Morris Minor Owners Club

The price of petrol needs to come down. My local garage was £1.42 tonight. Not looking forward to filling the car for the 800 mile trip for the National on top of all the other Events I had planned on.
What do you think the price will be by the summer?

I don't claim to now what price it will be.... but I can have a good guess as to the way it will head!

If we found a way of powering our cars on fresh air, it wouldn't be long before a heavy tax was laden onto it.

Noticed a headline on the net today ,petrol heading for record levels ,blaming falling pound

The government will still increase fuel duty, despite the wholesale price. They know that everyone needs to use cars, and the economy relies on it (trucks etc) so the motorist is a cash cow for them.

I tire of hearing that they need the taxes for the defecit etc etc, yet no one dares mention the fact that this country is the 4th in the world when it comes to spending on its military, and the billions spent on foreign wars. Oh, and the large sums of money sent overseas to the likes of India that has its own space programme?

In the 70s, 80s, people protested in the masses. Nowadays, no one blinks. Then again, not suprised with all the drugs in our drinking water etc. We have all become almost like zombies now, taking whatever excuse they give us to raise taxes.

You cant do a thing about the price of petrol.
So the way I see it is you must economise elsewhere.
Last night I was invited to a local bash where the beer was reduced for one night only to £1.50 a pint, this means of course the more you drink the more you save.
Therefore it is reasonable to quaff as much of the landlords finest as possible, at a gentlemanly pace of course.
The sums are easy, every pint supped saves at least £1.00 (regional variations apply) so in supping 6 pints £6.00 was placed in the rear pocket, therefore logic states that I now have £6.00 more to spend on petrol.
I can make no claims on originality here, this is my good ladys logic when purchasing shoes and of course matching bags,it means though I apparently have 6 additional British pounds to spend on fuel......simples.

Great logic moggie

Only 133.9 at the Esso places in Hamilton and Stonehouse. ALWAYS buy the cheapest - DO NOT support the rip off places with high prices. BP always seems to be higher than anywhere else.. The DEAREST petrol in Scotland is the BP garage in Bo'ness - right next door to the refinery in Grangemouth!

In the 70s, 80s, people protested in the masses.

I think people have realised that the MP's (of whatever political colour - though they're two sides of the same coin these days) don't take any notice of /don't care what we think anyway.
Didn't Tony Blair say as much when we had the last fuel price protests!?
So people don't waste their energy anymore.
Of course this could also be a reason behind the falling turn out come election times, when they desperately try to suck up to us, so they can stay in office and hang onto their fat salaries for (mis)representing us................

Roll on the revolution!................

I forsee a price war at the supermarket pumps shortly

They were queued down the road today at Sainsburys....and not even particularly low price.... Perhaps they have heard that the Tanker Driver strike is still on. I would panic buy - but my tank is full.......

I have heard that the drivers that deliver for the main ones are at war with the new private ones .At night you see plain white tankers with petrol delivery on them which has to be on them by law delivering to the mainly Asian owned stations by Asian drivers

I have noticed the rise over the last few days too.....
I now get my petrol from local supermarkets. .... Back in the 1970' they use to say "put a tiger in your tank"....Now with all the fuss in the meat in supermarkets I am tempted to put a "My little poney" through my pump....

neigh lad

I imagine it's just one of those things that follows a cyclic pattern. It gets harder and harder for the younger drivers (presumably still building careers/learning) and it will continue until nobody can afford to drive, public transport becomes oversubscribed, the unemployment rates continue to rise and nobody buys any of the horrendous tin euro-boxes anymore. At which point due to the lack of demand petrol prices will drop. Better get undersealing, these minors will need to be laid up while the highest paid idiots continue to eradicate any hint of a healthy economy... Anyway I suppose they've not noticed yet if there's money to be spent on the military fighting for what's rapidly declining now. Wouldn't have thought I'd get the word declining in a rant about petrol prices !

£1.47 at most of our local garages

My filling records show that only 4 years ago it was 85p a litre.

you must be really lucky with your local filling stations then

The price then kept climbing through 2009

the unemployment rates continue to rise and nobody buys any of the horrendous tin euro-boxes anymore. At which point due to the lack of demand petrol prices will drop.

The Chinese buy more cars than anyone else now.. The global sale of cars will continue to rise during my lifetime..
Fuel prices are unlikely to have any significant drop.

Don't believe the hype about climate change - in this country household energy (heating etc..) produces more CO2 than transport, yet transport fuel is taxed 5 or 10 times more heavily. Cars are made far more expensive by regulation (EU4...5...6) but no equivalent big push for triple glazing & decent insulation into existing housing stock.

What we need more of is energy efficient houses, but we're desperately building hundreds of thousands of mediocre houses that will help ruin the country (when energy costs really rise) over the next 100 years.

The cost of fuel does have some benefit - if it was still 35p a litre (like it was when I was driving my first Minor) then there would be so much traffic it would be quicker to walk everywhere!

if it was still 35p a litre

Aaaahhhhhh..................... those were the days!

yes and we would still be earning 50 quid a week