PETROL PRICES

[bodgit]

Its getting common to see some of the big v6 and v8 cars now just plodding along at 55-60mph to save fuel. Bloke over the road sold his big jag for a more fuel efficient diesel.

[Cream]

Originally Posted by RogerM

Please don't be tempted to use veg oil etc in modern diesels ... certainly nothing common rail. The bill will be hefty, maybe even enough to write the car of in pure economic terms.

I'm glad someone put this. I work next to a diesel specialist and it's shocking how many decent dead cars he gets in. I don't think it's to bad on the old chug chug diesels as long as you change the filters regular. But common rail is a big no no.


My scooby is really hurting my pocket at the moment. £70 to fill her up and 220miles later I'm back again. Saving grace is I only do about 6k a year in her.

[Thargor]

is it true that in any country in the world if you use recycled oil or used chip fat in your car its free but in the uk you have to make a company (legally) so that the government can tax you???? im sure i heard that somewhere....

[SlowOne]

Originally Posted by Thargor

is it true that in any country in the world if you use recycled oil or used chip fat in your car its free but in the uk you have to make a company (legally) so that the government can tax you???? im sure i heard that somewhere....

No. I sometimes hear things, but that I put down to old age!!

[Thargor]

no your right.. you dont have to make a company but you "have" to tell the tax man you are using veg oil to run your car so he can tax you on it....

[bodgit]

This is getting a bit stupid now. In the space of 10 days its gone up by 4p lt for diesel now 137.9 lt. I know its not as expensive as other parts of the country but still hurts your wallet when you fill up.

[Chrislong]

Every fill up the price of fuel leaps for me too.

Mountain bike ready, but im far from it. Save some money by riding more, driving less. Ive already started driving sensibly - with MPG's in mind.

[steveproracing]

Think I'm gunna get a magic box (chip) for my sorento. 15% extra mpg. Gotta help in this climate!

[DCM]

not just fuel, my insurance has leaped £200 in a space of 12 months.... and even the meerkets can't help!

[Alfonzo]

Insurance, what a racket. They tell you the premiums have gone up because of all the winter accidents due to adverse conditions, etc.
B*llocks. They've gone up because they lost a load of money tied into all the banks & financial market. So the premiums get jacked to claw back the dough. We all get to pay for the lousy banks twice effectively.
I hate to think what's going to happen to our premiums when the bill for the Japanese disaster rolls in..

[DCM]

Worse still, I am low mileage, full no-claims, no convictions, protected NCB... grrr

[Alfonzo]

Makes no difference, as the premium is largely decided by matters beyond your driving history etc. Funnily enough they don't tend to talk about this though.

[SlowOne]

Car insurance companies' losses have nothing to do with the banks or financial markets. It's a business run on statistics and logic - until they all got carried away with trying to outbid each other on price through those comparison websites. They lost a lot of money, and now we are being asked to pay that back.

One interesting thing - people I know who insure through Direct Line, including me, have had a lower percentage increase in their premiums than most others who are on those sites. It's purely subjective I know, but it does make me wonder...

Lastly, and by no means least, companies in all parts of our lives have discovered that when they put prices up, nothing happens. We don't protest, we don't organise ourselves to make their business hurt, we don't change our habits. We carry on driving just as we did before, we carry on running and insuring our cars, we carry on buying our petrol not in low-cost supermarkets, and we carry on going to Sainsbury and Waitrose as opposed to switching to Lidl and Asda.

Just imagine is we all worked together, and put ourselves out so that we all bought petrol from only (say) Shell, and boycotted all other stations? If (say) Esso reduced prices, we all switched to them. But, if someone tried to organise this, the apathetic British wouldn't do anything to put themselves out for the greater good. Frankly, people, we only have ourselves to blame here!

£1.39 at last nights diesel fill-up, but only 20% increase in my premium - some days you just get lucky!!

[DCM]

Direct Line, your joking, or is it me then... my renewal with Zurich, £744, which I thought was flamin steep, so I gave Direct Line a go... £1500 FFS!!

[SlowOne]

Six of us in the office, plus my wife, all had the lowest quote and/or the least increase from DL. Yours is the first to go the other way. Like I said, hardly definitive and not something I am hanging my hat on.

[DCM]

Yeah, I know, Insurance is a post code lottery, I nearly fell off me chair when I seen that!! So much for the 'two months free' lol

[matdodd]

Direct line wanted over £300 more on my renewal maybe thats why there not on them sites?
I ended up paying less than last year after using one

[losixxx]

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[bodgit]

From 14-12-10 locally unleaded is now 130.9lt (tesco) up by 8pence lt and diesel is 140.9lt up 18pence lt. I dont use the local at Dobbs Hill which charges 144.9 for diesel. I dont see these prices reversing as we just seem to accept them.

[Big G]

so much for that 1p reduction. Even trusty morrisons is now up to 141.9 for derv