Has anyone else in the country noticed a huge rise in the price of diesel, ours has gone up from £108.9 to £115.9 in two days. 7 pence a litre more.
The chancellor was just on the tele saying that because of the economy at the moment he will not be putting the price fuel up untill October , and my cousin works for a crude oil importer and the price for that has not gone up either so what the hell is going on.
My car to fill was £65 now it's £ 78.

Just having a rant, but it does put the price up of showing dogs again !!

Peanuts

Yep i've noticed that as well, it's a terrible price and doesn't look like it'll go down either.  Then there's the road tax going up as well, plus our oil heating fuel has really gone up.

Don't get me started because i won't be able to stop, at the mo it seems everything is costing more and more but wages don't seem to be going up in line with it!

Paula

i got my diesel car 7 year ago everyone said get a diesel it cheap and you go further in bye the mile.

i dont think so,.

The price of crude has shot up the last couple of days. We are actually losing money on our diesel at the moment selling it at 112.9. I wish something would happen to bring the price back down, people come in the shop having a go at all my staff and us but don't seem to realise we hate it being so expensive too and we have to pay the prices as well. Even the supermarkets here are at the same price as us.:-(

You go further for the mile but the higher price negates the economy.

Or, to put it in laymen's terms - it takes the p*ss!  My skoda is now around £50 to fill up, used to be £40, and only when I'd run it till totally empty.

The whole country's going to hell I fear - how on earth they expect anyone at the lower end of the wage scale (myself included) to afford to simply exist, never mind live a decent life, is beyond me.  I'm looking at other countries at the moment - but I'm stuck here for at least another 4 years. :-(

Don't, I was just having a rant to my work colleagues about the budget and cost of living etc.  I own a diesel 4x4 (for the dogs of course) and commute everyday.  Diesel is extortionately expensive and my train ticket is a ridiculous price just for the benefit of standing up for 35 mins in a crowded, filthy, unreliable train.  I have also noticed the price of meat is jumping up, not to mention the huge increases in bread, milk etc, all apparently because of the global wheat shortage and cost of oil.  Yet our illustrious Chancellor still feels it necessary to put an extra 2p duty on the price of fuel.  The cost of living can only go up.  mutter, curse, mutter, grumble, grumble.....................:( 

Best BOE reduce their interest rate - then again the lenders never pass on the full reduction anyway.

Oh come on, if the price per barrel has come up why then is every other country so cheap and we pay more than double many of them?  It's nothing to do with the price of oil etc. it's our greedy government taxing us for everything.

I said to my parents last night that I might as well give up on everything because I can't even afford to live anymore.  I go to there's three times a week as I can't afford to pay for 7 daysworth of food.  I don't enter dog shows anymore as I can't afford to enter nor afford the diesel to drive there.

In reality the only thing I'm living for these days is to work as that is the only thing that is just about paying my bills.

If I could afford it I would be out of this country like a shot.

> Oh come on, if the price per barrel has come up why then is every other country so cheap and we pay more than double many of them?  It's nothing to do with the price of oil etc. it's our greedy government taxing us for everything.
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> I said to my parents last night that I might as well give up on everything because I can't even afford to live anymore.  I go to there's three times a week as I can't afford to pay for 7 daysworth of food.  I don't enter dog shows anymore as I can't afford to enter nor afford the diesel to drive there.
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> In reality the only thing I'm living for these days is to work as that is the only thing that is just about paying my bills.
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> If I could afford it I would be out of this country like a shot.

Well said.  I'm dying to get my dogs back into agility - River needs a job to do bless her, but I can't go beyond the back garden because I can't spare the diesel to go to the club (the class itself is only £1) more than once a week (I go Tuesdays for a college work placement).  If I do get into a position of being able to afford it, there's no way I'll be able to compete as I've wanted to since before I had dogs because of the cost.

