£6 gallon is here - Polidicks

[quote]Petrol prices have broken through the £6-a-gallon barrier for the first time in history – with worse predicted to come. Soaring oil costs have pushed the UK’s average price of unleaded above 132p a litre – the £6 gallon – for the first time ever, figures form the AA show. The AA branded it: 'Another milestone along the road to higher fuel prices.' Up again: Soaring oil costs have pushed petrol to a £6 per gallon record high It means the pump price of petrol now averages 132.12p a litre while the average price of diesel also hit a new record at 137.92p - a staggering £6.27. The cost of petrol has risen 6.93p a litre (£3.47 a tank) since the start of the year, and 1.68p a litre in the past week. At the weekend it emerged one petrol station had even pushed prices up to more than 140p a litre.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1364529/The-6-gallon-arrived-Petrol-price-hits-historic-high.html?ITO=1490[/url]

Damn that's triple what i pay

The main reason for this being the taxation.. the more the prices rise the more tax there is because it's a percentage. It's something stupid like 70p per.

Everyone stop buying gas.

If you take the tax (both fuel tax and VAT) off the average price (Using the numbers in that article) is only 32p a litre. Its an insane amount of tax really.

I feel sorry for the brits since I'd probably shoot myself if gas came to $10 a gallon but then again you folks have much better public transport and a country the size of Kansas

[QUOTE=fishyfish777;28507797]I feel sorry for the brits since I'd probably shoot myself if gas came to $10 a gallon but then again you folks have much better public transport and a country the size of Kansas[/QUOTE] £1.20 to get on the bus (although you can go anywhere on that route but they're all quite short). £2.20 to get on the bus if you forgot your Oyster card or forgot to top it up. £2 to get on the train (goes up to £7-8 max, zone based pricing). £60-70 ish to get on the train anywhere reasonably far away better public transport? and that's just london, out here in hertfordshire it's even worse. That said I'm not so sure of the public transport costs elsewhere.. but this is extortionate when it used to be 70p for the bus only a few years ago.

I wish science would get off its ass and produce a sustainable replacement fuel already. I read something about some hydrogen liquid which can be used in any normal petrol or diesel engines but it will be a couple of years until it comes to the market. I don't remember where I read that though.

[QUOTE=Catdaemon;28507825]£1.20 to get on the bus (although you can go anywhere on that route but they're all quite short). £2.20 to get on the bus if you forgot your Oyster card or forgot to top it up. £2 to get on the train (goes up to £7-8 max, zone based pricing). £60-70 ish to get on the train anywhere reasonably far away better public transport? and that's just london, out here in hertfordshire it's even worse. That said I'm not so sure of the public transport costs elsewhere.. but this is extortionate when it used to be 70p for the bus only a few years ago.[/QUOTE] Interesting. I live in Arizona around the Phoenix area, and we pay only for the first bus and every bus after that we have to take is free for up to an hour or something like that. Maybe your public transportation system actually pays for itself while ours is sucking money?

[QUOTE=Catdaemon;28507825]£1.20 to get on the bus (although you can go anywhere on that route but they're all quite short). £2.20 to get on the bus if you forgot your Oyster card or forgot to top it up. £2 to get on the train (goes up to £7-8 max, zone based pricing). £60-70 ish to get on the train anywhere reasonably far away better public transport? and that's just london, out here in hertfordshire it's even worse. That said I'm not so sure of the public transport costs elsewhere.. but this is extortionate when it used to be 70p for the bus only a few years ago.[/QUOTE] I remember paying like 30p to take the bus from the train station in a near by town to the skate park. I guess it's partly inflation and stuff though, money's worth way more than it was in the 80's or whatever. Oh and the trains are fucking appauling in England, they cost about the same amount as the fuel to drive the given distance, and they are constantly late or not in operation. The train system in the UK needs serious work.

[QUOTE=Jallen;28507901]I remember paying like 30p to take the bus from the train station in a near by town to the skate park. I guess it's partly inflation and stuff though, money's worth way more than it was in the 80's or whatever. Oh and the trains are fucking appauling in England, they cost about the same amount as the fuel to drive the given distance, and they are constantly late or not in operation. The train system in the UK needs serious work.[/QUOTE] As we Londoners say: What's a train?

