How long before £2/litre go-go juice?
Discussion
With fuel prices reaching record highs again today...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17269942
...I know it's another fuel price thread, but as other threads have proved the £100+ fill up is now a regular thing but this will be £200 before long. That is almost as much as a lot of people's weekly wage(not PHers obviously) it really will be a case of people not being able to afford to work.
Whoever invents a viable/reliable alternative is going to be a VERY rich person.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17269942
...I know it's another fuel price thread, but as other threads have proved the £100+ fill up is now a regular thing but this will be £200 before long. That is almost as much as a lot of people's weekly wage(not PHers obviously) it really will be a case of people not being able to afford to work.
Whoever invents a viable/reliable alternative is going to be a VERY rich person.
Edited by Eighteeteewhy on Tuesday 6th March 15:01
Cupramax said:
My fairly large petrol car takes £75 to fill up (I wont mention the make for fear of imagine) So I'm not sure the £100 tank is with us. It may be for those that insist on driving chieftan tanks for the school run but not for normal size petrols.
A5 quattro s-line special ed, i reckon.I was thinking similar this morning.
When i bought my first car in 2001, a Peugeot 106 1.1, it used to cost me about £26 max to fill it, usually about £22 or £23 when the light came on. And that would last me nearly 400 miles.
Petrol was around about 60p a litre back then, and 11 years later, it's £1.40 ish. So i'm guessing in around 10 yrs time, it'll be nearly £3 a litre?
I remember seeing a service station on the A1M a couple of years back with diesel at 135.9p a litre and calling them robbing b'stards to myself as i passed. But 135.9p a litre now would be cheap!
When i bought my first car in 2001, a Peugeot 106 1.1, it used to cost me about £26 max to fill it, usually about £22 or £23 when the light came on. And that would last me nearly 400 miles.
Petrol was around about 60p a litre back then, and 11 years later, it's £1.40 ish. So i'm guessing in around 10 yrs time, it'll be nearly £3 a litre?
I remember seeing a service station on the A1M a couple of years back with diesel at 135.9p a litre and calling them robbing b'stards to myself as i passed. But 135.9p a litre now would be cheap!
By the end of the year . . . . . . . . Israel / iran stupidity and a Greek default, may well make the year a tad shaky and therefore the price of crude will go through the roof.
Don’t expect any drops in taxation levels, as the current government has been well and truly stuffed by the last lot.
Don’t expect any drops in taxation levels, as the current government has been well and truly stuffed by the last lot.
Eighteeteewhy said:
Whoever invents a viable/reliable alternative is going to be a VERY rich person.
The wealth of oil producers more likely ensures they'll be very dead/bought-off long before their ideas reach fruition...Don't forget that car manufacturers bought trams/buses and killed-them-off to improve their sales - bought out companies who'd invented new types of battery/charging system and buried them and so on...
Even producers of things like Veg oil found themselves under pressure when people discovered you could use it as fuel - it's not as simple as finding an alternative - it's being able to make it viable when your opposition has almost unlimited wealth and reach.
p.s. does anyone here know why Shell (petrol) is called Shell? It made me laugh
Cupramax said:
My fairly large petrol car takes £75 to fill up (I wont mention the make for fear of imagine) So I'm not sure the £100 tank is with us. It may be for those that insist on driving chieftan tanks for the school run but not for normal size petrols.
£75 = ~ 55 litre tank? Surely it's bigger than that? Surely it's a 70litre tank Shirely...?
SSBB said:
>£200 x 52 > £10400, so not really millionaires as such! I thought median gross wage in UK was £14k, and mean £20k (ish).
Impossible to know, really, far-too-many people have crappy jobs which offer short/variable hours and/or multiple jobs or whatever (and amongst the low-paid, cash-in-hand work must make-up a huge amount of income we've no idea about).What you can't get away from is that petrol costs are now seen as a significant issue which they weren't a few years back. In 2011, for the first time EVER, we used less fuel (by quantity) than in a previous year!!
SturdyJ said:
£75 = ~ 55 litre tank? Surely it's bigger than that?
Surely it's a 70litre tank Shirely...?
55 litre tanks are actually pretty big (12.5 gals) - LOADS of smaller cars are now getting 45 litre jobbies or even less.Surely it's a 70litre tank Shirely...?
I don't think I've ever owned a car with more than a 12.5g tank tho - hell I've not filled a car's tank in 10 years!!
johnpeat said:
55 litre tanks are actually pretty big (12.5 gals) - LOADS of smaller cars are now getting 45 litre jobbies or even less.
I don't think I've ever owned a car with more than a 12.5g tank tho - hell I've not filled a car's tank in 10 years!!
My car still costs less than £40 to fill from when the refill flashes I don't think I've ever owned a car with more than a 12.5g tank tho - hell I've not filled a car's tank in 10 years!!
Sadly it can only cover 4 days of commuting at a push.
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