Fuel price changes whilst driving.

[Caruso]

I can remember the furore when it went over £1 a gallon.

[Mr Happy]

Passed my test in 1999, started learning in 1998 so it was about 65p/litre or so then. I remember being able to put a fiver in and get further than "just off the forecourt" at least!

Also remember saying "it's going to be over 50p a litre shortly" in about 1992/3ish when getting a lift to school!

[MG CHRIS]

Passed my test on may 2010 latter in the year august the lowest it got was 1.12p litre roughly 1.31p now which has been that way for the best part of a year or more just seems to go up to 1.36 then back down to 1.29 every 3-4 months or so.

[MJG280]

5½ pence a litre or 4/11½d per gallon in 1967 or 8. It was going up by 2½ pence per gallon in the budget which was a lot so I filled up my Standard 8 to the brim and the extra weight fairly slowed it down going up hills.

[Pablo16v]

Passed my test in 1988. I remember getting a few days driving from a fiver, but for the life of me I couldn't remember the cost per gallon, so I had to look it up. Approx. £1.58, or 35p per litre.

[0000]

Seem to remember it being about 8p a litre in the late 1990s.



In Saudi Arabia.

[steve_bmw]

56p in 1994

[muley]

5/- (shillings) per gallon. Jet, however was only 4/11

[IanA2]

muley said:

5/- (shillings) per gallon. Jet, however was only 4/11

1968.

[Matt UK]

Just under 50p/ltr

A tenner fill was a decent gulp. Even a a fiver would normally do the job. And a £25 brim up on pay days.

[Bear Phils]

This thread depresses me

[PaulG40]

I always remember treating myself to the good super unleaded stuff at 69p/Litre every now and again back in 1998 ish.

[knotweed]

73p in 1999. I remember being in shock when I first had to pay £20 to fill my tank!

[Jonny_]

Around 70p per litre when I started driving in 2001. Occasionally dipped into the high 60s. I could fill my Fiat Uno for twenty quid and run for about a month on that! (although being a skint 6th former at the time it usually got a fiver's worth once a week).

Double that price now, although I currently get the same MPG from a big heavy saloon with 170bhp as I used to get from my flyweight Italian hatchback producing a mighty 45bhp...

[Perik Omo]

stormy22 said:

OK, we get the message (3 time's) You're old, we get it TUT....LOL

Lordy, don't know what happened there as only posted once and logged out straight away as I was going out!!!!

[VinceFox]

Seem to remember it beinig about 45p a litre. I remember the litre bit spinning twice for every pound when filling up then when one day it didn't it felt like armageddon.

[RizzoTheRat]

47.7 when I started driving in the early 90's, so it's tripled in 20 years.

Count yourselves lucky, I'm currently abroad* on work, and the price here has tripled** in 3 years!









* Middle East
** Now 12p/litre

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Sunday 12th May 11:12

[soad]

Was under 50p in early '96, I remember that.
Around 70p in 2001, when first started taking driving lessons.
Well under a pound in September of 2007.

[TameRacingDriver]

MrDecadent said:

2001 - 77.9p/litre. Wow, basically doubled over the last 10 years. House prices have quadrupoled.

Salaries on the other hand have not kept up. If I was doing the same job today, 10 years ago I would have been earning 85% of my salary today according to an old 2002 salary survey I've dug out!

Ironic then that a lot of people on here keep banging on that petrol is cheaper in real terms than its ever been... Clearly it isn't (which was obvious to anyone with half a clue tbh).

[colonel c]

9p a liter when I got my first moped.