Don't buy your petrol in £'s !!

JimmyTheWig

DGJsaver wrote: »

ummmm

i`ll gte back to you

I'm still waiting...

DGJsaver

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

I'm still waiting...

the first result from google

http://math.colorado.edu/~rmg/roads/numbering.html


helpfull or what ?

Going_Mad

One could argue that using the tank up on a regular basis flushes out the junk in it. But actually I refill when I get to the 'last bar' on my petrol gauge meaning there is always 5 litres (or 35 miles) emergency.

I turn my engine off in traffic jams and at some traffic lights (depending on when I get to them).

Also this is about cashflow as much as anything else.

JimmyTheWig

DGJsaver wrote: »

the first result from google

http://math.colorado.edu/~rmg/roads/numbering.html


helpfull or what ?

Oh wow, what a great article. Am well chuffed you found that for me.
This thread has now become worthwhile.
Am particularly impressed that an American university's website has a whole section on Britain's road numbering. And the idea that "[Dr Richard M Green's] research interests include quantum groups, q-Schur algebras, cellular algebras and related algebras, generalized Temperley-Lieb algebras, Coxeter groups and their Hecke algebras, Kazhdan-Lusztig theory, heaps of pieces, combinatorics and representation theory." and road numbering!

Anyway, I have found out thanks to this that it is, in fact, the _M5_ that is incorrectly numbered not the A5. A5 you are forgiven. I take back all those derogatory comments I have ever made about you.
I should have thought of the history of it all, really, just jumped to a conclusion based on an up-to-date snapshot.

Going_Mad

Hopefully a lesson learned.

M4RKM

Going_Mad wrote: »

I turn my engine off in traffic jams and at some traffic lights (depending on when I get to them).

My car does this automatically as it is clever...

JimmyTheWig

Going_Mad wrote: »

Hopefully a lesson learned.

Yes, I will never again criticise a road for being in the wrong place until I have googled the reasons and/or asked the collective wisdom of MoneySavingExpert.com.

MrsE_2

Going_Mad wrote: »

One could argue that using the tank up on a regular basis flushes out the junk in it. But actually I refill when I get to the 'last bar' on my petrol gauge meaning there is always 5 litres (or 35 miles) emergency.

I turn my engine off in traffic jams and at some traffic lights (depending on when I get to them).

Also this is about cashflow as much as anything else.

What do you mean by last bar?

The bar as you go into the red or the bar where you go out of the red & into nothing?

Very interested to know as I've often wondered how much you have left when the light to refuel comes on

Going_Mad

MrsE wrote: »

What do you mean by last bar?

The bar as you go into the red or the bar where you go out of the red & into nothing?

Very interested to know as I've often wondered how much you have left when the light to refuel comes on

Ah - well I know my fuel tank holds 50 litres (read it in the manual) and the electronic fuel gauge on my dashboard has 10 bars, one on top of the other - therefore I guessed each bar was 5 litres.

We've got 3 garages local to us so when it gets to the final bar I fill up. If I'm away then I generally keep the tank a little fuller.

Week to week things are pretty regular so I can forecast quite accurately what I'm going to use.

Going_Mad

phatbear wrote: »

You mention saving the money by having the money in your bank account rather than in your petrol tank, therefore:

My car takes about £60 worth a diesel and if i left this in one of those nice A&L 10% accounts I would get £6 interest in a year on this money, which is 12p a week, so if I keep my money in my account im saving myself 12p a week in lost interest, i have never ever worried about saving 12p on a £60 purchase before and anyone that does worry about such small amounts of money needs more help than the ladies and gents of MSE can ever give you.

Do you apply the same principle to how you buy toilet rolls?