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Club Arnage => Help => Topic started by: termietermite on January 07, 2008, 04:05:19 pm
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What does a litre of diesel cost in the UK at the mo', guys and gals?
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What does a litre of diesel cost in the UK at the mo', guys and gals?
£1.05 - £1.10 depending on where
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Thanks, Bob. Still just about worth filling up this side of the channel, then!
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Thanks, Bob. Still just about worth filling up this side of the channel, then!
What are they charging at the hypermarkets over there Deb?
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If you want the completely anal details register at www.petrolprices.com . Within 10 miles of me cheapest is 104.9, I saw 109.9 yesterday and motorway services are no doubt their usual gouging selves!
Then again ASDA has cooking oil at 70p/litre (in 10l cans).
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Thanks, Bob. Still just about worth filling up this side of the channel, then!
What are they charging at the hypermarkets over there Deb?
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Thanks, Bob. Still just about worth filling up this side of the channel, then!
What are they charging at the hypermarkets over there Deb?
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Ouch!!! : :o
It was 1.02 when I filled up last August, and we were getting 1.40 to the £ using a credit card, then as well. :'(
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Thanks, Bob. Still just about worth filling up this side of the channel, then!
What are they charging at the hypermarkets over there Deb?
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1.12 in Belgium, that's somewhere 80p a litre :-\
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If you want the completely anal details register at www.petrolprices.com . Within 10 miles of me cheapest is 104.9, I saw 109.9 yesterday and motorway services are no doubt their usual gouging selves!
Then again ASDA has cooking oil at 70p/litre (in 10l cans).
But would you try it in your new diesel car ??
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A Mate has a 05 or 06 Mitsubishi pick-up, and every time he tanks it he puts about £50 in, then tops it up with cooking oil from Morrisons......no harm yet and he's been doing it for ages.
I myself might hesitate at it though tbh.
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Then again ASDA has cooking oil at 70p/litre (in 10l cans).
But would you try it in your new diesel car ??
In short the car manufacturers are not known for certifying anything other than plain old EN-specified diesel for their engines and have even been struggling to nod when bio-diesel blends are shoved in front of them. So in terms of your warranty you get to own both parts.
And, of course, you must register with HMCR and send them 40p (or so) every time you tip a litre from the deep fat fryer into your tank instead of down the drain. :police:
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Thanks, Bob. Still just about worth filling up this side of the channel, then!
What are they charging at the hypermarkets over there Deb?
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1.12 in Belgium, that's somewhere 80p a litre :-\
Unfortunatly the £ has been suffering against the .
1.12 is nearer 88p at the moment if you are buying 's in the high street.
Hope to get a better rate on a credit card though.
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Thanks, Bob. Still just about worth filling up this side of the channel, then!
What are they charging at the hypermarkets over there Deb?
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1.12 in Belgium, that's somewhere 80p a litre :-\
Unfortunatly the £ has been suffering against the .
1.12 is nearer 88p at the moment if you are buying 's in the high street.
Hope to get a better rate on a credit card though.
Open a Nationwide account, Barry. You get BANK rate, no commission, with their debit cards, worldwide.
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Thanks, Bob. Still just about worth filling up this side of the channel, then!
What are they charging at the hypermarkets over there Deb?
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1.12 in Belgium, that's somewhere 80p a litre :-\
Unfortunatly the £ has been suffering against the .
1.12 is nearer 88p at the moment if you are buying 's in the high street.
Hope to get a better rate on a credit card though.
Open a Nationwide account, Barry. You get BANK rate, no commission, with their debit cards, worldwide.
Totally p*ssed off with the Nationwide at the moment, they refused to open a new account to replace the one that's details had been lost by the Child Benefit cowboys.
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its ok for you guys! from my house - leman - home im going to use 4/5 tanks of petrol :( my dads diesel vectra will use 2 tanks - one there & one home
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its ok for you guys! from my house - leman - home im going to use 4/5 tanks of petrol :( my dads diesel vectra will use 2 tanks - one there & one home
Wait until you put a 6.6 litre V8 in it - then you'll be crying into your wallet ;)
(car below has aforementioned 6.6 litre V8 and is my normal Le Mans transport)
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The 3 litre V6 I've been driving for the last three weeks was already a gas guzzler, damn happy I didn't have to pay for it myself (company car ;D)
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its ok for you guys! from my house - leman - home im going to use 4/5 tanks of petrol :( my dads diesel vectra will use 2 tanks - one there & one home
Wait until you put a 6.6 litre V8 in it - then you'll be crying into your wallet ;)
(car below has aforementioned 6.6 litre V8 and is my normal Le Mans transport)
I may moan about my humble 1.8 16v engine but I dont envy your fuel bills guys :laugh:
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What's the news on the price of diesel in the UK at the moment, guys? Knocking on 1.3 here at the moment - which is as near as dammit £1 at the mo'. :(
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£1.19.9 up here at the minute and petrols £1.16.9. Its costing me £57 a pop to fill my 2.0 A3 from near empty >:(
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955cc 12v triple, 130bhp at rear wheek ... . . . .. . 40mpg
170bhp at rear wheel ( blowed). . . . . 28mpg . . . .
it now cost £20 to fill m motobike. thats bloody stupid.
