Petrol/Diesel prices near you

[Greeves246]

Bit of a coincidence oil prices going up after the instruction of “ drill baby, drill”

 

[Porkypine]

Annoyingly I didn't bother to to a bike test when it was dead easy back in the 70s, though then you could ride up to 250 on L plates indefinitely, which was fine for what I wanted, so didn't bother.
Regret it now, as I'd like to have a bike these days but I'm certainly not doing all the jumping thru hoops nonsense that they want now, even for a 125 on L plates.

 

[Bornfree]

Annoyingly I didn't bother to to a bike test when it was dead easy back in the 70s, though then you could ride up to 250 on L plates indefinitely, which was fine for what I wanted, so didn't bother.
Regret it now, as I'd like to have a bike these days but I'm certainly not doing all the jumping thru hoops nonsense that they want now, even for a 125 on L plates.

When I took mine the cost was £13 for the test and 80 pence worth of petrol to get to kings lynn and back on my kawasaki z200.

 

[harveyp6]

I took my part 2 test on a CG125 at the start of January 1983, and it was absolutely bloody freezing! I'd done part one during the summer before and it was lovely. Passed both first time, and straight away I chopped in the 125 against a1981 GSX750......

 

[cardiffrob]

Diesel at £1-76.9 prt litre near me. Ouch!

 

[Robotstar5]

1962 for me, no indicators so arm out for left and right and an emergency stop when he steps out in front of you.

Similar for me in the 70's and once passed you could ride unlimited capacity

 

[Craig-SM]

Costco still seems reasonable at 136.9 compared to others on here but still rising at a 1p a day

 

[Bornfree]

1962 for me, no indicators so arm out for left and right and an emergency stop when he steps out in front of you.

I don't know how true it was but there was a story going around at the time, of an examiner stepping out infront of the wrong bike and getting knocked over.

 

[premmington]

I don't know how true it was but there was a story going around at the time, of an examiner stepping out infront of the wrong bike and getting knocked over.

When I did my mine in the 80's - examiner had "high viz" jacket on.

Everybody wears high viz stuff now - it is like urban camouflage. But it was not the norm in the 80's - even the police did not wear it then.

 

[Cobbler]

I don't know how true it was but there was a story going around at the time, of an examiner stepping out infront of the wrong bike and getting knocked over.

That happened in Gloucester, ended up with a broken leg, that why they went to using radios. It might just be an urban myth, but I don’t think so.

 

[Erie Fred]

When I did my mine in the 80's - examiner had "high viz" jacket on.

Everybody wears high viz stuff now - it is like urban camouflage. But it was not the norm in the 80's - even the police did not wear it then.

 

[Moose McAlpine]

Tesco Brent Cross yesterday:

 

[reb78]

I can never understand why diesel is more than petrol. Isn't diesel a by product of refining oil into petrol?

 

[E T]

I can never understand why diesel is more than petrol. Isn't diesel a by product of refining oil into petrol?

As I understand it there's a lot more petrol in the storage tanks in Europe than diesel.

 

[Cato]

I can never understand why diesel is more than petrol. Isn't diesel a by product of refining oil into petrol?

Apparently it's 'urine from the last leper in hell' and therefore can only be sold at a punitive price.

 

[Moose McAlpine]

I can never understand why diesel is more than petrol. Isn't diesel a by product of refining oil into petrol?

Yes, cheaper to produce.

I imagine it's the fuel duty that jacks the price up, to offset the fuel economy savings so the gov't don't lose out on it.

 

[Erie Fred]

I can never understand why diesel is more than petrol. Isn't diesel a by product of refining oil into petrol?

Same over here as well.
It wasn't this way years ago, I wonder if the switch to ultra low sulfur made it costlier to produce ?

 

[Erie Fred]

Bit of a coincidence oil prices going up after the instruction of “ drill baby, drill”

Depends on where you are "Drilling".....

 

[Blobber]

Same over here as well.
It wasn't this way years ago, I wonder if the switch to ultra low sulfur made it costlier to produce ?

How much is it you're end then?

 

[Laurie Tedcastle]

I can never understand why diesel is more than petrol. Isn't diesel a by product of refining oil into petrol?

I have always understood that uk refineries are optimised to produce petrol whereas those in europe are the reverse. Also I think you get more gallons of petrol than diesel per barrel of crude, but someone will be along with the numbers.

Laurie