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#213416 3rd Mar 2008 7:50pm
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I know this is always being talked about, but i never really realised the impact on putting it up by £0.10 could have.

Just before xmas i was constantly working up in manchester so i would fill my van to the brim from empty every week which would usually cost around £50.00 give or take a pound either side.

I havn't done this since then as there was no need to, but today i decided to treat her to a full tank, and the prteol light had only just come on. So i pulled in at the petty station opposite baerly dam nursaries where it was about £1.09 a litre. Filled her up, wondered when in the hell the meter would stop turning, and to my horror it was £61.07.

Put simply that small £0.10 rise on evry litre has cost me and extra tennet to fill me tank. This i never realised until today that although £0.10 aint really that much, on a larger scale it really is. Im sickened by this alot more than i origionally was. Absolutly shocked.

somad

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Gutted mate.

You should try and get them 5p off every litre of petrol or diesel vouchers for Tescos wink

I have a few of these actually and have no use for them yet as my motor isnt on the road, so if anyone wants one, just ask.

I wanted to go on the fuel protest a few months ago which hardly anyone turned up to.


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Heh... we should be protesting pretty soon... the government is ripping us off and whilst they get more and more tax, our public service's seem to get worse and worse!!!

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I'm seriously thinking of switching to a gas converted motor.
And slash that bill in half,

but i need to start a thread about that as i dont know
enough about it ..

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Originally Posted by Mark
I'm seriously thinking of switching to a gas converted motor.
And slash that bill in half,

but i need to start a thread about that as i dont know
enough about it ..


It's the old compramisation situation though bud, you need a tank installing - therefore loosing space
a spare £1500 lying around
prapared for your car to go slower
lack of filling stations.

just dont seem worth it, it does, and it doesnt if you know what i mean


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I suppose for the mileage his missus does though, he would make the money back in no time on the grand scale of things.

Performance isnt everything; getting from A-B is the most important thing I think for Mark's need's, and i think it would work out a good option.

At least until the fookin gobshites in Parliament increase tax on gas...

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Yer your totally right mat, i'd love to do it for me van, as it is really only to get from a to b as u say, but i'd loose so much room though, and every square inch is used in the wagon frown


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Originally Posted by sanchez
i decided to treat her to a full tank, and the petrol light had only just come on.


....its a Diesel!!! [Linked Image]

On another note, I passed a Shell last night where the Derv was 112.9p/l omg


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Dont forget in businesses they have a higher impact as they need to deliver the goods forth and back from distribution to the retail and also they run lorrys!/trucks. That means costing them even more which would mean the products we buy would increase!

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load of shite innit


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tell me about it, i just look at my car and i have spent a tenner


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ah well the extra tax we all pay is buyin gordon brown an his chums a nice cooker an stuff eh!


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