World's most depressing graph?

[machiavelli]

Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman

Mmmmm I wonder why I didn't think of that ...... do you really think there aren't people employed by the Heating Oil suppliers to monitor "unusual" usage? I understand that if they dip your tanks and find non tax paid fuel the consequences are pretty expensive ..... or am I just a scaredy cat?

Mal

I've wondered about the possibility of domestic LPG being misused as road fuel. Unlike gas oil it isn't marked in any way.

[Odin]

With the price of fuel going stupid, and my Pimp mobile only doing 25 mpg, I am now looking at my dive sites all becoming more local.
Fortunately Plymouth is only 50 miles away!

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman

Mmmmm I wonder why I didn't think of that ...... do you really think there aren't people employed by the Heating Oil suppliers to monitor "unusual" usage? I understand that if they dip your tanks and find non tax paid fuel the consequences are pretty expensive ..... or am I just a scaredy cat?

Mal

So when was the last time you had your tanks dipped or how much heating fuel your using questioned? I think this is more urben myth than fact.


ATB

Mark

[machiavelli]

Originally Posted by divingniknaks

I lived in Holland for a while and just didn't need a car, because the train system is so damned good. Why can't we do the same ?

Because it's the UK and lots of things are crap here.

I do think that price is a significant factor in transport choices though.

[divingniknaks]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

So when was the last time you had your tanks dipped

Only can speak for a very rural area but they used to dip regularly on Market Day, strange thing was that's when a lot of farmers were there who ran tractors on Red.

Funny coincidence

[dry suit diver]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

Its two miles from my house to the kids school. It takes three buses and just over an hour and a half on a good day. Two hours on a bad day.

The roads have no pavements and no street lights and are just over single track in some places so very dangerous to walk / cycle on.

It takes about 10mins by car.

My office is in Carshalton 41miles away. Mainly moterway so at 6am it takes me 50ins. By train and buss its just over two hours. Car costs me £13.60 in fuel and its £23.75 by train and bus + a little fuel and £6.00 a day parking.

So switching to public transport would add 15hours to my working week and cost me and extra £95.00 a week for the privalage.

No wonder the M20s packed in the morning.

ATB

Mark

if I had to use public transport to get to Broxbourne from Leytonstone at the time I need to in the morning I would have to get up before I go to bed !!!

inside greater london I can use oyster and its capped at about £7 a day.

but the outside bit will cost me more than that for the 2 bus journeys I need to get to work never mind the home trip.

its too far to cycle unless I want to leave home in the middle of the night.

[machiavelli]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

So when was the last time you had your tanks dipped or how much heating fuel your using questioned? I think this is more urben myth than fact.

I've seen HMRC tank dipping commercial vehicles leaving the Mersey Kingsway Tunnel on a few occasions. Never seen them stopping a car though.

[dry suit diver]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

So when was the last time you had your tanks dipped or how much heating fuel your using questioned? I think this is more urben myth than fact.


ATB

Mark

tank dipped in work van i was in a couple of weeks ago was pulled in by VOSA at random.
tank dipped as its diesel but all fuel is paid for by company so no reason to run red.



you can remove the dye from the diesel but you need shedloads of powdered chalk

[IanDennis]

According to predictions these sorts of prices look likely to stay with us in the medium term- 4-8years.

Already I can see car sharing becoming much more important to students as they seek to keep costs down. Trips to the NDAC mean that most people are car sharing. Going to somewhere like Plymouth or Weymouth needs a little more thought but ultimately most people will foot the bill/car share. There isn't really an alternative given the equipment that most of us need to carry around.

[MATTBIN]

Originally Posted by IanDennis

According to predictions these sorts of prices look likely to stay with us in the medium term- 4-8years.

Already I can see car sharing becoming much more important to students as they seek to keep costs down. Trips to the NDAC mean that most people are car sharing. Going to somewhere like Plymouth or Weymouth needs a little more thought but ultimately most people will foot the bill/car share. There isn't really an alternative given the equipment that most of us need to carry around.

I'm thinking about going back to diving a single, that way I could get to teh dive site using my (motor) bike
Seriously though I can see lots of skippers getting badly hit by people not being able to get to the dive site due to the fuel prices, its expensive enough to drive and get a dive but to get there and be blown out really makes me wonder if booking up a sea dive is a serious option at present. Even diving a local quarry is better than no diving at all.

Matt