Pete M wrote:
Ivan wrote:
A few short months ago the prospect of diesel fuel breaking through
the £1.00 a litre barrier appeared to be unlikely, but with it now
costing over £1.20 a liter that's nudging £5.50 a gallon, this got
me wondering just how much it would have to reach before people on
this newsgroup reached a point where they would be seriously
thinking about giving up their car? .. My own threshold would be
somewhere around £10.00 a gallon and that would be it.

I'm currently knocking about in an LPG Vectra Estate as well as the
Range Rovers. Quite funny. Rangie's do around 50-60 miles for £20,
Vectra does 220 for £20. I still use the Rangies when I'm not going
more than around 40 miles.

It's simple, if fuel doesn't come down, I'm just going to have to
charge more for every job I do. Putting the price of fuel up doesn't
mean I'll give up driving, it just means the price of everything I do
goes up.

Well I'm recently retired and me and Mrs are living on slightly under 200
pounds a week, every year the kids' club together and buy us season tickets
for the National Trust, so we very often go off for a day to visit various
places around the country, this can frequently often involve doing well over
200 miles a day in round trips.
A number of guides at some of the National Trust houses which we have
visited over the last couple of months have commented on how much quieter
it's been so far this year, to me it's not difficult to see the reason why
and of course as you say about increasing prices there are limits to what
people can afford to pay, which imv certainly doesn't bode well, I think
that the knock on effect to every business/industry and every individual is
going to be horrendous.