£1.48 a litre

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by hollywood, Mar 21, 2012.

  1. hollywood

    hollywood 1881/singing section organiser

    I can't believe I've just paid £1.48 a litre for unleaded. Anyone else forced to look for another job closer to home for this reason ?
     
  2. Defunct

    Defunct First Team

    It's only going one way, and it's not down. Cycling to work whenever I can is more than just keeping fit these days!
     
  3. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    That is extortionate, I'm guessing the government doesn't want us to drive anymore.
     
  4. hollywood

    hollywood 1881/singing section organiser

    I would if it wasn't 81 miles to work !
     
  5. Defunct

    Defunct First Team

    My boss does that sort of journey too, but it's a company car. How can you afford 800 miles a week? That's 2 full tanks on most cars :eek:.
     
  6. Prentice

    Prentice Administrator

    Got people where I work who come from Birmingham and Peterborough everyday.
     
  7. PotGuy

    PotGuy Forum Fetishist

    Don't worry the Tories will soon be allowing private companies to build enormous amounts of new toll roads anywhere they want.

    Then they won't have to spend money maintaining the current network, so unless we want broken spines we have to pay the charge to use a road that is resurfaced more than once every 90 years.

    For some reason all governments seem to assume motorists have some sort of bottomless pit of money to spend on road/car related taxation/charges.
     
  8. hollywood

    hollywood 1881/singing section organiser

    I have a company car...but no fuel privalage. I'm not on a bad wage but it's now eating into other parts of my life.
     
  9. ForzaWatford

    ForzaWatford Squad Player

    I started driving in september and i don't think it'll last very long. Due to go up 3p a litre too :doom:
     
  10. hornetboy1

    hornetboy1 First Team Captain

    I fly in my private learjet, but it's getting a bit pricey. Might have knock it on the head, especially for the school run.
     
  11. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    As someone who gets the tube to work, I fill my car up about once every 5 weeks. Price of fuel doesn't bother me and I hope it persuades some people to reduce their carbon footprint.
     
  12. cyaninternetdog

    cyaninternetdog Forum Hippie

    If there is an attack on Iran watch the price soar even higher.
     
  13. tom bola

    tom bola Reservist

    60 mile round trip every day to work, costing my around £50 a week in fuel just to get to work.

    Just not funny.
     
  14. RussWatford

    RussWatford Reservist

    Use the train? Oh no wait... the railways have also been privatised and we have the most expensive train fares in Europe.
     
  15. nascot

    nascot First Team

    I filled up last week at £1.55 per litre (it was the top grade fuel though). Still cheaper than getting the train.
     
  16. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    Carbon ****ing footprint.

    The green agenda is just another excuse to tax us and accept poorer living conditions than the wealthy elite

    Dont get me started on plastic bags in supermarkets. what a facking con that is, why isnt it obvious that the supermarkets are just exploiting us now to pay for plastic bags? If you dont take their crappy reusuable things with you they either sneer at you and give you some or they dont even bother to ask if you want a bag and just pile food towards you, if they dont offer a bag after the second item I walk out there and then. its so rude.

    I here it is worse in wales, every shop there now requires you to buy bags.

    "Would you like to buy a bag?" is now going to get a sarcastic answer from me. Im just going to say "no" let them scan everything through and then just stand there until they give me one for free.

    recycling is the other big con. mostly dumped in the sea or in china anyway.
    I pay taxes, huge taxes, why cant you just come and pick up my facking rubbish?

    I DONT WANT to have to sift through my own waste for you unpaid. I put it in a bag so it isnt a mess, you take it away. why have I got to have 45 different bins: plastic, special non-magnetic plastic, metal, glass, ice-cubes, partly melted icecubes, garden waste.

    Same with the tip. Its a TIP. I take rubbish there to get rid of it. it isnt a recycling centre. all my tip stuff goes into a black bag and then into general waste.

    Same with the stupid recycling bins they now have at work but they only have recycling bins for mixed recycling, what about my non-recyclable items, shall i just keep hold of them, no, I put it in your stupid recycling bin and then spit on it for good measure.
     
  17. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    If you want to go at a convenient time to anywhere and dont remember to book 3 months in advance it would be cheaper to drive throwing pound coins out the window as you go rather than going on the train
     
  18. luke_golden

    luke_golden Space Cadet

    Feel sorry for the next Greenpeace bum that tries to stop you for a chat!
     
