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Post by Alex on Jun 26, 2022 5:58:44 GMT
Our allowance is for dinner, drinks and breakfast / lunch the next day and your be surprised how quickly £40 disappears these days if you need to save a tenner for the hotel breakfast (which I tend not to these days). We used to also be able to use £5 of our allowance on a magazine but all the ones I'm interested in now cost more than that. To be fair the main reason a lot of us are a bit grumbly about it is because there's a lot less scope for having a piss up on the company coin! The trick of course is to find a customer to go out with you that way what you spend counts as entertainment not part of your overnight subsistence.
I might bring up the issue again and suggest to finance they take it to HMRC but I doubt they will. Probably just tell me to start eating at Spoons and stop moaning!
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Post by Martin on Jun 26, 2022 7:12:23 GMT
I wouldn’t be surprised! Works out broadly the same as our allowance then, but I never claim for lunch unless I’m entertaining.
The overnight allowance isn’t there to have a piss up on the company. We have ‘entertaining employees ’ and ‘entertaining customers categories on the expenses system, that’s what they are for!
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Post by ChrisM on Jul 2, 2022 19:13:00 GMT
209.9p / litre for super unleaded (rather than the E10 muck) when I filled the A1 this morning, in readiness to handing it back to younger daughter tomorrow. Having got just over 46mpg from "my" first tankful, I got just over 43mpg from the second one, and this includes much more stop-start town driving than the first, so overall not bad at all. I shall miss it to a certain extent when it's gone, however the Fiesta is definitely much more fun to drive
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Post by rodge on Jul 10, 2022 7:03:53 GMT
Germany yesterday. I paid €1.78.9 per litre.
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Post by ChrisM on Jul 10, 2022 11:55:56 GMT
Whilst locally diesel seems to have stabilised almost everywhere at 199.9, there appears to be a slight fall at some places for petrol. I did pass one place yesterday where I'm pretty sure it was below 190, and I filled up the Polo with BP Ultimate E5 at 202.9, a notable saving from the Esso E5 at 209.9 last weekend
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Post by bryan on Jul 10, 2022 21:57:39 GMT
Costco was £1.76 for unleaded on Friday
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 11, 2022 12:53:59 GMT
You need to get off the motorway to get that price in Germany. All the Czechs and Slovaks complaining of Autobahn petrol prices.
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Post by Alex on Jul 11, 2022 13:15:25 GMT
Pretty much stable round here at 189.9 for petrol and 199.9 for diesel. Forecourts are still busy and the roads are full of traffic so evidently its not stopping people buying it so I doubt the government will do anything about it, especially as they're currently in limbo.
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 12, 2022 8:05:28 GMT
Pretty much stable round here at 189.9 for petrol and 199.9 for diesel. Forecourts are still busy and the roads are full of traffic so evidently its not stopping people buying it so I doubt the government will do anything about it, especially as they're currently in limbo. Need to put some perspective on it. £10 will buy you enough petrol for about 40 miles in most cars. That’s a 20 mile each way commute, which allows you to get to work to earn money. It will also buy a pack of fags or three café lattes, the former which you just burn and the latter you piss down the drain. That’s not to belittle the cost involved for driving and the effect on peoples’ budgets of fuel costs but even at £2/litre it’s arguably more useful than many things we buy at a similar price. Food costs are another issue, though.
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Post by ChrisM on Jul 12, 2022 9:26:50 GMT
But as almost everything we buy is transported to shops znd warehouses, fuel cost rises prompt price rises in the cost of almost all goods, resulting in inflation and an even bigger strain on most people's budgets
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Post by rodge on Jul 12, 2022 14:13:11 GMT
The cheapest I could get fuel today in Geneva was 2.25 CHF. Think that’s what I paid the last time.
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Post by Martin on Jul 12, 2022 15:51:19 GMT
I’ve been to North Wales today and haven’t seen diesel for less than 199.9 anywhere. It makes the 209.9 at Stafford services seem fairly reasonable.
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Post by Grampa on Jul 12, 2022 17:19:40 GMT
I’ve been to North Wales today and haven’t seen diesel for less than 199.9 anywhere. It makes the 209.9 at Stafford services seem fairly reasonable. A few garages around £1.75 (for E10) in South West Wales - didn't notice the diesel prices.
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Post by Alex on Jul 12, 2022 17:21:09 GMT
Definitely seems that the prices have settled at that level and I wonder I that will be the new norm. There is an element though of fuel prices having been kept artificially low over the last 10 years or so as the fuel duty was frozen and although it has hovered around 120-150 depending on time of year and the vagaries of the international market, it has been fairly static for quite some time and was if it had gone up with inflation we should be somewhere between 140 and 180. I dont think it will go back down to the pre covid price when I seem to recall it was about 120-130. I think the low price will be around 170 but that will probably be in the late Autumn when people are doing less driving for leisure and holidays. Until then we probably have to accept the current prices for the rest of the summer and into September.
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Post by Martin on Jul 13, 2022 16:40:09 GMT
Most places around home are 199.9 for diesel, but BP are 196.9, so I filled up there. Only to put premium diesel in by mistake and I didn't notice until I'd gone past £100...in for a penny, in for £157!! It happened to be the second most economical full tank, but was still 30p per mile.
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Post by johnc on Jul 13, 2022 16:43:44 GMT
Most places around home are 199.9 for diesel, but BP are 196.9, so I filled up there. Only to put premium diesel in by mistake and I didn't notice until I'd gone past £100...in for a penny, in for £157!! It happened to be the second most economical full tank, but was still 30p per mile. I think I am nearer to 40p/mile at the moment!! I might manage 30p/mile on a long journey.
