Fuel could reach £2.00 per litre
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Sounds like another thinly veiled excuse to fuck the motorist even harder.
The powers that be are quick enough to hike the price like this. Shame they're never as keen or quick to pass on any savings.
The powers that be are quick enough to hike the price like this. Shame they're never as keen or quick to pass on any savings.
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The country will grind to a halt , as with all governments , they live within their safe zone of london and don't get out in the real mans world .
It's the tax paying people including truckers that keep this country afloat and it's only so much they will take before it will be all out war .....
People power out weigh the nambies in "office" ....when will they learn .........?
It just needs on mass protests instead of the few .......
It's the tax paying people including truckers that keep this country afloat and it's only so much they will take before it will be all out war .....
People power out weigh the nambies in "office" ....when will they learn .........?
It just needs on mass protests instead of the few .......
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The country will grind to a halt , as with all governments , they live within their safe zone of london and don't get out in the real mans world .
It's the tax paying people including truckers that keep this country afloat and it's only so much they will take before it will be all out war .....
People power out weigh the nambies in "office" ....when will they learn .........?
It just needs on mass protests instead of the few .......
It's the tax paying people including truckers that keep this country afloat and it's only so much they will take before it will be all out war .....
People power out weigh the nambies in "office" ....when will they learn .........?
It just needs on mass protests instead of the few .......
Sure will. Truckers are barely scraping together a profit with fuel at the current prices, there's no way anyone would still be hauling at £2 a litre.
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It will always go up. Question is how fast it gets to £2. Probably a couple of years away yet unless the rise in oil accelerates into a mania. But £1.50 is definitely going to be the new benchmark soon. NY oil closed above $104 on Friday... the market tends to move forward after breaking a psychological barrier like that, and it's well out of the range it was stuck in over the last few months... so plain sailing for a while at least.
Our currency is rising against the dollar, but not enough to offset these gains in oil. The way people are thinking just now is that currencies in general are weak with central banks using 'stimulus', whereas oil is a very real finite commodity that looks to be under increasing demand with the growth in the east.
It's a no-brainer, just wish I'd bought crude ETFs in the high 60s when I was considering it.
Our currency is rising against the dollar, but not enough to offset these gains in oil. The way people are thinking just now is that currencies in general are weak with central banks using 'stimulus', whereas oil is a very real finite commodity that looks to be under increasing demand with the growth in the east.
It's a no-brainer, just wish I'd bought crude ETFs in the high 60s when I was considering it.
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I'll get the bike out as i only work 3 miles away - using one of those MPG apps my Golf derv is only doing 37mpg short town runs so to go up any more isn't worth running a car and public transport is a better option as you can get a week pass for under a tenner
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SCARY ...........
Think i will stick with my sorta economical gti ......
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I live in the sticks work is a 48 mile round trip and most local work has gone just dont need these money pressures feel like sometime soon somthing small will happen and ill just flip sick of being a tax cash cow .
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I got rid of my 35mpg 406 running on vegtable oil at around 70ppl for a Ford Focus that does 27mpg round down and can only run on petrol. If It goes about 1.50/1.60 then I'm going to have to go buy another Peugeot.
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it's a joke i will be selling my car soon i think i can travel on public transport for free but i never do as i hate waiting for buses or even been on them as a passenger
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shops and business's will NOT struggle to get stock due to lack of deliveries.
you forget, our government dont control oil prices, only oil duty.
OPEC couldnt give a flying fuck if the whole of the EU threw a hissy fit over oil prices let alone an insignificant bankrupt country like the UK
cool, howcome??
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No, they are trying to blame that. But they know all too well they could easily reduce taxation so the price gets nowhere near that.
I'm sure the government would be happy at £2/litre, as the amount of revenue they would get would be massive.
Pity it would grind the entire country to a standstill.
I'm sure the government would be happy at £2/litre, as the amount of revenue they would get would be massive.
Pity it would grind the entire country to a standstill.
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Diesel was 140.9 / ltr
Unleaded was 130.9 / ltr
That was at one garage.
I drive a diesel and the mpg advantage is getting close to almost being eroded by the cost difference.
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just drive round a posh estate knick a set of plates off a car sticky pad them over your own fill up and drive off...........
ive not done this, but know someone who did it alot and never got caught
ive not done this, but know someone who did it alot and never got caught
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i was thinking of veg oil in the van ive heard some horror stories but then i know someone with a merc diesel running 50/50 veg/diesel and has covered 10000s of miles over a few years and swears buy it
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the worst thing is we are being told the economy is in recovery,is that why the price of everything seems to be going up these days....someone needs to tell our employers if things are that good to start raising our salaries
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ive been trying to sell my 306 GTI-6 atm, and im struggling to get the mear £800 im asking for it. (and its in VERY good condition) yet older, higher milage, and battered in terms of condition, 306 dervs are demanding and selling at a much higher price. i actually cant afford to run the car any more so i can see it going for alot less soon as i need a diesel myself with the amount of miles i do per week for work alone.
so just proves even at £1.30 a ltr people are already avioding higher powered cars
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no sh*t, he also used to pull wheels/parts off cars on car sales forecourts cant believe the stuff he used to get away with and the thing is he wasn't even a pikey had quite a respectable job i think he had a short sharp shock and changed his ways
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My mates girlfriend recently sold her 1 litre saxo because they got offered a vw bora tdi cheep.
Now she is thinking of selling the bora because the saxo did more mpg and unleaded is cheaper then diesel.
If I needed a cheep runaround it would be a small engine petrol.
Now she is thinking of selling the bora because the saxo did more mpg and unleaded is cheaper then diesel.
If I needed a cheep runaround it would be a small engine petrol.
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S4/RS4/RS6 are not selling in the Audi world, some big bargains to be had!
Mine averages 15-17mpg, single figures if you boot it... if I didnt work 3 miles from home I would be forced to sell it. V Power is 137.9 up the road, and Tescos 99 is about 3-4p cheaper
Mine averages 15-17mpg, single figures if you boot it... if I didnt work 3 miles from home I would be forced to sell it. V Power is 137.9 up the road, and Tescos 99 is about 3-4p cheaper
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Fuuny how we get the shit end of the stick isnt it?? You can bet your arse it isnt going to rise by 50% in America! Fuck knows how but weve got ourselves in a situation where we always sit back and take anything from anyone. Weve got imigrants laughing their cocks off at us as we throw money at them then theres us getting taxed to fucking death on anything and everything, and the more we work and try better ourselves the bigger that cut becomes. Feels like Coco and Krusty are running the country, bunch of clowns