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In my head it's still a lot of money.

I have to keep reminding myself that it's less than a tank of petrol, and slightly prompted by DaveE's update, it's about half an hour's labour at a Porsche dealer. It's not "a lot" of money.

Same here but when you go out you realise that it isn't a lot. Just popping out with the wife and daughter for dinner at the pub or chain restaurant costs a bloody fortune, nevermind going anywhere "nice".

It’s only about 58% of what teenagers expect you to pay for a pair of trainers - for them, right @ScottA ?

I have ten times that in my bank account ATM, but I still stop and think "ooh, should I get the half decent beer or the cheap stuff"

Weirdly, the car is getting low and I have no problem throwing £95 of super in it.

Proper in a weird place with money these days

I mean, it *is* a lot of money for most SJ "It doesn't got far on a Bentley or running a Porsche" isn't a good metric

Yes the sad thing is this years £100 was £90 last year and probably £85 the year before. Shows how things deteriorate rapidly with rampant inflation.

Basically central bankers thought they were clever little shits post 2008 and calling money printing QE would stop the inflationary demon knocking at their door. Sadly they aren’t as clever (or at least, as quickly reactive) as they think they are and we are straight back into the mid 1970s of economic policy.

Just wait until the upcoming millions of homeowners have to remortgage at 6% - it’s going to be progressively more vicious for everyone.

£100 is almost 2 full tanks of 95 supermarket shite in a Twingo

The smart is the same tank ( being the same car underneath) - I remember when brimming it from nearly empty was £30 ish quid!

I remember when I were a young lad back in 2020 the Tesla cost less than £5 to supercharge. Now it’s £30. That’s probably the most drastic increase. At least petrol took a decent while to increase 6 fold whilst being taxed to buggery.

jamcg wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 11:49 pm £100 is almost 2 full tanks of 95 supermarket shite in a Twingo

Or about 2/3rds of a tank in the x5

Mito Man wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 12:22 am I remember when I were a young lad back in 2020 the Tesla cost less than £5 to supercharge. Now it’s £30. That’s probably the most drastic increase. At least petrol took a decent while to increase 6 fold whilst being taxed to buggery.

I paid approx £43 for approx 200 miles of range at a charger station this week. Robbing cnuts.

That's 21.5p per mile in fuel costs alone. Plus other car running costs.... Whereas I put petrol in my car at 140.9 this week and the very easy 40mpg it achieves is 16p per mile, and at least the government gets a good chunk of that money in taxation rather than the shitting energy companies.

Inflation is a cunt, although I've been thinking lately that there's so much crap that we've been persuaded we 'need' nowadays that of you take a step back and think about the things you actually need/want/are important you can probably offset a lot of the cost of living stuff by cancelling a few subscriptions.

Simon wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 8:05 am That's 21.5p per mile in fuel costs alone. Plus other car running costs.... Whereas I put petrol in my car at 140.9 this week and the very easy 40mpg it achieves is 16p per mile, and at least the government gets a good chunk of that money in taxation rather than the shitting energy companies.

Yep. It's a right fiddle this electric car nonsense. Expensive motoring.

The problem I have is that I think my salary is great then discover once I had paid for all my stuff my salary is pants.

Explosive Newt wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 9:45 am The problem I have is that I think my salary is great then discover once I had paid for all my stuff my salary is pants.

This

The £2 coin turns 25 years old and is worth half its original value. That’s average inflation of 2.8% since 1998. We haven’t really noticed proper inflation in a generation until now.

Aye, it’s been catching me out a lot recently. I went through 2 weeks salary in about 4 days last weekend, wasn’t even really doing anything

Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 8:57 pm In my head it's still a lot of money.

I have to keep reminding myself that it's less than a tank of petrol, and slightly prompted by DaveE's update, it's about half an hour's labour at a Porsche dealer. It's not "a lot" of money.

You have a big tank! £60 fills mine

Zonda_ wrote: Sun Jun 18, 2023 1:05 pm

Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 8:57 pm In my head it's still a lot of money.

I have to keep reminding myself that it's less than a tank of petrol, and slightly prompted by DaveE's update, it's about half an hour's labour at a Porsche dealer. It's not "a lot" of money.

You have a big tank! £60 fills mine

That’s no way to refer to the Bentley Zonda.

I don’t think I have ever put more that £70 in the Evora….