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    and you think filling your car with fuel is expensive

    we all complain about spending £80 or £90 on a tankfull of fuel for our cars. Each Tornado sortie from the UK to Libya uses £30K of fuel

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12806709


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    Quote Originally Posted by Englishman2010 View Post
    we all complain about spending £80 or £90 on a tankfull of fuel for our cars. Each Tornado sortie from the UK to Libya uses £30K of fuel

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12806709
    Well a tankfull of fuel for my car will cost at lot more than that. £140
    Maybe time for a change

    As for the £30k of fuel for the Tornado to Libya ............................ Don't get me wrong on this but today my wife was told that one of her 'service users' (elderly person clients ----- she is a Carer-----) has had her care cut to only 15 mins care per day from now on due to cuts in funding. This lady lives alone and cannot even stand up on her own. My wife spends at least 1 hour per day looking after her (morning lunch and evening) but gets paid for 15 mins = £1.71.
    I know what I think 'but sups to you the individual'
    This is not an isolated case.

    Sorry rant over.
    So sorry Englishman, hope I haven't stopped your thread.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Terpe View Post
    Well a tankfull of fuel for my car will cost at lot more than that. £140
    Maybe time for a change

    As for the £30k of fuel for the Tornado to Libya ............................ Don't get me wrong on this but today my wife was told that one of her 'service users' (elderly person clients ----- she is a Carer-----) has had her care cut to only 15 mins care per day from now on due to cuts in funding. This lady lives alone and cannot even stand up on her own. My wife spends at least 1 hour per day looking after her (morning lunch and evening) but gets paid for 15 mins = £1.71.
    I know what I think 'but sups to you the individual'
    This is not an isolated case.

    Sorry rant over.
    So sorry Englishman, hope I haven't stopped your thread.
    No problem Terpe, I'm not the thread police, I don't care what you say on my threads, you're always polite and friendly
    Yes, maybe you should think about getting a smaller car


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    We all complain about spending £80 or £90 on a tankfull of fuel for our car
    I filled a boat last week at a cost of £910,spoke to a guy who had just put 3500 litres in his boatHe fills it about once a month



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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
    I filled a boat last week at a cost of £910,spoke to a guy who had just put 3500 litres in his boatHe fills it about once a month
    There's a thread stopper stronger than mine je je je


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    I have a Clio it has a 1.5 diesel engine. It does 60 mpg, goes like a rocket. Only £30 tax per year. It is an excellent little commuter and does my 60 mile round trip nicely each day. But... where I used to fill it up with £50 every 10 days or so, I now have to fill up with £65. I have tried driving slower, and it does make a difference, but I end up feeling frustrated and just like the type of driver I hate driving behind. Cant win, but I like the care, quite cheap to run, tax and insure.

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    There's a thread stopper stronger than mine
    The 3500 litres went into a pleasure boatI dont know how he could justify that sort of expenditure but filling and paying didnt phase him one iota,he was happy as larry



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    Terpe is your car actually a lorry???

    I drive a 1.9TDI and costs me around £55 from when the petrol filling indicator comes on and that will last me 2 weeks. I have to say my driving habits have changed a lot, driving slower, braking slower. Though sometimes these habits go out of the window!


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    Quote Originally Posted by steve monty View Post
    Terpe is your car actually a lorry???
    No not a lorry, she's the love of my life. So tender, so sweet, so quite, so responsive and 3.2 litres of heaven. Complete with double glazing.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Terpe View Post
    No not a lorry, she's the love of my life. So tender, so sweet, so quite, so responsive and 3.2 litres of heaven. Complete with double glazing.
    Oh and a beer/wine cooler in between the rear seats


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    Quote Originally Posted by Terpe View Post
    Oh and a beer/wine cooler in between the rear seats
    Wow!! Sounds like a car i dream of!!!


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    I honestly never thought it was possible to fill any car with that much fuel.