Food is getting insane - I'm budgeting for £15-20 a week at the moment, and really it needs to be lower.  My friend has just started a new job, and is going to do 48 hours a week just to meet her bills.

The one thing I am doing is dancing - £4 a week.  And that's because I want to live, not just be, and the class is very nearby so diesel is minimal.  The dogs at least I can do stuff with at home - missing out on classes doesn't mean they do nothing at all, but after over a year of staying in I want to start living life for a change.

Our fuel here went up in the new year, a considerable hike but it now covers the cost of road tax too, so the more you use the road the more you pay.
I use tank ful of fuel approximately every month and the difference probably equates to the rise for me.
I still think the diesel works out better, but this has levelled it out more.

Karen

I have just done a search on European prices. I am moving to France next year so have chosen that country as a comparative. UK £1.11 a litre. France 89p a litre.
How can they keep putting up these prices.

> In reality the only thing I'm living for these days is to work as that is the only thing that is just about paying my bills.

Same here, and i think many people are the same.  The cost of everything is going up except the wages to cover the bills.  Nobody has any money or time left over to do the things they'd like to do, because many need to work extra hours as well.

When you compare the cost of living in other countries it seems insane that we in the UK are paying so much.  Even worse i just can't seem to imagine that things will get any better ever.

Paula

> When you compare the cost of living in other countries it seems insane that we in the UK are paying so much.  Even worse i just can't seem to imagine that things will get any better ever.

I think they will - eventually.  But regrettably I also think we will go through another recession of sorts first.

I just hope I'm out of the country by the time that happens.

We use oil to heat our house - now that is scary. 

>We use oil to heat our house - now that is scary. 

Same here. I can see we're going to be back to our childhood days when we had frost on the inside of our bedroom windows in winter.

glad we only have wood burners...cannot imagine having to pay to heat the house.

I'm very glad we still have an open fire in one room (plus two chainsaws and permission to maintain local hedgerows). When we've had power cuts, so the central heating doesn't work anyway (no pump), we have at least had one warm room.

> We use oil to heat our house - now that is scary.

We do as well, we pay via direct debit every month for it.  Just a couple of days ago we had a letter from our supplier and they worked out that in line with the rise in oil our direct debit would need to be doubled! 

I'm glad it's getting to spring as we do have an open fire in the living room, so the heating can stay off, or maybe just have it on for an hour to heat the water.

Paula

 

We have the coal fire too but it rarely gets lit - We end up in seperate rooms in the evening because I can't stand to watch my hubby's choice of programmes ( usually just getting into a programme when it gets flicked over - why do men have to do that!!!!)
We are planning a new house and got very enthusiastic about an Aga.  Went with my friend to a demonstration (brilliant learnt a lot and a  great lunch!) and came back with all the blurb.  I really fancied a wood or multifuel Rayburn but the Aga does it so much better.  However looking at the amount of oil it uses I am back with the Rayburn.  Any fuel in the Aga is hefty - I am not sure an electric one can save - no need to use toaster, kettle, hob, can air clothes etc etc.  I am all for being independant of oil, gas and electricity if I can not adding to our consumption.  

I've just been told that it is going to cost £300-400 to tax my petrol 1.8 ford focus estate next year! I'm gutted. I'm on students income anyway and need the car to traven to work and take dogs out etc. We live in the sticks and i have 3 big dogs so public transport is not an option.  I really love competing in agility nad flyball during the summer and would be gutted if i had to give it up, its all i do i don't go out drinking or clubbing like other people my age. I'm desperate to move out but living and working in such an expensive area i jsut can't see it happening as my boyfriend and i are on minimum wage. :-(

> I've just been told that it is going to cost £300-400 to tax my petrol 1.8 ford focus estate next year!

That's insane!  Are you sure?  My 1.8 turbo diesel skoda octavia estate just cost me £180, and that's up on last year.

