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Old 18-10-2008, 09:59 PM   #1
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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.

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Old 18-10-2008, 10:02 PM   #2
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You should have waited ;)
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Old 18-10-2008, 10:40 PM   #3
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It went back under a pound?!?!

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

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Old 18-10-2008, 11:19 PM   #4
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Buying petrol makes me cry :( I'm so poor!
Although, maybe i should go and fill up now while it's cheaper!

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Old 19-10-2008, 09:09 AM   #5
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i couldn't get it for under a pound yesterday i payed 103.9.



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Old 19-10-2008, 10:35 AM   #6
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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

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Old 19-10-2008, 11:23 AM   #7
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Surely you should be happy its going down?
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Old 19-10-2008, 11:39 AM   #8
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^ It's just annoying when you pay the high price, then the next day it's a fair bit lower. Sod's law really!

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Old 19-10-2008, 11:42 AM   #9
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£1.16 omg thats well over priced.



" my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never, never leave you during your times of trials and suffering. When you see only one set of footprints it was then that I carried you" you were carried out of are lifes into the next and when its my time to leave this life I know i will be carried into the next life with you.
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Old 19-10-2008, 11:43 AM   #10
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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.

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Old 19-10-2008, 11:44 AM   #11
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Old 19-10-2008, 11:46 AM   #12
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I'm so glad I didn't bring my car to uni with me. I hated paying so much for petrol.
Yay for buses?



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Old 19-10-2008, 01:24 PM   #13
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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.



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Old 19-10-2008, 01:58 PM   #14
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^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



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Old 19-10-2008, 03:45 PM   #15
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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.


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Old 19-10-2008, 03:49 PM   #16
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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.



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Old 19-10-2008, 03:52 PM   #17
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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!!!!

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Old 19-10-2008, 05:05 PM   #18
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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!


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Old 19-10-2008, 11:35 PM   #19
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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.

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Old 19-10-2008, 11:40 PM   #20
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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

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