Daft fuel prices locally

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Diesel at BP station £9.95 a gallion little wonder the place was deserted.
Typo meant  £8.95.

[Nurse Julie]

Blimey, that's steep. We have been up in Argyle & Bute for the week and on the main A roads and Motorways / service stations, the highest we saw was £1.87 per litre for diesel 😢😢😢😢

[Moorey]

 
 What year did we go metric.

[royhall]

We stopped to get petrol and the woman on pump 2 behind us put a tenners worth in. My wife said "crikey where's she going, pump 6"

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[philward]

Someones ripping us off - when crude oil peaked at about $180 a barrel in about 2009, we where paying about £1.35 litre and now its about $100 barrel we are paying northwards of £1.70 litre. Even taking into account the change in the $ to £ rate, we are being ripped off by 'Big Oil'

[Laverdaroo]

Has fuel gone up?
Its always been £20 hasnt it?

£1.82 at Tesvos this afternoon, I had a sense of humour failure!

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

In my younger days 4 gallons of Esso Golden was 19s 8p (that 4s 10p / gallon less than 25 pence / gallon or about 5p/litre) I could have a weekend camping in Snowdonia  for less than a fiver including drinks at the Pen-y-Gwryd.

[Bryanj]

I can remember 7s6p a gallon when beer was 1s10p a pint

[Sesman]

Ahem…..

We made us own fun in them days
Do you know when i were a lad you could get a Tram down into't town
Buy 3 new suits n an overcoat, 4 new pair of good boots
Goo n see George Formby at Palace Theatre ,
Get Blind Drunk,
Have some Steak n Chips, Bunch of bananas n 3 stone of monkey Nuts
And still have change out on a farthing..
We did lots of things in them days
They haven't got today
Rickets, Diptheria, h*****, and
By we did look well going to school with no backsides in us trousers n
All us little heads painted Purple cause we had Ringworm

They Dunt Know theyre Born Today!!!!

[Seabeowner]

I remember 6s and 8d a gallon when I started. But according to figures inflation has gone up 17 times since then and average earnings 22 x. Using about 20 x that works out as £1.47 per litre. My car these days does at least 20% better fuel consumption compared to cars of 1970 so maybe like £1.76 p/l. But my bike still does the same (or maybe a bit worse with the ethanol)!!!

[K2-K6]

"Do you know when i were a lad you could get a Tram down into't town"

Didn't have trams when I were a lad, but going to Crich Tramway Museum they had one there from a line that went to Hampton Court (local to me) which I didn't even know was originally there. Waited for that one, straight upstairs and sitting at the front, cracking day out, as well as meeting others from on here and all the lovely bikes to see.

[Sesman]

Been to Hampton Court. Now that is a ‘classic’.

[Athame57]

I half filled up at Texaco in London the other day. I thought the pumps had become more efficient, faster delivering but then I realised it was just the price display clocking up the numbers much faster now! Ding Dong! 

[Laverda Dave]

I don't know if it's true but I was told a few years ago that when using the fuel nozzle you shouldn't press the trigger all the way back but should allow the fuel to flow at a decreased rate. The reason I was given for this is due to the petrol pump reading the flow of fuel at the nozzle but when the fuel pump is delivering at a high rate air gets mixed in with the fuel. This results in the pump meter reading both the fuel and the air  and thus you pay for air as well as fuel. If you only pull the trigger halfway back there is not so much air mixed with the fuel.
I don't know if the above is true or just an urban myth however, I don't pull the trigger right back and the fuel doesn't froth as much as when the trigger is pulled right back.
There's also the reasoning to keep the tank full to prevent evaporation. This sounds a reasonable assumption however, the fuel tank in a car takes about 5-6 gallons, that's an awful lot of weight to be carrying around using fuel to carry it (even if it is being burnt off).
Maybe someone can confirm or dispel the theories?

[Laverdaroo]

Ahem…..

We made us own fun in them days
Do you know when i were a lad you could get a Tram down into't town
Buy 3 new suits n an overcoat, 4 new pair of good boots
Goo n see George Formby at Palace Theatre ,
Get Blind Drunk,
Have some Steak n Chips, Bunch of bananas n 3 stone of monkey Nuts
And still have change out on a farthing..
We did lots of things in them days
They haven't got today
Rickets, Diptheria, h*****, and
By we did look well going to school with no backsides in us trousers n
All us little heads painted Purple cause we had Ringworm

They Dunt Know theyre Born Today!!!!

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