Petrol Prices - does anybody care?

[Spacecadet]

My car's not getting any more economical or cheaper to maintain. If anything as it gets older it gets less reliable and less economical.

So?
the mileage allowance can't take everyone into consideration and at some point it will make better economical sense for you to change your car. At which point you should have something newer and more economical than mine.

[RichardCranium]

Boost the American, German or Japanese economies and increase our balance of payments! Buy a new car!

FTFY

[gingerjedi]

A suggestion.

Instead of buying petrol/diesel, food, clothing and gas/electricity, if you buy games consoles, plasma TV's Blu Ray players and a big bag of weed you wont care.

HTH BIDI.

FTFY

[Paddy]

You forgot the Indians* & the Chinese.




*Not Native American type Indians. I don't think they make a lot of cars.

Cherokee Jeep?

[VectraMan]

So?
the mileage allowance can't take everyone into consideration and at some point it will make better economical sense for you to change your car. At which point you should have something newer and more economical than mine.

It doesn't add up though does it? If you buy a car with an extra 5 mpg, you have to do a lot of miles over several years before it pays. Not to mention all those nasty carbon emissions associated with the manufacture of a new car, which makes the climate warm up and the fuel economy increase of your new car is wiped out by the need to run the air conditioning all the time.

[Alf W]

You forgot the Indians* & the Chinese.




*Not Native American type Indians. I don't think they make a lot of cars.

Much cheapness. Doesn't come with Air Con though.

[Spacecadet]

It doesn't add up though does it? If you buy a car with an extra 5 mpg, you have to do a lot of miles over several years before it pays. Not to mention all those nasty carbon emissions associated with the manufacture of a new car, which makes the climate warm up and the fuel economy increase of your new car is wiped out by the need to run the air conditioning all the time.

compared to the car I was using this time last year I'm getting almost double the MPG and I'm doing 25-30k claimable miles a year
under a certain number of miles banger economics makes better sense as the saving through the better MPG doesn't justify the purchase price of a newer car

[OwlHoot]

I've given up caring about petrol prices - My Jag costs nearly £90 to fill each week, and sometimes I can almost see the petrol gauge moving while I'm driving.

But as that's probably equivalent to a single return somewhere thirty miles away by train, it still beats mug public transport any day of the week

(Oh and RC, I can smoke to my heart's content in the car )

[Ruprect]

My car's not getting any more economical or cheaper to maintain. If anything as it gets older it gets less reliable and less economical.

Well you will insist on driving a vectra

[RichardCranium]

I've given up caring about petrol prices - My Jag costs nearly £90 to fill each week, and sometimes I can almost see the petrol gauge moving while I'm driving.

The wife's 4.0 litre Sovereign died of premature ageing (M reg with only 246,000 on the clock) earlier this year and we've been without a car since. I winced every time we filled it up.

Now when we want to go somewhere we rent a Fiesta or equivalent for £23 and spend anything up to £60 in petrol for a really long return trip.

And driving a fairly new Fiesta compared to an old, failing Jag, is dull, dull, dullity dull. I have done more middle-lane driving this past six months than in the preceding fifteen years.

But I know what you mean about the fuel gauge. I loved those long uphills on the motorway that start with an extra lane appearing on the right; when bombing up one of those at 120 with all the lights and the air conditioning on you could almost hear the engine pixies throwing the petrol into the engine by the bucketful. And when it levels out, the fuel gauge has definitely gone down visibly.