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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 17, 2022 9:14:55 GMT
I spent 40 miles yesterday slipstreaming a Greggs wagon, 6 feet off the bumper with my windscreen filled with a giant sausage roll.
With the money I saved on fuel I bought a sausage roll.
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Post by racingteatray on Jun 17, 2022 10:57:33 GMT
I was amused by an Instagram post from a friend with a Silver Shadow that read "I nearly fainted at the pump", showing that it had just cost him £176 to fill the car en route to Ascot.
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Post by Roadrunner on Jun 17, 2022 11:37:56 GMT
I was amused by an Instagram post from a friend with a Silver Shadow that read "I nearly fainted at the pump", showing that it had just cost him £176 to fill the car en route to Ascot. I can believe that. I remember putting £125 of VPower in the tank of my Silver Shadow 12 years ago, ahead of a weekend trip to north Norfolk. I had to put more in to it home again. Edit: actually, it would have been more like 15 or 16 years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2022 19:07:25 GMT
£2:04 in town today.
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 22, 2022 19:16:50 GMT
My local station has been increasing the price almost every day this week again, diesel was 198.9 this morning but when I came home it was 199.9
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2022 19:27:58 GMT
Asda appear to be cheaper than anyone else here but no E5.
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Post by Tim on Jun 23, 2022 7:49:50 GMT
The station I've driven past every day for the last 10 days now appears to have stabilised at 199.9 for diesel and 188.9 for petrol. That's been the price for 3 days. Not saying its the cheapest - it's a BP on a main road near a village rather than a supermarket. Tesco have introduced a 2 container limit for petrol cans which came as a surprise when I was trying to fill 4 of them. I thought the pump had broken, then didn't understand the sign language from the kiosk before someone finally came out and told me. That's a pain in the arse when you've got a big bit of grass and a mower with a 5 litre fuel capacity
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 23, 2022 7:54:56 GMT
Our local Sainsbury's is 192.9 for diesel and 185.9 for petrol.
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Post by Tim on Jun 23, 2022 8:02:27 GMT
Don't rub it in.
It's annoying that our prices are higher, it's not as if I live within about 25 miles of a massive refinery (Grangemouth) or anything.
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Post by PetrolEd on Jun 23, 2022 9:36:02 GMT
I’ve just filled up my grossly underpowered Nissan Pulsar in Kefalonia. 2.52 euro’s a litre. I’ll stop moaning about the uk. I am however offsetting the cost of petrol with cheap plonk so not all bad.
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Post by rodge on Jun 23, 2022 14:12:02 GMT
€2.14 today when I filled up, and the car wasn’t even empty. Cost over €110 which is the most I’ve filled up for I think, and that includes some of the massive Ford V10 RV’s I’ve had over the years.
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 23, 2022 19:18:18 GMT
..... I am however offsetting the cost of petrol with cheap plonk so not all bad. Can you run a Pulsar on a mix of petrol and wine?
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Post by LandieMark on Jun 23, 2022 20:09:38 GMT
It's just over €2 for petrol here in Corfu. I have a Fiat 500 Cabrio that shouldn't drink too much.
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Post by johnc on Jun 24, 2022 6:53:41 GMT
£2.07 last night for Shell V Power. I think it might now be worth the drive to Costco to fill up there with their Super fuel which was £1.89 the other night!
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Post by Martin on Jun 24, 2022 8:27:59 GMT
£2.07 last night for Shell V Power. I think it might now be worth the drive to Costco to fill up there with their Super fuel which was £1.89 the other night! I'm just using Tesco 99 for the Golf now to try and keep it under the £2 mark, which is a psychological barrier. But my local Tesco has just gone up to £2.09, which is only 1p below Shell and it's £1.929 at the Tesco in Kettering.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 24, 2022 9:06:49 GMT
£2.07 last night for Shell V Power. I think it might now be worth the drive to Costco to fill up there with their Super fuel which was £1.89 the other night! Yes, I noticed their petrol is 181.7 per litre.
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Post by Alex on Jun 24, 2022 10:04:42 GMT
But yet despite all this we're all still filling our tanks, albeit begrudgingly, and all my local filling stations are as busy as ever so there's no real incentive for the price to be reduced and the government must be loving all this extra VAT which will go a long way to funding the 11% rise in state pension payments and the £400 they're giving everyone towards theor leccy bills. It might also help with the modal shift that's needed to help the UK reach net zero, at least that's the theory (so long as the trains are running)
Is anyone on here deliberately driving less as a result of the high prices? Has it made you rethink the way you travel? Are you changing the way you drive to eak out more miles from your tank?
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Post by johnc on Jun 24, 2022 10:37:36 GMT
Is anyone on here deliberately driving less as a result of the high prices? Has it made you rethink the way you travel? Are you changing the way you drive to eak out more miles from your tank? I already drive much less than I used to do and I try to be as efficient as possible with my routes and planning so that I get everything done in one journey rather than making several separate journeys. As a consequence, to reduce my mileage I would have to stop doing things I want/need to do and to shift my right foot into economy mode would make little difference and would negate the whole point of having my car, so I will not be doing anything differently apart from that trip to Costco.
