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£1.47.9 P a litre now in our local garage and in many of the supermarkets up here. I believe this is the highest i have ever seen the price of diesel. Is this the same price as down there in Devon (or wherever you are based ) and how does it effect your day to day living? I've got to say that i still make the normal amount of car journeys as i ever did but i do freewheel a lot saving miles that way but knackering my brakes and gears! :~D

Anyway, it's getting a bit stupid now.

120 here in sunny Guernsey - and 117 for unleaded

That's mental ( and also unfair! )

I work in Exeter and commute from the bay every day and I'm getting annoyed with the increases. I do save 2 or 3p a litre by buying fuel in Exeter compared to Torbay though.

austrianandygull wrote:That's mental ( and also unfair! )

Indeed - but then it's also 1.80 for a loaf of bread, 1.10 for a litre of milk, and a "cheap" one bed apartment is around 180,000 - 200,000.
For me, my wife and son to be able to afford to buy a house we are facing prices far in excess of 250,000!!!!

Well we need at least 100k up here to buy a house and then you'll have one neigbour one side who is likely to be a perverted voyeur and the other side a heroin addict. So in theory anywhere in excess of £130k to live in relative safety is required. I've got zero chance of owning my own house, i just accept it now although you are always living with anxiety as you have no security. It's awful and it must be a nightmare for you guys on Guernsey. I guess many young people leave the island then?

Yeah - the media over on the mainland (that's you guys!) paint this picture of the islanders over here being a wealthy, tax dodging lot when the reality is that it is the guys from the UK that dodge the tax by taking advantage of our tax system....making THEM richer....the reality is that us local guys still have to live in relative "poverty". Wages over here are higher, I grant you that, but then the cost of living is too.

Basically - the youngsters don't stand a chance of owning their own place. As it is, the only way I will EVER own a property (barring a lottery payout, and I don't enter that!!), will be when my parents die - and then my sister will own half of it too.

I guess there is no ideal place, or we would all live there.

shocking prices!

although its "dropped" today to £1.34 for unleaded and £1.41 for diesel in sunny barnsley.........

Sunny Barnsley!

There is NEVER any sun in Barnsley, that's why everyone walsk round bow-legged and talks funny. Get 'em dahn t'boots f'sum vitamin d supps am tellin' thee!


It's like the beginning of armageddon where i am today weatherwise so in Barnsley the world must have already ended.

It always looks that way whenever i go t'metrodome anyway. :na:

That's why they make the fuel cheaper, so you can get away easier.

I was going to Taunton every Thursday until recently, found a gararge on the road in that was knocking out diesel at 1.37.9 against 1.46.9 in Newton Abbot so was filling up there, saldy at the moment I have reason to go there. Thankfully Tescos and Sainsburys have had a price war, so diesel has dropped back to 1.43.9 this week.

Come down again here too. Now £1.43.9 in places. I won't be cracking open the bubbly just yet though.

Ours has gone up....1.23 now in places....

Apparently i've heard that there is/was a planned price increase in the next few months but the Government may postpone it. Oh that's so kind of them, now can they tell me why the planned increase in the first place without lying through their scummy, teeth please if that is at all possible.

austrianandygull wrote:Apparently i've heard that there is/was a planned price increase in the next few months but the Government may postpone it. Oh that's so kind of them, now can they tell me why the planned increase in the first place without lying through their scummy, teeth please if that is at all possible.

3p vat rise in the budget.

would go down really well I think.

some good info on this site below.

http://www.fairfueluk.com/