filled a petrol can...

[andym]

it took £8.44, I had to check under it to make sure it wasn't pouring straight through.

[Ariel Badger]

I never thought of the price of fuel until last week. I was keeping an eye on how much the Freelander drank and was horrified by it going though what I thought was eight gallons (£40 worth) It wasn't until I did the sums and found out it was just over six gallon.
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[kerr]

I know what your saying man, i remember when id recently passed my driving test, jerry can wouldn't even take £3
Since getting a bike i had to fill one up to replace the shitty fuel, cost a fortune.
Think it was 70p ish a litre when i passed my car test and people were moaning about the price of fuel then
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[m3-paul]

I have owned BMW M cars for the past 6 years, two M3s and more recently the E60 M5 (the V10 one). I now own a 525d as of three weeks ago. My petrol saving will be circa £5000 with the diesel over the V10 . Gutted to lose the M5 due to the greedy bastard oil companies and government.
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[andym]

I did take the opportunity to fill my galaxy once, it took just over £93 and that was from the top of the red marker... only got about 200 miles out of 3/4 of the tank too... just hope it would be better on motorways.

I remember being able to put £3 in the car and it would last for days of just random driving around... mind you I could just about cram £2.50 into my scooter when I just got it, that was about 2 years ago now.

[Llama-Farmer]

couple of years ago I got one of my winter coats out after a summer of it hung up in the spare bedroom wardrobe and found a £20 note in it (which made me very happy) and a receipt for petrol from when I first passed (which made me very sad, because it was 79.9p per litre back then, and it was around 35-40 pence more by then)

When I got my own first car, cost £50 to fill up from the red light coming on.

Now it costs over £60. Fill up twice a month and you're looking at around £250 a year

[-LG-]

Filled up last week...£89, and that was with £7 off! Put £50 in on Wednesday too, bit depressing, but can't complain, my choice to have the car I do. Could save myself loads each month if I downsized.
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[Thelostone]

I remember when petrol reached £1 a gallon, fcuk I feel old!

I grew up in a rural location where the petrol stations closed at 6pm, then one day one of them installed a self service pump that you could feed fivers into. Great all night petrol. except nobody's bikes could take a fiver's worth of juice and so we had to get a posse together to go and fill up.

[Llama-Farmer]

[Louise]

Remember when I got the R1 in 2010 was £13 IIRC to fill up, I stoped at £16 other day and wasnt full

[Raffles]

I fail to understand why everyone moans about the cost of fuel as I have not noticed any change at all in the cost. Whenever I go to the pumps I always stick a tenner's worth in and the cost never seems to alter.
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[Llama-Farmer]

[keggyhander]

Just remember that it was petrol hitting 80p a litre that triggered the fuel protests of September 2000.

I'd love to pay 80p a litre again.

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[andym]

It's one of these things that because the government know people won't give up their transport they can bump up the price as much as they like and make up a load of bullshit about some oil crisis somewhere in the world.

I'm not sure it is all down to the price of petrol though, I'm guessing some of the petrol stations have rigged the pumps slightly to either go faster or put some air through with the petrol... realistically how often do people actually measure how much petrol they are putting in, they just go by what the pump says.

Was just a bit of a shock because last time I filled a can it only took just over £7 which I thought was bloody expensive

[andym]

The thing I don't understand about the whole petrol pricing thing... over the course of a few weeks the price shoots up by quite a few pence, eventually the public get pissed off at the price hike so the price comes down 1-2p and the public are happy again, doesn't matter that it shot up by 15p a litre in the first place

[pits]

Yeah my Duke took near as dammit £19 worth of fuel the other day, then again I did run out of petrol as I pulled onto the forecourt.


I fill my BMW up when it reaches 3/4 tank or so, I can't stomach the £113 fill ups
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[Llama-Farmer]

[dextersaurus]

£23.86 to fill up the bikes tank to the brim, going by the last receipt i saved, and £54.74 to fill up the car from empty to just over a full tank...

£1.28 a litre here. still expensive

[Dazbo666]

Just last night, filled up the Bandit from about quarter of a tank, up to the full mark....
£1.38 a litre, cost me just over £15 to fill.

And I can remember not so long ago that even if I was riding on fumes, it wouldn't cost £15 to fill up
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[Martay]

I work in a garage, and the number of drive-offs increases with the cost of fuel, we get the fuckers though
Anywho, my Cav only does about 25miles to £10 at £1,37.9. Horrific!! I dont dare brim it, i reakon £80 easy.
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[WindyMiller]

Last year I was paying about £400 / month putting diesel in the car just for my daily commute.

I'm now paying about £180 / month to sit on a train reading a book instead of shouting at arseholes in a traffic queue.

I'm also learning to ride a bike to cover the 10 miles to the station and back so I can save more on petrol and parking charges (and have a bit of fun).

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