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Friend of mine just returned from a few days in France - diesel's up to 1.37 - I think that is roadside price rather than supermarket.
It's pushing £1.20 around this area now at my nearest Sainsbury, and have seen it at £1.24, so still marginally cheaper in France.
Del
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We're up to £1.25.9 for diesel in some parts of south west scotland. Its getting bl#ody silly now and im in a rural village and need my car most days.
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We're up to £1.25.9 for diesel in some parts of south west scotland. Its getting bl#ody silly now and im in a rural village and need my car most days.
Mike, are you seeing much panic buying around your way now they've shut down Grangemouth?
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955cc 12v triple, 130bhp at rear wheek ... . . . .. . 40mpg
170bhp at rear wheel ( blowed). . . . . 28mpg . . . .
it now cost £20 to fill m motobike. thats bloody stupid.
170bhp 45mpg, Diesel BMW 320.
Costs me (or rather the company) £60 to fill up which I do often, using tesco to get the points, that are then used to buy my euro tunnel crossing to Le mans.
Everything comes back to Le mans!
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Mike, are you seeing much panic buying around your way now they've shut down Grangemouth?
I am, it's ridiculous, you can't get hold of a jerrycan for love nor money. ;)
Seriously though, I had to visit 4 stations in Aberdeen while running on fumes, untilI found one with DERV.
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$4.29 over here near Chicago. Given the pound vs. dollar, that may seem cheap to you, but not for us. When I bought my TDI it was $1.35/gal. :P
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Well it cost me a £100 to fill up the boss's Range Rover yesterday on the M62 Hartshead services, £1.27 :o
Unleaded was proces at 1.09 :-\
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Simple bit of maths to cheer people up -
When diesel hits - £1.31.8 per litre
Then you will be paying £6.00 per gallon!
or
7.63 EUR per gallon (1.68 EUR per litre)
or
In USA
$ 11.94 per imperial gallon (8 pints)
or
$ 10.42 per US gallon (7 pints)
and if your car does 30 mpg
that means it will cost you 20p per mile (thats just fuel)
So basically its not long before we all F@@ked
But its a good job we have a low inflation rate (yea right)
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We're up to £1.25.9 for diesel in some parts of south west scotland. Its getting bl#ody silly now and im in a rural village and need my car most days.
Mike, are you seeing much panic buying around your way now they've shut down Grangemouth?
No panic buying here yet. I asked in the garage this morning if they were expecting any problems and they think it will be the middle of next week before we struggle for petrol.
They say the problem isn't really the workforce being on strike for a couple of days but the fact that it takes ages to get the refinary going again after its been shut down.
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We're up to £1.25.9 for diesel in some parts of south west scotland. Its getting bl#ody silly now and im in a rural village and need my car most days.
Mike, are you seeing much panic buying around your way now they've shut down Grangemouth?
No panic buying here yet. I asked in the garage this morning if they were expecting any problems and they think it will be the middle of next week before we struggle for petrol.
They say the problem isn't really the workforce being on strike for a couple of days but the fact that it takes ages to get the refinary going again after its been shut down.
Methinks the panic buying bit is more about people reacting to scaremongering in the press. From what I understand measures had been put in place to cover any potential shortfall in supplies by importing and distributing from elsewhere whilst the industrial action had it's effect on Grangemouth output.
BTW - Great piece on panic buying in the latest Sniff Petrol bulletin here: www.sniffpetrol.com
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We've been told this week that due to the rising cost of fuel that we've to try and manage our use of the vans.
So no more runs to the bakers,shops or homers done at night >:(
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Just to add a few hot facts.
Here became fuel same price than unleaded, around 1.45/1.50 euro per litre (even more if you buy it on motorways...)
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http://www.prix-carburants.gouv.fr/
sorry if it's a repost.
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True, FS. Filled up on Sunday, and the price has gone up 5c already since then.
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Absolutely.
I'm going, and that's that.
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Sorry i keep posting about this but my local garage is really kicking the arse out of it now >:(
£1.37.9 for diesel and £1.18.9 for petrol >:(
I'v been driving for 6 years now and when i was 17 fuel was 74p a litre >:(
Wheres that piss boiler???
