Petrol.....huh!!

robertls
robertls Member Posts: 2,304
edited 2. May 2010, 16:16 in Community Chit-chat archive
Just looking at petrol prices now...............heck its expensive..

Can you remember the price of the 1st Gallon you ever bought??

I seem to think it cost me 6s 2d............In old money.

Thats about 31 pence..........

Its was for a Royal Enfield 250cc GT motor cycle.....

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  • mellman01
    mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I'm going to ALDI to get some of that really cheap Russian Vodka to run me car on it's about 20 a litre cheaper that unleaded!, it's getting so expensive that soon your gonna get petrol pimps hanging round on street corners goin, "eh mate wanna try some really good fuel?, cum ear will ya look at this it's unleaded!,, eh do ya want it do ya!?, here av a sniff now tell me is that the real stuff or wot?.
  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I'm thinking of removing the floor of my car and just run along like the flinstones! :lol::lol: has to be cheaper eh? and think of the calories I'd burn along the way :mrgreen:

    Iris x
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    When I first had a car, fuel was 45p per litre and my council tax was £45 per month, for a Band B. Now they still match, £1.26 per litre, £126 per month. Weird. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    When I first had a car, fuel was 45p per litre and my council tax was £45 per month, for a Band B. Now they still match, £1.26 per litre, £126 per month. Weird. DD

    that is weird DD! :shock:

    Irisx
  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    :wink: My hubby remembers petrol at 6s 8d a gallon for a Tiger Cub. :D

    E x
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  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    pixyandfaries wrote:
    im wondering wether to bother retaxing mine this month :? :(

    I have accidentally shredded my new tax disc that motability sent me a week or so ago. :roll: tax has now run out.....:(

    how am I gonna explain that? hope they will send me another one...but maybe I'll have to pay for my moment of madness. :roll:

    Iris x
  • snowball
    snowball Member Posts: 3,465
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dorcas wrote:
    pixyandfaries wrote:
    im wondering wether to bother retaxing mine this month :? :(

    I have accidentally shredded my new tax disc that motability sent me a week or so ago. :roll: tax has now run out.....:(

    how am I gonna explain that? hope they will send me another one...but maybe I'll have to pay for my moment of madness. :roll:

    Iris x
    Just tell em it hasn't come, its only a little lie :wink:

    Julie
    ((((hugs)))) n xxxxx to ya all
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,026
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    IRIS!!!!!

    What are you like?! :shock:

    Tax it Jan - you will miss it if it's off the road....

    Good thread Rob....I remember when I could put £3 in teh car and it lasted weeks - now..seconds??

    Love

    Toni xx
  • only49
    only49 Member Posts: 1,207
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    hi petrol is getting very expensive now £1.30 a litre here, I call it liquid gold.

    I remember when you could get a few things for £1 now you be lucky to get a loaf of bread for that, a few years ago the council was putting new guttering on our house and they had some people that were foreigners and working here and they said it was very expensive here compared to the country they live in.
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  • katekelly
    katekelly Member Posts: 975
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Whilst we were in Florida 'gas' was $2.72 a gallon! which is approx £1.80 a gallon. Having said that it isn't as 'good' as ours - Hubby tried to explain something to do with the octane levels (I think) but still a damn sight cheaper than ours.
  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    snowball wrote:
    dorcas wrote:
    pixyandfaries wrote:
    im wondering wether to bother retaxing mine this month :? :(

    I have accidentally shredded my new tax disc that motability sent me a week or so ago. :roll: tax has now run out.....:(

    how am I gonna explain that? hope they will send me another one...but maybe I'll have to pay for my moment of madness. :roll:

    Iris x
    Just tell em it hasn't come, its only a little lie :wink:

    Julie

    Jan, Julie, Toni,

    I am an idiot....pure and simple. that's what I will tell them tomorrow when I phone. (two out of the three anyway :wink:)

    .....but for just a moment Julie I did consider your suggestion...norty girl for leading me astray!. :lol::lol::lol:

    Iris x
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    robertls wrote:
    Just looking at petrol prices now...............heck its expensive..

    Can you remember the price of the 1st Gallon you ever bought??

    I seem to think it cost me 6s 2d............In old money.

    Thats about 31 pence..........

    Its was for a Royal Enfield 250cc GT motor cycle.....

    Rob x a045.gif
    He Rob my hubby had a royal enfield when we met he reckons he paid 4s 10d...he would try and outdo everyone :):) :roll:
    Barbara
    Love
    Barbara
  • cthornley
    cthornley Member Posts: 627
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    robertls wrote:
    Just looking at petrol prices now...............heck its expensive..

    Can you remember the price of the 1st Gallon you ever bought??

    Ha I only learnt to drive 6yrs ago so i was used o it being expensive from the start and my lovely little Yaris is quite thrifty really

    I am lucky that the most consistently cheap garage in the region (ASDA) is right opposite my office, also it seems much cheaper round here than nationally (116.9/117.9)

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