To think £10 of petrol should turn the petrol light off fgs.

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I can't believe it. I only put £10 in because it was expensive, thinking that would do until I got to the supermarket petrol station which was a fair bit cheaper.

Beckamaw 17 miles to school each way!!! . With current petrol prices you need to send them to work instead

Fucka £7.50, that sounds amazing nowadays.

I just cannot comprehend how much it's rocketed in price in such a short amount of time as already said.

Probably could get an XR4i for the price of a full tank now

MrsAmaretto... do you live next door to me??? I thought it was only where i live that 1.49 a litre was the standard price for petrol....

The question is...why?

Mine cost me £80 to fill up the other day

It has gone down a bit though.. only £145.9 round these parts

NonyMouse - if you don't have to drive to the petrol station to fill up it should save money

Fuckarama my first car was a mini and a major obsession for a good few years

I want another mini

Why is it more efficient/cheaper to keep the tank at half-full or more?

£1.34 at Morrisons in my town today. Never seen it so low here. It was. £1.42 last week

BssBossh - it's meant to be more efficient to keep less weight on board, less fuel = more efficient. This doesn't work though if you have to drive miles to a filling station (like I do).

Was certainly cheaper the petrol prices were shooting up - I filled up one day and 3 days later it was 5p more per litre.

yup. I have been on flashing light on several occasions lately - can only manage £10 or so and it rea;ly doesn't go out of the red :( it's a tiny weeny, super economical nissan micra as well :(

Mine costs about 125 quid to fill up from nearly empty. That that would last me 10 days or so, depending what I'm doing. However, I very rarely either let it run down to red because it's not good for the car and neither do I normally fill it up to the brim because then it uses more fuel due to the extra weight of the erm, fuel

I remember being horrified in 1991 when living in Italy and my boyfriend filling up his 4x4 and it costing L50,000 (about 25 quid!) . That seemed astronomical back then!

Iirc, petrol was about 70/75p per litre in around 2001. So it has doubled in 10 years or so.