Mike
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Sorry i keep posting about this but my local garage is really kicking the arse out of it now >:(
£1.37.9 for diesel and £1.18.9 for petrol >:(
I'v been driving for 6 years now and when i was 17 fuel was 74p a litre >:(
That makes me feel very old, when I was 17 it was 35p a gallon.
£1.37 for diesel is really taking the piss, it's only? £1.27 in our local Shell garage and we reckon the petrol stations in Windsor are always on the expensive side.
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H** ***D my trusty Morris 1100 had a 8 gallon tank, cost £2.80 to fill her up from empty.
Courage Best 17p a pint.
Fags 50p for 20.
The price of progess.....................depressing. :(
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Barry, surely in your youfff there was proper money, £. s. d. 8)
do you remember the satisfaction of having 8 half-a-crowns in your fist, a whole pound sterling, riches indeed. Pint of Cider, 1/3, bliss
I was 13 when £sd bit the dust, little bit before drinking and petrol came into the equation, although I regret not before the dreaded weed was discovered. ;D
Do have fond memories of 10 bob notes though, usually in birthday cards from aged Aunts. You could buy some really good Airfix kits for that sort of money.
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your right, I doubt very much if anything will be done because Labour have bankrupted us again and the extra tax revenue that comes as a percentage on petrol is a godsend to Brown and the Badger looking one and will be used to bolster the books.
During the last episode, the treasury temporarily suspended the petroleum tax percentage until crude returned to about $40 a barrel.
I think we are going to have to lump it, the next worry is if the government still intend to penalise us for having 'inefficient' vehicles, I mean the old ones.
rant over.
Totally agree mate.
The Tories brought in the 25yr rule on VED, NewLabTaliban stopped it at 1973. How many cars 25yrs old are still running? OK I have a 35yro motor and I pay £185 VED.
I also have a 12 yro 4ltr at £185 per year.
ANSWER:- DON'T BUY NEW CARS.
We pay Tax and VaT by the amount of fuel we use, that should be the end of it. But I think us Brits still resort to the old 'Stiff Upper Lip' syndrome and put up with it.
Times have got to change.....................................
My rant could go on for ages but whats the point, unless everyone gets off their arses and co-ordinates a protest. Nothing will ever be done.
Lets face it, we ARE the CASH COW for the goverment.
The Frenchies don't like it so they do something.
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Concerning the cost of diesel, more to the point, are the good ol boys in the trucks going to blockade the ferry ports?
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Maybe Felix will take us all over in his crusty old trawler?
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major sporting event, X 10'000's of spectators and teams coming from the UK what a marvelous bit of publicity to stop us fish and chips coming across.
Can we have a full back plan, who has the biggest back yard close to Dover?
They blockaded Dunkirk as well the other day. So the Belgies are in on it as well.
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Maybe Felix will take us all over in his crusty old trawler?
not much of a choice, I'd rather stay lucky and take over a field in Kent, soon get sky fitted. ;D AND lots of great Kentish beer.
(http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa64/jjkt15/no_fokker.jpg)
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Concerning the cost of diesel, more to the point, are the good ol boys in the trucks going to blockade the ferry ports?
Brest was blockaded and Wednesday, and Caen overnight last night but they are open again. There's a chance that there could be problems so everybody would be sensible to leave in plenty of time for their crossings and prepare for some long waits because anything could happen over the next couple of weeks. There have also been some blockades of major roads all over France too.
Fill up your cars in the UK before you leave also, in case of shortages and rationing of fuel.
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They blockaded Dunkirk as well the other day. So the Belgies are in on it as well.
Dunkerque is in France, Steve.
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Bugger, did they move it ;D (Geography 'O' Level Grade A - all I remember was ox bow lakes and terminal moraine)
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Just returned from a week's hols in France.
Petrol is 1.50 off the autoroute and an extra 10c on.
Diesel is 1.40 off and an extra 10c on.
Seems unbelievable that in the summer of 2005 diesel was 1/litre and even last year I reckon I was paying the equivalent of £0.75/litre.
These prices do mean that for once I reckon that UK petrol [not diesel] prices are less than France
1.60 = 1.25685987 UK£
1.50 = 1.17830613 UK£ [I paid £1.15/litre at BP in Dover, my local Shell is 3p/litre cheaper]
1.40 = 1.09975239 UK£
Conversions courtesy of Google.
Landman
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In the garage to day -
Shell - Wirral
Diesel - £1.33.9 per litre
Bloody hell - thats £6.09 per gallon !!!
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That's just bl00dy outrageous >:(
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Diesel price dropped a cent a litre today. Overwhelming generosity, no?
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New fuel price guide at the your garage now.
