Will £2+ per litre for diesel change your plans ?

[dazandandrea]

Just been to Bruges and cost £80 Sheffield to Dover.
Think ill stop thinking of the cost , just look for the cheapest.
In Rotherham this morning Bp were charging £1.98 , Asda, just down the road was £1.85. Makes a difference on a tank full.
In Belgium it was generally E2.05.
We intend having breaks closer to home more often but still having one or two longer trips a year.

 

[gus-lopez]

The price will rise to just over £2 / ltr for a while, then will drop by about 20p/ ltr and the Government / media will play on this saying that we have got a massive reduction in fuel prices and things will settle at that,

Yes they are just scum and scammers.

Just out of interest - is fuel still cheaper in Luxembourg as we will be travelling through there on our way to Germany later in the year.

It hasn't been cheaper there than here in Spain since before covid started. Neighbour would occasionally fill there when running to and fro Holland but usually filled at La Jonquera and could get there and back without refilling.

Working it out for a 2000 mile trip comparing a cost of diesel at £1.60 per litre to £2.00 per litre based on an mpg of 20 then the additional cost will be £181.60. 3000 miles it will be £272.40. In the scheme of things a couple of trips of that additonal cost per year is not a lot. A return flight for two for a weekend for example in Berlin would cost that.

On an average 90 trip to the UK I usually average between 10 &12,000kms.So an additional 750 to 1200 €/£increase & for no reason.
We obviously live in another world as who takes weekend trips abroad? I could never do it
Even when working .Weekends to most of us were the first 2 days of the week.

Thats how I see it, one less restaurant meal in a week easily makes up of the increased cost of fuel, for us anyway.

Ok if you usually eat out,take trips,etc.

The only people who can do anything about this shameful situation are the ones who are protected from its effects ie the Government. Whenever I see Boris climbing into his taxpayer provided 5 litre V8 Range Rover outside Number 10, while exhorting us to get in a Nissan Leaf to save the planet, I want to throw something at the TV. How can these wealthy, well paid, expenses backed ministers begin to understand what the price of fuel is doing to the rest of us.

And as I have always said those in power,when there are shortages, should be the first to go withhout.No fuel? Walk . The same as now, in a situation created solely by leaders/politicians yhey should always be the first targeted to be killed. There would soon be no more wars.

I was going to comment on our leaders mode of transport, but........ it'll only upset people...... just remember he hasn't got a free bus pass

As above.

If we get rid of one colour for another do you think they will turn off the taps to the tax they are raking in whilst it’s high, I can’t see it ever coming down again tbh who ever lives at no10/11

No you have to have a revolution,drag them out and hang them. Concentrates the minds of those remaining.
Too polite in most countries,UK exceedingly so.

If there were "shortages "then someone somewhere would be "short"? No one is,in any country. If they were there would be queues.

 

[WESTY66]

I’ve often thought what would be the implications if a movement (us) just used say shell for a month and no one else, or say just supermarkets and not the main garages, wonder what the implications would be of the others not selling much

 

[joe and sue]

I came back from Moravia via Austria and Czech fuel even at Shell stations was the cheapest of all. Shame I was on a bike with a 19L tank...

The only people who can do anything about this shameful situation are the ones who are protected from its effects ie the Government. Whenever I see Boris climbing into his taxpayer provided 5 litre V8 Range Rover outside Number 10, while exhorting us to get in a Nissan Leaf to save the planet, I want to throw something at the TV. How can these wealthy, well paid, expenses backed ministers begin to understand what the price of fuel is doing to the rest of us.

They don't care about the general public, only what they can get out of the system
Who remembers "Wolfie" "Power to the people "

 

[joe and sue]

I’ve often thought what would be the implications if a movement (us) just used say shell for a month and no one else, or say just supermarkets and not the main garages, wonder what the implications would be of the others not selling much

Be much better we all stopped buying fuel on one day a week, same day for everyone including truckers, Van's, all trades, but not possible I fear

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[WESTY66]

Be much better we all stopped buying fuel on one day a week, same day for everyone including truckers, Van's, all trades, but not possible I fear

I’m with you, Let me top all my vehicles up first

 

[Noahs Girls]

I’ve put £200 in the van today for a journey from Gloucestershire to Thurso - should last round Orkney hopefully. Need to get the travelling in while we still can. Less gin - more diesel it is then

 

[steve69]

If you can afford it - get it spent!....It's only rapidly devaluing while you are umming and aahing about whether to pay that much for anything. I'll carry on as usual until it's all gone - money or diesel.

 

[Larby]

Up until the week prior to the Jubilee, Haven gave me 7 nights with electric for £13.50 pn Roads and places relatively quiet. In July 7 nights on basic pitch from 22/7 £73.54 pn for 2 people.
I would need to travel 330 miles to get there. So go to France and save !
I could pay the ferry crossings and extra fuel and the longer I stay the cheaper per day it becomes. An example at €10pn with water, electricity and wi-fi.

So I beat the increase in fuel by going to France for 2 months and my daily costs are reduced. Superb logic ??

 

[Ian Bosman]

Don't see much option it's either stump up if you can afford it or alter your plans. We're going to France next month it won't stop us but we're lucky and can afford it. I think the government ought to do the same as Germany and reduce train and bus fares.

