Can you remember when fuel was 89p a litre?

[Harry87]

with just 4.94p the retailer’s margin

Wow no wonder you see these small garages closing down all the time! Also, why it is always so expensive buying groceries in a petrol garage!! ;D

[Jon_W]

have you tried running oil fired central heating?
Central heating oil has doubled in price in 5 years. :'(

sorry to go off track , thought it was worth mentioning.

We are looking at installing a wood burner so we can turn the central heating off. Prices are getting silly.

[Jon_W]

Don't want to harp on too much Chris and cast doom and gloom on WB :-X, but I do really feel for the young generation.
They are the ones who are going to pay the price for past mistakes.
On a brighter note, I would sell my body to keep my bike - mind you, would probably only make enough to ride a Honda Melody ;D

A Honda Melody..... ;D That'll be without a full tank of fuel then!!!!! ;D

[Kevinb]

[quote author=python link=1332781740/15#15 date=1332877622]have you tried running oil fired central heating?
Central heating oil has doubled in price in 5 years. :'(

sorry to go off track , thought it was worth mentioning.

We are looking at installing a wood burner so we can turn the central heating off. Prices are getting silly.[/quote]

It's a bugger lugging it upstairs at bedtime though ;D

Any way haven't you seen the price of wood?

[Jon_W]

Ah.... we have ze plan!!!!

[redken1]

The lengths the current coalition administration will go to, to top-up the treasury piggy-bank appears to know no bounds.

Amid fears of a possible tanker drivers’ strike, Tory Cabinet Minister Francis Maude indulged in a bit of reckless and irresponsible scaremongering, when he said, "A bit of petrol in a jerry can in the garage is a sensible precaution to take."

I wonder whether or not this was a calculated ploy to encourage motorists to ‘panic buy’ stock piles of fuel? :-/

No doubting that if 20 million motorists purchased 20 litres of fuel each over and above normal average sales, this would give a much needed economic boost to the treasury coffers before the end of the financial year.

Perhaps I’m an OTT cynic and in reality The Rt honourable gentleman is just a bumbling old fool? :P

[goz1960]

Cant find any fuel tonight full stop.

[Wes]

I remember when it was around 76p a gallon and you used to be able to pay a bit extra, around 5p for a shot of redex at the attended pump

[redken1]

Cant find any fuel tonight full stop.

The ploy worked then :P

[Toph]

I queued for fuel tonight, not because I was panicking, coz I was riding the bike and the fuel light was on.
bloke in front of me stopped at the pump, put the nozzle in his filler cap filled for a few seconds, stopped, shook his car manually from side to side, filled a little more, again shook the car.. back to the nozzle for another squirt, etc .. etc.. five or six times.
. after he left, I pulled up to the pump and it read £7.30... it's because of tossers like this there's queues at petrol stations. > > > >