Petrol Is Cheaper?

I had a conversation the other day with a petrolhead which went down the old price of fuel route as expected but, the interesting thing was, that someone has now worked out that due to the disparity between petrol and diesel that it is now cheaper to run a petrol car.

Has anyone found evidence of this?

TBH it doesn’t surprise me as, way back over a decade ago when diesel was actually cheaper than petrol (remember that!) we worked out that unless a van was covering more than 18K miles per year that petrol was cheaper. The additional servicing costs at that time killed diesel.

LPG even better.

Food for thought if you’re thinking on diesel car or van.

And, in the same vein, having contacts in the car industry, apparently large cars are taking an absolute pounding on used values. If you have anything bigger than a 2l Mondeo get yourself prepared for a MASSIVE drop in value.

One poor dude bought a pretend Porsche jeep thing (Chilli I think ;)) and it lost over 25K since registration in April. This is not good.

Rumours are rife in the car industry that, if the current tax plans go through, then the band E or whatever it is these days, cars and vans will cost about £900 a year just to tax never mind fuel and run.

Of course this is just peachy if you have shares in an oil company.

But never mind eh, we can all buy a Prius and save the planet by using a car that has batteries with chemicals in it, mined in Canada mostly, shipped to China for the batteries to be made then on to Japan where the car is assembled and back to Blighty for us to get 65mpg from. Or we can buy a milk float and have the same battery problem but create more carbon using electricity generated from mainly coal and gas powered power stations.

But, it’s not a political thing, it’s all about saving the planet and reducing our carbon footprint.

Might have worked out better if someone had actually thought about it. :rolls:

K/