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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: andypack on 07 November 2007, 20:40
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Jesus just been to the petrol station up here in the sticks ( i live in the borders) £105.9 for unleaded and 110.9 for diesel, Whatever happened to all those farmers get em back protesting or maybe we should get a VW protest going and we will block all the roads. Its skinting me my missus has a land rover td4 and its coting me a fortune. WERE ARE YOU FARMERS GET BLOCKING THOSE TERMINALS AND MAKE THEM PUT THE PRICE DOWN
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yer was 99p here today :angry: i wont be able to run my car when i pass :sick:
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I pid over a quid for ultimate at the weekend.....and thought that was bad!! 105.9 for normal unleaded!! think I would have to walk everywhere with them prices
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I'm so very happy I have a company fuel card to pay for my petrol :smug:
Seriously though - maybe we should start taking thouse "boycott Esso and BP" e-mails a little more seriously!
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definetly or get every mk3 onto the m6 and block it.
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some fat cat in the government is getting very fat on these prices!
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if we all stood up against it they would eventualy be forced to lower it.... but no one does they just complain about it!!!
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i was talking about this the other day..... they kicked off when it was 90p now its over a quid. come on! wake up and smell the petrol :angry:
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Well i've just serviced my mountain bike in anticipation of another hike and the VR6 is on hold.
Ok its only 97.9p(shell) 99.9(tesco) but I can see that £1 mark getting closer and beyond.
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I wouldnt use Tesco :angry: messed up my bike when they had dodgy petrol... BP all the way imo except around here theres been a few cases of debit card accounts being emptied in thailand :shocked: cash or credit is safe :sad:
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Oil is a commodity - the more people want it the more the price rises. China etc will see to that in the meantime. There is plenty of oil, just that it is costly for the oil companies to get at. Perhaps now they'll start drilling.
Biggest winner in all of this is HM Government, as the tax on petrol is @ 80%. This of course is the vast bulk of the price. HMG are hardly going to complain as this is a nice little earner for them, the more so as the price rises.
Of course, they could bring this percentage down to maintain the tax take in £s at a constant, and yet still very high level, but being the wastrels they are in spending our hard earned, this is hardly likely.
In one sense, whoever voted for this bunch of incompetents in HMG is to blame. Certainly voting Tory would not change much either, but Labour is traditionally the party of high tax, and as such, this situation is more likely under their administration.
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When i started driving ( OMG i feel old !!! ) petrol was 38.9p !! that was 9 years ago !!.........
just to aid another point what happen to biofuel ?.......
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just to aid another point what happen to biofuel ?.......
It's still there, but as it it takes a field the size of Wales to produce a few litres of the stuff there is an ecological issue and a practical issue in meeting supply. Good idea though if you own a chippy - just and ethanol, mix it up a bit and buy and old diesel peugeot. I believe it is becoming more popular, but you can bet your bottom dollar that as soon as it does so, HMG will tax it to the hilt, and the price advantage will evaporate.
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When i started driving ( OMG i feel old !!! ) petrol was 38.9p !! that was 9 years ago !!.........
just to aid another point what happen to biofuel ?.......
Nine years ago, you sure ??? I started driving nine years ago and it was 66.9p per litre.. Sure that wasn't a bit further back ??
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When i started driving ( OMG i feel old !!! ) petrol was 38.9p !! that was 9 years ago !!.........
just to aid another point what happen to biofuel ?.......
Nine years ago, you sure ??? I started driving nine years ago and it was 66.9p per litre.. Sure that wasn't a bit further back ??
okay could have been 58.8p !!
noooooo cant be more than 9 years ago.......
OMG !!!! it was i started driving in 1996 wtf !!! lol..............
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just to aid another point what happen to biofuel ?.......
ahh biofuel. my mums bf put it in his '06 LR freelander, took about 3 mins of cranking to start it, cost's 7p less and after 2 months his car conked out coz it bugggered up the fuel pump, dont trust biodiesel (yet)
they are going to start making it out of algee (the slidey green stuff u find on rocks by the sea) which has 25 times more oil in it than the normal biodiesel ingrediant (to put 25 times more into perspective, thats like 2500% extra oil in it)
and biodiesel is just oil mixed with diesel its self
the cheepest thing to do, is buy a vr6, shove diesel in the tank, register yourself as a farmer and use red diesel with black food colouring in it, cost like 30p per litre
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When i started driving ( OMG i feel old !!! ) petrol was 38.9p !! that was 9 years ago !!.........
just to aid another point what happen to biofuel ?.......
Nine years ago, you sure ??? I started driving nine years ago and it was 66.9p per litre.. Sure that wasn't a bit further back ??
okay could have been 58.8p !!
noooooo cant be more than 9 years ago.......
OMG !!!! it was i started driving in 1996 wtf !!! lol..............
it was a lot less than that in 1991 when i started driving... probably was about 38p then! :shocked:
now i do feel very old!
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update, tesco's prices will be going up AGAIN! :shocked:
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update, tesco's prices will be going up AGAIN! :shocked:
there's a surprise.... :angry:
there's a group on facebook about Mon 19th being a 'no fuel' day?!