keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
Once they sneaked past that £1.00 "psychological barrier" there was no stopping them
Are petrol prices going up in the UK??
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Once they sneaked past that £1.00 "psychological barrier" there was no stopping them
Petrol prices in Australia are going up, but my brotherin-law says that diesel is the killer. He is a spud farmer and he says that the cost of diesel and other fuels are breaking the back of the proud Aussie farming man. The prices of produce does not go up in line with the cost of fuel, so if diesel goes up 30c thats 30c you lose.
It's a worry and I don't know what can be done or what to do or say to make him or myself feel less frightened
It's a worry and I don't know what can be done or what to do or say to make him or myself feel less frightened
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Article in my local rag today saying the local bus company is withdrawing 4 of its services as they can't make them profitable due to the rising cost of diesel. They're not small local journeys either, they're major arteries joining the big towns together.
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
Problem is, when they axe the unprofitable longer journeys that get people into town there's no longer anyone in town to use the smaller local routes, so they start losing money too. It happened a lot when the buses were privatised, IIRC.
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
You're in the Borders, aren't you, Weepiper? Think it's the rail link?
liquidlunch
fargonebeauty
there is a BP around the corner that sell unleaded for $1.62 tonight,diesel is $1.85.Multiply that by 4.5 is approx 7 pound fifty in your money per gallon
for unleaded
for unleaded
Saw diesel at £1.32 a litre yesterday.
£1.25 was the cheapest I could find today. And that was a supermarket filling station who try to keep it as low as they can given their huge buying power.
mysterygirl
Stealth visit from work
£1.28 today (Tesco)
(Tesco)
man, i paid $4.15/gal the other day. fuck me and my wallet
if we had the taxes you folks do it would have been closer to $7/gal
if we had the taxes you folks do it would have been closer to $7/gal
Petrol prices in Australia are going up, but my brotherin-law says that diesel is the killer. He is a spud farmer and he says that the cost of diesel and other fuels are breaking the back of the proud Aussie farming man. The prices of produce does not go up in line with the cost of fuel, so if diesel goes up 30c thats 30c you lose.
It's a worry and I don't know what can be done or what to do or say to make him or myself feel less frightened
Not good.
Over here, the fishing industry is feeling the pinch as well.
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
we all need to switch to diesel cars and get ourselves an eco friendly converter thingy which makes eco diesel from chip fat for about 20p a litre
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
just looked at this months receipts
05/5/2008 £1.199
18/5/2008 £1.229
30/5/2008 £1.259
for ultimate petrol at BP per litre
over the same period a ham cheese and pickle sandwich from the mini M and S inside the petrol station has remained constant at £2.40
so why not buy bog standard at 114.9 per litre?
Tescos near us has put their unleaded petrol up a penny a day in the last week
Because if you have a more refined engine in your car (V6/high performance etc, etc) it's [premium fuel] better for the engine long term, the performance & milage, to use premium.
Having said that, whist in the UK last week with my car, I drip fed it a tenner of normal unleaded until I got back over to France to fill up with premium at a slightly less ridiculous price.
London yesterday: Prem ULeaded '98 = £1.26.9 p/litre
France yesterday: Sans Plomb '98 = £1.16.4 p/litre
Switzerland today: Prem 98 - £0.97.4 p/litre
man, i paid $4.15/gal the other day. fuck me and my wallet
if we had the taxes you folks do it would have been closer to $7/gal
If you had to pay the taxes we do , maybe Americans wouldn't use so bloody much and there wouldn't be such a big problem with oil supply.
UK pint is 20 fluid ounces
US pint is 16 fluid ounces
thus UK gallon is 25% bigger than US gallon
This only works while it's a rare eccentricity - if it was common, there'd be queues round the back of chip shops.
Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
One of my colleagues uses it in his Land Rover. His last comment on the matter was "it's about the same price as petrol now that everyone's doing it, and whenever I reverse, the whole thing smells of fish suppers".
well we have a lot more miles to cover. just the state of michigan alone is the same size as England.
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