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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: TheBoy on 06 January 2011, 18:15:49
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I know I'll need some LPG before the weekend, so driving in today, my usual places was 70.9p. But its wrong side of road, so thought I'd pop in on the way home instead.
It had gone up to 77.9p :o. 7p in a few hours :o
Needless to say, declined their offer, and left 10,000 miles of rubber in their forecourt.
So decide to take the long way through Towcester. 73.9p, but the breakwits have their pumps out of order. Another 10,000 miles of rubber left in their forecourt as well.
I refuse to use the local BP (75.9p) because they are inbred retards, so looks like I'll be on petrol for a while. Need to go to Wheatley tonight, and Chesham tomorrow, no LPG around those parts.
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So, all in all a good day then?
I thought it was obligatory to leave a minimum of 10,000 miles worth of rubber everywhere when exiting in an Omega?
7p does seem totally unjustified. I suppose with LPG users being in the minoirty they can get away with it.
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Cover your plates and pay cash for 70p/l?
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So, all in all a good day then?
I thought it was obligatory to leave a minimum of 10,000 miles worth of rubber everywhere when exiting in an Omega?
7p does seem totally unjustified. I suppose with LPG users being in the minoirty they can get away with it.
Its unregulated, and us LPGers are having to battle all the useless, stupid retards who heat their houses by LPG, but were too stupidly retarded to be able to order their gas before their tank ran dry... ...supply and demand, high demand = high price, and some petrol stations unable to get deliveries promptly.
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not fully sure but i believe wheatly asda? had it a few years ago but the supermarket may have changed hands since!
only other place i can think of near there is down cowley road at texaco garage, your fairly close to upper heyford the mobile home parl used to sell it when i ran lpg and were always a penny or two cheaper than the garages? :y
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I think you should've swallowed the extra 7p per litre, it will now cost you more. Though i can see where you're coming from.
I used around £540.00 worth of diesel last year (i don't drive much), but it grips my *^"! when i think around £500.00 of that has gone straight to the cocks in power >:( >:(
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Same near me TB, shot up from 70.9 to 78.9 in a lunch hour >:(
I was paying 36p two years ago
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There's an asda with lpg pump just off j4 on the m40 - if your going that way.
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So, all in all a good day then?
I thought it was obligatory to leave a minimum of 10,000 miles worth of rubber everywhere when exiting in an Omega?
7p does seem totally unjustified. I suppose with LPG users being in the minoirty they can get away with it.
Its unregulated, and us LPGers are having to battle all the useless, stupid retards who heat their houses by LPG, but were too stupidly retarded to be able to order their gas before their tank ran dry... ...supply and demand, high demand = high price, and some petrol stations unable to get deliveries promptly.
I agree it clearly required too much brain power to work out that if your tank is running low.... it's a good idea to fill it before winter arrives! The worst I've paid as I mentioned in the other thread is 82.9 in the SW and 79.9 in the SE >:(
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There's an asda with lpg pump just off j4 on the m40 - if your going that way.
Yes, was going to suggest that.
.... And the price is not going to go down again when warmer weather arives either is it!
I don't buy the winter fuel excuse, that's just ....er... an excuse, surely?
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Diesel here has gone up to £1.33.9 it was £1.28.9, every motorist needs to do something, because it's pathetic. McDonalds for example have put the cost of a Latte up 10p, with the VAT rise it wouldn't cost an extra 10p, two Lattes now work out at £3.38, I couldn't believe it, fuel is unreal, it needs for once this entire country to stand up and start complaining!
Ok I'm rattling now :(
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Diesel here has gone up to £1.33.9 it was £1.28.9, every motorist needs to do something, because it's pathetic. McDonalds for example have put the cost of a Latte up 10p, with the VAT rise it wouldn't cost an extra 10p, two Lattes now work out at £3.38, I couldn't believe it, fuel is unreal, it needs for once this entire country to stand up and start complaining!
Ok I'm rattling now :(
I think it's going to take more than complaining!
Industrial action (blockades) did nothing, voting for someone in an election does nothing, protests do nothing, riots do nothing..
I think the only thing that might work is full scale civil war and a lot of deaths. Maybe.
