Daylight robbery diesel!

[scuba steve irl]

i once paid for messages in a garage and forgot to pay for the petrol. cops knocked on the door and i was made pay (no probs ) with a fine

[CotoChris]

Diesel in Pt is €1.30 which equates to £1.04, across the river in Spain it's €1.16 (0.93). As I can clain 10%for VAT in PT then it's cheaper to fill up here.

In PT the motorways are expensive, to pay the tolls I have a small box on the windscreen and it deducts the costs from the bank automatically. I can also use the box to pay for fuel and car parks. For fuel I drive up, place the PIN code, fill up, receipt given at the pump and then drive away. Dead easy and no filling up of suggary sweets inside.

[chrisch]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

I must be too young to remember that Chris

You're too young to drive then

Chris

[Steve S]

Originally Posted by chrisch

You're too young to drive then

Chris

Not really






Safe diving,
Steve

[Bantam]

I have the best of both worlds - I do have a Pathfinder which does about 500 miles to a tank (costs £77 to fill up from totally dry), but my other car's an Audi A3 1.9TDi-e Eco, which I now use for any long trips that don't involve towing or diving - on a trip to Newcastle this weekend, I managed to get the 'miles to next fill' above 1000, and at no point did it drop below 750 (even when I'd used a quarter of a tank)!

The Tesco Extra at Kingston Park, Ponteland, was totally out of fuel saturday night, and they even had police cars guarding the station, but they must have had a delivery overnight because they were open again for business Sunday morning when I got my morning paper.

Realistically, the problem isn't caused by the government per-se. It's the base cost of oil. In 1998, a barrel of oil cost $10. In 2008 a barrel of oil cost $120. Why? Partially cos the yanks invaded iraq, and partially cos the chinese and indians are driving the cost per barrel through the roof - supply and demand.

Oil is the real reason why the UK and US economies are in the shit (and why everyone's in debt paying for more and more expensive fuel) , and why our jobs are going to the far east.

[ratcliffe]

Originally Posted by Twinsetmad

I can remember the fuel strikes... when petrol got close to £1 per litre... its about time again.

The fuel strike was when unleaded reached 86.9, as when they knocked the 4p off it went back to 82.9 in our area.
82.9 is what I was paying only 30 months ago! Now its 110.9

Ouch.

[Ahmed Adly]

Originally Posted by Helen F H

Holy cow. I knew it was going to be bad when we arrived at the garage to fill up with fuel and they didnt have their prices on the board outside....i suspect it was because they had run out of numbers.

Guess how much per litre for diesel? £1.34 For that price i want Orlando Bloom nekkid working behind the counter! Now i know Grangemouth is shut for strike action, but £1.34 for a litre of diesel just isnt funny when all the fuel for Orkney comes from Liverpool by boat. Dont get me started on red diesel either, cos that had more than doubled too

And breathe

Well, here in Egypt the diesel is .75EGP/liter which is around 6 Brittish pence. And that is considered highway robbery by our standards

So no matter how bad it gets over there and no matter how high the prices go..... Don't worry, we will be fine in Egypt

[John63]

Originally Posted by Ahmed Adly

Well, here in Egypt the diesel is .75EGP/liter which is around 6 Brittish pence. And that is considered highway robbery by our standards

So no matter how bad it gets over there and no matter how high the prices go..... Don't worry, we will be fine in Egypt

And still paying way more than we do in Saudi

[CotoChris]

What I don't understand about the fuel prices is that it is based on the price per barrel in US $. Although the price of the barrel went up the value of US$ dropped. If comparing prices per barrel to local currency the prices should have dropped and not increase. Can anyone explain this? or the barrels aren't paid in US$ afterall.

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by CotoChris

What I don't understand about the fuel prices is that it is based on the price per barrel in US $. Although the price of the barrel went up the value of US$ dropped. If comparing prices per barrel to local currency the prices should have dropped and not increase. Can anyone explain this? or the barrels aren't paid in US$ afterall.

As i understood it the real reason they invaded Saddam's back garden is he was switching to the Euro for the sale of oil. This would have been a financial disaster for the Dollar so they invaded to put a stop to it.

So it would seem logical that the dollar is still the oil benchmark.

Apparently the yanks don't care who's got oil and who sells it so long as all the green comes via themselves.

ATB

MArk