Petrol is now at £1.05 a litre at my local garage grr and staff was saying it could rise again by this time next week.

The cost of filling my petrol tank has gone up at least £15 this year, it has got to the point where I just darent l look when Im filling up and I try to make as few journeys as possible, but there are certain things that you just have to have a car for. It has even made me go back to getting my food shopping on line.

Thought it was bad here in Sunny Sussex, just paid 98.9 pence per litre Iknow things in the USA are very bad, but sorry this is just cashing in on it!!

I'm sorry but how can the disaster in America affect our fuel prices so quickly.  It's a load of ****.  Let's face it most petrol companies use each others reserves so surely we've had plenty over the last week which was already over here not to affect this.

It's about time we stood up and did something.

Christine, have the prices gone up in Spain?  It's amazing how they can keep theirs low!

I thought I was seeing things at the garage earlier when I managed to put £40 in my car!  In the days when I used to keep it full up to the top at each filling, I never got more than £28 - £32 in at a push.

Horrendous.   :-(

Mmmm I have been filling the scooby up a bit more as well :( Frightening :(

Lucy
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Trouble is they just BEG to be treated with loads of right foot. Realy difficult to drive sensibly :D
r

We are soooooo glad we paid to convert our cars to LPG - I've cut my fuel bills in half, and hubby pays a third less than what he used to - and when he was paying £50-£60 a week just to get to work, it makes a big difference.  I also get paid mileage for a lot of my work, and it's paid at petrol prices, so I'm making a profit on my mileage too! :)

Digger excuse me asking but do they still work OK? We have 2 friends who had it done and had no end of trouble to the extent that the garage took the cars back and I have heard of others. Infact the only person that I know who has had no trouble imported their car from New Zeland as I believe it is compulsory to offer all models with a standard gas option from the factory over their.

There was an item on different fuels on the TV this morning. They reckoned that you had to do 35,000 befrore you had recouped the conversion costs - so only a good idea if you do high mileage. My husband wants to convert his diesel so that you can pour sunflower oil into it. You can even use filtered, used oil from the fish and chip shop :D :D :D

Daisy

Most diesels will run quite happily on veg oil, only trouble is the tax man has spotted that he would lose a lot of money so it is illegal.  Oh and it makes a really odd smell so is easy to spot - (dont ask me how I know) :D :o

Well I for one am fed up with being a Petrol Hostage..........Deliah Smith sneezes and the prices go up at the pumps, it seem any excuse will do :(

Deliah Smith ????

Daisy

Apologies Daisy, it just seems any excuse will do, and am fed up :(

LOL - sorry. Thought that I'd missed something somewhere and Deliah was now Minister for Fuel :D :D Hubby is retiring in a couple of weeks. He does about 30,000 a year and his company haven't put the mileage allowance up for several years :( So he's retiring at the right moment.

Daisy

Most companies base it on the IR rates as if they pay more then the employee is dicked for more tax via the P11D:rolleyes:

The rates are updated I think relating to the budget but could be wrong. That is where the employee suffers as we pay the stupid prices but do not get the benefit at the end when claiming the expense either way we seem to loose :rolleyes:

I am going to have to suffer in my new job as will claim mileage :(

Lucy
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The rates are 40p for the first 10,000 miles and then 25p after that for any car. These are the maximum rates to avoid paying tax - many companies do not pay this :( I don't think that these rates have changed for about 3 years :( (Although I may be wrong :) )

Daisy

Is it 3 years since they have changed it !

Haven't had anything to do with P11D's now for while thank god :)

Yes but of they don't pay the IR rate you can gain by declaring it on your tax return and the Tax man will pay the short fall :)

Lucy
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No - no company HAS to pay the IR rate ??

Daisy

No Thats what I meant that companies can pay what ever they like but the IR rate is what is use to calculate whether tax is due or refundable ( yes a very rare word used in personal tax :) ) to the employee :)

Lucy
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You mean that you can treat it as an expense ? If the company only pays, say, 20p per mile, you can claim the balance as an expense ?

Daisy

On your tax return yes :)

Lucy
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You learn something every day :) Doesn't apply to me as I don't get a mileage allowance and hubby gets the IR rate :)

Daisy

They work fine - hubbies Omega has a slight (very slight) loss of power, and the engine management light comes on, but that's probably because it needs new HT leads (skinflint that he is wouldn't change them when the work was done) but to be honest, I don't notice it - it still scares me!  Mine is only an 1800, so I was a little concerned it would be gutless post converstion, but it's as good, if not better.........

Be thankful guys your not my OH boss, his monthly fuel bill for machines and vans has gone up by £15 thousand

before you ask yes it is right, he's in forestry with very big machines lol :D

OMG ! Petrol on the Isle of Wight has now gone up to 99.9p per litre - for my car that works out at 18pence per mile and considering I have to (yes have to) do a 15 mile round trip morning and night just to get the children to and from school that means I pay £5.40 a day ! :(  (no I haven't got an MPV, 4 x 4 etc - I have a 'fuel efficient' 2.0 ltre injection with catalytic converter toyota hatch back, so boring you fall asleep just looking at it ! LOL - oh and it is our ONLY car which me and my OH share )

American and English government has us by the short and curlies - the w**kers

Tara x

edited to add - MY OH goes on a forum that has lots of AMericans on it - and they are complaining that they pay 2 dollars a gallon LOL :D

I get paid 40p per mile for works mileage.  That used to be cost effective but certainly isn't any longer and barely covers the true cost of using my own car for business purposes.

The average price in the US seems to be about $3 a gallon. Convert the US gallon to the UK gallon and the price is $3.75. Convert that to sterling and they're paying about £2 a gallon ... way less than half what we're paying - and they're up in arms at the high price!