World's most depressing graph?

[Bantam]

Only gets worse.

[Mal Bridgeman]

Be glad you don't have a Diesel fired boiler to heat your hot water / central heating. I do and in 1999 I paid 11p per litre .... it was 55p at the last fill (pre Xmas IIRC). I daren't look at current costs

Mal

[weazelz]

Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman

Be glad you don't have a Diesel fired boiler to heat your hot water / central heating. I do and in 1999 I paid 11p per litre .... it was 55p at the last fill (pre Xmas IIRC). I daren't look at current costs

look on the bright side Mal, it must be pretty cheap to run the car on 55p/l diesel

[Bantam]

Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman

Be glad you don't have a Diesel fired boiler to heat your hot water / central heating. I do and in 1999 I paid 11p per litre .... it was 55p at the last fill (pre Xmas IIRC). I daren't look at current costs

Mal

I did - and know your pain. Last year's fuel bill for my old Trianco was nearly £2000 - 1000 litres at 55p a litre works out at £550 per fill that lasts 2 months in the winter

Now I have a new (well, late 1980's) house and a new gas boiler. £300 a year.

[machiavelli]

The UK motorist is fortunate that the level of duty levied on road fuels makes the pump price much less sensitive to changes in the price of crude. If fuel duty was to be reduced, the government would only increases taxes elsewhere. And road fuel is a discretionary purchase compared to food and housing.

Some American colleagues were over here for a few days. The hired a diesel VW Passat and filled it up when they returned it. They were suprised at how little it cost to refill - the difference in fuel price was more than made up for by the economy of the vehicle, compared to their huge gasoline fueled 4x4s.

[Bantam]

Originally Posted by machiavelli

The UK motorist is fortunate that the level of duty levied on road fuels makes the pump price much less sensitive to changes in the price of crude. If fuel duty was to be reduced, the government would only increases taxes elsewhere. And road fuel is a discretionary purchase compared to food and housing.

That is the funniest paragraph I have ever read.

I wish my diesel was a discretionary purchase, but unfortunately the public transport up here in North Yorkshire is so shocking, the only way I could get to work on time without using a car is to use a bicycle and cycle the 20 miles to work.

My biggest outgoing is my mortgage. My second biggest is Diesel, then food. And where I can I use my second car which is an Audi A3 1.9tdie which does 800 miles on a tank.

NO public transport can get me to work from home and back on time. I'd arrive probably 2 hours late and have to leave 2 hours earlier.

If I had the London-centric view like above then I surely wouldn't own a car, and when I lived in London I didn't.

[adamr]

I noticed that my local station put prices up by 3p over night in reaction to the prices of crude going to $135 a barrel from $128 ???

I think there will have to be another protest of some sort to try and drive the prices down. But IIRC if they blockade the refineries they can be arrested on anti-terror laws !!

[dry suit diver]

Originally Posted by Bantam

That is the funniest paragraph I have ever read.

I wish my diesel was a discretionary purchase, but unfortunately the public transport up here in North Yorkshire is so shocking, the only way I could get to work on time without using a car is to use a bicycle and cycle the 20 miles to work.

My biggest outgoing is my mortgage. My second biggest is Diesel, then food.

NO public transport can get me to work from home and back.

If I had the London-centric view like above then I surely wouldn't own a car, and when I lived in London I didn't.

the problem is that outside of the centre of london the transport is shite full stop. theres no intergration between companies you can get off the train station in the asshole of nowhere and haver to wait an hour for a bus.

even in London we need cars in the burbs as the publivc transport just doesn't do what its supposed to.


get a wheelchair user on the bus and bang all the parents with kids in pushchairs get told to Feck off and are refused entry. what do we do then we go into our cars.

[NeilP]

Originally Posted by adamr

I think there will have to be another protest of some sort to try and drive the prices down. But IIRC if they blockade the refineries they can be arrested on anti-terror laws !!

It's going ahead next Tuesday - central London.

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman

Be glad you don't have a Diesel fired boiler to heat your hot water / central heating. I do and in 1999 I paid 11p per litre .... it was 55p at the last fill (pre Xmas IIRC). I daren't look at current costs

Mal

I wish i did, then I could run my car on central heating oil and get away with it.


ATB

Mark