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Inadvertently gave my bike a treat yesterday morning.....
Fuel light came on and no fuel station on B roads back to work, M4 Services 1/2 mile off route, easy.
Filled up; didn't look
Went in to pay
28.72 please
No sorry love; it's the bike, pump 10?!
YEAH; 28 POUNDS AND 72 PEE ; PLEASE!!!!
13 litres.....
Fuel light came on and no fuel station on B roads back to work, M4 Services 1/2 mile off route, easy.
Filled up; didn't look
Went in to pay
28.72 please
No sorry love; it's the bike, pump 10?!
YEAH; 28 POUNDS AND 72 PEE ; PLEASE!!!!
13 litres.....
It’s particularly galling when you hear of the record profits fuel suppliers BP, Shell & oil refineries are making.. £billions! Government tax & VAT takes the large proportion of what we pay.. Many people are struggling to eat, put on heating or run their car. And yet there are ‘people’ getting very, very rich on the back peoples misery..
219.9 p/litre is a rip off.
It’s about 170p at Costco and for my car certainly I just no longer fill it locally and even though it’s 30 miles away I can usually find an excuse to be in that area at some point.
I’m old enough to remember when you’d pass a petrol station to get to the next one because it was a couple of pence a gallon less.
Waynester said:
It’s particularly galling when you hear of the record profits fuel suppliers BP, Shell & oil refineries are making.. £billions! Government tax & VAT takes the large proportion of what we pay.. Many people are struggling to eat, put on heating or run their car. And yet there are ‘people’ getting very, very rich on the back peoples misery..
"oil refineries are making.. £billions!"Elsewhere in the world maybe. The 1 Scottish refinery is losing around £5000000+ per month.
I remember sticking a fiver in my CG125 on giro day, it'd last me the fortnight to the next giro.... but that was not yesterday!
£29.96 to fill the tank at Morrisons this week, a new record. Two years ago it would've been less than half that, where will we be this time next year, £45?
£29.96 to fill the tank at Morrisons this week, a new record. Two years ago it would've been less than half that, where will we be this time next year, £45?
N0ddie said:
Waynester said:
It’s particularly galling when you hear of the record profits fuel suppliers BP, Shell & oil refineries are making.. £billions! Government tax & VAT takes the large proportion of what we pay.. Many people are struggling to eat, put on heating or run their car. And yet there are ‘people’ getting very, very rich on the back peoples misery..
"oil refineries are making.. £billions!"Elsewhere in the world maybe. The 1 Scottish refinery is losing around £5000000+ per month.
N0ddie said:
Waynester said:
It’s particularly galling when you hear of the record profits fuel suppliers BP, Shell & oil refineries are making.. £billions! Government tax & VAT takes the large proportion of what we pay.. Many people are struggling to eat, put on heating or run their car. And yet there are ‘people’ getting very, very rich on the back peoples misery..
"oil refineries are making.. £billions!"Elsewhere in the world maybe. The 1 Scottish refinery is losing around £5000000+ per month.
No company would keep a site open that was running those losses; the redundancy, disassembly and environmental clean up would cost them less.
Drawweight said:
219.9 p/litre is a rip off.
Not really. Motorway services have massive overheads and we all know they're expensive before we go. We're paying a premium for convenience. The price would be clearly advertised and no one's holding a gun to your head. A bit a forward planning and motorway services can usually be avoided. I've been driving 42 years and have rarely had to buy fuel at motorway services. Rubin215 said:
Pinch of salt time.
No company would keep a site open that was running those losses; the redundancy, disassembly and environmental clean up would cost them less.
"The Grangemouth plant, near Falkirk, which supplies two thirds of fuel to Scottish forecourts and represents 8 per cent of the country's manufacturing, is suffering annual losses of almost £90 million"No company would keep a site open that was running those losses; the redundancy, disassembly and environmental clean up would cost them less.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fears-grow-for-...
It needs some sort of protest now. It wont happen for logistical reasons, work etc
But everyone needs to blanket usage of fuel, stop the constant filling up
What will happen instead is media will say there is a fuel shortage, fuel will go to £2,20+ and everyone will typically british queue and have shortages
These costs are having a very clear knock on affect now in racing and track days. I'm seeing ACU race clubs constantly posting saying low numbers 'come on guys get booked'
They got us good and proper and nothing we can do about it
But everyone needs to blanket usage of fuel, stop the constant filling up
What will happen instead is media will say there is a fuel shortage, fuel will go to £2,20+ and everyone will typically british queue and have shortages
These costs are having a very clear knock on affect now in racing and track days. I'm seeing ACU race clubs constantly posting saying low numbers 'come on guys get booked'
They got us good and proper and nothing we can do about it
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