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fuel prices high..... what we gonna do about it

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Boggert:

--- Quote from: V8MoneyPit on April 30, 2008, 17:29:30 ---
--- Quote from: Old Warthog on April 29, 2008, 21:55:54 ---Are you sure about over a fiver in the seventies.  I don't remember that - over £ 1 yes, a fiver would have been a quarter of my weekly wage, and I don't think I would have been running my Zephyr on a gallon a week.

Cheers

Keith

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I found an article a while ago about this, but I can't locate it now!! Found that it was £4.16 a gallon in 1957 though.
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf

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Are you sure they don't mean equivalent to....

In 1957 £5 was probably close to the average weekly wage

V8MoneyPit:
It doesn't read that way. It was the Suez crisis, don't forget. Like in 1974, the price rocketted, then fell back to more normal levels.

littlepow:
Just filled my 90 up for the first time in nearly 2 months. Was pretty appaled at the cost, so I asked the girl behind the till to put a baraclava on and point a gun at me. So I could feel like I was being robbed properly, but she was not overly amused with the idea, neither was the manager!

pux:
well i think i have finally been priced out from running my landy so will be looking to own a car  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

python:
thats a sad thing to hear, sodding goverment has so much to answer for,  get some veggie oil in to it, if its a diesel.

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