PETROL PRICES

[Fernandez]

in the netherlands we pay 1.52 British Pounds Sterling per 1 litre petrol.

[teambowen]

153.9 at phenix garage on A49.

I only put £20 to get me to mozzys.

[tisher]

Originally Posted by Fernandez

in the netherlands we pay 1.52 British Pounds Sterling per 1 litre petrol.

yea but your wages are at least 2.5 times more than ours

[Dave Dodd]

Its roughly 142.9 for diesel round my way, I just cruise everywhere keeping the car at roughly 2000revs. The new dual a46 near me is empty, its like going back in time whens cars were new.. Lol..
Like someone said b4, the rich don't care and neither do the government..
Yet they want us to holiday in the uk and be tourists, takes the piddle..

[CrashBangWallop]

Originally Posted by Dave Dodd

I just cruise everywhere keeping the car at roughly 2000revs.

Yep its the only way to get anywhere economically, personally I drive a modern petrol car 1600cc and cruise just about everywhere, check tyre pressures weekly, unload any un-necessary weight from the car.
I drive upwards of 400 miles a week commuting and have saved upwards of 15% by driving carefully. Always change up before 2500rpm in every gear and never exceed 60mph, never accelerate up hills but allow your speed to increase down the other side.

I also found that filling up with crap 'cheap' petrol is a false economy. Managed 367 miles on a tank of tesco's ( other brands are available but just as bad ) finest 95ron and 420 miles on Shell V-Power on the same commute.

[matthew]

Originally Posted by CrashBangWallop

Yep its the only way to get anywhere economically, personally I drive a modern petrol car 1600cc and cruise just about everywhere, check tyre pressures weekly, unload any un-necessary weight from the car.
I drive upwards of 400 miles a week commuting and have saved upwards of 15% by driving carefully. Always change up before 2500rpm in every gear and never exceed 60mph, never accelerate up hills but allow your speed to increase down the other side.

I also found that filling up with crap 'cheap' petrol is a false economy. Managed 367 miles on a tank of tesco's ( other brands are available but just as bad ) finest 95ron and 420 miles on Shell V-Power on the same commute.

I am the same I drive a 1.6 petrol and cruise everywhere, where ever I can take my foot off the gas
I will, what is the country coming too .
By the way have you have done that experiment a few times with both the cheap fuel and the branded fuel? It would
be interesting to now if this is a fact....

[CrashBangWallop]

Originally Posted by matthew

I am the same I drive a 1.6 petrol and cruise everywhere, where ever I can take my foot off the gas
I will, what is the country coming too .
By the way have you have done that experiment a few times with both the cheap fuel and the branded fuel? It would
be interesting to now if this is a fact....

Have been doing that experiment on and off for the last 2 years and it's true. Ok, there are a lot of variables but I find V-Power works best. Car starts better, runs smoother, warms up faster therefore uses less fuel sooner.
Have tried other 'brands' too (95ron) and most are only marginally better than tesco. Wished I had shares in BP their 95ron is one of the worst - the power of advertising, olympic sponsor and Nectar points too .

Oh BTW did you know that 1000 nectar points is worth a fiver - Wahay

Another thing is the quantity of ethanol in petrol, all petrol now contains a quantity of it up to 5% to 'help' the environment - really the pump should say 95E5ron some countries run up to 10% in normal petrol. In USA you can buy cars that run on E85 ( 85% ) ethanol petrol mix which is great if you own a still.

I do not work for or have any association with the Shell company but they have always made quality fuels from year dot.

[The Marcos Graveyard]

I pay €1.56 a litre for diesel thats about £1.30 sterling.

I race every second weekend and its a 300 mile round trip. My 9 year old A6 with 180000 miles on it still returns 50mpg .

[mattr]

Originally Posted by CrashBangWallop

In USA you can buy cars that run on E85 ( 85% ) ethanol petrol mix which is great if you own a still.

You can buy E85 cars all over europe too. Just about everyone makes them.

[superdez]

Nice graph illustrating average earnings adjusted for RPI. We are back to the year 2002

Graph below showing weekly fuel prices. Things are probably going to get a lot worse throughout the rest of the year and beyond.

[stox217]

Petrol for me is normally (132.9 - 134.9) coventry
And most expensive was 142.8

We will all be walking every where at this rate!
Its stupid as when i started driving it was 119.9 back in 2011!!

2013 = 151.9! at this rate

Its a bout time that fuel duty stopped as the condition of the roads is getting WORSE yet we pay more for the upkeep!

[burgie]

lol - when I started driving petrol was about 73p per litre....

[dmsykes]

I know this is going to show my age but I used to get 3 Gallons for a £1. Ps for you youngsters 1 Gallon = 4.54 Litres.

[Chequered Flag Racing]

Originally Posted by SlowOne

It's already happening. Take a look around on motorways at weekends these days.

I'll be on cruise control at 60mph to get to the 12th National this weekend and running a 1.9 TDi, hope to see 55mpg

[bodgit]

Originally Posted by dmsykes

I know this is going to show my age but I used to get 3 Gallons for a £1. Ps for you youngsters 1 Gallon = 4.54 Litres.

Dont forget you got double treble green shield stamps then too

I just got 50.3 mpg out of my 2lt tdci cmax over 300 mile trip last weekend. Not bad considering the climb up the mountain range and driving through towns.

[The Marcos Graveyard]

Tdi's for the win

[CrashBangWallop]

I used to only pay 48.9p per litre when I started driving so fuel prices have in fact trebled in the time I have been driving and looking at the graphs above just makes me .

Taxed when you earn it. Taxed when you spend it. Taxed when you save it and if by some freakish chance you have done alright in life, Taxed again when you die. Thank you UK.

[bzb]

cheer up guys at least the people @ shell, abu dhabi, dubai, kuweit etc. are enjoying our money to the fullest , just bent over and pay for your addiction

[Dave Dodd]

it was roughly 50 p a ltr when i passed my test in '91 and it had only gone up 30p in 2005, its about doubled since...

i'll be biking to work next..

[Chequered Flag Racing]

Originally Posted by Dave Dodd

it was roughly 50 p a ltr when i passed my test in '91 and it had only gone up 30p in 2005, its about doubled since...

i'll be biking to work next..

47p a gallon when I stared to pay for my own

I bike to work but not because of the fuel, it's fun at 05:45 when the ambient is -2c or less and your wrapped up