Petrol 69.9 a litre

[Yeah09]

Just watched a Jonathan Creek (The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish) where Maddie gets trapped in a BMW and escapes at the BP petrol station. Shocked to see how cheap petrol was just a few years ago..69.9...now its 116.9!!!

 

[weezyFTW]

Even in 2003 it was around about that. (73 I think for diesel) Then Iraq happened but that's OTT.

 

[Running Man]

ive only had a driving license for 10 years and when i 1st got a car i filled my whole tank for

 

[nisar j]

You have to appreciate that these costs are relative.

When I was seventeen in the late fifties and bought my first car, in the budget, petrol went up to 20p a gallon and best bitter up to 10p a pint. This proportional difference has been maintained by successive governments during the succeeding years.
I think I was earning around

 

[Harshu]

Really? We had fuel blockades in 2000 due to price @ 110.00p per litre. Maybe a little while before then??

 

[pink88]

When I was a kid 38 years ago, petrol was 22p a gallon

We used to fill our tank up for

 

[alexis b]

I still remember the prank I think it was on a very early Central News which they pulled on motorists when we switched from gallons to litres, they were charging people

 

[Tom Barron]

I remember reading during the petrol blockade that a oportunistic garage owner charged his customers a staggering

 

[Ella S]

There was an episode of Keeping Up Appearences on the other day and it was 47.9p an litre!