£100

« **on:** June 01, 2008, 09:23:03 pm »

Just put £100 diesel in the van at Tesco.
It was £95 last week.
Getting a joke.

Thats all really!

« **Reply #1 on:** June 01, 2008, 09:33:05 pm »

There really is nothing to add to that, is there?

« **Reply #2 on:** June 01, 2008, 09:35:58 pm »

Its a P*** take!!!

« **Reply #3 on:** June 01, 2008, 09:36:12 pm »

I tested it the other day I used to put in £10 a day per car because I got a paper and lunch at the same time as did the others, now costs my £15 odd per van/car not that I ever put in £10 now a days but you get my point as it dont last a day, it is getting a joke I agree.

Ian

« **Reply #4 on:** June 01, 2008, 09:41:38 pm »

I saw an interview on sky news this morning with an ex oil broker,he said that prices should come down but he also went on to say that if you pay £1.30 for a liter of deisel 80p of that is tax and vat,the problem is not oil prices it`s a greedy labour government.

« **Reply #5 on:** June 01, 2008, 10:26:21 pm »

any goverment .

« **Reply #6 on:** June 01, 2008, 10:27:43 pm »

My Local garage has preordered septembers diesel at....................................................................................................................................................£1.48p a litre

Dont matter who you vote for, we are buggered.

« **Reply #7 on:** June 01, 2008, 10:48:39 pm »

Quote from: AJ on June 01, 2008, 09:23:03 pm

Just put £100 diesel in the van at Tesco.
It was £95 last week.
Getting a joke.

Thats all really!

I expect my next fill up to go over £100 too for the first time ever. I paid £86 last time but I hadn't let it run down too low.

« **Reply #8 on:** June 01, 2008, 10:59:01 pm »

The French President Sarkozy is putting forward a motion to the EC that VAT is removed from fuel in France - I think he is sugesting that it is removed for the entire European Community - Three guesses that Britain wont follow that idea.

Fuel costs are much lower in mainland Europe anyway, the oil companies obviously charge the same it is our money grabbing Government that adds more and more tax.
The big difference is the ordinary Fench people will take action whilst we just accept it

« **Reply #9 on:** June 02, 2008, 10:02:45 am »

Has anyone considered Bio-diesel or vegetable oil?
I'm told in the UK if you use less than 2500 litres a year you are exempt from all tax's and duties??

Pity Irish legislation doesn't allow it,... I've an endless supply of free oil from local chippers,... and filtering it is childs play.

« **Reply #10 on:** June 02, 2008, 10:56:58 am »

Quote from: Nathanael Jones on June 02, 2008, 10:02:45 am

Has anyone considered Bio-diesel or vegetable oil?
I'm told in the UK if you use less than 2500 litres a year you are exempt from all tax's and duties??

Pity Irish legislation doesn't allow it,... I've an endless supply of free oil from local chippers,... and filtering it is childs play.

According to a motor company spokes person
it can damage the fuel pumps in diesel engines

« **Reply #11 on:** June 02, 2008, 11:41:15 am »

Telboy...that statement is partially wrong..he should have said some pumps...

Dave...

I have been using biodiesel for 2 years now....

« **Reply #12 on:** June 02, 2008, 12:08:06 pm »

Once you've a Lucas pump it should be fine. If you haven't, its a relatively small job to change it. I know a few guys using new oil and mixing it 50/50 with diesel and they've had no problems at all.

« **Reply #13 on:** June 02, 2008, 12:59:01 pm »

small job to change a diesel pump? your having a laugh aint you?

you mugs keep filling up with your diesel hahahaha my van gets filled up with LPG 47p litre

i only spend about £25 a week! lol

« **Reply #14 on:** June 02, 2008, 01:57:56 pm »

I fill up my Nissan Z22 diesel pick up once a month when it is still at 1/4 at a cost of about £60.

The trick is to get your round all on your doorstep so no miles to travel especially at fuel prices now.

« **Reply #15 on:** June 02, 2008, 10:01:17 pm »

Quote from: bod on June 01, 2008, 10:27:43 pm

My Local garage has preordered septembers diesel at....................................................................................................................................................£1.48p a litre

Dont matter who you vote for, we are buggered.

I think that works out to a little over $11 US per gallon

Its up to $4 per gallon here and the country is ready to revolt

« **Reply #16 on:** June 02, 2008, 10:18:11 pm »

Quote from: Pat Purcell on June 02, 2008, 10:01:17 pm

Quote from: bod on June 01, 2008, 10:27:43 pm
My Local garage has preordered septembers diesel at....................................................................................................................................................£1.48p a litre

Dont matter who you vote for, we are buggered.
I think that works out to a little over $11 US per gallon Its up to $4 per gallon here and the country is ready to revolt

its been a long time since fuel in uk was that cheap at least 10 years ago

« **Reply #17 on:** June 03, 2008, 01:54:54 pm »

Just received last months fuel account........... £1410. !!!!

Costs us £87 to fill the big vans now, used to be about £60, even my car costs £57 to fill , last year I couldn't get £40 in.

Just added minimum of £1.00 to the majority of our window properties over the last month to cover the rising costs.

Plenty of people commented on the rise, but we just told them it was due to rising fuel prices and they've all accepted it.

Wish I could run the vans on rain water, we seem to be getting plenty of that at the moment, never stopped here all day.

