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stuartadair
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PostPosted: 12:15 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Petrol is shooting up .... Reply with quote

Just had to fill Mrs Wife's Piaggio up. Bloody thing cost £5.31 to fill this year. Last year it only cost £4.50
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PostPosted: 12:30 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

A whole fiver!! Wont someone please think of the children!
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PostPosted: 12:31 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wish it took a fiver to fill my bike up
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PostPosted: 12:38 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Timon wrote:
A whole fiver!! Wont someone please think of the children!


Sod the children, the kittens are going hungry!
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PostPosted: 12:44 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laughing
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PostPosted: 13:10 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm sad that it costs me £70 to fill the car, and lasts about as long as £17 in the bike Sad
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PostPosted: 13:17 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

£1.129 a litre here :o seems alright compared to everywhere else ive seen..
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PostPosted: 13:42 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

£1.10.9 here, but the car uses LPG at £0.57.9.

It just cost me £17.37 for 180 miles, not bad for a 2.8 6 potter Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: 14:05 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

It varies from around £1.15 to £1.20 here at the moment, its ridiculous
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PostPosted: 14:10 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

I never look, it costs what it costs, not much I can do about it.
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PostPosted: 14:21 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

stonesie wrote:
£1.10.9 here, but the car uses LPG at £0.57.9.

It just cost me £17.37 for 180 miles, not bad for a 2.8 6 potter Twisted Evil


Same as my local pretty surprised as its on the outskirts of manc city centre, always though city petrol stations were more expensive but its the cheapest for miles around.
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PostPosted: 14:29 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I'm sad that it costs me £70 to fill the car, and lasts about as long as £17 in the bike


What the hell do you drive? £70 gets you ~130-150 miles?
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PostPosted: 15:54 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

robbieguy2003 wrote:
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I'm sad that it costs me £70 to fill the car, and lasts about as long as £17 in the bike


What the hell do you drive? £70 gets you ~130-150 miles?


Well it does slightly more then that.

I get around 15mpg combined in the car, so its just over 200 miles to a full tank!

I can get 280 miles if I drive very sensibly!

Although my old Jetski did between 2 and 4mpg Laughing
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PostPosted: 16:21 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

What the hell is it?

i've got a 3litre 330ci and that'll do more than that, though for what it is its better than other stuff i've had in the past.

My brother in law has a rib that does similar to your Jet Ski, it has a V6 3.0 2 stroke on the back.
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PostPosted: 16:49 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its a piece of shit Nissan 200sx, with a few mod's Wink

Runs about 500bhp at the fly and over 400bhp at the wheels Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 16:51 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah that'd do it Laughing

Sounds quite nice, i'd imagine its quite fun to drive? The BM can be interesting when you properly turn all the DSC traction stuff off, and thats only meant to be 230bhp.
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PostPosted: 18:16 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

SamJL wrote:
Its a piece of shit Nissan 200sx, with a few mod's Wink

Runs about 500bhp at the fly and over 400bhp at the wheels Thumbs Up


You should bring that up to the Cat 'n' Fiddle next time Very Happy
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PostPosted: 18:21 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

It would probably break before it got there, when you more then double the power of something, it tends to stop being very reliable!
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PostPosted: 18:40 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought that was rocket fuel Wink
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PostPosted: 18:57 - 03 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

We're paying the equivalent of 1,57 a litre here so think yerselves lucky Sad
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PostPosted: 00:39 - 04 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's only going to get much worse as time goes on.....

I dread to think of the fuel prices in 2020....
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PostPosted: 02:54 - 04 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think diesel was about 1.20pl when i filled the car up last, i had to stop at 90pounds though. fckin thing.
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PostPosted: 09:22 - 04 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Currently paying around 116.9-118.9 around these parts.

Crying or Very sad

Funnily enough oil prices are actually relatively low at the moment, so we're just being spectacularly done over by the oil companies.

https://www.oil-price.net/

Look at the yearly, or five yearly trend. Sad

We were paying circa 1.25 around me when it was at $130 a barrel, now it's circa $75 a barrel and we're paying 116. Very odd. Although I appreciate there are other influences, but certainly not that much.
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PostPosted: 09:36 - 04 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

£1.14 a litre here. Obscene prices.

I got sold my car because it was just too inefficient getting only 30mpg. I'm getting three times that on my GPZ500S.

Roll on electric motorbikes. This one looks promising:
https://www.brammo.com/empulse/
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PostPosted: 10:15 - 04 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Big_Ham wrote:

We were paying circa 1.25 around me when it was at $130 a barrel, now it's circa $75 a barrel and we're paying 116. Very odd. Although I appreciate there are other influences, but certainly not that much.

I suspect the exchange rates would provide a large part of that.
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