of each month these days but thats the overall effect of fuel, energy bills, groceries... the list goes on.

It hasn't made me make any cost cutting measures yet though.
 
I commute 400 miles a week and it probably means an extra £5-10. I have enough spare income not to worry about it yet and even less to worry about now the car has been written off.
 
Car is still cheaper than rail if you're not going into London.

Last weekend went from Nottingham, to West Yorkshire, down to Birmingham and back to Nottingham. £45 quid in petrol in a 3lt car. The same trip on the trains costs £169.40p for 2 people.

Feel for those in the travel/haulage industries though.
 
It didnt use to affect me as i lived quite close to college and had my fiesta. Now i live a good 10 to 15 miles away and have a car that guzzles petrol (compared to my fiesta ;)) It almost takes up all my wages every week :o
 
I'd say by about £500 a year.
If I do on average 10k miles a year, at an average of around 27mpg, that works out to around £1930 a year with petrol at 115p.
If petrol was still 90p that annual fuel bill would be about £1500.
 
YES IT IS!!!! ive only been driving less than 3 years and i have already seen the price increase by nearly half as much again as when was first learning. (from 78p to 116p round me) I don't have money coming out my ears like easyrider (just a lowly student) and its hit me hard enough so im gonna struggle to put enough in the tank to get home. The price of driving in general seems to have got ridiculous to me. Insurance at 19 + tax + petrol = :(
 
A good friend of mine just announced he is selling his Impreza. He just uses it as a summer weekened toy, however with his standard commute costs rising and the business allowance staying the same he says he can no longer justify it's 20mpg.
 
Price of diesel per litre in may 2007: 96.8ppl*

Price of diesel per litre in may 2008: 126.7ppl*

So 89 litres to fill my 300tdi landrover cost £86.15 in may last year. Now it costs £112.7
That's a 26 quid difference.

I've not had a full tank in one go for 6 months now.

If I was filling up 2 or 3 tanks a month to travel to work and the like, that's nearly an extra 100 quid a month. Robbing swine's.

Fortunately I've not been stung too badly on the road tax hikes - £200 per year now; if I owned a td5 from 2001 it would be £455.00! in 2010:eek:

I don't do many miles anyway and if I can walk to get where I need to go then I will. I do even less miles now.
I even used public transport to get from leic to bham last week (not having been on a train since before 1995, I was sort of looking forward to it). We paid for a return train ticket, about 9 quid, and ended up on a bus because there were no trains running on that saturday. :rolleyes: Public transport - I can't say what I really think of it on here.


*figures from AA fuel price archive and petrolprices.com (average prices)
 
NathanE said:
Doesn't bother me that much. What does though is the road tax... £205 last year... it will be £305 I believe this year... ridiculous.
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Mines is going up from £180 to £260. A bit of annoying increase, but in the grand scheme of things it's not that much, works out as just under an extra £7 a month.
 
greengiant said:
Mines is going up from £180 to £260. A bit of annoying increase, but in the grand scheme of things it's not that much, works out as just under an extra £7 a month.
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thing is, if you take all the increases seperately, it's not that much.

mine for fuel is around £35 a month increase in 6 months. add that to tax increases, insurance doen't seem to come down anymore, plus energy, water and food increases.....then it starts to hurt.
 
yes, now i don't have a van for work, had to make my old car weekend only 15 mpg not good :( got a old banger (£300 205) 12m Tax & MOT for work its slow, can't handle but getting me 450 miles per tank :D no longer care where i park it or curb the wheels
 
[TW]Fox;11740992 said:
I drive when I want to not when I need to so I'm currently enjoying the marginally quieter roads :cool:
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I went out on my bike when the man U/Chelsea game was on, bliss, absolutely no one about :D.

To answer OP, not made any difference to the Fog household. My car gets filled up every 6-7 weeks so don't really notice, bike still costs next to nothing to fill up, and Mrs Fog covers about 3k miles a year in a car that does 20 to the gallon. She whinges about it, but then she whinges about most things :D.

Fog
 
ajgoodfellow said:
Now you mention that I was awfully lucky with my car

If it had been registered a mere two weeks later I'd be on the CO2 system - £270 per year! Thank goodness that it wasn't - very nearly bought a later car too. I always thought the changes were going to be for cars registered in 2006 onwards until the idiot Darling mentioned that it will be retrospective
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Mate at work bought a 4.0 V8 Range Rover the other month, he's missed the new tax brackets by a couple of weeks too, jammy beggar. Well, he was until the block cracked and he had to buy a new engine. Should get it back from land ranger this weekend :D

Fog
 
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