GSA - Price of Fuel

[DWJ]

Filled up just south of Rhyader on the way back from the Northwest 200.

Managed to get £40 quid in the tank - bloody price of fuel is getting ridiculous

Any one managed to get more thna £40 quid in their GSA ?

 

[bmwrich58]

Filled up just south of Rhyader on the way back from the Northwest 200.

Managed to get £40 quid in the tank - bloody price of fuel is getting ridiculous

Any one managed to get more thna £40 quid in their GSA ?

Here in Chicago,our gasoline prices have jumped up to $4.25 a US gallon or 3.8ltrs. Probably up $1.75 since January this year.

I know still cheaper than the UK and Europe but has your fuel prices jumped as much as ours in the last 6 months or are your prices moving up slowly?

 

[herrdirektor]

Filled up just south of Rhyader on the way back from the Northwest 200.

Managed to get £40 quid in the tank - bloody price of fuel is getting ridiculous

Any one managed to get more thna £40 quid in their GSA ?

Nope, I would have to keep the tank almost empty and fill up 30L to get a bill for about 45 Euro's. Going to an expensive fuel station would amount to about 48 Euro's. Still expensive though, knowing that those F^%$%^G oil producers, oil companies and governments are noticeably silent due to record profits.

 

[Patventure]

£35 quid - then i gave up

yeah, i got 35 quid in with more to spare 3 weeks ago. I couldn't get in touch with my bank manager to see if i could get more in.....

i did about 400 miles on the Adv last weekend which was quite extravagant when i think about it!

how anyone runs a large 4x4 vehicle or similar is beyond me. i'm getting over 45mpg from the Adv, but i only use it weekends and for pleasure. I take a scooter from my house in the morning to the train station 4 miles away. Working for the Railways here in NI means i travel for free to work!

Those that need their own means to travle 200+miles a week for commuting and shopping trips etc must be really feeling the pinch.

Patrick.

 

[Klunk]

Here in Chicago,our gasoline prices have jumped up to $4.25 a US gallon or 3.8ltrs. Probably up $1.75 since January this year.

I know still cheaper than the UK and Europe but has your fuel prices jumped as much as ours in the last 6 months or are your prices moving up slowly?

Fuel in the UK is now in excess of $10 a gallon, it is around £1.15 per ltr and only 1 year ago it was around 90p per ltr. So it has gone up quite a lot in 12 mths.

Andy

 

[Greg Masters]

Why on earth is this in the 1200 GS section?

Don't other GSs use petrol too?



Greg

 

[John Armstrong]

Why on earth is this in the 1200 GS section?

Don't other GSs use petrol too?

I think it's a GSA thing if you look at the first post

33 litres of fuel in mine from empty to full and about 45 mpg. 06 F650 Dakar does 70 mpg, you can guess which one is being used for the daily 80 miles commute And the GSA would only do another 60 miles inspite of having almost double the tank size

 

[Greg Masters]

I think it's a GSA thing if you look at the first post

... and the GSA was only ever made as a 1200?

I don't think so!



Greg

 

[John Armstrong]

... and the GSA was only ever made as a 1200?

I don't think so!



Greg

Maybe the LWR didn't make it into Wales

 

[(RIP) Proff]

Why on earth is this in the 1200 GS section?

Don't other GSs use petrol too?



Greg

1200 owners get touchy you know, if you cast a doubt on their choice of steed
As an aside my old 80g/s may on a good day do 45 mpg, usually 40 mpg
ergo >> tankfull = £30 = 200 miles

 

[diplomaticdanny]

£40 fuel

Not quite forty quid but I did put 32.28 litres in my GSA last week, I was just starting to wonder how on earth I was going to push it up the big hill on the northbound M3 up to J9 at Winchester, sigh of relief when I pulled onto the Shell forecourt.

 

[(RIP) Proff]

This is too close to the truth to be funny

 

[Alte Wolf]

Yeah ... totally depressing

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/05/20/bcnoil120.xml

 

[bmwrich58]

Fuel in the UK is now in excess of $10 a gallon, it is around £1.15 per ltr and only 1 year ago it was around 90p per ltr. So it has gone up quite a lot in 12 mths.

Andy

Thanks K man..We all are feeling the PINCH..OWWWW!:eyesdown

 

[bumble beemer]

Managed £40 yesterday on 08 GSA. 35.4 litres ....yes 35.4 litres !!!!!! Fuel computer said there was 5 miles left in the tank . Managed to get 380 miles on a tank.

petrol attendant asked me where my car was ???!!!

 

[Sgt Bilco]

Managed £40 yesterday on 08 GSA. 35.4 litres ....yes 35.4 litres !!!!!! Fuel computer said there was 5 miles left in the tank . Managed to get 380 miles on a tank.

petrol attendant asked me where my car was ???!!!

I get that response regularly when i fill up.....

 

[Pukmeister]

Yeah the rising price of fuel is a global problem, I've just paid Au$1.43 a litre to fill the bike up at my local Caltex Woolworths using my 4c/litre discount voucher.

Thats 70 pence per litre to those without a currency converter.

Way too expensive for a man on my wages.

 

[jenks]

Guess What! it isn't going to get any better, I strongly believe that within 24 months it will be £7.50 a gallon. (That is 37.5p per mile if your car does 20mpg. 25p per mile @30mpg and 16.6p per mile on your GS)

Opec, wants to make money and preserve there only asset, whilst holding the world at ransum knowing there is bugger all we can do about it, as they are also awhere that China will take every drop that they can get.

The Government will not reduse there 80%+ cut, as it is the only way to generate money to maintain there spending spree, as everyone knows that tax the rich more and you have an adverse effect on economic growth. The belief that the higher the cost of fuel the less we use........Utter tosh, it may stop some people buying a gas guzzler but every one still needs to get to work, collect children etc. The Government is also awhere that is we all stopped using our cars heating our home (with oil based products) the Far East would take less than 18mths to need what we save. Even the Conservatives will maintain this policy.

I think it amazing that the price of oil effects everything in our lives, food costs, housing costs, inflation, taxes, economic growth, every bloody thing, even sex is you are into those rubber outfits.

Oh I feel better already.

Enjoy your walk AJ

 

[JIm]

Oh, happy days.

I believe, that in the near future, the toddlers of today will not believe that you could just jump in any vehicle and drive it for pleasure arround the country or Europe, without putting in a fuel request or saving up coupons...............hang on, weren't they dooing that sixty odd years ago?

Make the most of these days, 'cos there the last of the good'ol days!



Jim, now depressed!

 

[rdover]

I did a full fill up at motorway services last week and I managed to squeeze in £44.45 worth.

As oil prices get to silly levels one of a few things will happens. Alternatives will be found by research money going into solar etc, less productive areas will be investigated but in the main that means Siberia (do YOU trust the Russians?). There is plenty of oil out there, it's simply a question of getting at it.

In the longer term we need to find an alternative but our main challenge is population growth. More people = more consumption .... soon we won;t be able to go anywhere except on bikes or public transport because of grid lock.

except for Scotland where the midge keeps the sasenach away