New Year Petrol Prices...

['88740GL]

Hello people, now i know everyone in this forum doesnt really car for fuel consumption (we all drive volvo's hehe) but i'm thinking that the extra 1p fuel duty along with the 2.5% extra VAT is taking the P*** quite frankly....

£6.00 for a measly gallon of the juice is just not right... so to get my other half to work each day will be £6.00....honestly right now its on par with the price of bus tickets...

I used to run raw veg oil through my corsa 1.7 diesel and it loved it....

Now i'm thinking of purchasing methanol neat and using this in the volvo instead....its probably going to be 113 octane... a 200 litre drum is £149....if you pick it up yourself....

my only two worries are it eating through seals and hoses, oh and the cold start problems it brings with itself being so hard to vaporise when cold..but how cold?... I'm going to read into it more

[davebslater(uk)]

toluene , its already in petrol , you can buy it wholesale , much safer than methanol .

['88740GL]

Originally Posted by davebslater(uk)

toluene , its already in petrol , you can buy it wholesale , much safer than methanol .

toulene? i thought that was what was in red bull..oh wait thats taurine? haha! if its a component of petrol, running it neat would work?

[davebslater(uk)]

its what the F1 turbo engines used to run on .........

[karlos_uk]

methanol tends to burn with an invisible flame. thats why when you see the indy cars of the states refueling, there is a guy who gives the fuel area a blast with an extinuisher.
basically you wont know if you were on fire unless it was dark or you had some thin clothes on.

['88740GL]

Originally Posted by karlos_uk

methanol tends to burn with an invisible flame. thats why when you see the indy cars of the states refueling, there is a guy who gives the fuel area a blast with an extinuisher.
basically you wont know if you were on fire unless it was dark or you had some thin clothes on.

yes indeed, but hopefully the smell of the methenol will alert me of its prescence before an accident happens, but yes, you must be careful

[crad2]

Untill the British public make a stand to stop the government ripping us off with the price of petrol / diesel they will continue to rack up the cost to line their pockets.
We all know the actual cost of the fuel is reasonable, it's the extortionate tax the greed fueled government impose on us that's the problem. These parasites are leeching us dry in their greed. Bring back protests i say.

[fowlerman]

Over the holiday I watched programe about the history of "Candid Camera". On it they showed the classic engineless car stunt filmed in 1960, and the price of fuel on the pump was 4/3d per gallon (about 21p). Mega-cheap I thought, until I looked at earnings. According to the F.T. website the average salary in 1960 was £948-93p, in 2009 it was £37,580-11p. which means had petrol prices increased in line with salaries it would be around £1-83 ltr. YES, I was suprised too, but I still moan when a fill-up costs me £85+!

Pete

PS hope that lot in Westminster don't see this or they'll whack it up even more.

[scapa]

Originally Posted by fowlerman

Over the holiday I watched programe about the history of "Candid Camera". On it they showed the classic engineless car stunt filmed in 1960, and the price of fuel on the pump was 4/3d per gallon (about 21p). Mega-cheap I thought, until I looked at earnings. According to the F.T. website the average salary in 1960 was £948-93p, in 2009 it was £37,580-11p. which means had petrol prices increased in line with salaries it would be around £1-83 ltr. YES, I was suprised too, but I still moan when a fill-up costs me £85+!

Pete

PS hope that lot in Westminster don't see this or they'll whack it up even more.

I think a lot of people would be suprised to learn the average UK salary is over 37k per annum

[Strick]

Originally Posted by scapa

I think a lot of people would be suprised to learn the average UK salary is over 37k per annum

I'm not so much surprised, just more miffed at how far below that I fall!!!