You What?

[securespark]

Filled up my Connect today. £65.00.

 

[crockett]

Peugeot Partner..... £60-00

 

[gregers]

put 50 quid in my galaxy and it only went 3/4.never mind its only money read that they reckon its goner hit 1.50p a litre by the end of the year

 

[crockett]

Had that email come through about boycotting certain petrol station brands to try and influence prices....... ain't gonna work, Britons don't like to take a stand in general, or just can't be bothered

 

[RF Lighting]

£72 to fill my car.

It should last 2 weeks hopefully

 

[tawelfryn]

£120 ish to fill my renault traffic

 

[megawatt]

Better get used to it, oil is a scare commodity and its finite THERE IS NO MORE ... This is the start of the end of the World as we know it.

Just thought I'd get in before Joe-90 does his usual rant ... Saved your fingers Joe

MW

 

[Whitespirit66]

My Scudo is £100 to fill up. Not that I fill up very often as 80 litres of fuel weighs 80 kgs. A lot of weight to lug about!

 

[D_Hailsham]

... 80 litres of fuel weighs 80 kgs. A lot of weight to lug about!

Martin Lewis of Money Saving Expert and Channel Five's "It pays to watch" pointed out that it is not economical to fill the tank as the extra weight means a higher fuel consumption. Much better to live on the bottom half of the tank.

 

[^woody^]

And if you are a big fat bloke, it must be worth losing a few pounds too.

In fact, you can then fill the tank up again!

And don't forget to not carry bags of donuts on the passenger seat either

 

[megawatt]

Who gives a f*** about the weight of the fuel ... I'd sooner fill up and make sure I don't run out

 

[empip]

HMG out for tenders printing ration books - fuel and food -

 

[chirpychippy]

Vegetable oil all the way Peugeot Partner £26.47

 

[oompah]

may 2002 oil a barrel $24 petrol a litre 77p
may 2008 oil a barrel $129 petrol a litre 114p
so going by 2002 figures petrol should be 387p ie about three time as much as a barrel of oil?

 

[Adam_151]

may 2002 oil a barrel $24 petrol a litre 77p
may 2008 oil a barrel $129 petrol a litre 114p
so going by 2002 figures petrol should be 387p ie about three time as much as a barrel of oil?

Not quite as simple as that, road fuel duty accounts for a bit of that, and that is set in the budget and is unaffected by crude prices, quick fag packet calaculations:

If we remove VAT from those two prices, we get 65p and 97p, if we then take 47p from the former and 50p from the later we get 18p and 47p for the actual product, about 5p of this goes to the retailer, so we then have 13p for the actual fuel in 2002 and 42p now going to the refinary, this doesn't quite match the 5x rise as seen in crude prices, but you have to remember that not all of this is oil costs, there are processing costs involved as well