Russ
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£12 every 7 days in my little scooter... 
i put £13 in my en125 the other day, filled it back up after the last 350km
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Edd
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£120 a month which is roughly about 150 miles a week.
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Edd
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Also think a few of you should be looking at getting a credit card that offers cashback on petrol purchases with the amount you spend
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Captain_Rosco
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How much does everyone else spend on petrol a month? Is it time for a more economical car? 
I don't think you need a more economical car, you just need to learn to drive more economical.
I do little over 40 miles a day, 6 of those days are for work, plus social commuting, and last month's fuel bill was £246.11
Also been working out my recent MPG for about a month now, and they have all been between 19-24Mpg.
Not sure if that's anygood for a 20 year old MX-5, but i only started to note it down as i thought my car was using more fuel than that, and there would have been some thing wrong with it.
[Edited on 15-11-2011 by Captain_Rosco]
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Ben J
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I'm spending about £280 per month on fuel.
Roughly a tank per week. Around £70 per tank which gives me about 500 miles. Could get better mpg if I tried tbh.
Most is business mileage which I get back at 38ppm
[Edited on 15-11-2011 by Ben J]
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Paul_J
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Originally posted by Captain_Rosco
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Originally posted by Paul_J
How much does everyone else spend on petrol a month? Is it time for a more economical car?
I don't think you need a more economical car, you just need to learn to drive more economical.
That's also true, but I have been doing some mileage lately.
50 miles a day commute.
Then a few trips, like trip to Birmingham and back, trip Harlow and back, trip to Cheshire and back, Winchester and back and a few other places here and there.
Next week got to go Manchester and back, that'll be another tank and a half.
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Nick-S
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About 120 a month for me. Which is about a tank and 3/4.
Cost about £65 to fill the tank with Tesco 99 which gets me around 360 miles if i drive nice.
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emicen
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Registered: 26th Jul 10
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500 miles a week commuter miles, usually 150 weekend on top. Zero reclaimable.
85ish quid a week.
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Jules S
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Originally posted by Paul_J
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Originally posted by Captain_Rosco
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Originally posted by Paul_J
How much does everyone else spend on petrol a month? Is it time for a more economical car?
I don't think you need a more economical car, you just need to learn to drive more economical.
That's also true, but I have been doing some mileage lately.
50 miles a day commute.
Then a few trips, like trip to Birmingham and back, trip Harlow and back, trip to Cheshire and back, Winchester and back and a few other places here and there.
Next week got to go Manchester and back, that'll be another tank and a half.
What business rate do you get?
My vx costs at least £1 a mile to run all in
That's why I got the pug to chew up the biz miles given I get civil service rates 
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emicen
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Its quite sad when you're actually excited at finding a new commute route that shaves 8 miles a day off your total cause you did the math and realised that's near enough 200 quid a year saved.
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Paul_J
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As i said Jules, only one of those trips was for business (trip to harlow and back) ... 45p per mile. (Won't get money back till next pay day though)
but the rest unfortunately was just social use
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T21SVJ
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About £120 a month town driving.
get to use company car if i need to go anywere in works time.
coming january i should only be putting in about £60 a month as i can walk to work
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Russ
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I get 58p a mile.
Bike gets around 100mpg.
I'm sure somebody who knows bodmas could tell me what i actually get back per mile
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Captain_Rosco
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Originally posted by Paul_J
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Originally posted by Captain_Rosco
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Originally posted by Paul_J
How much does everyone else spend on petrol a month? Is it time for a more economical car?
I don't think you need a more economical car, you just need to learn to drive more economical.
That's also true, but I have been doing some mileage lately.
50 miles a day commute.
Then a few trips, like trip to Birmingham and back, trip Harlow and back, trip to Cheshire and back, Winchester and back and a few other places here and there.
Next week got to go Manchester and back, that'll be another tank and a half.
Ah... ok
that would explain why you spent so much as you have almost every week.
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Paul_J
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Yeah to be fair Dave, if I do nothing other than my commute I get away with 1 tank a week ~ 250-280 miles per fill up.
But there'll always be things I need to go to, e.g. like this sat going to South East meet and back, that'll be half a tank at least.
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Jules S
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As i said Jules, only one of those trips was for business (trip to harlow and back) ... 45p per mile. (Won't get money back till next pay day though)
but the rest unfortunately was just social use
Yeah,
I (think) i get 45p mile too, at least I do on the VX...not sure on a 1.0L pug.
I was doing circa 300 miles a week in the VX. 150 commute, 50 business and maybe 100 pleasure.
Probably £60 a week in fuel.
The VX is now in storage @ £25 a week. The pug does fuel at under £20 a week.
So I'm saving a lot on fuel (obviously) but it's more saving wear and tear on the VX.....and I'll be £100 a month better off when its out of storage.
Sooo many factors to work into it when you run a shed all year and a sports car April-Oct though
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Paul_J
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That's a good point Jules, wear and tear is a big factor.
A set of tyres a year ~ £600, A set of brakes ~ £200, Fluids ~ £200 a year, a clutch £800
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Jules S
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There's a spreadsheet on SELOC which breaks down the costs of an S2 Elise over 5 years or so...
Well North of £1 a mile all in.
God knows what an S2K costs, but if you are essentially losing around 55p a mile on business use you are mental using it to subsidise their business.
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ChrisBoom
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Im about £60 a week in diesel, doing at the very least 2000 miles a month.
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pow
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£60 every 8-9 days in the Alfa, £20 every time I take the Mazda for spin. Full tanks all the time.
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mwg
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Really interesting thread
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pow
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Hi MattyG. I still haven't MOTd my car, have you?
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mwg
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26 months before it needs an MOT 
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A2H GO
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About £60 a month in the beemer, that will get me near on 500 miles.
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BarnshaW
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60 quid, get around 110 miles and fill up about 2/3 times a month
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