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Post by Martin on Jul 13, 2022 16:50:20 GMT
Most places around home are 199.9 for diesel, but BP are 196.9, so I filled up there. Only to put premium diesel in by mistake and I didn't notice until I'd gone past £100...in for a penny, in for £157!! It happened to be the second most economical full tank, but was still 30p per mile. I think I am nearer to 40p/mile at the moment!! I might manage 30p/mile on a long journey. Yes, but you've got a petrol V8 and I've got a diesel.... It was over 90% long motorway journeys. I didn't mention the price, it was 210.9. We're not even 2 weeks into July and I've already put nearly £400 worth of fuel into the cars. It's easily going to be an £800 month and I think I'll get about £250 of that back through expenses. It cost me just over £500 last month as well after claiming expenses, it's getting a bit painful.
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Post by Alex on Jul 14, 2022 5:26:28 GMT
Of course the taxman hasn't deemed the rate you can be paid per mile for business in need of an uplift. Something the government don't ever get taken to task on yet its people driving for business that are keeping the economy ticking over. Its OK for someone like you who earns enough to swallow it (not that you should have to) but people like my sister, who's a community nurse are not getting paid enough to cover the costs of travelling around their rural communities and are starting to think of stopping because they can't afford it anymore. What happens to their patients?
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 14, 2022 11:30:32 GMT
Of course the taxman hasn't deemed the rate you can be paid per mile for business in need of an uplift. Something the government don't ever get taken to task on yet its people driving for business that are keeping the economy ticking over. Its OK for someone like you who earns enough to swallow it (not that you should have to) but people like my sister, who's a community nurse are not getting paid enough to cover the costs of travelling around their rural communities and are starting to think of stopping because they can't afford it anymore. What happens to their patients? To be blunt, they will become increasingly unwell and, in a probably significant number of cases, die. Sickening really, where there are options to avoid it, but inevitable if things keep going as they have been.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2022 15:00:59 GMT
Jack, 95 and ex army is basically on his uppers. He can just about get down the stairs outside his flat (One level) but then has to rest for ten minutes to get his breath back. Anuerism and what souds like heart block. He has to be dragged out by his 'carer' to the surgery if he needs to be seen. Carities refuse to put in a stair lifet because "It's outside the flat itself and other people light use it".
Considering the wait time for an ambulance, borrowed time.
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Post by ChrisM on Jul 14, 2022 18:59:18 GMT
To be blunt, they will become increasingly unwell and, in a probably significant number of cases, die. Sickening really, where there are options to avoid it, but inevitable if things keep going as they have been. Probably, yes, and that is what the government actually wants because it costs them less that way. No benefits etc to pay out, if the ill person was also a pensioner, it's one less pension to pay out too. We know this from first-hand dealings when my late granny, who lived with my parents for many years, needed assistance. Benefit application was turned down but won on appeal with the "disclosure" that applications were usually turned down as a matter of course, with the hope that the "patient" died before the appeal was held because it cost the governbment less that way. Pretty disgraceful really, and morally/ethically corrupt too, but then the present government knows all about morals and corruption.....
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Post by Martin on Jul 21, 2022 10:50:14 GMT
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 21, 2022 11:34:55 GMT
Trago Mills though: you have to buy a garden gnome and set of specialist can openers to get the deal on petrol.
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Post by Martin on Jul 21, 2022 11:52:00 GMT
Trago Mills though: you have to buy a garden gnome and set of specialist can openers to get the deal on petrol. Probably a bit more than the c£15 I'd save per tank then! I'd also happily pay an extra £15 not to queue for the fuel!! Petrol is a better saving that diesel, but even so, I bet a high % of people in that queue are 'only' going to save £5-10 and they'll burn some of that sitting there with the engine and air con running plus whatever they've used driving out of their way to get the saving.
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Post by johnc on Jul 21, 2022 14:53:33 GMT
My eye was caught with the sign for Lavazza Car Wash. Driving along to the smell of fresh coffee in a clean car would be wonderful!
Petrol prices around here have come down 2p to 3p/litre which in reality makes no difference.
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Post by bryan on Jul 24, 2022 10:40:37 GMT
170 for unleaded at Costco, diesel 1.80 and premium unleaded 1.77
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 24, 2022 19:39:59 GMT
I filled up yesterday at a garage in another village about 5 miles away. Diesel was 6ppl cheaper than our local Asda, which on the 50-ish litres worked out at over £3 of a saving. Not much, perhaps, but that's bread and fillings for my lunch this week, so I'm happy with that.
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Post by Alex on Jul 25, 2022 4:35:11 GMT
170 for unleaded at Costco, diesel 1.80 and premium unleaded 1.77 How are they doing it so much cheaper than anywhere else? Nowhere is doing petrol within 12p of those prices. Shame they don't have stores anywhere near Sussex.
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Post by bryan on Jul 25, 2022 7:50:28 GMT
I don't know but it doesn't take long to cover the £30 annual memebership fee
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Post by johnc on Jul 25, 2022 8:30:24 GMT
170 for unleaded at Costco, diesel 1.80 and premium unleaded 1.77 How are they doing it so much cheaper than anywhere else? Nowhere is doing petrol within 12p of those prices. Shame they don't have stores anywhere near Sussex. Costco have always been cheaper but I think their current pricing is an indication of the fact that other retailers are not passing on all the reductions they could after the fall in oil prices and are just taking advantage of the consumer. Costco are normally 8p to 10p/litre cheaper than my normal Shell Garage who are still at 197.9 for diesel and 203.9 for VPower petrol.
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