petrol is going to hit £2.00 a litre this really aint good news i thnk we should be doing something to stop this guys
And?
Who said it is??Originally Posted by raider_gtt
The answer is ridiculously easy. Drive less, drive a more economical car, cycle more, use public transport more. There is huge quantities of slack in all these areas. When we do this, we will be fitter, have more money in our pocket, and probably happier!!!!
been on the news tonight
The answer is ridiculously easy. Drive less, drive a more economical car, cycle more, use public transport more. There is huge quantities of slack in all these areas. When we do this, we will be fitter, have more money in our pocket, and probably happier!!!!
Do you think i could get away with turning up at a pupils house and saying, ok for todays driving lesson where gonna ride our bike to the trainstation, get a train to the next town and then a bus to your college....
nah,i think the best thing for you to do,is first lesson teach them how to use the cruise control!!!.....go economy drive...
and your already car sharing..
love it didnt think of that one
Cruise control uses around 5% more fuel, AA journey back uses a lot lessnah,i think the best thing for you to do,is first lesson teach them how to use the cruise control!!!.....go economy drive...
and your already car sharing..
RUBBISH the country would grind to a standstill with food and daily products being transported by road the haulage companies couldn,t afford to operate the government needs to get there heads out of there arses.
Petroleum industry using the current protests in the middle east to crank up their profits by an unreasonable margin. Does the extra pressure on their supply chain equate to an additional 80p/ltr at the pumps...seriously doubt it. Daylight robbery imo.
North Sea oil production is still over 1000 million barrels a year, I don't understand why we get so shafted but as stated by others something needs to be done about it. For the record I don't personally do a great deal of miles, but feel for the people that do commute by car and those in the road haulage industry.
theres no need for them to be soo high. tbh though its just our ****ty govenment. yeh the price of the barrel has gone up but its all the tax that the govenment puts on it. nowhere else in europe has this much of a problem
if it was £5 a liter i'd still buy it.... fcuk to the tax, i wont use public transport as it cost me too me too much to run MY car in the 1st place, with all the tax's etc on everything, from what i earn to road tax to insurance tax to VAT on anything i buy to fix it!
petrol is still cheaper than kopparberg, and i still buy that
Only by about 10p or so (well, compared to diesel or s.u anyway)
I don't see it hitting £2 P/L; heads would roll if it ever got to that. A good chance it'll hit £1.50 P/L by Summer though, if things carry on the way they are.
It's the petroleum co.s blatently playing on the shenanigans going on in Libya et all - Saudi (for one) have upped their production output to cover the reduction from Libya, and with a massive reserve of the stuff literally a stone's throw off the N.E parts of the UK, there's really no need for these fecking ridiculous pump prices.
How very typical of petroleum companies to cash in on other's misfortunes. Of course, the Gov. tax doesn't (and never has) help matters either.
B*stards, the lot of them.
The days of petrol being sub-£1 are a thing of the past now, imho...
if it helps.. even buyign my veg oil for the diesel , in bulk i pay .. £1.01 a litre
Diesel down here is already £1.40 a litre, tesco 5p of vouchers are handy.... use & gerry can to save every penny... often fill upto £90 a time.....
Diesel down here is already £1.40 a litre, tesco 5p of vouchers are handy.... use & gerry can to save every penny... often fill upto £90 a time.....
Costs me £93 to fill the S Max, gives me anywhere between 350-400 miles around town.
Ive generally never cared about the price of fuel because if I'm going to use my car, I'm prepared to foot the fuel bill.
I can't wait to move/work in the UAE...fuel costs approximately 15-20p a litre
Woo is it that much now? When I was out there is cost £2 to fill the Yank tank we had. So prices are going up every where.Costs me £93 to fill the S Max, gives me anywhere between 350-400 miles around town.
Ive generally never cared about the price of fuel because if I'm going to use my car, I'm prepared to foot the fuel bill.
I can't wait to move/work in the UAE...fuel costs approximately 15-20p a litre
Indeed Mike, its cost on average now £4 to £5 to fill a tank now, sad times
in asda its 1.04 per litre for own brand. 1.09 per litre for KTC 15 litre.
even they have gone up 10p per litre in the last 3months.....
national day on pushbikes this year methinks
national day on pushbikes this year methinks
yea ok"s then i will get the old chopper bike out then
I've just got back from the Shell Garage, and V Power is 2p per litre cheaper than last week. It's now the same price as diesel - 135.9p.
hemp
go green
I noticed that tonight aswell Billy beefcake, seems like Denzil prices you see are the V Power prices now. Still a joke though, but I have cut down on junk food so that goes towards food for the car.
The £2/litre is inevitable chaps.
Might not happen as quickly as the last few months but it will happen and with security in the Middle East getting more and more uncertain by the day you can't expect anything different. You can be certain of one thing and that's oil companies always have and always will have absolutely no worries making the maximum possible profit at all times. That's the way it is when you market exhaustible commodites. And of course they can change supply as and when it suits them, operating together in a cartel like OPEC. Self regulated and backed by every big player Government in the World.
If a government can ride on the back of that financially........................
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Well if it happens everything else will go up to compensate. Think that there will be fuel protests again, remember when it happened in 2000 got a few days off work though!!!
