Fuel price changes whilst driving.

[norman156]

Around 80p when I passed in 2005, I think. So about a 55p rise in that time, or 68% (not adjusted for inflation), unless my maths is out...

[dowahdiddyman]

When I got my first motorbike when I was 17 I remember filling it up and was amazed that it took over a fiver to fill it. I remember thinking then that it was going to cost me nearly a tenner a month just to go to work. Oh it was also £1.1O A GALLON!,in 1979.

[crofty1984]

Mattt said:

I wasn't driving but remember the major fuel price strikes in 2000 as the price reached a heady 80p.

I miss sub-quid fuel :-(

[paintman]

Around 35p per gallon. And £5 would easily get me from Cornwall to Leicester in an Imp. We were all outraged when it went up to 50p per gallon.

[crofty1984]

Mattt said:

I wasn't driving but remember the major fuel price strikes in 2000 as the price reached a heady 80p.

I miss sub-quid fuel :-(

[PumpkinSteve]

I remember paying 84p per litre, and I'm only 26

[eldar]

I can remember ration books for petrol - they were issued but never used. The 1973 oil crisis.

[mikey77]

7p-ish. 6s 8d a gallon. I used to do a 15-miles each way commute and could fuel a Hillman Imp on £1 a week!

[littleredrooster]

29.5p per gallon - GALLON, yes - when I first took to the roads in 1970.

[Jasandjules]

Well yesterday I drove from Plymouth to Suffolk - diesel in Plymouth was 133.9, Suffolk 139.9.

Not sure if I time travelled whilst I drove....

[JimmyTheHand]

Garvin said:

When I was 18 I remember a raging debate that the price of petrol might reach the heady heights of £1 per gallon (22p per litre) by the summer of that year - IIRC prices were about 85p per gallon (19p per litre). Oh those halcyon days of putting a fiver's worth of fuel in the car and driving round for a week!

I recall they was an issue where some pumps couldn't do more than 99p per gallon

[CallorFold]

Passed in 2007, Petrol was just under £1 a litre

[mikey77]

I've got a photo somewhere I took of a garage forecourt at Chard in Somerset - must have been about 1980? - showing top petrol at 99p a gallon. I thought I'd take the pic so I could remember the good old days.

[mpm1987]

79p in 2004!

[menguin]

clockworks said:

Less than 40p a gallon when I got my first moped. Sounds cheap, but a packet of fags was cheaper, and my Saturday job only paid 20p an hour.

Interesting. Now it is £5.20 a gallon, fags @ similar price, and wages at least £5 per hour. Seems fuel is comparatively cheaper when compared to wages... All that changes is perception.

[MX7]

Petrol prices since 1896

About £1.70 for me.



Edit: Link fixed.

Edited by MX7 on Sunday 12th May 11:51

[Raize]

£1.50 per litre. It's less now.

[wiliferus]

1997 it was about 57p a litre. £20 would fill my Fiesta and do me about two weeks.

Now £20 barely registers on the fuel gauge and lasts about two days

[stormy22]

menguin said:

clockworks said:

Less than 40p a gallon when I got my first moped. Sounds cheap, but a packet of fags was cheaper, and my Saturday job only paid 20p an hour.

Interesting. Now it is £5.20 a gallon, fags @ similar price, and wages at least £5 per hour. Seems fuel is comparatively cheaper when compared to wages... All that changes is perception.

I thought £1.34 per litre was £6.03 per gallon

[Nedzilla]

I got my first car in 1994,a 1.3 fiat uno turbo.IIRC petrol was about 55p a litre and I would put in around £10-£15 a week and go all over the place in it.

Today,in my current car £10 gets me about 27 miles.