  19. 352

    352 Moderator

    Well you're an angry *******.
     
  20. nascot

    nascot First Team


    Exactly. I was comparing it to taking the train to work. They want us off the road and using public transport. No chance while is costs nearly £12 return from Tring to Watford at peak hours.
     
  21. gazzah100

    gazzah100 Reservist

    This is probably one of the better things about doing 12 hour shift work.

    Longer working days mean i am only rostered to do 14-16 shifts in a calender month meaning a lot less ££ on travel. Take into account 3/4's of my travel is off peak and i actually do quite well.

    Although I still moan when my fare on the oyster card goes up.
     
  22. hollywood

    hollywood 1881/singing section organiser

    Bit the bullet today and handed in my notice. £550 per month to get to work is fecking stupid.
     
  23. gazzah100

    gazzah100 Reservist

    Good luck with your search for a new job.

    And you are right £550 a month for travelling expenses is a P take
     
  24. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    Sorry to hear that, it is a p!ss take paying that sort of money. Do you have another job lined up?
     
  25. PotGuy

    PotGuy Forum Fetishist

    On the subject, just spare a thought for those of us who can't drive yet.

    I began to take lessons, at £23/hour, and then gave up after 7 because it seemed pointless. Even if by some miracle I could afford £500 for a shyte car, insurance would be about £1800 minimum. We live in a tiny country yet are charged the most to get around it.
     
  26. nascot

    nascot First Team

    That's because too many scumbags drive with no insurance. Oh, and 18 year old boys can't be trusted behind the wheel. Insurance costs drop quite quickly as you get older, providing you behave.
     
  27. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    They do drop Nas, but they are still a rip off. I've got something like 7 years' no claims and am old enough, but still have to pay more each year.

    The thing is, when people get caught without insurance, I don't believe the penalties are harsh enough. Watching the cops with cameras type TV shows, they usually seem to get a fine which is less than the cost of a years' insurance, which is mental. For scally scumbags, it makes commercial sense to drive without insurance, as long as you don't get caught more than once every 18 months.
     
  28. ForzaWatford

    ForzaWatford Squad Player

    £1800 good luck. Cheapest i found on my own without my sister was about £5000.

    Please don't categorise all of us 18 year old boys, I don't drive stupidly neither do 90% of my friends.
    Also as Moog mentioned the Fine is £500 and 3 points on your license compared to about £5000 for a 17 year old boy on their own insurance, im not condoning it and I don't do it but i can see why people do when insurance is so expensive.
     
  29. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    Andy that is how the insurance companies think, I doubt Nascost was accusing you or your mates of being one of them eejits.
     
  30. ForzaWatford

    ForzaWatford Squad Player

    I know I know, just wanted to make it clear haha
     
  31. nascot

    nascot First Team

    I'm not catergorising you, the insurance companies are. I didn't accuse you of bad driving :)
     
  32. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    Oh fair play, can't tell the intent on the internet :biggrin:
     
  33. PotGuy

    PotGuy Forum Fetishist

    Maybe if insurance didn't cost five times the price of the car then people wouldn't have to drive without insurance no? The penalty for driving without insurance is a fraction of the cost of buying the insurance. The startup cost of driving for myself would be something like £800 (at least) for lessons and test and whatnot, £2k+ insurance on a £500, category two car, plus tax. Public transport can only get you to certain places and is in itself expensive. Half of the jobs around you need to drive for or be able to drive to, yet its not tenable to do so.

    Yes, younger people are a bigger risk, but it is still an enormous scam. I don't know a single person who drove without insurance, and the only people I know who have had an accident are women. I know its not a conclusive study, but the whole thing stinks.


    Oh and Dom I'm 22, so maybe that helps. Most prices on most Cat. 2/1 cars were well over £2k.
     
  34. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    Age and experience does bring it down a lot, I've just put in for fully comp insurance and got quoted £1113.88 or under £200 a month. Currently at third party fire theft and paying almost £1500 more.
     
  35. Timbers

    Timbers Apeman

    It amazes me hoe much car insurance is. My car is OK-ish but 10 years old, I still fork out just under 500 quid a year. The stupid thing is, I get a £140 quid off by just adding my Mrs to the insurance. I never get why that is? She got £180 off hers by doing the same yet we never drive each others cars.
     

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