I live up North and we have great public transport, there are LOADS of Arriva buses running through the area, I can get one to Newcastle city centre from just outside my house every 15 minutes, we have a really good bus network in this area. Only problem is its somewhat overpriced...To go to the next town which is a few miles down the road costs like £2.50, whereas going to Newcastle which is 20 miles away costs £6 both for a return and a single (Logic?). I dont need to care though because I get a pass with college that lets me use any Arriva bus in the North East free of charge at any time. Trains I find are ridiculously priced and the service is annoying. I had to pay £45 for return tickets to York which is only a 40 minute journey, the machine didnt give me my last ticket for some reason and I didnt notice so I had to pay an extra £25 on the way back for a new ticket. I'm planning to go down South soon and its going to cost £140 for a return ticket for a 5 hour journey as well.

Trains suck where I live it costs about £3.50 to get to any of the towns nearby, and for the cost of fuel I could go back and forth a few times.

[QUOTE=Lilolia;28507937]I live up North and we have great public transport, there are LOADS of Arriva buses running through the area, I can get one to Newcastle city centre from just outside my house every 15 minutes, we have a really good bus network in this area. Only problem is its somewhat overpriced...To go to the next town which is a few miles down the road costs like £2.50, whereas going to Newcastle which is 20 miles away costs £6 both for a return and a single (Logic?). I dont need to care though because I get a pass with college that lets me use any Arriva bus in the North East free of charge at any time. Trains I find are ridiculously priced and the service is annoying. I had to pay £45 for return tickets to York which is only a 40 minute journey, the machine didnt give me my last ticket for some reason and I didnt notice so I had to pay an extra £25 on the way back for a new ticket. I'm planning to go down South soon and its going to cost £140 for a return ticket for a 5 hour journey as well.[/QUOTE] £140, fuck me. It would probably be cheaper and faster to take a plane.

[QUOTE=Jallen;28508106]£140, fuck me. It would probably be cheaper and faster to take a plane.[/QUOTE] London to Swansea is £80. Coach is only £10.50 and is an hour quicker. wtf. Glad I found the coach option :v: I really don't get what the people setting these prices are smoking.

If they keep this up then those smug bicyclists who ride down roads showing everybody their bony backside and taking up whole lanes will end up taking over the roads.

It costs me £2.10 to go three miles to work on the bus, and another £2.10 to get back. That's £4.20 a day. Do that five times a week, that's £21.00. Do that for a month, that's roughly £84.00 a month. Which is why I just walk, fuck buses.

It costs me £4.10 (that's with a railcard, £6.20 without) to go from Bournemouth to Brockenhurst and back off-peak by train (takes 15m). Going up to London (~1h30m) with a 1-day flexible ticket costs about £40 with-railcard. Public transport in the UK, especially south-west, is no real competition for the car (sadly)

FUCK SAKE I wish my car had better mpg.

I wish electric bikes (the ones you pedal with to charge it to use later on) were cheaper.

I actually see something positive coming from this, people will use their bikes and alternative forms of transportation like bus and trains instead of going every where by car. This will lead to less carbon dioxide emissions.

Costs me £6 return on the bus to a town about 10 miles down the road. Fucking ridiculous.

$20 barely gets me 15L of gas. That's $40 for a full tank of god damn gas which barely gets me 300km. This is total garbage.

It costs £2.10 for a student day ticket and I think its £10 or £12 for a weekly here. I'm only in college 3 days so I just pay the day ticket. Feel bad for my friend who drives to college though since he already drives constantly through the week going to work etc.

Petrol is €1.50 for a litre where i'm at :ohdear:

Whilst I was in America, it cost $40 to fill up a fucking Mustang; fucking cheap when it costs £50 to fill up a Vauxhall Corsa here.

1.209 CAD/litre here. (£2.91/gallon) I feel for you, UK

I would probably just ride a bicycle most of the time if gas cost that much

I just started driving, too. This sucks :saddowns:

[QUOTE=Jallen;28507889]I wish science would get off its ass and produce a sustainable replacement fuel already. I read something about some hydrogen liquid which can be used in any normal petrol or diesel engines but it will be a couple of years until it comes to the market. I don't remember where I read that though.[/QUOTE] The oil companes are also holding up back because obviously they want to make money.