LPG: Are smug grins allowed watching you queue for fuel?
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It's been awful for me. I don't know how I cope? I sail in, past the sheep in massive queues for fuel, and there I am; me, my car and maybe another pulled up at the pump. In and out in the same time as usual.
You see, I did the “crazy” thing, the thing that I was told was a “waste of money” and will “never pay back”, I'm “driving a bomb around”, and oh yes, "gas is unreliable", etc etc Yes, you guessed right, mine's the CNG/LPG pump.
If you remember, the government invited us all to a champagne reception, in my case promising to pay me roughly £1500 a year to drive a vehicle. Most of you said, "Feck your £30,000, I'll thkweam and thkweam and I won't do it.". Ahem, well I did.
The rest of you continue subsidising my motoring with your fuel duty, and it's been going on for over 20 years? Now, apart from buying my own home, no one has ever put so much money in my pocket, for simply sitting on my fat backside.
I tells you, I've had £30K minimum, cash taken straight from the rest of you.
As I watch the rest of you queue to pay near double, the coup de gras came in the last few days.
I will admit my usual 'smug' grin filling with gas is now a full 'smirk'. Please, what's wrong with you all? Surely Shirley, £30K is heap of cash for all but a few of you?
You see, I did the “crazy” thing, the thing that I was told was a “waste of money” and will “never pay back”, I'm “driving a bomb around”, and oh yes, "gas is unreliable", etc etc Yes, you guessed right, mine's the CNG/LPG pump.
If you remember, the government invited us all to a champagne reception, in my case promising to pay me roughly £1500 a year to drive a vehicle. Most of you said, "Feck your £30,000, I'll thkweam and thkweam and I won't do it.". Ahem, well I did.
The rest of you continue subsidising my motoring with your fuel duty, and it's been going on for over 20 years? Now, apart from buying my own home, no one has ever put so much money in my pocket, for simply sitting on my fat backside.
I tells you, I've had £30K minimum, cash taken straight from the rest of you.
As I watch the rest of you queue to pay near double, the coup de gras came in the last few days.
I will admit my usual 'smug' grin filling with gas is now a full 'smirk'. Please, what's wrong with you all? Surely Shirley, £30K is heap of cash for all but a few of you?
Edited by OldDuffer on Wednesday 29th September 02:17
Edited by OldDuffer on Wednesday 29th September 02:22
944 Man said:
It starts on LPG, does it?
When you think that you are clever and being funny, you probably aren't.
I give you that, the first 30-60 secs it will require petrol, whereas my single-point starts on gas. I think I can cope. And I won't claim 'clever' I simply took the money, it's not clever or funny.When you think that you are clever and being funny, you probably aren't.
Edited by OldDuffer on Wednesday 29th September 02:31
Edited by OldDuffer on Wednesday 29th September 02:39
I'm not quite sure what you are on about - or what you are on when you say "I'll thkweam and thkweam" but you haven't taken £30K from me. 
What wonderful vehicular conveyance do you have anyway? Because your profile has no details!
I may need some petrol next week, but possibly not until the week after if I use them both.
What wonderful vehicular conveyance do you have anyway? Because your profile has no details!
I may need some petrol next week, but possibly not until the week after if I use them both.
Mr Tidy said:
I'm not quite sure what you are on about - or what you are on when you say "I'll thkweam and thkweam" but you haven't taken £30K from me.
Which car driven is broadly irrelevant. I can't speak for how much you've spent on fuel in your motoring history, only you know that. I suspect it's more than you'd first think. If we assume 20 years, on average miles it must be £25-30K at least? You paid it though, and if you paid fuel-duty; and you would have done, your bill has been roughly double over running the LPG burning alternatives.
In my case, had it been petrol or diesel, in this period, the bill would exceed £80K. Perhaps it's too tenuous for many to make such a leap, yet, in fuel-duty somebody paid for the tax-breaks on LPG, and if you've been paying tax or using petrol or diesel at £6-7 a gallon over this period, likely it was you.
And which car driven doesn't change the fact, LPG has been 55-60% of the cost of diesel/petrol for quite a while. What I fail to grasp is why it's not grabbed with both hands? I truly have made money.
Edited by OldDuffer on Wednesday 29th September 03:32
I tried LPG, it made my vehicle slow and unresponsive, the range was s
te, and because you had to wring its neck to make any sort of progress, it worked out no cheaper than the diesel it replaced.
The spare wheel in the load space thing annoyed me as well.
LPG burns at a higher temperature as well, which contributed to the head gasket failure, after that I got rid, and good riddance.
te, and because you had to wring its neck to make any sort of progress, it worked out no cheaper than the diesel it replaced. The spare wheel in the load space thing annoyed me as well.
LPG burns at a higher temperature as well, which contributed to the head gasket failure, after that I got rid, and good riddance.
There's an eccentric hill farmer type who, when the weather is bad, can often be seen out and about in the market town where I live wearing various bits of clothing he's fashioned from old silage bags and baling twine. He's clearly very happy with the money he's saved whereas everybody else thinks he's a strange old skinflint but lets him get on with it as he's actually very nice. I'm getting similar vibes here. Except the OP doesn't seem very nice.
LeroyLoser said:
You need an EV if you want true smug mode 
theres always someone else laughing at you (if thats your thing) 
Exactly, I was going to thank him for subsidising my EV motoring for the past 6 years……but I am not so childish as him. theres always someone else laughing at you (if thats your thing) Edited by LeroyLoser on Wednesday 29th September 09:27
I'd say Its more a case of the dev and petrol owners getting a taste of an lpg users motoring life, finding it hard to get , driving to another station due to the pump being empty or broken. Getting more rarer by the day.
I use it, and yep its cheep motoring, but have to plan out my fuel visits a bit, im east of London, so not remote at all ,but not that many local places to get it from!
I use it, and yep its cheep motoring, but have to plan out my fuel visits a bit, im east of London, so not remote at all ,but not that many local places to get it from!
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