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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: tidla on 23 January 2012, 22:14:39
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watching the news and the carry on in the Strait of Hormuz, got a feeling an excuse is looming to up the prices.
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watching the news and the carry on in the Strait of Hormuz, got a feeling an excuse is looming to up the prices.
That crossed my mind too........ :( :( :(
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Keep an eye on the basic price of crude here ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/market_data/commodities/143908/default.stm
been dropping slowly ... if it starts to rise ..... :(
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Strange isn't it,crude prices are dropping but unleaded has gone up here by 2p a litre in the last week >:(
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....... and diesel's around the 142p per litre mark around here too .......... >:(
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It's OK, prices will be going up anyway - at least down here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091004/London-South-East-face-petrol-shortage-refinery-closure.html
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I've been using www.PetrolPrices.com for a while now, its always good to know where the best prices are. I work at a petrol station but we're never the cheapest...! :(
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It's OK, prices will be going up anyway - at least down here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091004/London-South-East-face-petrol-shortage-refinery-closure.html
Following on from this, a particularly doomsayer-y friend of mine reckons petrol will be £5/litre by the end of the year.
I'm wondering if he writes under a pseudonym, though: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090611/Northern-Lights-Extraordinary-display-skies-YORKSHIRE.html - read the comment from Gordon, Edinburgh .. or if you're particularly lazy:
In April next year there will be a 'Carrington Event' - a solar storm of the greatest magnitude. The last one occurred in 1859 and burned out telegraph wires around the world. The Chinese CCTV 2 channel broadcast a documentary about the forthcoming Carrington event last April. According to the Chinese, the world's electricity system will be knocked out for about three years. To make matters worse, in 2007 NASA reported that the Earth's protective magnetosphere had temporarily disappeared for the first time since records have been kept. This was discovered by 5 Themis satellites. Unfortunately, the Chinese have predicted that the protective magnetosphere will disappear at the time of next year's Carrington event. This promises to be the biggest depopulation event in history. The sun will effectively become a colossal neutron bomb. It is likely that the mgnetosphere was, and will be, removed deliberately using a program called HAARP that exists at various facilities around the globe.
- Gordon, Edinburgh, UK, 24/1/2012 01:41
So it won't matter anyway as we'll all be dead.. ;D
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You know we are all watching prices go even higher over £1 a litre, does anybody remember when it went over £1 a gallon!!!
And there are 4.5 litres to the gallon!
I threatened to stop using it, yeah, it didn't last...!
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Fuel has gone up here 4p per litre over the past 8 days.
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When I got my first moped (oct. 75) petrol was around 55p per gallon.I was working in a petrol station in 78/79 when it went over £1 a gallon - the pumps were only capable of handling 99p per gallon. Once they changed the pumps from gallons to litres it just went mental after that. >:(
Around here at the moment its between 70p - 80p per litre for LPG, £1.30 - £1.35 per litre for petrol,and afaik around £1.40 for diesel. rather daylight robbery. >:(
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http://www.speedlimit.org.uk/petrolprices.html
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I got the following from a friend - hope it helps!
Here at the Shell Pipeline where I work, we deliver about 4 million litres in a 24-hour period. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and petrol, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 Litres.
Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the petrol, when it gets warmer petrol expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your litre is not exactly a litre. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the petrol, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.
A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.
When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. You should be pumping on low mode, thereby minimizing the vapours that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapour return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapour. Those vapours are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.
One of the most important tips is to fill up when your Petrol tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more Petrol you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. petrol evaporates faster than you can imagine. petrol storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the Petrol and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every litre is actually the exact amount.
Another reminder, if there is a petrol truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy Petrol, DO NOT fill up; most likely the petrol is being stirred up as the Petrol is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.
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Thought I had seen it before...
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=95124.msg1191469#msg1191469 (http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=95124.msg1191469#msg1191469) ;)
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Cool! I've started using the advice, I hope it is saving me dosh...!?
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http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/gastips.asp
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Its getting a little expensive to run my omega for its use, running to shops, taking the dog out etc down to 23mpg, so having to do a 10 mile round trip everytime i run out of something gets expensive lol :( I use the alfa for anything else, either going to replace the omega with something more practicle or get a little car to use as a shopping trolley thats pre 1992 so i can insure it as a classic for peanuts. i had to pay £1.50 a ltre for diesel the other day!
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I filled up with LPG on Sunday at 68p per litre. Filled up again today at the same station and it was 70p!! >:( :'(
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I don't really track the fuel consumption of my 3.0, but i generally reckon on about 200 miles on a tank. This is just mostly around town because Plymouth is all about steep hills!!! On a good run on the motorway, i'll get over 300 miles at 70mph! However, there is no way I'm gonna walk up those hills...!
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I tried to fill up with petrol tonight..
Shell had no diesel, no standard unleaded and V-power is at £1.40/L.. oddly enough, I decided not to fill up. Maybe the panic buying will stop soon ::)