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The frightening cost of petrol.
« on: May 31, 2022, 03:37:39 PM »
Today I topped up my tank, the first since the 7th of April, and was astounded to find it cost me £60.40. It wasn't even as if the tank was empty. I remember the first time I had to pay £5 for a gallon in a remote highland town but today it was £8 for a gallon, just outside Edinburgh. When I first started driving it was 22p a gallon (4/4d).

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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2022, 03:45:48 PM »
Can't remember the cost of a gallon when I first started to drive, but I do remember getting a half tank of fuel for 10 shillings (50p for you youngsters).
When did we start paying for a litre and not a gallon?

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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2022, 04:24:19 PM »
When did we start paying for a litre and not a gallon?
Petrol has been sold in the UK since the mid-1980s in litres, as opposed to gallons. The Tory Government then made an order in 1988 that relaxed the requirement to have petrol displayed in both litres and gallons.
The gallon was then phased out completely by first of January 95, although realistically it had been more or less phased out by this time

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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2022, 04:26:04 PM »
My petrol today was 175.9p/litre - £8 per gallon - and this was at my local Tesco supermarket. I hate to think what Shell would be charging.
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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2022, 04:55:07 PM »
It's getting close to £7.50 a gallon for unleaded.

I could fill my Mini from almost empty in 1971 for £1 10s
Let's be careful out there !

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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2022, 05:04:44 PM »
Maybe the increase suits the Lobbyists, who don't drive, they can almost prove that ev costs less than petrol diesel vehicles - dream on . Another example if top down laws to restrict the freedom of people in UK & EU.

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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2022, 05:12:17 PM »
The price of petrol is high, but unthinking wastage carries on, the local school, the mothers arrive and drop-off the children, the mothers then socialise for 15 to  20 minutes, leaving their the car engines running burning fuel and polluting, the street is signposted, to turn off engines outside the school to reduce pollution, but the signs are ignored.
The pricepoint of fuel, to induce those women to curb their wasteful habits, what is the pricepoint ? £10 / gallon, £20 / gallon.  Comments please.

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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2022, 01:11:45 PM »
The pricepoint of fuel, to induce those women to curb their wasteful habits, what is the pricepoint ? £10 / gallon, £20 / gallon.  Comments please.

Maybe better a brain transplant...  :'(
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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2022, 01:19:17 PM »
I read somewhere that the US pay 4 dollars a gallon works out about £3.20.
Doesn't seem fair does it?

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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2022, 01:25:12 PM »
It's getting close to £7.50 a gallon for unleaded.

I could fill my Mini from almost empty in 1971 for £1 10s

It was 5 bob a gallon for long enough.
That's 25p per gallon or about 5p per litre.
That's not coming back even if Rees- Mogg wants to revert to imperial measures.

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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2022, 01:39:39 PM »
I was in the USA at the beginning of May visiting my daughter and her husband.  The gas guzzling SUV I was travelling in needed filling 3 times in a week. Taking into account the different size of a US gallon and an imperial gallon the equivalent price for an imperial gallon would be £3.90, or 86p per litre.

The price of used vehicles in the US is surprisingly high and many of them have done mega mileages, it is a big country after all.  We had a day out to the neighbouring town, it didn't look far on the map but it was 90 miles there and 90 miles back. The 4 litre 15 year old Ford SUV belonging to my daughter has done 225000.

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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #11 on: June 01, 2022, 02:45:18 PM »
It's all relative to what drivers willing to pay Egypt 35p per litre but in Venezuela you can have a bath for under £1.00, it's 2p per per litre. Now why doesn't our Govt swop fresh water for fuel? I just wonder......

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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #12 on: June 01, 2022, 07:51:29 PM »
Not just petrol of course, but also energy in terms of Gas/Electricity.
I've just been informed that my energy bill is likely to double in October, to an estimated £2800/year.

Now, given that the government regards people spending more that 10% of income on energy, as being in energy poverty.

How many pensioners and others do you know, on an income of £28000+ per year?

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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2022, 11:02:01 AM »
According to this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61750251 we are being taken to the cleaners by the refineries.

"On the 8 June 2021, refiners were making $9.26 per barrel from refining petrol, and $6.84 per barrel refining diesel. On Wednesday, they were making $43.11 on petrol, up 366%, and $51.13 on diesel, up 648%."

366% increase? 648% for the black stuff? Criminal.

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Re: The frightening cost of petrol.
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2022, 11:17:59 AM »
I read that.

At its peak oil was $128 a barrel. It's currently $104 but the retailers are still raising prices.
Let's be careful out there !

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