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    Quote Originally Posted by steve monty View Post
    I honestly never thought it was possible to fill any car with that much fuel.
    It's only 100 litres tank plus 10 litres emergency reserve


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    Quote Originally Posted by Terpe View Post
    It's only 100 litres tank plus 10 litres emergency reserve
    I'd love an S-Class, but you've just put me off

    I'm stuck with my C-Class for a bit longer, it went in for a major 4 year service last week, and cost me more than my next trip to the Phil's :'(


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    Quote Originally Posted by Englishman2010 View Post
    I'd love an S-Class, but you've just put me off

    I'm stuck with my C-Class for a bit longer, it went in for a major 4 year service last week, and cost me more than my next trip to the Phil's :'(
    This is the problem
    I'm seriously thinking a smaller car.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Terpe View Post
    This is the problem
    I'm seriously thinking a smaller car.
    E-Class or CLS


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    Just filed my taxi up-it already was a quarter full and my bill was £85.70
    It will be empty by wednesady.


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    I found the answer.

    I fill my car, then leave it parked in my garage, hardly ever need a refill for months !!!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Englishman2010 View Post
    we all complain about spending £80 or £90 on a tankfull of fuel for our cars. Each Tornado sortie from the UK to Libya uses £30K of fuel

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12806709
    30 g for a tornado sortie. Tax payers Money well spent


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    Quote Originally Posted by johncar54 View Post
    I found the answer.

    I fill my car, then leave it parked in my garage, hardly ever need a refill for months !!!!
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    Yep....at 15mpg.

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    my last company motor was an AUDI A6 TOURING, got the TDIE ENGINE, did overall average 47mpg but nealry 60 on my daily 60 mile round m/w trip to work, great spec , low co2 only 139 so not bad on company tax. just got an old petrol Espace automatic for my honey when she comes back in a few weeks (she only drives auto an is used to our bus back home) but it does 25mpg in town and just cost me £118 to tax for 6 months. Still for £600 and with her probably doing about 50 miles a week she should be happy. Now what I am going to have next BM5 Touuring or mercedes 220 Touring hmmmmmmmm need to go and drive them. Now if Jaguar bring out what they used to call a shooting brake (estate) version of the XF I would be the 1st customer
    Live your life for a reason and don't worry be happy

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    Love this new political catchphrase "Sortie" Almost sounds like a tasty sweet. Good way of sugar-coating murder, I suppose


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    Quote Originally Posted by Terpe View Post
    Oh and a beer/wine cooler in between the rear seats
    Sounds like a car my dad once owned. An Austin westminster vandan plas.......or something like it


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    Quote Originally Posted by gWaPito View Post
    Sounds like a car my dad once owned. An Austin westminster vandan plas.......or something like it

    One of these ? Posh !

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    I can remember my dads big zephyr , I think we may have had one of the above, not sure
    Live your life for a reason and don't worry be happy

    if you don't know where you are going then any road will do!!


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    Dad also had a Zodiac straight 6. It was white with red leather trim, very similar to the Zephyr.

    T he Westminster was an ex police car, it went like a rocket, I was 6 or 7 at the time.
    The cornering was a bit flighty if I remember correctly. Many walnuts could of been cracked especially if dad had spent the day drinking. All 8 of us fitted inside as well. Not much call for seat belts in those days.

    I remember all of us having to push it out of a ditch on the way home from a day out at Bournemouth, dad had one or a dozen too many sherbets as usual.

    Dad wasn't much use on that occasion, he couldn't stand but, ok to drive

    Ahh happy days.


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    Also from that story:

    a single cruise missile is about £500,000.

    Could've kept a few policemen and nurses in a job there


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    Quote Originally Posted by Walaytawo View Post
    Also from that story:

    a single cruise missile is about £500,000.

    Could've kept a few policemen and nurses in a job there
    Yep...unbelievable.

    There'll be reasons above our peasant heads no doubt ( OIL ? Prestige ? Influence ? Arms sales ?).

    It's still a slap in the face for the unemployed and those waiting for operations etc.

    Are we going to waste even more money by interfering in every other upcoming revolt in the other Arab countries, and accept the hoards of refugees ?


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    According to Camron, we won't be accepting any war refugees from north africa. Much to the complaining and whining from the rest of Europe. Italy especially.......shame

    I expect they will find a way in, vermin usually do.


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    When I fill up the pleasure boat I drive, it normally costs circa 1/2 million USD.


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