Taxi Driver Online

I think the accepted wisdom for at least ten years now is that high milegage users are better with diesel, low mileage with petrol.

Of course, the balance will change over time, and the increasing gap between diesel and petrol prices are obviously a factor, but I still reckon that for taxi drivers diesel is still the cheaper long-term option.

Our local BP garages have put the price up 3 times in between deliveries I think there is a bit of profiteering going on

125.9 at BP 121.9 at Morrisons/Jet/Total its just a shame that Morrisons is right over the other end of town and the other 2 even further

One of my customers said today that her weekly shop has gone up £10 in a week (she buys the same every week) and even the price of a cup of tea and a sausage bap has gone up 10p this week

£10 is par for the course I'm afraid.

We are all doomed.

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IDFIMH

your right there sussex every couple of days the price goes up 1p at this rate it will be well past the £1.50 they are quoting by september.

Your right chipper the shell station down here must have the price sign on a timer its now 131.9 a 6p increase in 3 days

Thinking of a new fuel efficient cab

I still go back to the point I raised an another thread.

In the good old US of A petrol is about 40p a litre, and diesel about 50p a litre.

So anything above that goes to Gordon.

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IDFIMH

For every pound gordon gets 80pence.

its hello from



this link gives you a idea of fuel in your area

http://www.petrolprices.com/

and this link gives you a idea how much more its costing you in tax per year

http://www.banthepumps.com/

These links may give you some idea on the bigger picture:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=747947551

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=747990771

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Next time you wave, use all your fingers.

FFS it was on the local national radio news that even American truckers are thinking of pulling off the road due to sky high prices of diesel, FFs there only paying $4.11 or £2.20 a gallon

We were paying more than that when I first got my badge 13 years ago

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Well I suppose it's an even bigger shock to the system to them as to us, since if their price mainly reflects crude prices (ours mainly reflects fuel duty levels) then their fuel must have gone up by a bigger proportion than ours?

It's not so long since theirs was around $1 a gallon (about 12p a litre) so theirs has gone up 400%.

Still it's less than half what we pay

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With diesel now 133.9 in the Borders the government now get a whole £ in tax and vat