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Please keep on topic, and stop this turning in to a slaging match. It was a pretty informative topic pre some of these posts

Still seeing everyone racing to work this morning on M56 and M53 at 70mph+, despite the BBC and others showing the usual hillbillies moaning about the price of fuel being too high and not being able to afford to run their cars blah blah blahhhhh.

I havent altered the way im driving, if I want to go faster the first thought that enters my head isnt £££££££££ down the drain as I love my car and driving. I just have value sausages and bacon on my binlid as a result.

But if you were struggling as much as these plebs claim they are, then I'm sure you would drive more economically. It's just common sense really.

If you can afford to drive as fast as you want, that's fair enough; but therein lies the problem with the theory that people are somehow being "squeezed" at the pump, everyone is still driving as fast as they want, and then going down the pub or popping onto Wiki every night to have a good moan about the cost of driving being so high...

We are being squeezed at the pump, but everytime I see the £££££'s going up quickly on the meter I remember how greatful I am to live in a (for now) safe country without fear of being mugged (unless im in the wrong place) or beaten up as a result of my views.

The main thing is Matt, which I believe to be einsteins theory :

What goes up has to come down, reguardless of the way it happens....

I predicted a forthcoming price crash for oil last time the fuel prices went up to similar levels on this very site, and everyone pissed themselves laughing at me haha!! Then 6 months later, the price of a barrel dropped to less than $30 as I predicted, and I was proved right if you remember lol.

This time however, I make no such prediction, because I cannot see demand falling off this time. The price will have small fluctuations every now and again, but the era of cheap oil is over. I doubt even a Eurozone crash would be enough to knock it back down to previous levels.

Another 3p per litre duty being added in October iirc, smashing!

Your right bud, its never going to drop it needs to crash.

With you all the way Sanchez, Nearly 66,semi retired,just love driving my 3.2 M3. Sod how much fuel costs,we only pass this way once,it's not a rehearsal,chill out peeps and enjoy life.

66 and driving an M3

Nice to see others who don't give a fig about the price of fuel!

Also ban all the crap cars below 2.0 litre apart from the classics.

Street cred or what?.

Haha go ed Ste mate, you know the score!!

Surely gotta let the 1.8 Turbos and VVC's and the like through though, your missus needs to VVC that MG!!

Street cred and serious man points!!

She won't let me mate, scared about high insurance prices lol.

I'm toying with the idea of putting my 2.3 turbo 250bhp saab motor in my astra once i`ve taxed the bmw, my saabs just sitting in the yard, got 10 months MOT but fook it, iv'e had my moneys worth out of it