It makes my blood boil!
I'm using at least three tanks a week for my driving school and it has gone up from £30 per tank to £52 per tank over the last two years, even if it stays the same all this year (belive me it won't) that will be 3k straight out of my back pocket
Thats a big hit and i'm most defiantly feeling it recently
This recesion is really going to hit most working class people this year, whats the saying??? "**** rolls down hill!"
& yet pupils still want lessons for f*ck all, bill plant offering 5 lessons for £56, and still people thing driving instructors earn £30k a year lolIt makes my blood boil!
I'm using at least three tanks a week for my driving school and it has gone up from £30 per tank to £52 per tank over the last two years, even if it stays the same all this year (belive me it won't) that will be 3k straight out of my back pocket
Thats a big hit and i'm most defiantly feeling it recently
This recesion is really going to hit most working class people this year, whats the saying??? "**** rolls down hill!"
It's literally quite laughable! lessons at that price surely can not be sustainable
Your doing well if you can earn even half of 30k doing this job now!
One school round my way is doing lessons for £17 per hour that's just for a straight hour no special offer or promation or anything, he's selling his own industry short!
That is really cheap!! I remember back in 1997 when I started lessons, I got 10 lessons for £110 with the big red L. That was really cheap even back then as it was generally around £15 a hour. Petrol I think was about 60p per litre so it did not cost much I doubt to fill the 1.1 Rover Metro I learned in!
I assume that they are just realling people in with the 5 lessons for £56 as once you start learning with someone you rarely switch to someone else. They can then bump the price up to £25 an hour or whatever there after. What is the average cost for an hours lesson now a days?
Last edited by Rob1980; 08-03-2011 at 15:39.
Round my way the going rate seems to be £20/£22 per hour with many instructors doing deals for block bookings and promo deals to get the kids in the seat so to speak.
Bill plant normally charge £22 per hour after the 1st 5 hours & make there pupils do atlead 45 hours, alot of the big driving schools sell pre paid packages (ie: buy 40 hours & get a great discount)
The amount of hours the average pupil needs varies, the national average is 44-50 hours now.. hence the big schools selling 40 hour packages...
I charge £18-£22 an hour depending on deals etc to pupils...
£35-£50 pan hour for Instructor Tuition (IE training people to become instructors)
£50-£100 for out of town last min cancellations
40 hours!! i passed in 2001 after 11hours!!Bill plant normally charge £22 per hour after the 1st 5 hours & make there pupils do atlead 45 hours, alot of the big driving schools sell pre paid packages (ie: buy 40 hours & get a great discount)
The amount of hours the average pupil needs varies, the national average is 44-50 hours now.. hence the big schools selling 40 hour packages...
I charge £18-£22 an hour depending on deals etc to pupils...
£35-£50 pan hour for Instructor Tuition (IE training people to become instructors)
£50-£100 for out of town last min cancellations
The majority of my pupils get through with under 30 hours, it seems to be around 70%. Maybe i'm being to honest!
Not always the case I have had one student who had had 60 hours with three other instructors before he even came to me
My lowest is also 11 hours with a first time pass! I was pretty chuffed with that!
100 hour and how many tests, you do wonder if they belong on the road if it takes that long, yes they might have passed the test but can they actually drive. Its like exams, you can pass the exam doesn't mean you know any of the stuff in it.
16 hours and passed first time and only got 1 wrong in the test, worse thing is they wont tell you what you got wrong
40+ hours is a national average, this is going on data from the DSA, assuming pupils having 2 hour lessons once a week etc, sadly there is no data for Fully qualified instructors,& Trainees (did you know there was such a thing as a trainee instructor, could you tell the difference, they dont have to tell you and they charge the same...BSM- who are now owned by theAA after going bankrupt, RED etc are huge training schools and many of there instructors are not fully qualified)
My average is less than 30 hours, my best is somebody with no motoring experience passed within 12 hours with 3 minors
I passed after about 35 hours I think, but it took me until the third time to pass
Having said that, I don't think it makes me a worse driver. My friend's Dad was a driving instructor at the time (retired now), taught him how to drive for free, got as many lessons as he wanted, passed first time, but has crashed twice since passing. I've not crashed once in the 4.5 years I've been driving.
asda has now changed supplier...its down to 98p per litre
asda has now changed supplier...its down to 98p per litre
are you saying mark that petrol is 98p a ltr by you?
He is talking about Veg Oil mate.
i was about to bloody say....lol that will teach me only to read the end of a post
asda has now changed supplier...its down to 98p per litre
i may have to go clear there shelves.
Do you use it in your 306? How many MPG do you get? Think I need to buy myself an old derv
Public transport down this way is ****, it costs me more to bus to work or town than it does to drive. Why would I catch a bus? Stick to my car thanks. Country is pants these days
indeed i do.. neat aswell.
i seem to get 50+ around 54 i think i calculated.
i use it in my 1998 megane scenic dti, with 1ml acetone added per litre of fuel. i mix its 50-50 or 60-40 with diesel for cold starting. i get approx 48mpg mixed driving.
moan...moan...moan....there always be something.....smile be happy!!!
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