petrol prices
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I was spending 300 quid a month personally when our household was running my girlfriends 1.25 fiesta and i had a E46 M3 doing 20mg and 45 miles a day (16 quid a day). I've since sold the M3 and carshare wiht my g/f, which is a pain in the bum, but has reduced our fuel bill by about 60-70% and my outgoings by 550 a month.
... Petrol is getting mightily expensive. But now is the time when you take the decision to suffer the prices in favour of driving a petrol drinker and having multiple cars .... or you do something about it.
The price of petrol is a wakeup call at the minute. Its all about whether you decide to actually wake up ..... or stay asleep in your 'nightmare'.
For the people who need a car for work .... maybe its time for some reassesment about how best placed you are to run your life 'needing' to drive so much or have a high consumption motor?
Pontificating i know, but im amazed at the number of people who complain about the effect that doing something is having on them, but continue to do it.
... Petrol is getting mightily expensive. But now is the time when you take the decision to suffer the prices in favour of driving a petrol drinker and having multiple cars .... or you do something about it.
The price of petrol is a wakeup call at the minute. Its all about whether you decide to actually wake up ..... or stay asleep in your 'nightmare'.
For the people who need a car for work .... maybe its time for some reassesment about how best placed you are to run your life 'needing' to drive so much or have a high consumption motor?
Pontificating i know, but im amazed at the number of people who complain about the effect that doing something is having on them, but continue to do it.
Yeah, amazing isn't it. The Petrolprices.com blog is full of it. People saying they absolutely can't cope with the prices - but not willing to alter their behaviour one bit.
I put 62 litres in this morning at £1.16 a litre nearly 72 quid. Bloody extortionate.
I went in to pay because I wanted a few chocolate bars too, felt bad after having a rant to the bloke at the till but sorry, who's stupid ass idea was it, vote labour in again for another term. They were rubbish last time and they're only getting worse.
Now as well as hating the working man in every single way possible, sensoring anything that causes offence to a minority and giving handouts to everyone, sending our troops to help keep america's oil prices low, they decide to rape us with taxes too.
I cannot stand this government, the sooner they go, the better.
I went in to pay because I wanted a few chocolate bars too, felt bad after having a rant to the bloke at the till but sorry, who's stupid ass idea was it, vote labour in again for another term. They were rubbish last time and they're only getting worse.
Now as well as hating the working man in every single way possible, sensoring anything that causes offence to a minority and giving handouts to everyone, sending our troops to help keep america's oil prices low, they decide to rape us with taxes too.
I cannot stand this government, the sooner they go, the better.
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That sounds more like a person living outside of his means if he can't take such a slight increase in expenses before he feels the need to 'have a go' at a moember of the public. Can I suggest a 118d over a Financed M5?
It's not Labour's fault, oil prices have increased 5-fold in less than 5 years. During this time duty has remained flat in real terms, before the last rise it had actually fallen!
Stop smoking chocolate bars ! ,lol
Everyone blames President Bush for our oil prices to when it really has nothing to do with the government .
No but they could reduce the pressure by reducing the duty, after all they must be reaping the benefits of high oil prices from the corporation tax of the oil companies.
It is for how little I use it! I only go to drive and see my friends, it used to cost £40 to fill up not long ago...
How is oil price the governments fault?
Would 5p less duty make much difference at the moment though? probably not
Not the way it works, he is on a company fuel card, as am i. Its going to get harder and harder to justify doing low 20's MPG-wise if we keep seeing these rises.
To me no as it doesnt really effect me but some people are finding it hard to afford to get to work especially when they have to travel loads of miles to get to work. If the government arent going to lose any money and in reality they arent then any help is better than none to some IMO.