(http://collateraldamage.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/gas_prices.jpg)
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We have been urged to use Supermarkets for our fuel now with our cards. Its as much as 5p a litre just a mile away. When you use 50 litres of diesel thats a lot of saving for an extra mile.
My personal car has done just 10 miles this week. I am simply no longer prepared to pay £1.31 a litre.
So the greenies have it. I no longer drive my car and the green house gases are saved. I'm only doing 6000 iles a year now, so they are saving a lot.
I'm not in a position to do much in realtion to protests, but i'm very surprsed no one else has thought about it. A few trucks do it, but they are just working class lads. it needs people closer to the politicians to move it on. Or lots of people.
I'll best oil the chain again on my 21 speed bike.......
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We have been urged to use Supermarkets for our fuel now with our cards. Its as much as 5p a litre just a mile away. When you use 50 litres of diesel thats a lot of saving for an extra mile.
My personal car has done just 10 miles this week. I am simply no longer prepared to pay £1.31 a litre.
So the greenies have it. I no longer drive my car and the green house gases are saved. I'm only doing 6000 iles a year now, so they are saving a lot.
I'm not in a position to do much in realtion to protests, but i'm very surprsed no one else has thought about it. A few trucks do it, but they are just working class lads. it needs people closer to the politicians to move it on. Or lots of people.
I'll best oil the chain again on my 21 speed bike.......
All well and good until white van man takes you out putting you in hospital. . . anyone got a spare left hand ?? mine's broke.
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I've taken to cycling more often although a beer gut has had more to do with it than fuel prices. Was really into mountain biking in my youth and have recently got back into it, its good fun, I have
lost almost a stone and get cred off the kids at the trail centre because of the 'f@cking awesome' classic bikes that I hoarded all those years ago.
Noticed a large increase in the number of cyclists over the last month- it can only be a good thing, might get the obesity thing in check?
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We have been urged to use Supermarkets for our fuel now with our cards. Its as much as 5p a litre just a mile away. When you use 50 litres of diesel thats a lot of saving for an extra mile.
My personal car has done just 10 miles this week. I am simply no longer prepared to pay £1.31 a litre.
So the greenies have it. I no longer drive my car and the green house gases are saved. I'm only doing 6000 iles a year now, so they are saving a lot.
I'm not in a position to do much in realtion to protests, but i'm very surprsed no one else has thought about it. A few trucks do it, but they are just working class lads. it needs people closer to the politicians to move it on. Or lots of people.
I'll best oil the chain again on my 21 speed bike.......
All well and good until white van man takes you out putting you in hospital. . . anyone got a spare left hand ?? mine's broke.
I take it you were still able to issue a ticket with your good right hand! If only this had happened a few weeks ago you'd have had the time off to go to LM. Oh well, get well soon mate.
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We have been urged to use Supermarkets for our fuel now with our cards. Its as much as 5p a litre just a mile away. When you use 50 litres of diesel thats a lot of saving for an extra mile.
My personal car has done just 10 miles this week. I am simply no longer prepared to pay £1.31 a litre.
So the greenies have it. I no longer drive my car and the green house gases are saved. I'm only doing 6000 iles a year now, so they are saving a lot.
I'm not in a position to do much in realtion to protests, but i'm very surprsed no one else has thought about it. A few trucks do it, but they are just working class lads. it needs people closer to the politicians to move it on. Or lots of people.
I'll best oil the chain again on my 21 speed bike.......
All well and good until white van man takes you out putting you in hospital. . . anyone got a spare left hand ?? mine's broke.
I take it you were still able to issue a ticket with your good right hand! If only this had happened a few weeks ago you'd have had the time off to go to LM. Oh well, get well soon mate.
There's always the Classic????
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More problems of high fuel cost.
Gas Prices Hurting Brothel Business Gas Cards Offered As Incentives For Truckers
POSTED: 9:06 am EDT June 30, 2008
UPDATED: 9:21 am EDT June 30, 2008
RENO, Nev. -- Sex sells -- but not well enough.
Nevada's legal brothels are having to offer gas cards and other promotions to lure customers. Geoffrey Arnold, president of the Nevada Brothel Owners' Association, said truckers are about 75 percent of the patrons at the state's rural "houses."
But truckers are getting hit hard by rising fuel prices, so they're not stopping as often for a little fun on their runs.
The Shady Lady Ranch plans to offer $50 gas cards to clients spending $300 and $100 gas cards to those who spend $500.
The Moonlite BunnyRanch is offering "a double your stimulus" promotion. Customers who bring in their IRS economic stimulus checks will get double the services.
http://www.wftv.com/money/16745493/detail.html?treets=orlc&tid=2656232682813&tml=orlc_strange&tmi=orlc_strange_1_10000206302008&ts=H