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Post by bryan on Jun 24, 2022 11:17:51 GMT
£2.07 last night for Shell V Power. I think it might now be worth the drive to Costco to fill up there with their Super fuel which was £1.89 the other night! Have you factored in the £150 you'll spend on bog roll and pastries whilst inside Costco?🤣
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Post by Tim on Jun 24, 2022 12:46:55 GMT
The place I pass regularly had dropped diesel by 2p last night.
In Aberdeen today and it was 194.9 at the Shell garage on the A90 as you leave Aberdeen.
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Post by johnc on Jun 24, 2022 14:20:05 GMT
£2.07 last night for Shell V Power. I think it might now be worth the drive to Costco to fill up there with their Super fuel which was £1.89 the other night! Have you factored in the £150 you'll spend on bog roll and pastries whilst inside Costco?🤣 That is a problem I admit. I am particularly fond of the small Victoria Sponges they sell in packs of 6. It's not a good shop if you are watching your waist line.
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Post by PG on Jun 24, 2022 15:21:19 GMT
Jut put £20 worth into a loan car while the Jag was in for some work. £2.02 / litre boggo Shell diesel.
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 24, 2022 21:03:20 GMT
Is anyone on here deliberately driving less as a result of the high prices? Has it made you rethink the way you travel? Are you changing the way you drive to eak out more miles from your tank? Not exactly - I always drive economically and I'm still putting miles on the A1 to bed the new tyres in etc after 4 months off the road, and I still have to drive to work every week day. In the overall scheme of running a car, an extra 30p per litre over the past few months is annoying and inconvenient but fortunately I can (and have) cut back elsewhere
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Post by humphreythepug on Jun 25, 2022 6:48:00 GMT
So glad I drive a ZOE which I charge at work, the wife's employer (she's a nanny) instead of upping her 45p per mile allowance (can become a tax issue I believe), have told her to claim an extra £60 per month on her expenses.
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Post by Martin on Jun 25, 2022 7:31:57 GMT
So glad I drive a ZOE which I charge at work, the wife's employer (she's a nanny) instead of upping her 45p per mile allowance (can become a tax issue I believe), have told her to claim an extra £60 per month on her expenses. Not the start to a sentence you’d expect to see on this forum! I’ve not changed driving habits yet, or thought about something more economical. Not yet anyway.
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Post by Alex on Jun 25, 2022 11:12:17 GMT
So glad I drive a ZOE which I charge at work, the wife's employer (she's a nanny) instead of upping her 45p per mile allowance (can become a tax issue I believe), have told her to claim an extra £60 per month on her expenses. It is a tax issue. Any more and HMRC deem it to be a benefit. Its the same reason our overnight allowance for food/drink when staying away on business has remained at £40 for over 10 years.
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Post by johnc on Jun 25, 2022 11:32:10 GMT
It is a tax issue. Any more and HMRC deem it to be a benefit. Its the same reason our overnight allowance for food/drink when staying away on business has remained at £40 for over 10 years. HMRC are very slow to move with the times and given the increased cost of cars, servicing and fuel, the 45p/mile should really be at least 55/60p. The overnight allowance per HMRC is actually nil! However reasonable expenses are allowed or an employer can agree a figure with HMRC based on the documented actual costs staff are incurring. If your employer agreed £40/night 10 years ago then they just need to gather some documentary evidence of the actual costs now and then make an application to HMRC to increase the nightly allowance.
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Post by PetrolEd on Jun 25, 2022 11:38:03 GMT
So glad I drive a ZOE which I charge at work, the wife's employer (she's a nanny) instead of upping her 45p per mile allowance (can become a tax issue I believe), have told her to claim an extra £60 per month on her expenses. That’s very good of them. Ours will remain at 45p no matter what the cost cost of fuel until HMRC declare otherwise
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Post by Martin on Jun 25, 2022 12:37:59 GMT
So glad I drive a ZOE which I charge at work, the wife's employer (she's a nanny) instead of upping her 45p per mile allowance (can become a tax issue I believe), have told her to claim an extra £60 per month on her expenses. It is a tax issue. Any more and HMRC deem it to be a benefit. Its the same reason our overnight allowance for food/drink when staying away on business has remained at £40 for over 10 years. That sounds fine to me and a a fairly generous allowance lot 10 years ago, although it’s not so good if it has to cover breakfast as well? Ours is £25 for evening meal & drink, so a main course and soft drink most of the time but I give people a bit of slack as long as they don’t go mad. The hotel allowance isn’t enough at the moment either. My PA looks after travel bookings for the whole team, so there’s a level of control (making sure people stay in decent place at the moment!), not many bookings are within policy.
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 25, 2022 20:02:37 GMT
I've not had to use my own car for business for over 2 years... last time I did it was when I started the job at Weybridge but had to go to the other site on my first day. Prior to that, again must have been 2 years or more since I claimed business mileage.
Diesel seems to have stabilised at 199.9 everywhere around me at the moment but unleaded has quite a variation in price. Some places are still under 190p/litre but most are just over that figure
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