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The problem is though that for such a protest, the police will just break them up... I have said for years that fuel costs are artificially high. 12 months ago oil was at its lowest price for several years, yet fuel prices didn't reflect the cost.... Now we are back to paying near £6/gallon and in all reality, there is nothing we are allowed to do about it...
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Can't you see a pattern here?
Buy a diesel car, more fuel efficient. Diesel is cheaper. It isn't now.
Convert to LPG. Save loadsamoney. Wait a minute, LPG will soon be the same value as unleaded rendering the expense and complexity of conversion redundant.
What next? Buy an electric or hybrid car. Surcharge on electric?
PS I loved the image of 10,000 miles of rear rubber being laid. Police are now looking for an Omega with bald rear tyres that has run out of fuel near Brackley being driven by Mr Principled. ;D ;D
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Have to agree, we need to make a stand against these robbing politicans!!
As much as everybody mocks the french, when they don't like/get there way they ALL go on strike, not like the lovely brits who just sit back and take it!!
Its about time we started to show these muppetts in power that we're not prepared to take any more of their crap!!!
RANT OVER!!!!!
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Maybe I should have swallowed the price.
On the way out yesterday, I broke my principals, and tried the local BP. They also had run out, useless rather inbred breakwits. There goes another 10,000 miles of rubber >:(
Oh well, try Bicester - just a minor detour to Oxford. 81.9p. No thanks. More rubber left behind.
Pulled up at the Harvester in Wheatley at 7:30, noticed ASDA had gone up since I past Asda in MK at 5:30 (ASDA have a national, consistent price). But neither sell LPG (Omegatoy, ASDA certainly haven't sold LPG at Wheatley since they made it all pay at pump several years ago).
On the offchance, I tried M40 services at Wheatley. No LPG, but petrol was 134.9p and diesel was 137.9p :o :o :o
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blimey! So glad I don't have my 500+ mile weekly commute any more :o
57p back in my day just 6 months ago!
That said I do need LPG for my next trip home, hope Asda at High Wycombe is still cheapish!
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Whilst I detest the high prices at my local stations (gone from 70.9 to 82.9 in about 18 days :o >:() I will still put a couple of gallons in to get me to the cheaper stations in Ipswich (71.9 now from 64.9 in the same period) as it's still cheaper than burning petrol ;) ;)
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Can't you see a pattern here?
Buy a diesel car, more fuel efficient. Diesel is cheaper. It isn't now.
Convert to LPG. Save loadsamoney. Wait a minute, LPG will soon be the same value as unleaded rendering the expense and complexity of conversion redundant.
What next? Buy an electric or hybrid car. Surcharge on electric?
What next? Buy an electric or hybrid car. Surcharge on electric
In one - I would suggest.
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66.9 today
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blimey! So glad I don't have my 500+ mile weekly commute any more :o
57p back in my day just 6 months ago!
That said I do need LPG for my next trip home, hope Asda at High Wycombe is still cheapish!
Yup, 66.9p at high Wycombe or 65.9p with asda card. Just made it on gas - 63.1 litres
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Trouble is, whilst everyone (me included) moans about Petrol/diesel costs, not many people (me included) drive as if it's a problem or restrict their use to essential journeys.
We keep paying it, they'll sure as hell keep charging it.
Sounds like the lpg suppliers are trying to find what the market will stand. What does it have to reach before cost per mile is same as petrol, I wonder?
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Sounds like the lpg suppliers are trying to find what the market will stand.
Yep, which is why it's important to leave 10k or rubber on the forecourt when they take the P**s. ;) If everyone did, they'd get a "signal". You'd have thought most LPG users would be pretty price-sensitive but someone must pay the daft prices. I certainly don't. I plan my fuelling so that I only fill up in the cheapest station locally and if I find one taking the p**s I'd rather drive on petrol to find a more sensible price.
What does it have to reach before cost per mile is same as petrol, I wonder?
About 0.75-0.8 times the cost of a litre of petrol, by my reckoning. Looking at how petrol is rocketing I'm still very happy not to be burning it. :o
Kevin
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Wasn't LPG a 'by-product' that they used to just burn off? :-/
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Sounds like the lpg suppliers are trying to find what the market will stand.
Yep, which is why it's important to leave 10k or rubber on the forecourt when they take the P**s. ;) If everyone did, they'd get a "signal". You'd have thought most LPG users would be pretty price-sensitive but someone must pay the daft prices. I certainly don't. I plan my fuelling so that I only fill up in the cheapest station locally and if I find one taking the p**s I'd rather drive on petrol to find a more sensible price.
