should have filled up!

**TimTay** · 24th July 2011, 19:32

while away me and the missus decided to go on a random drive, sat nav off and just randomly drive up roads in perthshire for fun, and cam across this.

if only he was still in business lol

**HITFACTORY1403** · 24th July 2011, 19:41

i would guess that's about 1995 .

approx .

**Das** · 24th July 2011, 19:43

LoL, no far out I imagine.

**TimTay** · 24th July 2011, 19:46

by the state of the petrol pumps i would have to agree, looked more like trees

**RobW** · 24th July 2011, 19:48

It is horrible tot hink of how much fuel has hiked, even in the last 10 years.

I passed my test in 1995 and £20 would fill my tank from empty - was a Fiat Uno with a 40L tank. Which almost equates to 3 times as much now!

Pricing us off the road and out of our nice big engined cars to get us into 1.0L shopping trollies.

**HITFACTORY1403** · 24th July 2011, 19:51

Actually , i am totally wrong ,

it's closer to 2005 .

**s31num** · 24th July 2011, 19:52

lol they were the days

**HITFACTORY1403** · 24th July 2011, 19:54

this is from the web and has nothing to do with hitfactory1403

THERE IS A CHART FOR FUEL PRICES OVER THE YEARS LOWER DOWN .

================================================== ===============Petrol Prices

Since March 1983 I have kept a detailed record of fuel prices and fuel consumption, spanning fifteen different cars, both privately-owned and company. This table records the movement in fuel prices over that period, taking in each year the first fuel purchase in March. Prices are for leaded 4-star up to 1988, and unleaded thereafter. This roughly corresponds to the point when unleaded took over from 4-star as the standard fuel.
The table shows that the price of fuel in real terms is now 26% higher in March 2011 than in 1983, the oil price having risen steadily since March 2009, and the price also having been affected by the weakness of the pound against the dollar. The real terms price is by some way a record for the period covered, and is 89% higher than in 1991. During the period covered by the table, "real" fuel prices fell between 1983 and 1992, encouraging a boom in road traffic, but then rose sharply due to the "fuel duty escalator", resulting in the fuel protest of 2000. At this time, fuel prices had risen by over 50% in five years, which undoubtedly caused much hardship.
The table also does not show peak prices in my local area, which were 224.6p/gallon (49.4p/litre) in October 1990, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and 390.5p/gallon (85.9p/litre) in June 2000, just before the fuel protest. Around this time I even paid 404.1p/gallon (88.9p/litre) in the Scottish Highlands. It seems that peak prices tend to occur in the autumn, and March, just as winter demand is tailing off, is often a low point in the year.
In 2005 there was a marked rise in the international price of oil, leading to a peak price of 426.9p/gallon (93.9p/litre) in September and October. Also since the beginning of March 2008 there was a further sharp spike in the international oil price, with unleaded reaching a startling peak in July of 540.5p/gallon (118.9p/litre). 2010 and 2011 have seen a further steady increase in the oil price, added to which the VAT rate was increased from 17.5% to 20% from the beginning of 2011, so this year all previous price records have been broken.
Of the March 2011 price of 129.9p/litre, 80.6p or 62.9% went to the government (58.95p fuel duty and 21.65p VAT). The rate of duty was reduced by 1p per litre in the Budget on 23 March 2011, but any benefit from this has been cancelled out by further oil price rises.
For information about current fuel prices in your local area, take a look at PetrolPrices.com.

Petrol Prices 1983-2011 Year Price per Litre (p) Price per Gallon (£) Retail
Prices
IndexPetrol Price
in constant terms
(1983=100)5-year
% increase ¶1983 36.7 1.670 83.1 100.0 - 1984 38.7 1.759 87.5 100.0 - 1985 42.8 1.946 92.8 104.3 - 1986 38.2 1.737 96.7 89.4 - 1987 37.8 1.719 100.6 85.0 - 1988 34.7 1.578 104.1 75.4 -5.5 1989 38.4 1.746 112.3 77.4 -0.7 1990 40.2 1.828 121.4 74.9 -6.1 1991 39.5 1.796 131.4 68.0 3.4 1992 40.3 1.832 136.7 66.7 6.6 1993 45.9 2.087 139.3 74.6 32.3 1994 48.9 2.223 133.1 77.6 27.3 1995 50.9 2.314 147.5 78.1 26.6 1996 52.9 2.405 151.5 79.0 33.9 1997 57.9 2.632 155.4 84.3 43.7 1998 60.9 2.769 160.8 85.7 32.7 1999 61.9 2.814 164.1 85.3 26.6 2000 76.9 3.496 168.4 103.3 51.1 2001 77.9 3.541 173.1 101.8 47.2 2002 69.9 3.178 174.5 90.6 20.7 2003 77.9 3.541 179.9 98.0 27.9 2004 77.9 3.541 184.6 95.5 25.8 2005 79.9 3.632 190.5 95.0 3.9 2006 88.9 4.041 195.0 103.2 14.1 2007 87.9 3.996 204.4 97.4 25.6 2008 103.9 4.723 212.1 110.9 33.4 2009 89.9 4.087 211.3 96.2 15.4 2010 111.9 5.087 220.7 114.8 40.1 2011 129.9 5.905 232.5 126.5 46.1
¶ Note: this column represents the % increase over 5 years in the non inflation adjusted petrol price.
(Last updated April 2011)
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