Can I get help with petrol costs to work?

HappyMJ

Hmm71 wrote: »

Sorry to sound dim but is £30 to £40 a week for petrol a lot? I mean just generally, not only for getting to work and back. I presume the OP uses her car for more than just getting to work. I don't drive so I have no idea about the running costs of a car. How much would you say an average family car should cost in petrol per week? My sister is always moaning about petrol and I try to look sympathetic but I have no idea really.

Assuming petrol is £1.357 a litre and the average spend is £35 then that would buy 25.8 litres of fuel which is 5.66 gallons. A small economic car might an average of 40.8 miles to the gallon. So they would be driving about 230 miles per week or about 46 miles per weekday. Is it a lot? I don't think so. The average mileage in a year for everyone is about 12,000 so I'd say it's about right. It's 15 pence per mile which is also the same figure the HMRC uses as a fuel advisory rate. http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/cars/advisory_fuel_current.htm

EllaBeagle

CFC wrote: »

You live 20 minutes drive from work and are spending nearly £40 per week on petrol? What do you drive, a tank?
How about getting a car that does more sensible mph before you go looking for taxpayers or company to subsidise you??

Well seeing as its mostly motorway driving I suppose it burns alot more fuel than on normal roads. From 10 pounds worth of petrol I can get 70 miles out of my car. Driving on motorways on 10 pound I get 50 miles.

I don't expect tax payers or the company to subsidise me at all. I was merely asking! Jeez :eek:

EllaBeagle

Mara69 wrote: »

You already get benefits in the form of tax credits



Come on! What more do you want? Work longer hours, get a second job, buy a smaller, cheaper car....stop looking for handouts all the time.

Calm yourself down :rotfl:

hcb42

sounds perfectly reasonable cost of commuting to me, and not one I expect to be funded by the taxpayer. I moved yesterday to a place 25 minutes from work, which is about the nearerst I have ever been, last job was 55 miles away.

Get a job nearer home, that you can walk to, or get a bus to, or accept it is an expensive cost we all have to bear.

Takeaway_Addict

EllaBeagle wrote: »

Well seeing as its mostly motorway driving I suppose it burns alot more fuel than on normal roads. From 10 pounds worth of petrol I can get 70 miles out of my car. Driving on motorways on 10 pound I get 50 miles.

I don't expect tax payers or the company to subsidise me at all. I was merely asking! Jeez :eek:

Learn to drive more economical? Martin goes on about it loads but its worth doing if you are trying to save some money

brutus1983

EllaBeagle wrote: »

Well seeing as its mostly motorway driving I suppose it burns alot more fuel than on normal roads. From 10 pounds worth of petrol I can get 70 miles out of my car. Driving on motorways on 10 pound I get 50 miles.

I don't expect tax payers or the company to subsidise me at all. I was merely asking! Jeez :eek:

not completely true

all depends on the size f the engine i had a 1.1 litre 206 when i first started to drive it would drink fuel like it was going out of fashion on the motorway but was very economical in towns

when i got my 1.8 focus it would be lot more econical to run on the motorway than the 1.1 engine but would drink it on town driving

i dont own a car no more tho

as for getting extra to travel to and from work the simple answer is no unless your job involves you driveing here there and everywhere in which case you may be paid a fuel allowance but to get to a single place of work then home again the answer is no you have to suckup the cost yourself

Spendless

Don't forget even if the petrol costs are higher, being able to finish in time to pick kids up from school is saving you any after-school childcare costs.