Doki wrote:
"Ivan" wrote in message
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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.

Once it hit £2 a litre I'd struggle to afford private use. £2.70 and
it'd be costing me money to drive around for work.

OTOH although I'm a regular cyclist, I really can't see how my life
could carry on like it does now without a car and affordable fuel.
Visiting relatives would be very costly, going near enough anywhere
beyond a couple of miles is a bit of a gip (which is most places
these days - cinema? shops? any kind of facility in general?), I
wouldn't be able to pick and choose between supermarkets. IME cycling
is a lot faster than getting bus, even over relatively long
distances, but that's not saying much. I suspect we'd all be
thorougly miserable.

On radio Five live's 'wake up to money' last week they were predicting
that it could be up to £1.50 a litre come summer, that's around £6.75 a
gallon, it doesn't bear thinking about.