Just filled my car from empty, 6 miles range left.
Cost £84 at £1.30 a litre.
Fuming....

 

ha get used to it me howd

 

Feel your pain mate, £82 to fill mine up the other day. WTF is that about.

 

Wait till the summer and they take real adtavantage of all the holiday makers
they know weather its £1.30 or £2.30 people are still gonna buy it

 

I really am not far away from sacking the car altogether.
Insurance renewal is end of this month and that has gone up drastically this time as well...

 

 

Compared to here....you're doing ok.

Most fuel is up around £1.40 per litre here.
Seen diesel at 143.9 today, cheapest was £1.31.9

 

Pissing me off big time.
Ins is £700 this time round as well.
Scooter for work and sell the car........
Won't take much more to push me over the edge..

 

Ha ha how ture

 

they happened the other day... around 7 people showed up

 

Filled the car up today from empty 93.50 getting a joke but like what's been said if you need it you'll pay it

 

Take's the piss man, and with all this going on libya, thats just another 'reason' for them to keep raising the price.

 

Nice piccie there.
tabetha

 

I feel for you all, but something has to give eventually, I'm just wondering what it will be.
I don't think mass rioting in london/other major cities would be a surprise ?
tabetha

 

If people can afford to go anywhere to start a riot !

 

my thoughts exactly..

I wondering how much more common 'drive offs' are from petrol stations these days?!
I bet there are loads more now due to the prices!

 

LOL. yeah, with the price of petrol, you'll have to walk to the protest

 

this is a friend who lives in the USA where fuel is still cheap but.....

 

BPultimate derv at my local is now £1.47

 

Really getting shafted now and it will be going up and up,cant see it getting any better and im also thinking of getting out of the car game.

 

 

Although you lads think you are hard done by on fuel prices its still not as high as the fuel crisis in 1974. Back then fuel rose to 50p a gallon & the average wage was £1940 a year. This equates to £6.44 a gallon or 1.43 litre. We were not in hard times then so i fear fuel will become much more expensive. The problem you guys cant get your head around is that fuel has been relatively cheap for 30years & the good days are over.

 

if you removed what the goverment are taking per litre then it would not be a problem if it went up abit as it is what it is but coz they take so dame much all the time you can understand why people are upset by it all. And the fact that libyas fuel is only about 2 percent of our demands proves that fuel prices are being bumped up by fat cats that see it as a cash cow and the goverment could stop this if they wanted but they dont. And the thing is is that all your food bill and so on will go up to coz of fuel even tho tescos and sainburys and so on make shed loads each year but your wages dont go up in relation to this . The rich get richer . There are things that could be done be people wont and others just cant afford to .and even if someone made a car run on sea water then they would be brought out or dun over just so the oil barons and goverments make more cash and dont lose out.

 

Thing is. As some people stop driving due to cost. Fuel prices will go up even more to get the same revenue from fewere people.

Cunts

 

Insurance has gone up £200 a year for me plus the price of fuel now soaring, thats why Im binning the ST and getting my third Puma. I still want to have a fun car but on a budget.

 

Any idea what duty would have been around that time?

As that's where we're getting screwed compared to a lot of other countries. And I've not seen any sign that they're going to cancel the planned duty increase next month. With the massive price increases, I think they've probably made the extra money already, so cancelling the increase would gain them some much needed PR points and give people a bit of a break!

 

I am already only using the car strictly for work, no pleasure mileage at all.
£60 a week in fuel.
Insurance renewal today...£1059..!!

Insurance runs out 4th April.
Trying to sort something else out, i am only a van driver, i cant absorb price hikes like these, not worth going to work!!

 

Some people ain't even been driving half that! Only had my licence coming up 4 years. What about the poor people turning 17 and getting their first car? Petrol is a joke and insurance might as well forget it. I'm thinking of doing a CBT and getting a 50cc for circa 10-15mile radius of my house. Fuck driving ain't worth it don't even enjoy the fucking thing no more and it's only a 1.8!

 

Insurance always had been a joke, and always will. Noting but dirty corrupt bastards robbing people.

But there is nothing new about high premiums for first time drivers. But in relative terms, I'd say it is cheaper now.

My first time insurance back in 1991 for a 1.0 mini was £1350.

I guess the equivalent today would be about 10x that, except it isnt. It's probably still a similar amount.

So compared to the cost of everything else and earnings, I guess insurance now is cheaper.

 

some thing has to happen, we all need to kick off no other country would put up with this shit, 87p a litre go to tax. crude oil was 30 dollas a barrel more 2 years ok, so lets not get sucked into that crap.

 

Where can we get machine guns ?

 

if we are thinking of arming the rebels so they got more of a chance against the troops, then let me have there old ak47,s. i will get things stated with a few shots in the air,

 

1.30 a litre,where was that as thats cheap!
it sucks seeing the price thingy spinning faster than the litres on the pump,but you need it so you pay,unfortunately.

 

Passed my test in 1991, my first car was a 1.6 austin Montego on a C plate C623 KAK was the reg that i bought in 1992.
My 1st insurance premium was £750, back then my wages were £5,250 per year, so my insurance premium alone was 14% of my gross wage.

if the average 17 yr old is being quoted £2,500 per year for insurance, then at 14% of wages that equates to £17,800 wage per year.

So i think in relative terms insurance costs are equally as rip off now as they were then.

I think if everyone had the bollocks to do so, there should be a 'fuel protest' day.

lets all, just for the sake of it, buy no fuel at all, leave the cars at home, use public transport.

the whole public transport network would grind to a halt with the sheer amount of people using it as it doesn't have the capacity to cater for everyone.

no money taken by the fuel companies from private motorists

it'll illustrate just how important the car and car usage is to everything!

 

It isnt a fuel protest day.

It's a protest against daylight fucking robbery day !!

They say Dick Turpin wore a mask. But even he didnt rob people on the highway to the same scale as the government rob motorists. It's beyond criminal.

The robbing fuckers in government between tax and insurance really do enrage me.

 

lol try runnin a 2.5 V6 on a £205 a week wage £60 a week just to go the 7 mile to work and back and visit family for a day 20 miles out of town im going to get a scooter

 

As long as it doesn't turn too violent, need a whipround to afford the petrol bombs!!!

 

we need to do some go slow protests on the major roads, but the sneaky bastards made that illegal last year did they not. but at the same time as good having all this talk but who would actually attend one??

it boils my piss!

 

The problem is that not enough people in the country have the balls to do this fuel protest and thats pretty much the death nail for it straight away.

If you remember years back the country was grinding to a halt with the blockades but people started monaing about the shortage of fuel and so the protest was finished.

No matter how many people want to protest there will always be the same amount of peopl who dont give a toss but will certainly moan about the price.

 

just thought the best two days to do any thing on would be the day before and the day during the royal wedding blocking london in and out with slow moving cars and trucks stopping the guests getting there then the goverment would take notice as the could not be seen to be spoiling the wedding. That would make there arse holes go