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Cheap Petrol

· 22 Oct '08 ·
I quite enjoyed filling up with petrol today. I got to watch the litres of petrol enter my tank quicker than the Pounds left my wallet thanks to the lovely 97.9p a litre being charged by the Morrisons and Asda petrol stations in my area (petrolprices.com told me)
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500 Miles to the Tank

· 20 Aug '08 ·
500 Miles to the TankCheck it out folks, over 500 miles to a tank of petrol and with absolutely no motorway driving at all - this is just over 2 weeks worth of to work and back: Despite what the reading says, the fuel economy is actually about 44.15 mpg (6.39 litres per 100km) as I could only squeeze in 51.86 litres. I suspect ...
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Reverse Parking Saves You Money

· 30 Jul '08 ·
I heard something interesting today: reversing into a parking space, or onto your drive can save you up to £100 a year in petrol. Apparently it's because a cold engine can use up to 4 times as much petrol than a warm engine. So naturally you want to get things warm as quickly as possible without wasting fuel and what ...
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Are Petrol Stations Ripping Us Off?

· 24 Apr '08 ·
I've been pondering this on and off for a while: I think petrol stations in the UK are ripping us off ever since the price cracked £1 a litre. Unlike South Africa, and other countries, the UK's petrol prices are not regulated (only heavily taxed). Accordingly, petrol companies are free to charge what they like for a litre of petrol, ...
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Petrol's Getting Expensive

· 15 Nov '07 ·
Bloody hell petrol is getting expensive. I filled up with petrol yesterday and it cost me £1.01 a litre!!! Maybe it's time I started using my bike more.
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This Is Why Petrol is So Expensive

· 08 Aug '06 ·
This Is Why Petrol is So ExpensiveYou'd have to have been living under a rock to not know about the astronomical price of petrol at the moment. Now, you may think it's due to supplies running out, or due to the trouble in Iraq, or even due to Israel giving Lebanon a bit of a roughing up, but I'll let you into a secret - it's ...
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Petrol Prices Set to Go Up Again

· 11 Dec '05 ·
I felt a rumbling in the flat at about 6:05 this morning as I ate my toast and drank my tea, and it was'nt my bowels. I got to work and almost everyone else noticed it too. BBC News soon revealed the cause of the rumbling - 3 explosions at an oil depot in Hemel Hempstead. Best fill up now ...
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Fuel Crazy

· 13 Sep '05 ·
With petrol prices hovering round the £1 mark, protests are on the cards for Gordon Brown to review (reduce) the current level of tax imposed on petrol in the UK - at the moment, for every £50 we spend at the pumps, Gordy gets £37 of it in tax and VAT. The cost of a barrel of oil has gone ...
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