s7ev0
February 12, 2006, 9:10am
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Anyone else signed up for Pipelinecard? It’s a consumer-driven organisation aimed at doing a deal with major petrol retailers for petrol at 5-10p per litre cheaper than usual. The more people that sign up the greater the chance of cheaper petrol. It’s free to sign up.
Anyway, if any Brits fancy checking it out, you can get more details at
www.pipelinecard.org
It’s worth a try I guess.
What is driving me mad at the moment is that where I live the petrol is 91.9p a litre but further on down towards Liverpool it is 85.9p. Argh!
Cathy
91.9 British pounds = 160.55 U.S. dollars
1 liter = 0.264172051 US gallon
It’s usually around USD$2.50 per gallon (equivalent to 1.43p per 3.78L) around here.
I understand why you’d want a council to make a deal!
That’s a lot to pay for such a small amount of gasoline.
Gilby
February 12, 2006, 9:59am
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burjzyntski:
91.9 British pounds = 160.55 U.S. dollars
1 liter = 0.264172051 US gallon
It’s usually around USD$2.50 per gallon (equivalent to 1.43p per 3.78L) around here.
I understand why you’d want a council to make a deal!
That’s a lot to pay for such a small amount of gasoline.
You’re off by a factor of 100 there. The p is like a cent. So it’s $1.61 per liter, or about $6 per US gallon.
I thought those numbers seemed pretty outstanding…
But that was the first time google has let me down
Gilby
February 12, 2006, 10:39am
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garbage in = garbage out
Google can’t perform miracles, it did exactly what you told it to do. You want this one: 0.919pounds to usd - Google Search
91.9p is 91.9pence. The price at the petrol pumps is shown as the price per litre. Mind you, we’re soon going to be out of the pounds and into the pence.
£91.90 would be 91.9pounds.
That’s the way we write it here.
Cathy
Skippii
February 13, 2006, 2:43am
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this site has a much better way to get cheap fuel in the UK.
Naomi
February 13, 2006, 4:04am
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Has anyone actually tried this? How does it work in practice? Is it legal?
Answer no: have a look in the “legal” link on the site, where it suggests this is just a parody site.
phil
February 13, 2006, 10:37am
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Loosemoose:
PEBKAC :p.
Was it someone on here who used “PICNIC”? I like that…
Phil
I know PEBKAC, but I haven’t heard PICNIC…
I didn’t open charmap and I thought you were abbreviating pounds with the ‘p’ instead of the ‘£’, I forgot all about pence