Quick!!! Get your fuel before the panic buying starts!

[grahame]

I'm still trying to figure out how you rationalize going past the end of the driveway in your Merc.

Presuming to speak for Mr Cheese
It's an old car. The cost of fuel is as nothing compared to the cost of depreciation on a new car.

 

[legrandefromage]

I'm still trying to figure out how you rationalize going past the end of the driveway in your Merc.

Presuming to speak for Mr Cheese
It's an old car. The cost of fuel is as nothing compared to the cost of depreciation on a new car.

And another odd anomaly, the price of petrol is quite a bit less (131p) so, if I drive at a constant 56mph, I should get 31mpg making it cheaper to fuel than my diesel van that did around 35mpg at best.

500 mile round trip to see a chum in Exeter would have cost £90 GBP in my old 2001 Citroen van whereas it would cost £96 GBP in a 1987 5.0 V8 engined Gulf State mobile.

Incidentally, same journey in the missus' car would be £59 GBP (Fiat Doblo) and in my old Passat, £49 GBP.

Train would be around £100 including bus/ taxi/ walking/ skipping

 

[1duck]

I'm still trying to figure out how you rationalize going past the end of the driveway in your Merc.

Presuming to speak for Mr Cheese
It's an old car. The cost of fuel is as nothing compared to the cost of depreciation on a new car.

And another odd anomaly, the price of petrol is quite a bit less (131p) so, if I drive at a constant 56mph, I should get 31mpg making it cheaper to fuel than my diesel van that did around 35mpg at best.

500 mile round trip to see a chum in Exeter would have cost £90 GBP in my old 2001 Citroen van whereas it would cost £96 GBP in a 1987 5.0 V8 engined Gulf State mobile.

Incidentally, same journey in the missus' car would be £59 GBP (Fiat Doblo) and in my old Passat, £49 GBP.

Train would be around £100 including bus/ taxi/ walking/ skipping

haha thats wrong on so many levels! someone really needs to give the train pricing a good long hard looking at.

 

[legrandefromage]

To be fair, the train is £60 return if booked in advance but I'd then have to get to the station and then to my friends house in Broadclyst at around 11.30pm at night to qualify for the cheap train fare. That would be around £40 worth of taxi journeys.

 

[Kentphil]

I watched a programme the other day on synthetic biology and a company was "growing" diesel fuel. Wonder if this will solve our fuel problems?

 

[1duck]

I watched a programme the other day on synthetic biology and a company was "growing" diesel fuel. Wonder if this will solve our fuel problems?

They've been trying to do that since the 1950s they always promise that the breakthrough is just round the corner. The oil companies wouldn't let it happen even if it was, they'd stand to lose too much.

 

[FMJ]

I watched a programme the other day on synthetic biology and a company was "growing" diesel fuel. Wonder if this will solve our fuel problems?

Ironically, biodiesel is quite popular here, with a number of refining kits on sale. I know a girl in my VW group who runs it in her Mk I Rabbit (her BioBunny). She makes the rounds to a bunch of restaurants and picks up all their used fryer oil.

hmmmmmm, gas went up today. Regular was $1.12 CAD yesterday. Someone get assassinated in Syria while I was sleeping?

 

[jango]

i like the silver, gold platinum approach.

is the 87, 89, 91 the RON rating of your fuel? Seems low, ours is 91, 95 or 97ish, or is it done differently over there?

 

[rosstheboss]

I watched a programme the other day on synthetic biology and a company was "growing" diesel fuel. Wonder if this will solve our fuel problems?

Ironically, biodiesel is quite popular here, with a number of refining kits on sale. I know a girl in my VW group who runs it in her Mk I Rabbit (her BioBunny). She makes the rounds to a bunch of restaurants and picks up all their used fryer oil.

hmmmmmm, gas went up today. Regular was $1.12 CAD yesterday. Someone get assassinated in Syria while I was sleeping?

You can get biodiesel over here although it's not have as popular as they wanted it to be as people didn't realise you had to cut it with normal diesel by varying amounts depending on the time of year/temperature. When our old truck broke down I was chatting to the recovery bloke who said he had on numerous occasions had to rescue people who had put it in neat and ended up with a fuel filter like a pork pie.

 

[Neil]

If you look at the descriptions of diesel on fuel pumps (only really noticed it in the supermarket stations) many of them list a small amount of biodiesel (5-8% - something in that range) in their diesel.