Ivan wrote:
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.

When the car was first invented, only the rich could afford one. Same for
holiday travel - only the rich could afford to take foreign holidays and I
know that my parents had to make do with a few days in Blackpool and that
was it.

Then came a time when the average Joe Bloggs in the street got above his
station, and he found that he could afford a car and a foreign holiday. The
rich people did not like this and so decided to put the average working man
back in his place again, and the rich people will only be happy when we are
shining their shoes and back below stairs where we belong.

Tongue-in-cheek after a few beers but I bet there's a grain of truth in
there somewhere )

John