Try changing the way you drive, ie not right foot nailed to the floor but slower on the accelerator, etc?

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[Essgeebee]

Try changing the way you drive, ie not right foot nailed to the floor but slower on the accelerator, etc?

Thanks.... hadn't thought of that.

 

[Essgeebee]

Up until the week prior to the Jubilee, Haven gave me 7 nights with electric for £13.50 pn Roads and places relatively quiet. In July 7 nights on basic pitch from 22/7 £73.54 pn for 2 people.
I would need to travel 330 miles to get there. So go to France and save !
I could pay the ferry crossings and extra fuel and the longer I stay the cheaper per day it becomes. An example at €10pn with water, electricity and wi-fi.

So I beat the increase in fuel by going to France for 2 months and my daily costs are reduced. Superb logic ??


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Which takes us back to the recent thread about the large and unexplained increases in charges in many UK campsites, including so-called 'club' sites run for the benefit of their members, allegedly. Are they trying to kill off a lot of the touring trade? This despite the support they got from both government furlough and members maintaining their subscriptions even during long pandemic periods when touring was not possible.

 

[DDJC]

Won't stop us. It costs what it costs. There are no pockets in a shroud. If derv has gone up, then avgas, petrol and marine fuel has too. If everything has gone up, then proportionately, there is little difference between the cost of different types of holidays/trips.

Covid restricted us to UK for two and a half years (mainly due to local Clinical Commissioning Group's intransigence jobsworthiness (sic) and narrow mindedness in getting our disabled boys vaxxed). Saw some terrific places in Devon, Norfolk, Sussex, IoW and Wales. But but but, it ain't abroad, and I like touring abroad more than I like touring UK. Having just come back from a week over the water, we want to get back as soon as.

 

[InvictaMoto]

Thanks.... hadn't thought of that.

Gotta love sarcasm. Next I'm going to teach my granny to suck eggs. have no idea why though....

 

[Jake Royd]

I company with others I think we will limit trips in the UK to those nearer home and also have less meals out.
I think we will stay on club sites less as well.
Won't stop motorhoming.

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[Hymerboy]

Just filled up £111.11 and it was a quarter full !

 

[dazandandrea]

I joined campervan and caravan club mistakenly thinking i might get cheaper nights away.
What i have found is you can pay extra for driving courses on how to park.
Get shit discounts on shit you dont need.
I will not be renewing.
Save the money and use it for fuel.

 

[gus-lopez]

Reminds me of when working running a 3,5T van fully loaded & averaging 25mpg running, usually flat out. When there were fuel problems & we were doing the mobil economy run the average was 44 mpg. Trouble was you ended the day with more work than when you started . A bit like going on holiday & coming back to nightmares of work.

 

[EuroTrotters]

Do what you can while you can I recon my old hymer 312d only does low 20s to the gallon I recon but I will use it while ever I can afford it and before it's totally band by the green lobby. Off to Atlantic coast in France next month. All being well. No good being the richest man in the graveyard anyway

This old girl of ours gets good MPG.

None of our cars or vans can. Even any of the previous modern motorhomes that we have had could

 

[EuroTrotters]

Be much better we all stopped buying fuel on one day a week, same day for everyone including truckers, Van's, all trades, but not possible I fear

Won’t work.

Our nearest petrol station in the UK is one of many run by an Asian businessman.

The staff are rude, the forecourt’s are filthy, fuel expensive, anything inside the shop part is extortionately expensive.

So many customers moan about the service stations. But they don’t shop elsewhere!

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[Folkranger]

Will £2+ per litre for diesel change your plans ?

Already has. we're using the van for our usual Europe trip this summer, fortunately we got a cracking deal on the Newcastle/Amsterdam ferry so don't have the long drive to dover.

On the other hand we were thinking of a trip to London staying on Crystal Palace maybe in September but now it seems cheaper to get the train and stay in a hotel.

 

[bobnick]

Just filled up £111.11 and it was a quarter full !

Don't you mean three quarters empty

 

[joe and sue]

Don't you mean three quarters empty

Depends on your outlook on life !!

 

[Jake Royd]

I wonder if it will also cause some transition from club sites to CL/CS's and more wild overnighting.
It may be a driver for more local authority approvals for overnight in car parks like Powis and Torrington councils?

 

[mitzimad]

Why should a Londoner get a bus pass at 60 then use it in North Yorkshire where we don't get one until 66?

we have to pay for the bus pass at 60 but get the freedom pass at 66

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[mitzimad]

£228 to fill our motorhome at 1.90 per litre

 

[pelican]

If you have a million £ motorhome, I doubt the increase in fuel costs will bother you too much

I doubt anyone in UK has a £1m motorhome though.

 

[Mrtomtom]

In Corfu on holiday at present fuel is €2.34 per ltr diesel and €2.50 per ltr Petrol

 

[SIFTA SAM]

we have to pay for the bus pass at 60 but get the freedom pass at 66

I have started to use my bus pass more frequently, just to retaliate.

 

[The Wino]

I wonder if it will also cause some transition from club sites to CL/CS's and more wild overnighting.
It may be a driver for more local authority approvals for overnight in car parks like Powis and Torrington councils?

It's nice to think that motorhomers finding it hard to afford sites would make councils offer more car parks but I don't think reflects reality.

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