Posts Tagged with 'petrol'

Check 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

You’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 [...]

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 [...]