Fuel Prices falling?

[Welly]

Exactly, and the cheapest petrol stations usually have a queue.

So the petrol of driving there, sitting in a queue, driving back, then the time spent driving and queueing which if it takes you the best part of half an hour you'd been better just going to the nearest petrol station.

Yes, my car *costs* 24p/mile in petrol, sh*t hold on..............*taps on calculator............sh*t it's right so if I drove 5 miles to save £3.50 it will cost me £2.40 so I'd only save £1.10 on the tankful

[lozz]

1.10p aspose its abag of chips,

but iwouidnt go out of my way to save a quid ,
it couid resort to other penny saving things, eg fork in sugar bowl, making a tea bag stretch to 10cups,,

[Welly]

eg fork in sugar bowl, making a tea bag stretch to 10cups,,

I'm soooo not coming round yours for tea Lozz

[lozz]

Actualy,we dont drink tea, so theres no worrys there,

we have Nescafe, altho the contents of the jar are from Aldis
no one harldly notices these things mind


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only joking, iwouidnt waste my time trying to save a few pennys,
if it was hundreads then thatd be a differnt matter,

[sirwiggum]

Exactly, and the cheapest petrol stations usually have a queue.

So the petrol of driving there, sitting in a queue, driving back, then the time spent driving and queueing which if it takes you the best part of half an hour you'd been better just going to the nearest petrol station.

Yes, my car *costs* 24p/mile in petrol, sh*t hold on..............*taps on calculator............sh*t it's right so if I drove 5 miles to save £3.50 it will cost me £2.40 so I'd only save £1.10 on the tankful

And say it takes you 20 minutes, if you are on more than £3.30 an hour you're losing out in terms of value of time too.

[scotty73]

Exactly, and the cheapest petrol stations usually have a queue.

So the petrol of driving there, sitting in a queue, driving back, then the time spent driving and queueing which if it takes you the best part of half an hour you'd been better just going to the nearest petrol station.

Yes, my car *costs* 24p/mile in petrol, sh*t hold on..............*taps on calculator............sh*t it's right so if I drove 5 miles to save £3.50 it will cost me £2.40 so I'd only save £1.10 on the tankful

And say it takes you 20 minutes, if you are on more than £3.30 an hour you're losing out in terms of value of time too.

Oh dear were talking about having time off work to fill up now are we? Is there another strike planned then?

[Doggy]

Yes, my car *costs* 24p/mile in petrol, sh*t hold on..............*taps on calculator............sh*t it's right

That seems a lot, now let's see, mine's about......... 14p/mile
(That's still more than I expected - £2,800 a year at the cheapest price you can get today).

[Welly]

Funny isn't it, we talk about the cost of this and that with cars but we put £2,000.00 per year in the tank without thinking.

Sure if we stopped doing that we wouldn't get very far but it is scary when you see it on paper.

Electric car anyone? ............ oh wait

[DaiRees]

I've been using an Android app called FuelLog since just before Christmas, and can confirm that the 129.9/l of unleaded I paid yesterday is the cheapest fuel has been since I started using the app. There were a couple of occasions when I paid 129.9 but those were with Tesco 5p off per litre vouchers. The most I paid in this time was 140.9/l. Over that 6 months I've only done 4567 miles at an average of 30.95mpg therefore a fuel cost of 20p/mile. Unfortunately, due to a recent insurance renewal and the big brake job the other week, the accumulated costs (fuel and other costs) are currently 43p/mile (it was running at about 23p/mile until a couple of weeks ago ).

So that means, in the 6 months since I've been tracking it, it's cost me an average of...
£10.28 a day
£71.99 a week
£312.85 a month
£3753.74 a year,
or to put it another way, i've done an an average of just 2.35 miles per £

Of course, calculating all this over such a relatively short time period and off the back of a big bill is going to skew the results, I've had this car 10 years and the total cost of repairs (excluding service items and consumables) is way less than 2 grand, so I reckon the realistic accumulated costs are more like 25p/mile, which is actually very cheap motoring for such a big, comfortable, versatile mile muncher. In fact, even if you figure in depreciation (around 13.6p/mile on my car) then it's still less than 40p/mile in total, which is incredible. I bet my next car won't be anywhere near that cheap to run!!

[Welly]

I bet my next car won't be anywhere near that cheap to run!!

Aint that the truth

[scotty73]

I bet my next car won't be anywhere near that cheap to run!!

Aint that the truth

Quite ironic you replied to that, i wonder what he's thinking of buying?

[DaiRees]

I bet my next car won't be anywhere near that cheap to run!!

Aint that the truth

Quite ironic you replied to that, i wonder what he's thinking of buying?

Stop stirring the shyte you

[Welly]

[Playground effect] "Dai's getting a Volvo"..... "Dai's getting a Volvo" [/Playground effect]

[lozz]

[DaiRees]

[Playground effect] "Dai's getting a Volvo"..... "Dai's getting a Volvo" [/Playground effect]

It's a long way from calling into the dealer to pick up a brochure to "getting one". It's top of my list* of potential next cars at the moment though, the main problem being I'm about £29500 short of the £30K price tag .

I'm just really struggling with the concept of hacking off a couple of limbs to pay for a car that's, well yes it's very very nice, but is it really "half my mortgage" nicer than the car I've got??

Tell you what though Welly me old china, if I do get the one I'm looking at you're gonna have to surrender your pipe and slippers to me

*2nd and 3rd on the list are a Kia Sorento and a Mondeo estate.