How much do you spend on petrol/diesel just going to / from work?

Rolandtheroadie

3 day week, 16 mile round trip. Diesel, probably getting approx 40 -45 mpg.
Think thats about £2 a week (alternative fuels).
Wifes working local now, diesel too, probably about £1 a week.

Home heatings £140 a month though (kerosene), but thinking of taking the plunge and going back to solid fuel or perhaps install a burner that'll run on alternative fuels as well.

OddballJamie

motorguy wrote: »

For me that would mean no job, which would mean very quickly no heating.. :eek:

We've only had the heating on once since summer this year so the house is winning so far.

Dieselman

£40.00 per month on fuel just for work.

I spend more than that on beer.!!:D

WantToBeSE

Between £25-£40 a week, depending on where i am travelling to that week.

tiger_eyes

DKLS wrote: »

Currently zero commuting costs as I am working from home

Me too! I work from a laptop, so sometimes I don't even get out of bed. :D

HappyMJ

£375 per month all in....insurance, VED, fuel, maintenance, lease payment. The fuel part is about £125 per month. 30 miles per day and another 50 on the weekend.

nearlyrich

Some weeks I fill up 3 times but I have a fuel card, so it costs me the 40% tax on about £4k a year for all my private driving. We pay £90 a month for our just fixed till 2015 dual fuel tariff which includes cooking and heating a 4 bed house with gas. We are quite frugal with the heating only heat rooms we are using and don't have it like Barbados but the house is well insulated and we have had new windows recently which should help this winter.

motorguy

OddballJamie wrote: »

We've only had the heating on once since summer this year so the house is winning so far.

I was being tongue in cheek and relating having a job to bringing in money to buy fuel. ie, no way to work = no job = no money for heating.

im-lost

I don't see the relevance of the question.

Surely it would be better to ask something like, how much do you spend in relation to your income.

How much someone spends means nothing unless you know how much they earn, or what percentage of their income is taken up by it.

Ultrasonic

im-lost wrote: »

I don't see the relevance of the question.

Surely it would be better to ask something like, how much do you spend in relation to your income.

How much someone spends means nothing unless you know how much they earn, or what percentage of their income is taken up by it.

The point is the relative costs of car fuel and domestic energy bills, as a guide to what government priorities should perhaps be. This is independent of income.