Tunku wrote:
"Ivan" wrote in
:

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.


It really depends on whether my work will give me a payrise that reflects
the real cost of inflation, rather than the limp labour version.

It's unlikely.

The depressing thing is that a lot of non-essentials (think consumer
electronics) are cheaper than ever, but all the stuff you need (food,
electricity, gas, diesel, petrol for example) is skyrocketing in cost.