Fill-up for £1.50

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[quote author=monday21 link=1315507125/0#0 date=1315507125]The pending anti-biking proposals > look likely to reach the UK statute book without too much opposition from the apparently unconcerned biking community. In light of the aforesaid, a poor summer and ever rising fuel costs, perhaps from a biker’s perspective, moving to Venezuela is an option worth considering. :P

In the South American socialist republic petrol is just 2-3p per litre, the cheapest in the world — that's around 54 times cheaper than prices here in the UK. So if you have a 70 litre fuel tank in your car, you could fill it up in Venezuela for around £1.50. While In Britain it would cost you a whopping £95.
Prices are kept low thanks to subsidies from the country's left-wing government. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

I'll pass it's something like 165 out of 180 countries for corruption, making it one of the most corrupts states in the world, typical socialist republic..........[/quote]


What more corrupt than the UK? Never! (where shall I start? ;D)
I posted it up because I found it interesting - as a matter of interest fuel is approx 20 pence a litre in Libya.

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So Trotsky, when are you emigrating then? :-?

Don't think they would let me in Scotty - too much of a troublemaker. ;D

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Not only that jaydee you have to take into consideration what has to happen to the fuel before we put it in our fuel tank, it is sucked out of the ground somwhere in the middle east, transported to a refinery... refined transported to england, distributed arround england and then stored until we pump it into our fuel tanks, all for less than 1.40! That is one hell of a good deal tbh

Last year I was living in the States, Maine - just under Canada...

Lots of people there were moaning about the high cost of gas(petrol) and looking to maybe get a smaller car? We had a Chevrolet Tahoe (think Range Rover, 4.7litre V8) which averaged anything from 11-18mpg, a large gas tank meant fuel stops were not as frequent as you may have thought...

Gas came in three grades (low, normal & super), diesel was only used in trucks

It was just under $2 a GALLON (US gallons being slightly smaller than a UK gallon - UK gallon = 5 litres...

33 pence a litre.

All this for fuel that had not only been distilled & refined, with thousands of other gallons that day then shipped across the Atlantic.

G3o - I can remember filling my car up with a fiver and driving to work all week & I'm not that old. Couldnt even get a fiver's worth in a bike!

We get fisted in this country for food, drink & fuel, end of.

What can we do about it? Nowt. Still have to buy the above or not much would happen! An eaaaaaaasy target for the Taxman.

A vast percentage of that £1.40 a frickin' litre goes to the Taxman.

Not Sheik Maheadridacamel whos land they are pumping the oil from?

Not the tanker drivers?

The Government.

Bargain? :

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UK is the 3rd most expensive country for fuel in the world behind Norway and can't remember the other country.

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Check if you are buying petrol and not some ethnol petrol cocktail made from sugar cane.

The brazilans love it in particular, but it is way down the scale for octaine.

Dont think the gixer would start on a cold morning with that in the tank, plus the ethnol will disolve lots of the fuel system in to goo.

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The 'governments' need the tax on fuel, baccy, booze to finance all the unnecessary social/world tinkering and create pointless overpaid/pensioned state jobs as used to be advertised in the Guardian [are they still ??]

On the fuel subject did ya know that diesel now contains somat like 5% rape seed oil which reduces efficiency because of the 'green' agenda faff

Anyway----'We're all in this together' ;D ;D