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…just seem to keep going up.
It’s funny, I remember sitting in the back of the car as a child while my father put petrol in the car and him coming back fuming about how it was now 50p a gallon – 10 shillings! – and saying what else you could buy for 50p.
I filled up on Sunday afternoon ready for a long drive to wholesalers this week and was stunned at having to pay 138.9 a litre. Passing the same petrol station on Tuesday morning it had gone up to 140.9 a litre…2p increase in 2 days!
On my way back I needed to top up so stopped at a petrol station and thought “blimey, Dick Turpin is alive and well” – 149.9 a litre!!! I couldn’t help but comment on the price, only to be told “We’re average for the area, there’s plenty in the country far more expensive than us.”
Are there? Really? How much is a litre of petrol where you are?
(while I’m at it, .9? who’s that fooling? why not just call it £1.41 and have done with it? it’s not like you’re going to give me .1p change is it?!?!)
Rant over :oops:
Must admit I never look at the price per litre, simply because I forget what it was by the time I need to fill up again. Probably is because of the .9 thing you pointed out Jen. It doesn’t register in my brain properly I guess. I do however have a moan when I have filled the tank, because that is what I remember. If it was £110 last week then £120 this week god do I flipping moan :lol:
The problem is we don’t have a choice do we? Some may say we do, and yes those who can get rid of their cars do have a choice. But public transport still needs to fill up, pushing fares up. Maybe we could use our cars less? Well I didn’t buy mine to not use it properly, and I am often pushed for time so I use it alot, even for the shortest of journeys.@jen_jen wrote:
…just seem to keep going up.
It’s funny, I remember sitting in the back of the car as a child while my father put petrol in the car and him coming back fuming about how it was now 50p a gallon – 10 shillings! – and saying what else you could buy for 50p. . . . . .. .
I remember – must have been 1972 – sitting somewhere in Devon trying to stump up 35 pence each (it was seven bloomin’ shillings!) to top up my brother’s Ford Zephyr 4 (dad passed it on to him after he’d installed a governor so it wouldn’t go above 70mph) so that we could make it all the way back to London from Weymouth.
I think it would probably be easier for my kids to put together £6.50 than it was for us to find 35p at the time if they were out with friends.
I watched ‘Watchdog’ on fuel prices – you can bump it up from .99 if you shake the hose!!! :D
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