Thats what i've been told, but i can't find out the exact amount anywhere, so not sure how reliable the source is, think they may have over estimated it. (At least i hope so!)  Mine usually cost about £190 per year. I believe diesels are cheaper as it is going by the the amount of emmisions. Any high powered petrol 4 by 4 or similar is definately going to cost the earth if what i am reading is true, it will all come into effect in 2009 after this years budget. Lamborghinis and ferraris are going to cost about £440 to tax, but then if you can afford one of them you can probably afford that much tax!!

Looking at the chart i found the skoda oktavia estate comes up in several different bands ranging from J at £260 downwards. Still a lot but not quite as much as i was told. 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/12/ncars112.xml

I suspect some people will be in for a shock as to what they will pay in Road Tax next year.

To find out what you will be paying try this link then click "Vehicle Enquiry"

Today diesel is 118. at ESSO in Royston,Herts!!!

www.petrolprices.com

UK Petrol Prices for
Thursday 13th Mar 2008
                
                   Avg. Min. Max.
Unleaded: 106.6p 101.9p 117.9p
Diesel:     113.6p 105.9p 122.0p
LRP:        111.6p 103.9p 115.9p
Super:     113.4p 105.9p 122.9p
LPG:        55.7p 46.9p 59.9p

What JG....you mean don't have frost on the inside of your windows in Winter????

We also use oil to run our central heating and it is becoming a complete and utter joke :( In our calculations, since we moved here 3 yrs ago heating oil has risen by 36% - YES 36%. How come the Government is doing all that it can to reduce the price of gas (we can't get gas here) but completely ignore heating oil prices. And we don't have an official governing body fighting our corner like the gas consumers do :(

As for diesel, DON'T, it now cost me £70.00 to fill my car, yet when I bought it nearly 3 yrs ago it cost around £50.00. No it's not a gas guzzler, just a 'normal' family estate car!

the average diesel price round here is £1.11, petrol is £1.03

I usually go to Asda to fill the van, purely because it's a card only, no cashier, so no-one to see me fiddling with the cap (yeah I have major blonde momets **roll eyes**) and the maximum spend is £70....I can't fill the tank on that!! So I put a bit in, today I put £40 in to take it up to just over half, will fill it up prior to my shows next month....I try not to think about it

sometimes I really miss my little 1.4 vauxhall corsa...cheap to tax, insure, and fill up......

maybe the govt should just tell us what we're allowed to drive and have done with it....GRRRRRRRR

my last house was oil-heated, I always look back and think it was cheap...but it was over 3 years ago, and was a standard semi, not the bloomin farmhouse with draughty doors/windows I've got now that costs a fortune in gas....At Christmas I took to ironing in the daytime downstairs to save me putting the fire on or advancing the heating.....got my ironing pile down in no time ;).....it's no joke tho 

This puts things in a new light, how we pay so much beats me   prices are per Gallon!

http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx

If prices got hiked like this in the US there'd be a riot!   (seriously, I have US contacts and that's what they say would happen ;) )

It's going to backfire when the UK tourist industry goes down the pan because of high fuel/food prices and the UK car industry goes the same way since no-one will be able to afford to buy and run a new car (Really need that rolling eye smiley)

and I don't for one second believe all the GREEN TAX hype.  If the government was really trying to be GREEN they'd stop driving all over britain in big cars, flying all over the world and stick to computer conferences

> and I don't for one second believe all the GREEN TAX hype. If the government was really trying to be GREEN they'd stop driving all over britain in big cars, flying all over the world and stick to computer conferences

You are missing the point Dill..........the GREEN TAX is for all of us, we can't drive big cars or go on foreign holidays  They of course are exempt. The carrier bag tax is just a joke, all the things going on in the world and they come up with that.

The US gallon though is not the same as our gallon it is smaller I think 3.something litres rather than our 4.5litres.

It's 3.98 litres, so not too much smaller but over a lot it does add up.

sandrah,

That was my point ;)  Whatever happened to leading by example?