What does it have to reach before cost per mile is same as petrol, I wonder?
About 0.75-0.8 times the cost of a litre of petrol, by my reckoning. Looking at how petrol is rocketing I'm still very happy not to be burning it. :o
Kevin
According to my gay app on my gay phone, my last LPG tank was 14.7p per mile on pure LPG costs. A in head petrol cost calc is around 25p
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Obviously, the downside of all that forecourt displeasure is the fact I am currently sat in WIM, with piggy bank in hand :(
Tunnie - that camber I did by eye, whilst jacked up, 1d29. Pretty frigging close considering we did no measuring at all
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I think you LPG boys should be buying your own pumps and take up hot air ballooning ::)
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40,000 miles of rubber. Just add a new set of tyres to that LPG cost & it'll be cheaper for TB to run on petrol ;D
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I filled up with LPG on Monday at the only garage left around here which was charging under 70ppl (69.9), went back today and it has risen to 73.9ppl.
I am now trying not to use the car if I can avoid it, and driving like miss Daisys granny, but the fuel bill is really hurting.
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Wasn't LPG a 'by-product' that they used to just burn off? :-/
Yes, it used to cost the refineries a fortune to pump it up a flarestack, they even had to pump town gas up there as a "Pilot light".
When London Taxis were the only Diesel cars, Diesel was half the price of Petrol.
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Obviously, the downside of all that forecourt displeasure is the fact I am currently sat in WIM, with piggy bank in hand :(
Tunnie - that camber I did by eye, whilst jacked up, 1d29. Pretty frigging close considering we did no measuring at all
Add to that it was bloody cold and a bit rushed, fine job! :y
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40,000 miles of rubber. Just add a new set of tyres to that LPG cost & it'll be cheaper for TB to run on petrol ;D
In the case of the local BP, its always a case of leaving rubber, no matter what I fill up with.
It should be an easy process - pull up, fill, walk in, pay promptly, walk out. Not with these useless inbreds.
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Obviously, the downside of all that forecourt displeasure is the fact I am currently sat in WIM, with piggy bank in hand :(
Tunnie - that camber I did by eye, whilst jacked up, 1d29. Pretty frigging close considering we did no measuring at all
Add to that it was bloody cold and a bit rushed, fine job! :y
Esp as the side we didn't touch had dropped to 1d49 :o
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The BP in White Lion road Amersham sells LGP
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Call me cynical but I can't see them dropping it back down to where it was :(
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The BP in White Lion road Amersham sells LGP
Yup, but Asda in Wycombe is cheaper ;)
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Call me cynical but I can't see them dropping it back down to where it was :(
Won't go back down to 35p, but think it will ease back to the 65-70ppl once demand for domestic heating drops...
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Call me cynical but I can't see them dropping it back down to where it was :(
Won't go back down to 35p, but think it will ease back to the 65-70ppl once demand for domestic heating drops...
Nah, it'll do what petrol does every single time..
Shoots up from (as examples) £1.20 to £1.30 and we all complain, it drops back to £1.25 and we all think ourselves lucky.. meanwhile it's still 5p dearer. Next time it goes up to £1.35 and back to £1.30, and on, and on, and on..
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Call me cynical but I can't see them dropping it back down to where it was :(
Won't go back down to 35p, but think it will ease back to the 65-70ppl once demand for domestic heating drops...
Nah, it'll do what petrol does every single time..
Shoots up from (as examples) £1.20 to £1.30 and we all complain, it drops back to £1.25 and we all think ourselves lucky.. meanwhile it's still 5p dearer. Next time it goes up to £1.35 and back to £1.30, and on, and on, and on..
Time will tell ;)
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the man that owns rother gas in rotherham told me that in the summer the Americans bought 100,000 tons of lpg and paid up front..well they have decieded that they want it now so all 8 of the uk refineries have been churning it out for the americans...before christmas they had to wait 2 weeks for deliveries and had sold out before they came into stock...might be why lpg prices are high >:(
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I know nothing about LPG, but if householders are allowed to store it for domestic use, can motorists do the same and use it for topping up their tank?
Jaime, you have a PM regarding TD chips. :y