« **Reply #18 on:** June 03, 2008, 04:02:12 pm »

This issue has been going on for a long time now,it really is time the general public stood up for itself and said "Enough is enough", this country is being taxed to death, fuel tax, vat insurance tax, booze tax ,tobacco tax, next thing there will be a tax on tax and vat itself. Don't get me wrong I'm not objecting to paying tax if its fair, but its not. What do we get in return for such high taxation? SOD ALL, I've been on the sick for 6 weeks due to injury and all I'm getting is less than £70 p/w as ,my wife works p/t they take into account her wage , which is nowt. How the hell are we supposed to pay the bills put food on the table on that much? Rant over ,sorry but this really gets to me

« **Reply #19 on:** June 03, 2008, 04:09:57 pm »

I know things are getting a bit tighter , but we have to put things in perspective . There are 1 BILLION people on the earth who will have woken up today , not having any food to feed themeselves or there children ! We might have to cancel the film channel , or leave the second car in the garage for a bit .

« **Reply #20 on:** June 03, 2008, 04:58:44 pm »

You are right ,although we are skint , the wife says being poor is not having money to buy food.
But if fuel prices continue to rise as they are, its going to get to the stage whereby people will have to dipose of their vehicles in order to feed their families,with of course the exception of all the government members who will just claim the money in expenses and buy 3rd homes

It will soon become too costly to run a vehicle and our custies can only afford so much so our prices cannot just keep increasing to keep up with fuel prices, it could reach the stage where large cleaning companies may have to lay off staff and 1 man businesses may just cease trading ,unable to cope, with escalating costs. I know this is extreme but its not impossible.

« **Reply #21 on:** June 03, 2008, 06:02:05 pm »

I don't fancy making it 1m & 1.

« **Reply #22 on:** June 03, 2008, 06:48:55 pm »

no good to us i know but 25p a litre in the caribbean

« **Reply #23 on:** December 10, 2013, 07:10:11 pm »

How much does it cost people to fill their vans now?

« **Reply #24 on:** December 10, 2013, 07:16:23 pm »

Quote from: Dean Taberner on December 10, 2013, 07:10:11 pm

How much does it cost people to fill their vans now?

My experience is up and down like the OP. When i have half a tank in and i fill up its about £35, and when its empty it cost about £70. The one thing i've figured out is that the lower that needle is the more its going to cost

« **Reply #25 on:** December 10, 2013, 07:17:26 pm »

Quote from: Dean Taberner on December 10, 2013, 07:10:11 pm

How much does it cost people to fill their vans now?

You bored Dean?

« **Reply #26 on:** December 10, 2013, 08:28:49 pm »

Van, £120 from dry.
Car, £130.

Good job we don't go far!

« **Reply #27 on:** December 10, 2013, 08:40:23 pm »

two of my friends have run there vans on just filtered cooking oil.

one has added over 160000 miles to his vw t4 that he bought with just over 100000 on the clock (now at nearly 287000 miles)

Only thing that has gone wrong was the oil pump at 255000 miles .

You can't just use any van /car but lists are available online .

You will need to drive an older (bosch injection pump) vehicle , no common rail or modern injection systems .

The ideal van is a 2.5 tdi vw t4 (the late models 2002/3 were lex compliant and can be found with aircon/elec windows etc and a 1200kg payload.

They are almost bulletproof and very very simple to fix .

They are however expensive to buy for an older van as they are sought after .

My friend payed £4000 for his van and has saved around three times that cost running it on free fuel .

There is a small cost to filtering and it can be messy but it is pretty simple.

You can use 2500 litres a year without paying tax on it ............for personal use , for business use you have to pay tax .

Still works out cheaper but probably not worth it for a business.

« **Reply #28 on:** December 10, 2013, 09:51:49 pm »

Quote from: trippyboy on December 10, 2013, 07:17:26 pm

Quote from: Dean Taberner on December 10, 2013, 07:10:11 pm
How much does it cost people to fill their vans now?
You bored Dean?

Yes mate very,

I decided on friday to take a 4 day sabitical from window cleaning (sat,sun,mon,tues) and wished I hadn't bothered now. Lol.

« **Reply #29 on:** December 10, 2013, 10:04:01 pm »

£92/4 for the van (was 97 / 98 not long ago) Hyundai 800 (2.5 diesel)

£65 for the car - only a little Suzuki 2.0 diesel. (and the doblo is the same - 1.3 diesel)

« **Reply #30 on:** December 10, 2013, 11:12:20 pm »

Surprises me as the OP five years was filling his van for £100. It costs me £105 to fill mine.
That strikes me as 5% increase in cost over a 5 year period. That's pretty good in my books.

« **Reply #31 on:** December 10, 2013, 11:30:19 pm »

Quote from: MATT BATEMAN (OWC) on December 10, 2013, 11:12:20 pm

Surprises me as the OP five years was filling his van for £100. It costs me £105 to fill mine.
That strikes me as 5% increase in cost over a 5 year period. That's pretty good in my books.

We don't know what size fuel tank the OP had in comparison with yours.

« **Reply #32 on:** December 10, 2013, 11:30:29 pm »

Is it possible to buy petrol vans anymore cause if it is it would be well worth buying one and converting to gas.
It is possible to convert diesel but you still have to use diesel with the gas and the savings are about 15% according to a guy (in the conversion trade) I spoke to a while back, not really worth it when you include the conversion costs

« **Reply #33 on:** December 10, 2013, 11:44:07 pm »

What's ya problem if ya put £95 in lst week just put £95 in this week :-) Lol Marc

« **Reply #34 on:** December 11, 2013, 12:51:09 am »

Quote from: G & M on December 10, 2013, 11:30:29 pm

Is it possible to buy petrol vans anymore cause if it is it would be well worth buying one and converting to gas.
It is possible to convert diesel but you still have to use diesel with the gas and the savings are about 15% according to a guy (in the conversion trade) I spoke to a while back, not really worth it when you include the conversion costs

Yeah, Mercedes do a petrol Vito.
3.2 though so you may not save much...
I bet if most of us worked out the % we spend extra on fuel compared to the % more £ we're making it'd be negligible.
We're all making more now than 5 years ago.
Unless through choice we've decided to make less.