The Price Of Petrol..........

Chris1712 said:
Jokes aside, I paid 128.9 for SUL last night and nearly wept. Never before have I managed to spend a tenner more than I got in litres :(.

What really grinds me is that no one seems to care anymore? Was it 3 years ago we had the blockades and such when it went over a quid, it pretty quickly dropped back down after that but its crept back up and everyone's happy to just bend over and take it :(.
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Given the performance of the students I can't see that lasting long.

They will be protesting soon you heard it here first I bet you it will happen in jan.
 
Chris1712 said:
What really grinds me is that no one seems to care anymore? Was it 3 years ago we had the blockades and such when it went over a quid, it pretty quickly dropped back down after that but its crept back up and everyone's happy to just bend over and take it :(.
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After careful consideration and research into the worries of the general public, anybody protesting at a fuel depot can now be collared with the Terrorism Act.
 
Chuggerboom said:
In America they moan like hell about the price of petrol and they pay less than half what we pay!

I was in California a couple of years ago and the price for a gallon there was around £2.40. They couldn't believe it when i told them what we pay in Britain.
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But we are not in the USA, so please stop comparing the two.
 
teaboy5 said:
Their cars get a lot less MPG, and also have larger tanks, so when they fill up it's not really cheap.
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Tank size is completely irrelevent to anything. A bigger tank doesnt increase the cost of fuelling a car - all that matters is fuel economy. If you have two 30mpg cars one with a 40 litre tank and one with an 80 litre tank it doesnt make the bigger tank more expensive, as you only need fill it once for every two fills of the smaller tank.

Plus, American car profiles are rapidly changing - many drive really rather economical cars, the average American certainly gets better economy than I do these days.

Filling up in America is indeed 'really cheap'. I never put more than $40 into the tank of the Mustang I hired, which despite outputting 300bhp, still managed to return a good 300+ miles to a tank.
 
teaboy5 said:
Yeah thats fine. But if you live in the states, fuel is not cheap for them either.

Their cars get a lot less MPG, and also have larger tanks, so when they fill up it's not really cheap.
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So you are saying £2.40 is not cheaper than over £5? Are you being serious?

If that NI in your location means Northern Ireland i can understand why you said that.
 
teaboy5 said:
Yeah thats fine. But if you live in the states, fuel is not cheap for them either.

Their cars get a lot less MPG, and also have larger tanks, so when they fill up it's not really cheap.
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At least they get a choice in the matter, we're being forced into eco rotboxes because of our petrol prices. If our petrol was 50p a litre I would drive a 8L truck aswell!
 
[TW]Fox;18051961 said:
It's not even £2.40, it's about $3 which is £1.93.
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I'm trying to work it out? Like i said i was in Orange County, CA 2 years ago and i remember the price of a gallon of petrol was the same as 20 Marlboro.

$4.80 i was paying, and at that time there was 2 Dollars to the Pound. Hence my £2.40.

I will post a pic from my trip if you want? Lol.
 
Chuggerboom said:
I'm trying to work it out? Like i said i was in Orange County, CA 2 years ago and i remember the price of a gallon of petrol was the same as 20 Marlboro.

$4.80 i was paying, and at that time there was 2 Dollars to the Pound. Hence my £2.40.

I will post a pic from my trip if you want? Lol.
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Yes, and I am just saying its come down a lot since then. I paid $3 in Orange County in September.
 
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