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Has anyone else filled their car up with liquid gold

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At least I guessed that's what it must have been.

 

£1.02 PER LITRE

 

It was .94 2 weeks ago.

 

Flipping worlds gone barmy. My Mondeo was nearly empty and it cost £56 to fill the tank.

 

Tomorrow a family of 3 will be going out cramped and uncomfortable in Mum's KA - we can't afford comfort if it means paying that price.

 

I am definately getting a diesel next time, I've 90% decided to not have a spanking new Mondeo but a secondhand Jag (just an X type, same underneath different on top!). Now I think maybe I'll need that car Jeremy Clarkson was driving on last weeks top gear - you know the tiddly one that did 100 mpg. I could get a trailer to sit James in....

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its 107 :shock: at our local garage and we are in rural Devon.

 

It makes me so :evil::evil: that a local petrol station can charge so much when the same brand of petrol in the "big city" (40 mile round trip away) can be cheaper!! :evil::evil:

 

We even got cheaper petrol in a motorway service station on the M5 near Birmingham on tuesday!

 

And we have very little public transport.

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We have very little public transport too, the bus comes once an hour and finishes quite early. I can get it all the way to work apparantly, a kid is living round the corner at the moment and getting the bus to school. Thing is I would need help getting all my stuff on and off and then a wheelbarrow to carry it up and down the road to school. Normally I just send a couple of kids donw to the car to get it.

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I paid £1.01 per litre of DIESEL this week! :shock:

 

I know its just as expensive but a diesel x type would get about 45mpg and my petrol mondeo (with the same engine as a petrol jag) is getting about 28mpg.

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Public transport Chelsea. We have to book our bus a week in advance :shock:

 

OH has a diesel Freelander Beast thing. £1.06 a litre!!!!

It cost shim over £60 to fill up! And he gets very little mileage to the gallon.

 

i pay £1.02/03 a litre for unleaded and think that is disgusting.

 

I have seen it cheaper at the airport and motorway service stations!

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Public transport Chelsea. We have to book our bus a week in advance :shock:

 

OH has a diesel Freelander Beast thing. £1.06 a litre!!!!

It cost shim over £60 to fill up! And he gets very little mileage to the gallon.

 

i pay £1.02/03 a litre for unleaded and think that is disgusting.

 

I have seen it cheaper at the airport and motorway service stations!

 

We have a 2 litre freelander aswell Christian :roll: cant half feel the affect on the wallet when your paying £50/60 to fill it up..so I know exactly how your OH feels. :roll:

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A deputy head at my old school drove a HUGE diesel Mercedes. With NO MODIFICATION (and he was a techy petrol head) he ran it for most of the year of vegtable oil. He communted from ~Chelmsford to Billericay all week then went home to BIRMINGHAM every weekend.

 

He had to use diesel in the depths of winter. We called his car the chip van - cos it smelled like the chip van when he started it up but he reckoned he was saving a fortune and paying the tax. I reckoned he was probably the best customer for veg oil down at bargain city in Birmingham....

 

Perhaps that's what I need.

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Hate to say this but 2 weeks ago I had a little holiday in Spain and had a day trip to Gibralter.....................petrol and diesel were going at 55p per litre :!::!::!::!: It just makes you wonder is WHY :!::!::!:

 

Its 104p here in sunny Slough :roll:

We were on the Costa del Sol last week & my parents took Alexander for a day trip to Gibraltar last Friday... where did you stay? We stayed at the MacDonald Hotel Villacana resort between Marbella & Estapona. (didn't pay MacDonald prices, we booked privately & booked our own flights)

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its 107 :shock: at our local garage and we are in rural Devon.

 

It makes me so :evil::evil: that a local petrol station can charge so much when the same brand of petrol in the "big city" (40 mile round trip away) can be cheaper!! :evil::evil:

 

We even got cheaper petrol in a motorway service station on the M5 near Birmingham on tuesday!

 

And we have very little public transport.

 

:shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock:

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We are over a £ up here too now but I have a diesel Yaris 1.4 5 door and it gets over 60 mpg and the yearly tax is only £35.00 as it is so very green and I love my YAris.

My 2003 1.0 3 door one gets 50mpg and £115 road tax. It is literally green in colour though :wink:

It was under a £ here, not sure it was slightly more expensive last week I think. I can get a full tank for £35ish.

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