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Price of fuel...
dxmedia:
I've been thinking about the price of fuel this morning. It was 60p a liter when I started driving. Filling up today i payed 120p I didn't think it was that bad concidering it's 14 years later, so I dug out some inflation figures for the UK, which also came across a nice calculator.
http://safalra.com/other/historical-uk-inflation-price-conversion/
Just on inflation alone, nothing to do with the oil issues surrounding the gulf war or the oil companies holiding back production a few years ago, the environmental issues, the cost of drilling for shale... we would be 90p a litre now.
Only in the past month or two has the price gone up 10p a liter or so.
IMO, fuel prices are about where they should be from the prices we were paying in the middle of the 90's.
I know that the cost of many things surrounding driving have gone down (car's, insurance, spares) in that period and some have stayed about the same (tax - give or take), so really I don't feel that I'm being persecuted for driving at all. I do know that my sallary has increased during that period, and as a % of a cost of living, the money i spend of keeping a car on the road has dropped!
I'm going to be the only one who thinks this aren't I?
Saffy:
--- Quote from: dxmedia on April 20, 2010, 09:15:21 ---I'm going to be the only one who thinks this aren't I?
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where's the forums *BURN THE HERETIC* emoticon ?
dxmedia:
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Saffy:
--- Quote from: dxmedia on April 20, 2010, 09:49:40 ---
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Appears to be enjoying being tickled by the stick way too much - suppose it a distraction from the melting.
Lumbering Jack:
What amazed me the other day was I could buy Diesel on the Isle of Skye cheaper than I can buy it in town here - 300 and odd miles further south with a much denser population :huh:
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