Latest Petrol Rises : How are you coping?

sreppaw · 29 May 2008 at 3:57PM

I looked for a new job closer to home. Comes with a payrise too :j I will now be ~10 miles from the office, rather than 17, this will be close enough that I expect I will cycle half the time.

badmumof1 · 29 May 2008 at 4:11PM

garage near me is charging 135.9 a litre of diesel !!!!!
gone up a penny a day since last week

Jem8472 · 29 May 2008 at 6:05PM

I have just been working out my MPG on my 50cc bike. It works out to about 75-80 MPG. a lot better than the 40 MPG I get from the car

steady__eddie · 29 May 2008 at 6:10PM

" this will be close enough that I expect I will cycle half the time."

Does this mean that you will be pushing the bike the other half the time ? :rotfl:

Seriously speaking though, well done. Every cloud has a silver lining, or is it the other way round ?

butterfly72 · 29 May 2008 at 7:05PM

I'm a district nurse and use my car for travelling to patients. However, I've just done a cycling safety course run by the local authority and plan to cycle to my patients instead! I'll leave the bike at the clinic. I already walk when I can. The NHS pays me 33p per mile which just isn't covering the rising costs, hence I'm subsidising the nhs!

I live 2 miles from the clinic so could bike there too.. but sometimes I need to take equipment and need my car, also its a really busy main road and I'm too scared. I go home for lunch but am thinking of giving it a miss for a day or two a week.

I'm also trying to drive more carefully. I like the overrun idea, will try that tomorrow! Do you stay in gear when you do this or go into neutral? also, does braking use petrol?:o Any other tips??

thanks

tomstickland · 29 May 2008 at 7:09PM

Stay in gear on the overun. The game is to work out the optimum slowing points (dependant on vehicles behind).

Braking itself doesn't use petrol, but you're chucking away energy.
For example imagine a straight road with a stop line at the end of it.
If you approach fast and then brake at the very last moment you'll be wasting a lot more energy compared to a hypothetical case where you turned the engine off a mile early and rolled there.

So, by coming off the throttle earlier and staying in gear you hope to gradually slow down, with a small amount of braking at the end.

C_Ronaldo · 29 May 2008 at 7:23PM

I would take the bus but it would cost more than driving to work, if i drove id use the park and ride, i dont cycle either, the government really do need to do something about the price of petrol, we're being told to save but its hard when price of petrol, price of electricity and gas is rising

Greenqueen_2 · 29 May 2008 at 9:33PM

I was also in the same position to get to work- the bus costs more than driving, is less convenient,dirty,smelly,badly air conditioned etc. However the local council have now decided to remove the last vestige of free parking in town and I will be faced with paying £20.50 every week just to park whilst working. Coupled with rising fuel costs I now feel compelled to use the bus.

iceicebaby · 29 May 2008 at 10:05PM

I have to drive to work as no public transport from up my mountain down into civilisation!

I fill up once a week. I went today and unleaded was 1.12. last week it was 1.08. Its scandalous the rate that the prices are increasing.

I have read that "overrun" thing with interest. i think i will try that.

Anyone have any other tips to drive more economically?

C_Ronaldo · 29 May 2008 at 10:11PM

Greenqueen wrote: »

I was also in the same position to get to work- the bus costs more than driving, is less convenient,dirty,smelly,badly air conditioned etc. However the local council have now decided to remove the last vestige of free parking in town and I will be faced with paying £20.50 every week just to park whilst working. Coupled with rising fuel costs I now feel compelled to use the bus.

isnt there a park and ride you could use

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