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Butterfingers
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£58 to fill up
« on: Jul 22nd, 2006, 5:41pm » |
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Just filled up my Scorp all the way, it was a bit thirsty. Cost me £58 total to fill up! At 22miles a gallon thats not going to go too far!
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you've never had it so good 
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Butterfingers
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #2 on: Jul 22nd, 2006, 10:12pm » |
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I used to pay 58 dirhams in Dubai to fill up my Taurus!
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Baz
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #3 on: Jul 22nd, 2006, 10:31pm » |
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£22.00 for a full tank of LPG.....did I mention................ 
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #4 on: Jul 23rd, 2006, 7:45am » |
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Hey Baz .. What's with the LPG.... I don't think you EVER told us about that one! 
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #5 on: Jul 23rd, 2006, 10:17am » |
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Yeah, it's news to me, it's not in his nature to crow about
these things.
Oi Baz, how much is LPG per litre these days ?
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Matt
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #6 on: Jul 23rd, 2006, 12:52pm » |
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paid £75.30 for a tank of optimax the other day 
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Just completed a late night 300 mile trip on deserted A roads and motorways. With the family asleep on board I set the cruise control at 75 and looked forward to checking the average mpg when I got home.
To say I was disappointed to see 24.7 average mpg out of a 2.3 which barely caught it's breath is the understatement of the year! Apart from the first mile and last 2 the car was cruising at 75 - singularly unimpressed!
As I sat there actually enjoying driving in England, on deserted roads, I wondered why I'd been thinking about changing the scorpio for an XG 30. At 24.7 at 75 mph now I know why!!
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Penguin
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #8 on: Jul 24th, 2006, 2:47pm » |
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Buy a Cosser, the mpg is no worse than that and they are much more fun to drive... 
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granorpio
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #9 on: Jul 24th, 2006, 5:04pm » |
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on Jul 23rd, 2006, 12:52pm, Matt wrote:| paid £75.30 for a tank of optimax the other day |
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 did you have to push the car onto the forcourt in order to put 75 quid in or crikey was it just expensive fuel, sure you haven't got a hole in the tank LOL
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cossieguy
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #10 on: Jul 24th, 2006, 6:12pm » |
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My local Shell garage in Wroxham,Norfolk has U/L at 99.9 and Optimax at 100.9!!! Tough choice but I think i can go the extra penny!. 4 miles down the road in Norwich U/L is 94.9! But in a cossie that 8 mile round trip eats up the price difference
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taliban aka Cheekyboy2
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #11 on: Jul 24th, 2006, 7:33pm » |
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the concern i have about lpg is its only cheap because of the reduced tax? which could be changed anytime?
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Baz
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #12 on: Jul 24th, 2006, 7:47pm » |
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QUESTIONS ANSWERED ON LPG VEHICLES
How long will LPG remain at around half the price of petrol and diesel?
New petrol and diesel vehicles are becoming cleaner but there is still a considerable emissions advantage to be gained by using LPG power. In recent independent pan-European tests, on urban roads on average a diesel vehicle emits the same fine particles as 120 LPG vehicles and the same NOx as 20 LPG vehicles..And, unlike petrol, the use of LPG results in similar CO2 emissions on a well to wheel basis as diesel vehicles so that there is no penalty for our planet in global warming terms.
The Government has recognised these benefits and have put in place a long term strategy for supporting LPG. This gives confidence to those considering buying an LPG vehicle. The Government has made a rolling three year commitment to fix the duty on LPG relative to that on petrol and diesel so that every year we will know the level of duty for the following three years.
The level of duty means that for the foreseeable future the price at the pumps will remain at around half the price of petrol and diesel.
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mazzy_j
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #13 on: Jul 26th, 2006, 8:43am » |
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Biodiesel is the way forward... For us derv owners anyways. Shame the government doesn't fully recognise the benefits and taxes this virtually carbon neutral fuel so highly yet its one of the very few existing fuels that won't screw up the planet in the long run  If there wasn't any tax on using used cooking oil it would cost next to nothing to fill up your car, and would save thousands, possibly millions of litres of waste oil from just getting chucked down the drain due to high disposal costs.
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #14 on: Jul 26th, 2006, 8:52am » |
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72L of LPG for less than £25.00 (yes thats 16 gals) for a fill up on my 24v.
bio diesel is still mixed with conventional diesel, cooking oil will not run in HDI diesels, plus how much waste cooking oil do you think is out there.
suppose I could be naughty & have the central heating converted to LPG (15-17p per litre) instead of natural gas and fill up from my own tank. ( not that you can do that legally though).
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #15 on: Jul 26th, 2006, 9:05am » |
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Quote:| bio diesel is still mixed with conventional diesel |
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Is it? I can't actiually remember the last time i stuck diesel in my car. runs fine without.
Youre right about the hdi's, the electronics can get a bit confused.
As for how much waste cooking oil produced a quick google search came up with Quote:Biodiesel From Waste Cooking Oils
Every week the UK consumes well in excess of 1,500 tonnes of cooking oil. After using the oil most domestic users simply pour this waste oil down the sink. (This is actually illegal as waste oil is a listed waste substance.) Large producers of waste oil such as resteraunts, chipshops and industrial food producers have to have their waste oil removed by licenced collectors. According to DETR (Department of Environment Transport and Regions, ref2) esimates there is around 100,000 tonnes of recoverable waste oil produced each year within the UK.
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Matt
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #16 on: Jul 28th, 2006, 5:04pm » |
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Quote:| did you have to push the car onto the forcourt in order to put 75 quid in or crikey was it just expensive fuel, sure you haven't got a hole in the tank LOL |
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lol no, it was a tank of optimax and at my garage it's a hefty £1.07and a bit a liter although thats the most ive ever seen it and thankfully it's dropped a few pennies now too
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #17 on: Jul 30th, 2006, 11:25am » |
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£58 to fill up is b***** good! I pay on average £67 for a full tank, but then I do run it right down to the last few litres before filling it again!
Darren
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Butterfingers
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Re: £58 to fill up
« Reply #18 on: Jul 30th, 2006, 7:16pm » |
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Well I've just chucked in another £53, but this was before the light had come on.
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