http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: petrol price - Recent Topics en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:11:26 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9866#post-106914 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:58:06 +0000 kaputnik 106914@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22035949">Forecourt sales of petrol have plunged by more than 20% in five years, the AA has said.</a><em></p> <p>The motoring organisation said official government figures showed 17 billion litres were sold last year compared to 22 billion in 2007.</em></p> <p>Does anyone else think that the AA rentaquote is spinning this like it is a <strong>bad </strong>thing?</p> <p>I also get the feeling, with no evidence but my own observation, that indeed there are more smaller cars on the road, however cars in general are much bigger than they used to be, and for every couple of small cars there's a hulking great Nissan Navara or Range Rover the likes of which you would never have seen 5 years ago. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8569#post-86435 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:54:39 +0000 kaputnik 86435@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19810276">From the BBC</a><em><br /> Nearly half a billion fewer litres of petrol and diesel were sold between April and June than during the same period last year, says the Department of Energy and Climate Change.</p> <p>The reduction came despite a fall in fuel prices during the period.</p> <p>It followed a big rise in the amount of petrol bought at the beginning of the year when the threat of a tanker drivers' strike led to panic buying.</p> <p>The AA motoring organisation called it a "huge drop."</em></p> <p>I wonder how many miles of avoided journeys that equates to (and the world still continued to spin).</p> <p>Good news for drivers ultimately, as there are now half a billion more litres of petrol and diesel left until we run out! </p>