Â£1.41 ltr WTF

Post by **ShaneyB** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:45 am

I paid 1.46 for BP Ultimate (no choice) at Oxford services on the M40 last week.

My sales manager paid £1.59

in Chelsea this week!!

Bloody joke.

Post by **adsgreen** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:51 am

Lewy1000 wrote:My strategy now is to buy a second car... due to work im now faced with a 500 mile weekly communte. For last 2 months Ive been doing this in the RS but enough is enough - depreciation on the car was my biggest concern but now the fuel bills are just beyond a joke.
Currently looking into a cheap, economical diesel to rack up the commuting miles in and save the RS for personal use - and the odd commute when I want some fun!

The next thing Im realising is you cant use your no claims on a 2nd car, and my policy doesnt allow 2 cars. So, for a 100k 1.9 diesel vectra worth £3k, the cheapest insurance I could get was £950. Out of interest I ran a quote based on the wife having it as a second car (and me named driver) - she was quoted £490 - madness.

Multicar is one option but there are insurers who will mirror no claims discounts for other cars.

Post by **crispy** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:24 pm

One of our managers, he had to put in 5 litres at Newport Pagnel Services during Decembers snow. (He's been sat on the motorway for 5 hours, and moved about 2 miles.
He was well pi$$ed off, as the price for Diesel was £3.50 per Litre - robbing barstewards[/b]

Post by **Phil3103** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:24 pm

Can somebody please explain why the truckers etc aren't barricading the oil refineries yet? I think that happened when fuel him about 1.20 last time. Have the Coalition done a deal with them to keep them stum?

And why more people aren't get Cammers to keep to his word on the his high crude/low tax promise!

Post by **Timster** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:42 pm

The union reps were on the telly about a week ago saying they were going to blockade the refineries in three weeks (ie in two weeks time)..... unless the government sorts things immediately.

Post by **adsgreen** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:47 pm

The last government changed the law making it illegal to blockade the refineries like last time.

Post by **Phil3103** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:50 pm

For once I'd tell the unions to stuff the law and do something about it. It's costing us too much money now!

NI is going up 1% in April too. Another stealth income tax.

Post by **karl** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:11 pm

Instead of relying/expecting the truckers and unions to fight our battle, why the bloody hell doesn't the British public do something about it?! The French make us look like bloody wet weekends when it comes to protesting; we roll over every fkin time!

Post by **karl** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:16 pm

P_G wrote:My only issue with the coallition is that one of Cameron's policy's was to have a set level on fuel so that when crude prices went up duty would fall to compensate and vice versa. Not seen anything since about what that maximum figure is / was going to be.

A politician lying? Well, there's a turn up for the books...

Post by **SKG_C63AMG** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:27 pm

i payed £1.39 per litre yesterday in the north east for V power and i think that is bad god bless u lot down south lol, BRING DOWN THE FUEL PRICES LETS HAVE A REVOLUTION LOL
£82 to fill the tank is no laughing matter

Post by **Phil3103** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:33 pm

I'd love to know how to start getting people moving. We go to work, we pay some of the highest tax rates, then we pay national tax on top of that, then we pay high VAT on everything we buy, then we pay god knows how much on fuel to make sure we can do it all again tomorrow.

And let's face it, most of us on here are the lucky ones!

Post by **P_G** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:34 pm

£82? I paid £90 to fill mine up on Tuesday at £1.34 per litre. Admitedly got about 66 litres in. Virtually gone already!

Post by **15ajh** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:15 pm

karl wrote:Instead of relying/expecting the truckers and unions to fight our battle, why the bloody hell doesn't the British public do something about it?! The French make us look like bloody wet weekends when it comes to protesting; we roll over every fkin time!

Your spot on there, i run a haulage company in the construction industry, so am screwed everyway!! Trouble is take a tipper and or low loader off the road for a day to protest ends up in loosing more money, as still have fuel to pay for running them empty and drivers wages. End of the day the government aren't going to do sod all if any of us protest as car enthusiats or business, except for maybe exert the long arm of the law and arrest, fine or impound our vehicles.

Coallition government is a shambles Lib dem have sold out to the torries, the torries have sold us the public a pack of lies to get in and labour are back pedelling on the mess they created.

Seriously tho somethign needs to be done on the whole fuel/road tax issue

We're all doomed LMAO

Post by **Steve_C** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 2:51 pm

Phil3103 wrote:I'd love to know how to start getting people moving. We go to work, we pay some of the highest tax rates, then we pay national tax on top of that, then we pay high VAT on everything we buy, then we pay god knows how much on fuel to make sure we can do it all again tomorrow.

And let's face it, most of us on here are the lucky ones!

Tax freedom day is 30 May - http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/tax-and-e ... -day-2010/, i.e we work for 5 months of the year for the Government and only start earning money for ourselves from 31 May onwards.

Post by **andre3k** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 3:05 pm

The worst thing is there doesn't seem to be any end in sight. It's at it's highest rate and we're not exactly in the 'peak' season. It's worrying

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