Move over Weightwatchers!!!!!

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Move over Weight Watchers, there is a new way to lose weight.....It's the "I can't afford to buy food to feed myself because I just filled my fuel tank" diet and it's companion plan - "I'll Be Walking Soon - So I'll Really Peel Off the Weight"Repost if you've had to pay WAY TOO MUCH for fuel lately....
 
Tell me about it, my friend had that posted on fb, and i just copied it in here, just for fun, i thought it was brill, I drive a 00 hyundai accent, 1.3, which used to cheap to run, but in the last few months, it's gone from 34 euro to 55 euro to fill it, some disaster!! Wish the government would drop the tax on fuel, to make it some bit cheaper!!!
 
It's costing me about £50 a week to get to work, in Suzuki Jimny, one of the smallest 4X4's you can get. I travel about 44 miles for a round trip it has got crazy, I do not know how people are going to manage if this doesn't get any better.
 
It's extortionate.. I put up a thread a bout it a few weeks back as I can't believe our govt are letting it's people pay this much...

I've resorted to digging out the bike and pumping tyres up for trips to shops and the yard. Just can't justify it.

I filled up the land rover... £90 - has to last me for at least a few shows this year...
 
tallyho! said:
It's extortionate.. I put up a thread a bout it a few weeks back as I can't believe our govt are letting it's people pay this much...

I've resorted to digging out the bike and pumping tyres up for trips to shops and the yard. Just can't justify it.

I filled up the land rover... £90 - has to last me for at least a few shows this year...
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Given that there are two lots of tax applied to fuel; I think that Govt. is happy for us to keep filling our vehicles up and whinging about the cost :mad:
 
Oh yes.
I am lucky enough to be able to cycle to work and taking kids to school which really helps, but I have had to drive a lot this week as its the school holidays and we've been doing different things and visiting friends, and well, ouch!!!
 
NeilM said:
Given that there are two lots of tax applied to fuel; I think that Govt. is happy for us to keep filling our vehicles up and whinging about the cost :mad:
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A dictatorial democracy.... I'm off to local cash & carry and buying up veg oil... who's with me???

(p.s. only if you have deisel...)
 
It now costs over £100 to fill up the Discovery...:mad:

I would cycle to the yard, but recovering from a broken back means I can only do so much, so if I cycle then I can't ride as well (just shy of six miles each way with two wicked hills each way). There is no public transport to get there at all, of any means. Have considered moving horses closer. If I'm thinking along those lines, what effect is this going to be having on the rural communities/suppliers?

Talking to a friend last night. She lives in France and was urging me to go visit, but the fuel costs are :o. It works out cheaper to fly, which must be worse for the environment.
 
Lydz13 said:
But what's really shocked me is the price of food... :(
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Thought that was just me! I looked at the TV in disbelief the other night when they reported food prices had gone down, must be living in a different country! Have cut out all luxuries, but now if I cut down any more there will be nothing on the plate, as OP said good for the waistline if nothing else:rolleyes:
 
tallyho! said:
A dictatorial democracy.... I'm off to local cash & carry and buying up veg oil... who's with me???

(p.s. only if you have deisel...)
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We do this :)

5L of veg oil costs roughly €4.50 - so less than €1 a litre. Diesel here is between €1.30 and €1.33 a litre, so €5 of diesel and then 10L of veg oil!

Be careful in the UK if you do this as you can be fined for evading fuel excise duty. Fortunately, no one seems to give a monkeys over here :D

If you want to run your car on recycled fryer oil, I think you need an annual licence and pay a bit to C&E too.
 
Yup :(

It's starting to remind me of when we were kids. Treats were for high days and holidays and not a daily thing. We have a massive garden that is little used, so now we have a book from the library on grow your own veg and fruit. And I've even started costing having chickens and ducks (next door have them), and making out own cakes and scones weekly like my Mum did. We've also just about cut out buying drinks etc., when we're out and about, instead stocking the car with bottles of water from home.
 
There is no public transport to get there at all,
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This isn't the cheaper option.

My mare is kept 6ish miles from home. I recently discovered a bus that goes from outside my house to right outside her field gate You just ask the driver to stop where you want him to stop :D !! What fantastic news I thought.

However the bus doesn't run on a sunday..and would take 45 mins to get there. The cheapest ticket option would work out at £133 a month inc fuel to get me there on Sundays. I would have to take my tack with me and water in winter when the trough is frozen. Not fun but could be done.

My car a little mercedes A class costs me £43 in fuel a month and only takes 15 mins.

The government is always saying leave your cars at home and use public transport.

Bus 45 mins £133
Car 15 mins £43

Hmmm not a lot of incentive there
 
C2b, I suppose you have to put the cost of the actual car itself, road tax, insurance etc into the equation too, but public transport is still *****e!:(
We'd have to walk 2 miles to catch our nearest bus, which is a bit pointless really.
Our food bill when we moved into our house 4 years ago, was around £100-120/week, now it easily tops £200!!! Ridiculous!!:mad:
 
Well put it this way I'm glad I got rid of my 4x4 when I did, running that 32 miles a day was too expensive years ago let alone what it would cost me now.
 
chickeninabun said:
C2b, I suppose you have to put the cost of the actual car itself, road tax, insurance etc into the equation too, but public transport is still *****e!:(
We'd have to walk 2 miles to catch our nearest bus, which is a bit pointless really.
Our food bill when we moved into our house 4 years ago, was around £100-120/week, now it easily tops £200!!! Ridiculous!!:mad:
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Apart from the fact we would have the car anyway.....OH needs it for work! It's not just a car I have to go to the horse and back. So all those costs would be met anyway. Otherwise I would have factored them into the equation. My point is why would people want to leave their cars at home and use the bus when it costs over 3 times the price.

If it wasn't much different I would use the bus. Simple as.
 
Fuel prices are extortionate..
I am trying to pass my driving test and seriously doubt if i will be able to afford to run a car what with the insurance being sky high and petrol prices going through the roof :(
Sounds pathetic but my moped has gone from £5 to fill to nearly £8 :o
However, good to go to the yard and back, £15 per year road tax, £7 petrol lasts 5 days and £125 a year to insure.. I can't complain really.. til the bad weather sets in :D

ETA: I am way out in the sticks, 8 miles from the nearest shop. No such things as busses or public transport out here :(
 
We have made the decision to sell the horsebox which costs £140 to fill and does about 18 mpg, and the Landrover which costs about £75 to fill and does about 25mpg. We are going to buy an LPG 4x4 and trailer. The LPG is at present 74p a litre and the car will do about 25/30mpg

Mind you it will be sod's law that once I have done that the LPG price will rise and rise.....
 
Yep LPG is steadily going up too!

We have an LPG discovery and can tow 3 horses 100 miles on a tank, which costs about £40 to fill. It can be a bit tricky to get hold of so we fill the petrol tank as well for long journeys in case we can't get LPG.

My sister has just replaced her petrol smart car with an LPG smart car. The road tax is £30 for a year :eek:. Unfortunately it's not use for towing!
 
I have been considering a Mitsubishi Outlander Equippe that is LPG - with a 2.4 litre engine I am hoping it will be cheaper than my much loved petrol Landy.

Within a 15 mile radius the LPG is anywhere from 73p to 84p a litre, but still massively cheaper than the petrol.
 
I thought we had it bad down in the sunny south-west of Ireland, but this week I'm up north at my parents' for a few days in sterling land... JEBUS!!!!! At least there's one thing that's still cheaper down south than up here.

If only my car ran on horse crap/pee I'd be a rich woman :rolleyes:
 
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