Petrol Prices *GRR*
 

Yesterday, when I filled up at the local petrol station the price was £1.06...

Today, when I drove past the petrol station with my fullish tank, the price was 99p .......

That's 7 whole pence! SEVEN WHOLE PENCE. I feel cheated and poor.

*is angry*

You should have waited ;)
I know my boyfriend is delighted, never seen him so happy.

It went back under a pound?!?!

I JUST sold my FREAKIN' car.
It's a CONSPIRACY I tell you!

Dicky!

Buying petrol makes me cry :( I'm so poor!
Although, maybe i should go and fill up now while it's cheaper!

Ali xox

i couldn't get it for under a pound yesterday i payed 103.9.

Bloody hell that is much cheaper than what it was where i used to live, i think in the summer it was about £1.35 from what my dad told me when he went up north.

At home when i left it was aboiut £1.16

Surely you should be happy its going down?
Stop complaining.

^ It's just annoying when you pay the high price, then the next day it's a fair bit lower. Sod's law really!

Ali xox

£1.16 omg thats well over priced.

Haha, that happened to a friend of mine. She said she'd filled up her car and paid £1.15/litre and then I told her it's 99.9p here. She wasn't happy. I seemed to cause a bit of an uproar when I said that it was down to less than a pound. Everyone wanted to know where they could get it cheap.

Public transport <3

I'm so glad I didn't bring my car to uni with me. I hated paying so much for petrol.
Yay for buses?

It used to be that I could fill up my moped for £3.00 For that I could get a good weeks run out of it before needing to refill.
Now £3.00 gets me three, maybe four, days of running and it's takes almost a fiver for the full weeks run.

^firstly i wish i could do my weeks run on £5, i spend minimum of £35 a wk grr

am so pleased the petrol is coming down, it was getting bloody ridiculous...yay!! x

I can bore for England on this subject so I'll try to keep it short (apologies in advance if I fail!)

The United States has the cheapest fuel in the Western world and also by far the largest economy. There has to be some sort of correlation regarding that. I seem to remember a US member whingeing on the site not long ago about the $3 gallon and then shutting up when it was pointed out that in UK we had the $10 gallon.

Here in UK we pay a fuel duty of 50.35p per litre and then, monstrously, a further 17.5% VAT on top of that. The motorist (constantly demonised for actually owning a car - tho' why shouldn't he be free to take the wife shopping or granny to Bingo or whatever?) contributes £42 billion a year to the Exchequer in taxes. The Government spends £6 billion a year on roads - just one pound in seven of what it receives.

All the statistics show that road deaths on motorways/dual carriageways are hugely less than on undeveloped roads. The Government is therefore responsible for a significant proportion - by its negligence - of the 3,000 or so road deaths that occur annually in UK. And, in retaliation the Government continues to demonise the motorist while Ministers drive around London in pool cars - some of them armoured - which do perhaps 5 mpg on a good day.

Our fuel duty should be ratcheted down year on year until it's the cheapest in Europe. This would give us a head start against those nations who are actually producing stuff, unlike us. The Government would make up its lost revenue by the increase in Gross Domestic Product.


Tony.

UK cars get so much better gas mileage though, effectively I bet many people in the UK and US are paying the same per month for petrol.

mum started moaning about that the other day lol.

I just got i've put petrol in at £1.03 i go right... whatever

next day Damn bloody things gone down to 99p lol!!!!

If it's any consolation, a month or so ago I was paying £1.25 a litre in the Western Isles of Scotland. Diesel was £1.47 a litre!

Harley and I then drove our 20 foot rigid inflatable back down to Suffolk, 700 miles at 15 mpg. That was over £220 in petrol in the space of less than 12 hours. My eyes are still watering!


Tony (unable to afford self-immolation).

Tony, I'm sure I read somewhere that the UK does actually have the cheapest petrol in Europe. Before the added taxes are put on, that is.

I actually don't have a problem with the price of petrol. But the, I don't drive but I do give my friend petrol money if he's driving me home or whatever. When it comes to leaving uni I'll need to drive for my chosen career, I might have a different opinion then. I'd be totally happy travelling everywhere my public transport (especially trains) if it was a bit better value for money and actually clean.

I am actually happy about the petrol-price-decreasage, but it's annoying when I am trying so hard to save EVERY SINGLE PENNY because I am piss poor that I pay seven extra pence per litre, which works out at quite a lot more. Grr. Wish I wasn't poor :-(