The jobless are no shirking scroungers – you try living on £65.45 a week

PasturesNew

mitchaa wrote: »

When was the last time you filled your car?

A normal everyday car such as a Vauxhall Astra costs close to £65 to fill up.

My new car costs me £75 to fill up. It then does about 600 miles.
600 miles is a month of getting to/from a job 14 miles away. Most of my jobs have been 25-50 miles away, and that's not unusual for people not living in/near major cities.

But every mile one drives to work is a mile closer to needing a new tyre, a service, a new car entirely. I guesstimate to put aside 10p/mile for running costs. So that'd be another £60 to be set aside/saved each time I filled up to represent these other costs.

Doctor_Gloom

In last night's television debate Cameron and Brown were most eager to get the 5 million people on out of work benefits back to work.

I must be missing something but they never said where the 5 million jobs for the 5 million people were going to come from? :eek:

mitchaa

lostinrates wrote: »

I fill two cars....a susuki and the land rover...neither costs £65 at a time, but my dad's old audi cost more than that before he sold it. The LR certainly would chug through £65 quickly though.

You obviously fill when the needle hits the mid way point then
Land rover discovery has an 82l fuel tank and would cost £101 to fill up

http://www.buyacar.co.uk/land_rover_discovery_diesel_sw/car_27_td_v6_hse_5dr_128.jhtml

You could claim that it only costs £25 to fill up if you refilled when the needle was indicating 3/4:p

A typical family car such as a VW golf has a 55l tank and would cost £67.60 to fill up. (122.9ppl)

Exocet

What puzzles me is that I have recently stopped buying in gallons and now buy in litres. Yet it costs the same to fill a tank. Someone is ripping me off.

lostinrates

mitchaa wrote: »

You obviously fill when the needle hits the mid way point then
Land rover discovery has an 82l fuel tank and would cost £101 to fill up

http://www.buyacar.co.uk/land_rover_discovery_diesel_sw/car_27_td_v6_hse_5dr_128.jhtml

You could claim that it only costs £25 to fill up if you refilled when the needle was indicating 3/4:p

The needle on the LR is broken....I fill up when it looks about a quarter full...it never looks full! Its a defender though, not a disco....I would have thought tanks were similar sizes?

Hmm.....this means I can go to the petrol station less often? :j:j

My first car was a 2CV. I wonder how much that would cost to fill. In late nineties it cost me about £12-14 ...once or twice a month!

silvercar

MY car has 1.4 engine and takes only £40 unleaded to fill (from empty) I get about 35mpg, mainly journeys under 5 miles in traffic. A tank gives about 300 miles.

donaldtramp

What is with all this "no job" crap.
If the population on the dole tried for each and every opportunity that came their way Britain would be an totally different country.

The benefits lifestyle option is a big part of the problem. People are too willing to sit on their backsides and claim their "entitlements" Instead of taking th ejob in burger king or in a supermarket.
I've done it.(I've done some really rough jobs in my time) How are some people allowed to think they are above it?

A word of advice, I would advise you to take any job that is going shortly because after the election being on benefits isn't going to be a nice place to be.
WHICHEVER party gets in.

PasturesNew

headcoat wrote: »

£65.45 plus all the other benefits, such as rent paid, council tax paid, water rates paid, prescription charges paid, and many many

You don't get water rates paid.

PasturesNew

Out of their £65 JSA/week, a single person, living alone, aged over 25, who tries to be doing the right things will be paying out for:
- water
- gas/electricity
- telephone landline, internet
- TV license
- contents insurance (Buildings insurance if you are a home-owner)
- food
- loo roll/household essentials
- clothes/hair dos, to look respectable for job interviews
- newspapers for job ads, stamps (for those archaic companies advertising)

If you live outside of a major city, you've probably got a car, which you need to keep legal so it's available for job interviews and getting to/from work. In fact, having a car means more jobs are available to you. This means an additional:
- car tax
- car insurance
- MoT/repairs
- £2 of petrol in the tank

abaxas

PasturesNew :

No need to newspapers or stamps, job club will provide them for free.

That is, if you can be bothered to go to one. If you live in the country, yes, you are fracked.