yes driving to the airport today at 100 kph to try and save fuel which this week is now 1.299 (3 months ago 95) I am amazed how despite this tremendous price increase, no one seems to concern themselves with the fact that driving very fast uses more fuel = more expense.

car just zooommmmed past me...I would guess doing 140 160 180 even more!!! In fact I think I overtook about 4 vehicles but everyone overtook me.

well so much for hard economic times in Portugal.

martin wrote:yes driving to the airport today at 100 kph to try and save fuel which this week is now 1.299

martin wrote:well so much for hard economic times in Portugal.

What problem do you have with the price of fuel in Portugal?
Today the price in the Netherlands is:
unleaded € 1.495/lt
super plus € 1.549/lt and
diesel € 1.115/lt.
Holland is again a "world champion"

P.S. can you bring me 1000lt in jerrycans tomorrow at the price you pay in Portugal

you miss the point...its the fact hat despite the price increase it has no effect on driving speeds.
ps

if you can pay us dutch wages we will pay 1,49

My dear guest,

In the eyes of some the wages here in Holland may be romantically high but do not forget that also the cost for daily life is about 4 times more expensive than in Portugal...

You have a beautifull country that is worth a lot......... can you imagine us, opaying high bills, living in a nasty flat , cold and wet country with moaning people........

True fortune is to be found in your heart

What problem do you have with the price of fuel in Portugal?
Today the price in the Netherlands is:
unleaded € 1.495/lt
super plus € 1.549/lt and
diesel € 1.115/lt.
Holland is again a "world champion"

P.S. can you bring me 1000lt in jerrycans tomorrow at the price you pay in Portugal

Peter Belinfante wrote:

martin wrote:yes driving to the airport today at 100 kph to try and save fuel which this week is now 1.299

martin wrote:well so much for hard economic times in Portugal.

What problem do you have with the price of fuel in Portugal?
Today the price in the Netherlands is:
unleaded € 1.495/lt
super plus € 1.549/lt and
diesel € 1.115/lt.
Holland is again a "world champion"

P.S. can you bring me 1000lt in jerrycans tomorrow at the price you pay in Portugal

Is there an Echo in here ? Hellooooo....................

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djprescott wrote:What problem do you have with the price of fuel in Portugal?
Today the price in the Netherlands is:
unleaded € 1.495/lt
super plus € 1.549/lt and
diesel € 1.115/lt.
Holland is again a "world champion"

P.S. can you bring me 1000lt in jerrycans tomorrow at the price you pay in Portugal

Is there an Echo in here ? Hellooooo....................

.......Helloooooo


.........Hello

Don't think so...so....so...so....so

Is anyone else in the UK suffering the panic buying of petrol?

I went to the Asda last night and found that they had sold out of Diesel and Unleaded, the garage up the road had queues blocking the mian road. Just popped to Tesco and much the same is happening there too. What is wrong with people?

I figured I have a half of tank of fuel that should last me for a while, but at this rate I may just sell it to some poor sap who obvioulsy thinks the world is coming to an end tomorrow

I hope everyone gets behind tomorrows protest to try and get the fuel duty lowered.
I understand the present crisis is not the governments fault but it is profiting from it.
Yesterday the French government theatened the oil giants with a windfall tax and as if by magic prices fell, lets hope ours will do the same

Sharen - I have to ask - if you have half a tank of fuel that should last you a few days why did you go to buy some last night?

I fill up when the little orange light comes on, that what it is for.

So by the logic of the first post, as when I started driving petrol was 33 p a gallon (with huge amounts of green shield stamps) and it is now £3 or £5 or whatever, we should be driving at 10% or 5% of the speed we did then. As I had (still got it too) and Austin 7 with a terminal velocity of 50mph, I should now drive at 5 mph max. I'll give it a go and see what happens.

Graham wrote:Sharen - I have to ask - if you have half a tank of fuel that should last you a few days why did you go to buy some last night?

Sorry should have made myself clearer - I didn't go and buy any, I was doing my weekly shop! I just noticed the madness of everyone panic buying!

Anonymous wrote:I hope everyone gets behind tomorrows protest to try and get the fuel duty lowered.
I understand the present crisis is not the governments fault but it is profiting from it.
Yesterday the French government theatened the oil giants with a windfall tax and as if by magic prices fell, lets hope ours will do the same

As tax on fuel in this country now stands somewhere around the 70% mark I think it has a lot to do with the Government and their greed that we are yet again paying through the nose and are in the middle of bloody mayhem.

Whilst I appreciate that by protesting as a nation we are showing the Government that we are disatisfied do you not think that once fuel starts flowing freely from the pumps again prices will continue to rise? When the last fuel protests took place what happened, fuel came down for a short time and rose and rose and rose until we are stuck as we are now paying almost £1 for a litre.

I was sent this email earlier today - its worth a thought

"We are going to hit close to 100p a litre by the end of the summer.

Want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. Philip Hollsworth (who?) offered this good idea: This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy petrol on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that
because they knew we wouldn't continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read it and join in! Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP at £1, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace not sellers. With the price of petrol going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket by not
purchasing their Petrol! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting
ourselves.

Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two Biggest oil companies, ESSO and BP. If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. Buy your petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet etc.

Sad, really, because the real cause of the hike in the actual fuel price at the pump is the ENORMOUS amount that the Government takes from each and every gallon we buy.

Now if you can think of a way of hitting ITS pocket.......!!!"

Thanks for explaining Sharen - I was wondering if you were part of the 'panic' bunch for a moment.

I am now in for an interesting trip home - I have enough petrol to get there, but not enough to return to work in the morning. I have deliberately not filled up until now to avoid adding to the madness - however, if, as is being reported, many petrol stations have run out I am going to be a little p***ed of having to take the best part of three hours each way to work and back tomorrow by foot and public transport just because some idiots have gone into panic mode. Perhaps I was foolish and should have joined them