Just filled up - 55 litres diesel £75 - !!!!!!

bigjl

When I started driving in the late '80s we used to put in a fiver and get almost 3 gallons, which would last almost a 100 miles of "youthful" driving.


So I can see where you are coming from, but petrol and diesel are cheaper to produce these days, and for anything to have 70% tax is a joke.

Remember that at the same time you could get maybe 5 gallons of diesel for a £5, the fact that diesel is more expensive than petrol is just a way for the government to get extra revenue.

We should push for the introduction of more CNG vehicles then we could fill up from our domestic gas supply with a compressor in the back garden.

soupdragon10

It's OK if you have the option to walk to shops etc. My nearest shop in 6 miles away, so 12 mile round trip, and not flat pavements but hilly and nil safe walking.

Only drive when I have to, and no public transport apart from a bus that visits local town for a couple of hours twice a week. Living in a rural area we don't have a choice. We did have a bus service that operated a ring and ride service, but their subsidy was removed.

Absolutely dreading fuel increases, as each one erodes our income and we can't chose not to go out and shop etc. My daily commute to work is a 32 mile round trip (I've joined a car share site but no one is doing the same journey).

Think I'll buy a horse and cart a la Steptoe, does anyone know if one would fit in a parking bay?

hubert_cumberdale

you would have to detatch the horse i would imagine

or get a double bay and put a ticket on each and hope the horse doesnt move around


i would just ride the horse

cyclonebri1

greenman7 wrote: »

I have brimmed up my Citroen C3 1.4 diesel for the last 2.5 years, without doing that I would not know that I was averaging 64.3 mpg.
I fiond it very hard to improve mpg as I do a lot of short journeys. I will be interested to see what the Skoda does.

Yes you would, using a different method and benefiting from the weight saving issues. Brimming is just easier, not cheaper,

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soupdragon10 wrote: »

Think I'll buy a horse and cart a la Steptoe, does anyone know if one would fit in a parking bay?

Just train it to keep walking around the block.:)

smjxm09

bigjl wrote: »

What EXACTLY gives you the right to comment on how I live my life or if I drive my kids to school or not, you are showing your total ignorance and stupidity with such a generalised statement.

You have NO knowledge of how far my childrens schools are, none atall.

Just for your information my daughters school is 14 miles from my house with no direct link using public transport, no buses are provided by the local authority.

My sons school is 10 miles from my daughters school and again there is no public transport link between my house and his school.

We didn't all get given a council house and a guaranteed school place, mainly due to people from outside the area lying to get their kids into the schools nearby.


We don't all live in a city where the schools are half a mile away.


I strongly suggest you wind your neck in, you are both ignorant and uninformed.


Though you are obviously correct I should obviously allow my children to walk for 3 hours every evening and morning, after all the M25 is such a nice road to walk along.



From your comments I can assume you eat lentils, think that Global Warming is actually happening rather than a convenient way to allow the government to increase the taxation of the working and middle classes, so enabling the government to have the funds to pay for the bloated welfare state which consists mainly of workshy imbeciles. How is life in leftyville?

If you see my comments as a personal attack then that’s your problem. :rotfl: In my neck of the woods, women driving their kids to school fall into one of two categories. There are the pie eaters with their 48 inch hips that would never dream of walking the quarter miles to school and those aloof types who drive their kids miles in the belief that their kids will get a better education.


I find it hard to believe that you sit in traffic driving 14 miles to school and that there isn't a closer school that you could use but as you say it is your choice that people like me has to endure the school run

goldspanners

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Canada here we come??

Strange world, 10 years ago when I was in a student city in Germany it was full of Brits kids who said the uk was finished, they aren't exactly laughing now.

20 years back when I was in the USA the place was full of young Canadians searching for a living. Circles and cycles, good luck man.

if we can get a good few years out of it then i'll be happy.
i know its swings and roundabouts but when the standard of living costs pretty much the same but the wages are higher and the standard of living is better than here then to us its a no brainer.

pappajohn0

you think £75's a lot.....try filling my petrol/LPG engined motorhome.

petrol = £410 :eek:

+
LPG = £100 :eek:

i reserve the right to MOAN !

pension-newbie

pappajohn0 wrote: »

you think £75's a lot.....try filling my petrol/LPG engined motorhome.

petrol = £410 :eek:

+
LPG = £100 :eek:

i reserve the right to MOAN !

From now on you shall be known as moaning myrtle -

Now that is what I call a tankful and I am truly tankful its not my tank

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smjxm09 wrote: »

I find it hard to believe that you sit in traffic driving 14 miles to school and that there isn't a closer school that you could use but as you say it is your choice that people like me has to endure the school run

Surely the local authority have a statutory duty to transport kids to school if they live more that a couple of miles from their school?