Diesel

[libby lou lou]

I travel to work daily, a round trip of some 60 miles. If we keep getting these weekly increases in fuel then it will come to the point where its not cost effective to work.

I'm sure diesel is more because greedy old government realise that diesel give more mpg, hence the higher price, I dont think it costs as much to produce as petrol. Also there are a large proportion of business users buying diesel so there is a large demand, untl they start saying no prices will just continue to rise.

Perhaps we would have been better off not going to war with Iraq, we may not have seen these rises

Just wait til its about 2/3 dearer than petrol..what will be the advantage of buying a diesel car?

Its all this stuff about converting your car to run on LPG..ok at the moment its half the price...give it a few years and the governemtn will be milking that to death as well and it will be the same price as the petrol an deisel...hardly worth spending out a grand for the conversion is it.[/quote

You say "give it a few yrs the government will be milking it," of course they will.
Take advantage whilst you can.

 

[Space cat]

Makes a change from them blocking two lanes going up a hill on a motorway while they test their tachos, the posstots.

Don't get me started!

Too late. I can see why we need lorries. I can see why they use motorways. It's the best place for them. I can see why lorries can only climb steep hills at low speed. I can see why, sometimes, one lorry needs to overtake another lorry. What I can't understand is why some a*sehole lorry drivers think that a steep hill is a sensible place to do it!

We've all been there. You see the warning sign, "Slow lorries ahead" and you know there's a steep gradient coming up. But this is a three lane motorway and the traffic hasn't been bad so far - so why is everybody slowing to a crawl? There's a lorry up ahead in the left hand lane crawling up the hill at 30 mph, which is all he can manage with that heavy load, but that's not the real problem.

The real problem is the lorry crawling up the MIDDLE lane at 31 mph! WHAT IS THE POINT? Does that moron think the world will end if he doesn't reach the top of the hill first? Perhaps he really thinks his lorry can take that hill at 40 mph then can't bring himself to admit that it won't. Or maybe he just hates cars with a vengence and jumps at any chance to p*ss them off.

I think we need a new road sign to be placed at the bottom of all steep hills. LORRIES NO OVERTAKING! The symbol would be the usual one for cars but with black and red lorries.

 

[Nige F]

The reason diesel costs more is due to the higher demand. There are lots of diesel cars out there now compared to a few years ago.

Petrol and diesel are made from crude oil by fractional distillation. You get the quantities of each that you get. You can't turn it just into diesel or petrol, it distills the way it distills due to the content of the fuel oils in the crude.

cracking good answer- see Wikipedia

 

[Zampa]

What I can't understand is why some a*sehole lorry drivers think that a steep hill is a sensible place to do it!

Cos they are lorry drivers

The game is to overtaken them a quarter of the way up...get in front the '**** number one' on the inside and leave a gap two small for '**** number two' to pull into while doing a slightly faster speed!..

Beleive it or not a copper told me that!