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Petrol Price

22 posts · Started by whufc0 · 20 Mar 2011

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Not used the bike since September, so thought id use it for work today, had to put petrol in, 22 fookin quid to fill up,
yep I do £20 every 2 days in the old girl. it will not be long before its £2 a litre. British are too soft, in france they would be blocking ports at holiday times
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Ho well. now that we are taking libia from the old colonel we may get a cheaper deal. but i think not. its all in the name of cleaner air and being GREEN. but we all know its just so fat cat Bentley owners can roll down the road without waiting in jams.
£20+ per day for me at the moment.......................
ya tell me about it, and bet you it wont go down any time soon..but what gets me is the fact that ive just come back from the middle east and to fill up my suv only cost me £12. which is about 50ltrs..suchs!
In the paper the other day, it read that the poor old Yanks are moaning cos its nearly £2.50 a Gallon and in some parts of Scotland they are paying £7.50. I filled up Saturday and paid £20.85
Don't know where your getting your info from about fuel prices in the US,, avarage price for un-leaded regular is like $3.50 a gallon,and the SD won't run too good on it,,, and remember this , it's cut with E10 Ethanol,, it's not really "petrol" at all I just bought 5 gallons of Cam 2 race fuel for a tad over 10 bucks a gallon , 120 octane , no E10,, and the front tyre doesn't spend much time on the ground,, it didn't the other day anyway,,,,high prices in Scotland it's probley "fuel taxes" imposed by the govornment thats inflating the prices so high, at least it's still an "oil based" fuel you guy's are getting,,,,
How are you guys getting £20 +pounds worth in a superduke's tank? If I fill mine up from fumes I can barely cram £15 into it. Is the bigger 07 on tank, really that much bigger?
Here in Cali I'm paying $4.17 a gallon for premium which I know is way cheaper than you guys across the pond. I saw something recently that said one reason gas cost so much over there is because oil is bought using the American dollar, which means England has to buy dollars then use them to buy oil. Not sure how true that is but might explain your high prices. That and your governments like to take as much of your hard earned money as possible.
In Latvia 1 litre = 1.32 EUR.
1 gallon approximately 3.8 liters.
at least the SD takes normal unleaded... I have to fill my car up with super - managed to find it for £1.35.9 down south the other day and was quite pleased at the time! (relatively speaking )
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Well, it's budget day tomorrow, so let's see if the rumoured fuel duty stabiliser replaces the fuel duty escalator (a 5p rise is already in the pipeline)
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You guys over there need to do like the mid east counrties are doing right now and hit the streets and tell the government "lower our taxes and let us keep our money for ourselves" no killing each other over it though. that's just ridiculous.
What I dont understand is prior to the GFC we were paying approx A$1.50 a lt, at that time oil was US$150 a barrel and the Aussie $ was about 70c US. So that equates to A$215 a barrel.

Once again we are paying approx A$1.50 per lt, oil is US$105 per barrel and the Aussie dollar is at parity with the US.

So we are now paying the same as we were 3 years ago and the comparative oil price is less than halfof what it was, HTF does this work?????

Price gouging by oil companies?
Great thanks Mr Osborne.

Thanks very much for the 18.4 pence i'll save each time I fill up.

Yeah thanks a bunch.
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Gas in Venezuela is only 16c a gallon or maybe is per litre but still. thats cheap. no tax
ktmguy is onto something there.....

One factor to put in there is the oil search game that oil companies play. They spend millions on millions for exploration (increasingly finding nothing, I compare it to ultra high stakes poker/gambling, the cost of producing said oil once found is forever increasing (esp in western world) but the question is......

If the oil was found 20+ years ago when the oil price was $20 a bbl and the decision was made shortly after to setup a refinery etc to produce the oil they are laughing all the way to the bank. If it's profitable at $20 a bbl what do you think $105 means!

It's definitely driven by taxes primarily. The oil companies pay royalties to the gubermant and then you pay GST/VAT on the fuel. Dont you love paying tax twice or is that three times as you're still paying income tax! Or is that 4 times when you consider speed cameras! lol

time for one last drink night guys.
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