So prices are on the up and cars are getting more fuel efficient

True, but your pence per mile has gone up considerably too.

As demand increases oil price will go up to a point where other fuels will be more cost effective.

However, in the mean time let's not pretend fuel tax is a help. A 3p increase is disgraceful, let's remember fuel has gone up 10p a litre in a year, thats 2p per litre in vat. On top of this higher oil price is taxed at source from the oil companies.

If there is a shortage of money cut spending, not raise tax.

I would personally love to reduce the miles I do but I am at the bare bones of reducing my travelling, I only do about 150 miles in a normal working week. I have cut out going a drive just for the hell of it and also taking my family to the usual far flung haunts we like to visit as a treat...Although this is partially cost driven it's also just becoming habit.

I have become a bit obsessive about my mpg and laterly my pence per mile. hence my switch back to petrol after many years of diesel ownership.

I may well be burned at the stake and doused with urine for saying this but I'm so looking forward to the day I can afford a practical electric car that can lug me and my family around and maybe even pull my caravan......eeeeeek!!

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Whats the answer then ? - ordinary people cannot indefinitely keep paying increase after increase or something has to give and the petrol retailers keep making sneaky 1p increases until before you know it the price has shot up between refills

Have a look at the fuel places .Locally., I suspect colusion to push up prices. One consortium has it's name on at least three stations locally.Two large ones and one small. Day one ,one station is suplied, and 1p gets added to prices. Other station folows suit on prices. Before the end of week, station two gets filled up and prices go up by 1p. First station follows suit. Meanwhile the little independants sit back and folow the fuel line, adjusting prices to match the other two . I alwas thought that this was illegal. BUT where's TSA when we need them .

Then there's Tesco. Always saying that they will keep prices low. Or in other words, a tad lower than local stations, but not nationally.

Locally I can get diesel for 146.9( why can't they be honest and say 147). 9.5 miles up the road ,it's 140.9, a saving of 6p a litre. But at 50mpg, that's 11miles/litre,meaning that it'l cost me approx£ 2.43 to get to a cheaper pump.( assuming that Iget 40l in tank). Any more ,and I'M IN PROFIT. Only way it'sprofitable is if we decide to go shopping in that town ,and get a full tank on the day.

Excuse from the fuel companies- they price match ,only if a stationlocally is lower . So get one next door to ASDA /SAINSBURY/mORRISONS,and the price is lower. At work, few years ago , we were advised to look for our preffered fueler (Shell) ,within a set distance of a supermarket. Shell stated that price would match the local supermart prices. Enough said ?

try paying £155.9 a liter then.....

I did consider using Biodiesel as that stands at around 120p per litre round 'ere. However, I think I worked out that the wear on the engine would ultimately outweigh the savings...

I never quite understood the difference in price between petrol and diesel. It supposedly costs roughly the same to produce, and in fact, would it not be slightly less I wonder because when cracking oil, diesel takes less time to produce than petrol and less time spent on production means less overall energy which means less cost? Ahhh, GCSE science (what I remember of it, anyway).

I changed jobs - once upon a time I used to do 25-27K per annum.

Right now I've had my car since August 2011 and have only covered 5K since then. I have a diesel car but luckily no DPF, but next time round it'll be petrol.

Prices will continue to go up until we find some other means of fuelling cars, that or we all buy 1.2/1.4/1.6T engines instead of big ones... I nearly pulled the trigger on a Focus ST, but I cannot stomach the thought of 22mpg... So I'm waiting for the new model to come out -that apparently will be much better. Failing that, the new Zetec S with a 180ps 1.6T engine looks a nice bet too.

It's about the same price as mineral water...

All they have to do is bottle that.

To get petrol and diesel oil is searched for at huge expense, when it's found

a drilling station is built at huge expense, then the oil is sucked from deep in the ground at

huge expense. Then the oil is transported to dry land at huge expense, where it's refined

at huge expense and made into the various types of fuel. Then the fuel is

stored at huge expense, then transported to a filling station at huge expense. Where we get it

for £1.50 odd a litre or the same price as mineral water or coca cola. Not that bad a deal really.

Right you lot you got me thinking, 2 weeks ago I could buy Diesel for around £1.36 a Litre, the Goverment start a War of words with Unite, then tell everybody there might be a Tanker Driver Strike and buy as much as you can. So what do the Brainy people of the UK do, buy as much fuel as possible, NO strike date been set not even talked about. But people starting queue's people joined and joined, stations ran out of fuel, stations that had fuel raised prices. When do you think they will go back to pre 2 week price ?????. Now we are paying TOP wack prices because some Chumps listened and did not understand, but what the Hell lets all moan, what we brought on ourselfs. A PAT on the back for all Chumps.

we get it for £1.50 odd a litre or the same price as mineral water or coca cola. Not that bad a deal really.

A litre of diesel is probably around 60p the rest is tax.