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It is for me. My Citroen ZX loves the stuff. 80% corn oil/20% diesel.

FFS its now up to £1,09.9 for diesel and £1,05.9 for unleaded.

That means ours will be up again this week still 101.9 at morrisons today but we'll see when the next delivery comes in

Oil's dropped back to around $90 a barrell.

So the pump price will be dropping back? Won't it?

no it wont the garages will claim they have just got a load in next week and for the next month

The price I pay for my LPG has just gone up by 4p a liter.

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Grandad,

£1.13.3.......for Diesel & petrol here!!!, and they reckon it will go up but not down in the forseeable future

In 3 months time maybe

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105.9 at BP 103.9 at Morrisons for Diesel here

Its not the price of the oil but the strength of the dollar the US federal reserve has been cutting interest rates to try and get the US economy moving and that means a really weak dollar and since oil is priced in dollars every time the pound goes up against the dollar the price of oil goes up so to stop the price of diesel going up what we need is the bank of England to drop our interest rates by 1% or more a weaker £ = cheaper fuel !! Not that Gordon Brown understands how important cheaper fuel is in keeping inflation down

Actually the stronger pound keeps the price down. The more dollars to the pound, the more oil you can buy with the same amount of pounds.

The real problem is the high price of oil and the extortionate amount of tax the chancellor charges on it.

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Thats what I used to believe but I was assured by one of my customers who works for an investment bank that it actually works the other way around

This continued hike in prices is going to hit us from all sides.

1)It costs us more to fill our cars up
2)The price of everyday necessities to the consumer goes up due to the cost of road haulage
3)The public feel the pinch and have to be careful how they spend,which probably means cutting out a few luxuries(taxis etc)
4)Taxis put the fares up to cover larger running costs,which drives the custom away


5)where does that leave us

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Up sh*t creek without a paddle

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I think we could live with the price of oil. It is the duty that is the main problem.

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Grandad,

Round our way customers are definitely being a lot more careful with their spending night time trade is poor partly due to the smoking ban and partly due to people cutting back on "luxury spending" but the daytime trade has slumped as well

the more fuel goes up the more drivers are cutting prices on the longer fares with a lot of drivers refusing anything under a £5 when front rank but prepared to do a fare that might meter £20 for £10 or £12

On top of that there are 2 or 3 new hackneys coming on every week most wanting to work weekend nights none are local drivers.Apparently one of the newer ones comes from just outside Cambridge ! thats 40 miles in and 40 miles home at the end of the shift so we now have so many taxis nobody books anymore unless they are going to a function out of town

So no chance of putting up fares to cover the increased costs because the council policy of letting market forces control taxi numbers means too many drivers chasing a shrinking pot at least there are enough racist customers about to give us some work