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12 November 2007, 18:42
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Fuel Blockade??
Has anybody heard of another possible fuel blockade of the oil refineries? I have just filled both the cars on the strength of the rumour!! 
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12 November 2007, 19:21
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Not me,
But looks like you could be about to start one
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12 November 2007, 20:39
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Read about it in the paper today. `bout time too, i paid 1.06 per litre of deisel today, cost me 71.10 to fill up my Transporter! Thats far too much. Are prices now more than at the time of the last blockade? When was that 5, 6 years ago?
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12 November 2007, 20:44
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It's about 15p a litre more now.
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12 November 2007, 21:26
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vince
Are prices now more than at the time of the last blockade? When was that 5, 6 years ago?
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Yes - it was just over 7 years ago, and the price rise is pretty much in line with inflation... ...whereas the price of oil has roughly doubled in that time.
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12 November 2007, 21:30
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Polwart
Yes - it was just over 7 years ago, and the price rise is pretty much in line with inflation... ...whereas the price of oil has roughly doubled in that time.
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but the dollar to pound was about £1 to $1.60 then so that must help us 
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12 November 2007, 21:43
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Word has it that fuel needs to double in price to realistically make us think about our driving activities.
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12 November 2007, 21:44
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Originally Posted by bedajim
but the dollar to pound was about £1 to $1.60 then so that must help us |
fair point the cost of oil in £ has only risen by about 40% in that time.
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13 November 2007, 16:12
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Biggles
Word has it that fuel needs to double in price to realistically make us think about our driving activities.
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Double in price from now? Or double from when it was half what it is now?
jky
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13 November 2007, 17:10
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About £1.80 a litre supposedly.
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13 November 2007, 17:28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Biggles
Word has it that fuel needs to double in price to realistically make us think about our driving activities.
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Which is fair enough if you have other options available, many dont, and then there are commercial operators, who have to pass the price rise onto consumers, or absorb it ...again.... I have no other way of shipping my gear about other than by road
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13 November 2007, 17:29
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the funny thing is I begrudge the price of diesel I put in my car, mainly due to the fact that it is mostly tax... however I only seam to have a smile on my face when filling up the tanks for the rib..... wonder why that is 
£1.80 don't give them any ideas
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13 November 2007, 17:32
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Anyone want to buy my 4L V8 Discovery
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13 November 2007, 19:19
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Anyone want to buy my 4L V8 Discovery |
£20 cash 
Richard
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13 November 2007, 19:23
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£20 cash
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That wouldn't even fill the injection system
I did Pwllheli - Preston - Hull - Coventry - Norwich - Coventry yesterday and today and have put about £400 in Still got to get home yet but budgeting about another £100.
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13 November 2007, 19:35
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jono Garton
That wouldn't even fill the injection system
I did Pwllheli - Preston - Hull - Coventry - Norwich - Coventry yesterday and today and have put about £400 in Still got to get home yet but budgeting about another £100.
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No probs I will pick it up from Coventry, and up my offer to £20 plus your train fare home
Richard
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13 November 2007, 20:56
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jono Garton
That wouldn't even fill the injection system
I did Pwllheli - Preston - Hull - Coventry - Norwich - Coventry yesterday and today and have put about £400 in Still got to get home yet but budgeting about another £100.
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I’m in the wrong business 
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13 November 2007, 21:17
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jono Garton
That wouldn't even fill the injection system
I did Pwllheli - Preston - Hull - Coventry - Norwich - Coventry yesterday and today and have put about £400 in Still got to get home yet but budgeting about another £100.
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Jesus. My artic does that kind of mpg.
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13 November 2007, 21:30
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Quote:
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Jesus. My artic does that kind of mpg.
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What is that kind of mpg
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13 November 2007, 21:47
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Quote:
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What is that kind of mpg |
I'd be looking at around 500 litres of diesel to do that run.
I guess somewhere between 8.6 and 10mpg depending on load,how much lead is in my boot that day and traffic.
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