£2 + per litre for petrol announced today!

[RedRobin]

Has anyone been on a bus or a train recently?  The cost of those is frightening.  Seriously, driving is cheaper!

Oil is sold on the open market, regardless of where it comes from its much the same price.  Oil producers naturally will sell for the highest price they can get for it.  So it doesn't matter where it comes from wrt to price.  Security of supply is a different issue.

Didn't this happen in the 70's as well?  Where's Robin when you need him ...  

....Watching let the gear see the stick! No likey, no lightey!  

Yep, I've seen it all before. The same with bank rates, mortgage rates, fuel, etc etc. Nothing new and still the same knee-jerk reactions.

Ooops! Must go...  A Liam Neeson movie "Taken".... Ch4+1

[Hedge]

Ooops! Must go...  A Liam Neeson movie "Taken".... Ch4+1

Top fillum.  

Flight of the Phoenix is ok too,

[boxxer1973]

I will find you 

[Janner_Sy]

Ooops! Must go...  A Liam Neeson movie "Taken".... Ch4+1

Top fillum.  

Flight of the Phoenix is ok too,

whgat channel for the flight of the pheonix ian?

edit--
silly post, took me 1 button till i saw it on the sky planner, taxi for me

[Hedge]

and I will kill you  


It's after Taken.

[Janner_Sy]

im watching derren brown.  he freaks me out

[vRS Carl]

and I will kill you  


It's after Taken.

Tell me or you'll stay here till they turn the electricity off for non payment of the bill

Awesome film

[Msportman]

                   Honestly

        

Did anyone see the comic relief program the other night, were lenny Henry and a couple of others went to live in Kibera for 2 weeks.  
Msportsman you need a reality check pal. You have forgotten how good your life has been for the last few years were you have enough spare cash to fritter away on buying go faster bits for your car Extortionate prices at that ( APR)    i might add. Life must be really tough if you have to buy a smaller engine car to get buy.  

Uh??  Who said I paid extortionate prices for my car bits?? I didn't as I was looked after very well indeed by Jim at awesome...he is a good acquaintance of mine. Luckily I recouped what I paid for the car and bits I put on it...not something that would happen now.

I just hope it doesn't go to £2 a litre. I am glad I enjoyed my MK5 when I did....the performance was just too good to ignore hence my lead foot that didn't do much for mpg!

I'm into Diesel's right now for good mpg on a daily basis as we do approx 15K a year in our family chariot. Golfs are a people's car and it's such a shame that even in todays world these everyday car's are becoming increasingly expensive. Still the upside will be much cheaper premium cars like the M3's and RS4's which maybe a very nice weekend toy.  

[Frodo-anni]

So as prices creep up, my anni pd will hopefully hold value more, as all Ed30/pirelli's get cheaper, happy days......   

[stealthwolf]

I need the car for work and for getting to/from satellite places. At the mo, it's still cheaper and quicker to drive around than go by public transport. The moment it does that, I'll get a more fuel-efficient runabout and use that as my main car.

[RedRobin]

Ooops! Must go...  A Liam Neeson movie "Taken".... Ch4+1

Top fillum.  

....That certainly was a top fillum!   I hadn't seen it before.

My teenage daughter decided to go to Paris last summer just with three friends and so I could relate to it very strongly (especially having had the experience of losing a son). I'm afraid that I found the film very emotional and I was perhaps over-identifying with Liam Neeson - He did exactly what I would have wanted to do (in my fantasies) and I was glad he showed no mercy to those scumbags!

In Paris:



^ Fortunately the person who took this photo for them wasn't a cute dude called Peter!

Back on topic, I'm very lucky that I have never needed a car for work and so can more easily swallow higher fuel costs but it's about time that the tax component was reduced! WTF do they do with that money? They don't fund mending potholes properly I know! We're told that some B-roads may never get repaired by local councils in the next 50 years!

[ub7rm]

^^  To me thats the biggest issue.  Where is the VFM from the fuel duty and road tax?  I would be a lot less grouchy about the cost if the roads were proactively kept in good condition, winter maintenance was adequate etc.  But we just take this ass invasion with nothing other than a grumble in the newspaper letter page or forum. 

If a builder was round at my house and provided the same lack of service to my property as the govt / la do I'd be slinging him off the job. 

[rich83]

Robin, I think we might have to make a few phone calls!!! 

[Sunglasses Ron]

Ooops! Must go...  A Liam Neeson movie "Taken".... Ch4+1

Top fillum.  

....That certainly was a top fillum!   I hadn't seen it before.

My teenage daughter decided to go to Paris last summer just with three friends and so I could relate to it very strongly (especially having had the experience of losing a son). I'm afraid that I found the film very emotional and I was perhaps over-identifying with Liam Neeson - He did exactly what I would have wanted to do (in my fantasies) and I was glad he showed no mercy to those scumbags!

In Paris:



^ Fortunately the person who took this photo for them wasn't a cute dude called Peter!

Just picturing Robin in his Liam Neeson role, ploughing/windmilling his way through some unsuspecting Albanians..


BOT.. I just wonder what price diesel will be if unleaded hits £2 a litre? Food for thought..

[tony_danza]

Diesel is in shorter supply than petrol and I think more volatile. If you're looking to cut costs, buy a cheaper (than the diesel equivalent) small engined petrol.