£2 + per litre for petrol announced today!

[Msportman]

I see today on the news that there is a serious prediction by economist of over £2 per litre for fuel.

This is going to cause serious problems for many.

GTI's and many other cars will be priced off the road.

Small engined cars will make an even greater resurgence especially 1.2 and 1.4 turbo units is my prediction.

Lucky I only use my good old MK2 16V for 6 months of the year...summer use and track work for my thrills.

Running my Edition 30 would be very painful now.

[parks]

Que the prices of thirsty cars dropping again

Time for a polo gti.....

[VC]

its being offset though, applications have been made to the euro courts to have remote uk regions fuel prices set lower, and also business zones for companies within them to achieve cheaper fill ups.

general public though will have to bear most of the brunt, economists want us to drive smaller more efficient engine cars which is why manufacturers concentrate so hard on them now and less on flamboyant models.

its will become the point where only the affluent will drive big engine cars

[Nasir]

What a joke, it just makes the decision to go diesel even more tempting.

[h4rdy]

Solution?

Drive slower?

All the people at work complaining about fuel costs all whizz past me on the motorway at 100/110 on the way home!

Moan about getting 25-30 mpg out of a diesel!

I just laugh.

There is not much we can do about it sorry to say, don't think about it drive less and enjoy when you do.

Go on the bus to town, walk.

You say to me 'why should I' but thats the way it is now and we are going to have to accept it.

[VC]

Exactly 

[Nasir]

You say to me 'why should I' but thats the way it is now and we are going to have to accept it.

Erm, no we don't have to accept it! We've been fed the same BS everytime. "Oil will run out in 8 years, there's only a few years left", I heard that stuff in 2002! They'll always find a reason to hike the price up, the public are just too numb to do anything about it (including me).

[tony_danza]

Ooooo.. V8 M3s will be looking cheap soon...

[Janner_Sy]

i 90% agree with h4rdy in all honesty.

its quite easy to achieve high 30mpg in the tfsi.  Its just immensely boring and nobody does it.  fuel prices are going to continue to go up for the forseable future.  the more it runs out, the more they can increase the price.  so in leading up to 2050 when they predict oil levels wil be depleted we'll see some horriffic hikes.

lets just hope the oil companies start finding deep sea oil wells and the technology to extract it.  but in the mean time as h4rdy says, you have to accept it, sel up and get a diesel, or adjust the way you drive.

as td says, theres going to be some very cheap high performance gas guzzlers coming to the market soon with huge bargains to be had

[h4rdy]

You say to me 'why should I' but thats the way it is now and we are going to have to accept it.

Erm, no we don't have to accept it! We've been fed the same BS everytime. "Oil will run out in 8 years, there's only a few years left", I heard that stuff in 2002! They'll always find a reason to hike the price up, the public are just too numb to do anything about it (including me).

What do you propose? A march on parliament in the name of mk5golfgti?
I will tell you now 15 years ago we had 50 years of air travel left.
That was from a senior engineering executive at BA before it all went global.
We WILL be driving electric cars or the like in ten years time period.

[Sunglasses Ron]

Ooooo.. V8 M3s will be looking cheap soon...

  Trust you to find a positive out of a negative Mike.. 

Had a passenger run out in a brand spanking C63 AMG earlier. That things spits fuel at ya and you could hear your bank balance going through the injectors and out the exhaust...  But what a sound it was.. 

[Sunglasses Ron]

You say to me 'why should I' but thats the way it is now and we are going to have to accept it.

Erm, no we don't have to accept it! We've been fed the same BS everytime. "Oil will run out in 8 years, there's only a few years left", I heard that stuff in 2002! They'll always find a reason to hike the price up, the public are just too numb to do anything about it (including me).

What do you propose? A march on parliament in the name of mk5golfgti?
I will tell you now 15 years ago we had 50 years of air travel left.
That was from a senior engineering executive at BA before it all went global.
We WILL be driving electric cars or the like in ten years time period.

As long as they do 12 second 1/4's, I couldn't give a rats ass..

[Janner_Sy]

electric cars arent the future IMO.  everyone wants carbon free, and electric cars are just not even close ot it when you take into account the power generation, that and the range is always as an issue as is disposal of batteries.

Hydrogen cars are where the future will be, once they ascertain the technology to store it safely

[tony_danza]

Ooooo.. V8 M3s will be looking cheap soon...

  Trust you to find a positive out of a negative Mike..  

Had a passenger run out in a brand spanking C63 AMG earlier. That things spits fuel at ya and you could hear your bank balance going through the injectors and out the exhaust...   But what a sound it was..  

I just don't care, I refuse to get worked up and a Daily Mail style rage - nothing we do is going to change it. Frankly if some clown wants to panic and lose £5k off the value of their car overnight because of the prospect of their fuel bill going up £10/week, like when the crunch hit, more fool them... I'll happily buy that car and convert the £5k saving into burnt fuel.

If it really hits the fan, I might upgrade to a V10  

[vRStu]

£2 + per litre for petrol announced today!

Thats not entirely true is it.  Have you ever thought of getting a job with the Sun or Sport with scaremongering headlines like that?? 

Even Sky limited themselves to

Petrol Prices 'Could Soar To £2 A Litre'

The international development minister said, in a worst case scenario, where terrorists bombed oil tankers or Saudi reserves, the price of oil could rise to $250 dollars a barrel.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/UK-Petrol-Price-Could-Reach-2-A-Litre-If-Libya-And-Mideast-Instablity-Escalate-Warns-Govt-Minister/Article/201103115946140?lpos=Business_First_UK_News_Article_Teaser_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15946140_UK_Petrol_Price_Could_Reach_%3F2_A_Litre_If_Libya_And_Mideast_Instablity_Escalate_Warns_Govt_Minister