£6/gallon £1.32/litre are you using your car less?

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Hundreds of petrol stations in the UK are now charging £6 a gallon(1.32/litre), the barrier is finally broken. Are you cutting back on driving for no good reason or for fun?
Those prices US equivalent are $9.66/gallon $2.12/litre. They will be going up again soon because of the recent oil price increase, and also the UK budget next month.
 
Yes, when petrol was under £1/litre I would go out for a drive just for the fun of it. Now I don't as I can't justify the "waste" of petrol that costs me over £60 to fill a 45litre tank.
 
No, because I did what more thinking young enthusiasts (i.e. not yobs who want foot wide exhausts and to lose their license) in the UK should do if they want affordable fun and got ahold of a 125cc motorbike ;). £100 for insurance last year (3 years no claims), ~£10 tax, 60 in a long way under 10 seconds whilst still being easily capable of 50+mpg as a 20 year old in this country you simply can't do better from a financial standpoint. Safety and practically? Not top of my list :lol:.

Way more fun then a Corsa like most people seem to get in my age bracket.
 
It basically boils down to the simple question of who has the money, and who would choose to keep using it on their car if they even have a choice. I find most people are using the car just as much but perhaps driving them more economically and enthusiasts are just spending less money on other things.
 
It's certainly made me think twice about jumping in the Porsche for long journeys.

Used to be that I'd just let my wife run our (diesel) Mondeo all the time and I'd run the Porsche. But now we co-ordinate diaries and I'll take the Mondeo if I need to travel more than around 100 miles.

Doesn't help that the IRS fuel allowance (how much companies are allowed to refund employees for business mileage) isn't sufficient to actually cover my business mileage anymore... I get c.12.4p a mile back on the Mondeo (equivalent to around £5 per gallon @ 40mpg).

And I heard yesterday that petrol is likely to increase by another 5-10p a litre over the coming weeks as the oil price is increasing following the unrest in the Middle East and North Africa!
 
About $3.37/gal here. Using my car WAY less since I don't have a job but need to drive it to school.
 
Toronado
Must be that fancy Pittsford gasoline. Only $3.25 here. :lol:
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Nah, it's that Hilton gasoline... that you can only get from one place. :crazy:

You be mistakin me fur wunna them there east siders. hyuck
 
Man thats so cheap in the U.S probably been more than 20 years since it was that cheap in the UK. :(
 
I get 20mpg in my car. I wonder what the actual difference is when figuring in MPG?
 
When I got my license when I was 16, back in 2001, 87 octane was $0.99 a gallon. Now it is a bit over $3.00

Doesn't much bother me, I don't drive 60 miles a day anymore and my car gets around 30mpg so I still go out for fun drives and the likes, though the recent weather has kept me off mountain roads for fear of death - snow and ice.
 
I'm not much bothered either, though I was a little concerned at my first $30 fill-up a few days ago, it seems the SX can go a little further on a tank than the Nova could, despite being heavier and more powerful.
 
Gas is up to $3.45 here in West Michigan, but I'm not complaining. An extra $5 a week will not break the bank. Even though my average fuel economy has taken a nose dive with the cold weather, I'm still going more than a week on a single tank. Maybe when it gets up above $5 or more a gallon, I'll maybe think about complaining.
 
I just heard from my dad that the local station is charging $3.59. Good thing I grabbed about $29 worth of gas today at $3.50 per gallon. I mostly do highway driving down and back from college. I end up burning up around 200 miles per week, where my escort could do 275 miles max all highway conditions with the heater(though it is scary to look at the E sign, know there is two gallons under that, and not know how much is left).
 
Gas here in SF is around $3.65 for the medium... Yesterday we went up to Tahoe where it was $3.80 for the same grade. My Outback gets around 20 mpg on a good week.
 
Gas jumped 35 cents a gallon here. Give me a big ass knife and a ticket to Libya. I'll kill that sumbitch Gaddafi myself.
 
Just paid $3.39 here in So. Illinois for 87. Premium is usually like a quarter more. I'll have to fill the Civic up tomorrow, too.
 
I would like to know where the US government gets it's revenue from. There must be almost zero tax on fuel. UK fuel is 300% more expensive yet we have the 3rd cheapest wholesale price of fuel in Europe, all the US shopping goods are cheaper from electrical to whatever than here. What thing would be first few things that an American would say they get taxed way to high on?
Is it guns and bullets?
 
I'm glad I don't live in the UK, those prices are killers.
And I envy you American guys. Your price per liter is between $.65 and $.80 from what I've read.
Here in Australia we pay $1.25 - $1.45-50. And since our dollar's are nearly the same currently it's a fair comparison. The government gets a huge cut in tax, and have just announced a new tax yesterday.

But answering the OP's question I'm not using my car less (only started driving without my parents late last year), but I try to be conscious of my routes and take the shortest one. Luckily I drive a Hyundai Lantra that does about 9L/100kms suburban and 6.5L/100kms freeway.
 
Its bloody stupid how much petrol is here in the UK at the moment and its only going to get worse with the unrest.

When I got my car petrol was 80p a litre which was bad enough, now at £1.32 I literally only use it if its totally necessary which as a person who likes driving really sucks.

Thank you government for taking 64% of that price in tax! :grumpy: I can literally see sales of electric cars exploding.

Robin.
 
I'm afraid electric cars will cost near exactly the same to own and run as petrol cars.
The government can't afford to lose any income. As soon as the purchase prices of electric cars comes down the tax on them will go right up.
 
So, English fuel prices just surpassed Hong Kong? Wow, you really are being taken to the cleaners.
 
€1,68 ($2,31/£1,43) for a litre of petrol here in Holland. :crazy:

Can someone explain me the difference between the goverment and plain 'ol criminals?
 
Do you have yearly road tax/licence costs in Holland too like in UK?
This also breaks my bank account. And it's shockingly proportioned to CO2 emissions rather than particulates. So my tiny city car costs twice as much to tax each year than a massive diesel MPV. Grrr.
 
I see Europe's hit it's fuel costs breaking point. we don't hit ours untill California and Hawaii hit 5 bucks a pop.

another reminder for Europeans
1. American fuels arelower grade than yours (not by much, but still lower grade)
2. the distances here are greater
3. you can't easily walk, bike, etc. people will physically run you over
4. American roads are not "bone straight eight lane superhighways". we have roads around here that make the Nurburgring north look like one of those 8 lane superhighways.
5. american regs have multiple layers. the tax and profit on gas depends on the state, not the whole country. imagine if the petrol tax changed every time you crossed the County/Province/Department/Oblast (etc) line. (sometimes, it even changes between filling stations, depending if the station is a chain or privately owned).
6. most of our native oil production apparently goes into Plastics.

oh, my mileage went UP/fuel consumption went down. turns out I had a bad fuel pump that was costing me 2-3 mpg/8-12 liters extra. considering I'm hauling 7 guys pushing 200 lbs/90 kilos each...
 
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