The end days are here

Jun 13, 2008 14 Replies

The fuel light came on in my car this afternoon. So I queued for 15 minutes, put £85 in and didn't even fill the tank...



I give it a month before the negative equity folks who can't fill their cars with fuel go eventually manage to walk or cycle down to London and get banged up for 6 weeks for being terr'rists (as George W is so fond of saying).



Well I've still got just over 1/4 of a tank in the Mondy which is about=20

200 miles and I've about 100 in the Capper.

--=20 Conor

I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't=20 looking good either. - Scott Adams

I filled the Jeep up with LPG this morning, £28, and then I called in at tesco and bought 30 litres veg for the citroen. Far easier than queuing for diesel..

Mike P

What he said.

I filled the tank in the golf with LPG from empty, then I put two quid odds into the petrol tank just to bring it up to 20 quid total spend.

My car costs 8p per mile to run.

Filled the Aero last week for =A342. Used just over 3rd tank for a week, so if it does get silly/run out over=20 the weekend, I still have enough for work next week until the drivers go=20 back to work.

--=20 Carl Robson Audio stream:

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I don't do "filling the tank", but £60 is enough to last me a couple of days. When I'm driving diesels I actually miss going to the petrol station, it's handy for grabbing a butty or a bottle of Fruit Twist.

Prefer Icy Lemon but it seems there is a shortage of lemons.

Fecking hate going to the petrol station. Mainly as I'm all over the shop with work so I don't always know where there is one, and also because I do a lot of miles and it's a waste of time.

"Doki" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

I've just filled one of the 2cvs. I was the _only_ person on the forecourt, even though the station was open and stocked.

I was on the Wirral this afternoon and there were k******ds fighting in the queue for the pumps.

Whereas, 3 miles away in Liverpool, there doesn't seem to be any effect whatsoever - other than the local Shell only had unleaded this morning.

Wasn't a problem for me, but this evening I'm driving the pool Jeep - which is an 'orrible diesel Cherokee...

They probably didn't want to catch something...

PCPaul gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Nah, it wasn't the thoroughly disreputable van with Dulux peeling everywhere. It was 'erselfs very, very good one.

I'm still a dirty smoker, so going to the petrol stations is handy for buying 'baccy.

Yesterday for the first time ever I filled the Xantia up from empty. I've had jobs where I earnt less in a week than what it cost! However, I had a pile of cash, cos some tinks asked me if I wanted to sell my Jeep (for a grand!) so I offloaded it to them as quick as I could and spent £100 of it filling the Xant.

Now I'm looking for something with no roof. An old MX5 or Eunos looks fave at the mo..

Mike P

"Mike P" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Pah. Try an XM some time... My record was 91 litres.

I don't think I ever put more than £60 in an XM. Most of the time I ran them on veg anyway, in which case I brimmed them. You get some funny looks pouring 20 bottles into it in Tesco car park..

Mike P

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