Ivan wrote:
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.


Unfortunately the kicking that the government received last week still
doesn't seem to have sunk into their thick heads. They're still
considering "reviewing" the 2p fuel hike they've got planned for
Septemberish.

Unfortunately, they seem to think that the 10p tax band makes more
difference than ripping the motorist off for £30-50 a month more in tax.

The country is rapidly heading to the dogs and its this bunch of inept
thieves that have caused the situation we're all in, mainly through
insane taxation on anything they can get away with.

Sooner they're out of power, the better. They've been lying to us since
they were voted in and people *still* voted for them again. Hopefully
now everyone's being hit in the wallet on a daily basis they might think
twice before voting Labour next time.


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Pete M - OMF#9
Range Rover V8 Turbo
Range Rover 4.6 HSE
"Professional Petrolhead"