Cheap petrol in Llangollen

[BlueRover]

Took this yesterday about half an hour before my car nearly ended up in a river.



After a little potter over the horseshoe pass and back to Wrexham, my mate sugggested we go and see the old lead mines and after going across the tops of the hills for ages we eventually got onto a narrow twisty road. We weren't going very fast, 25 mph at best when I had to avoid an oncoming Fiesta van driven by a farmer. I skidded on some wet mud and headed straight for him. I took my foot off the brake and narrowly missed him only for the nearside front wheel to drop off the tarmac and onto the verge, 12" away from a 8ft drop into a small river.

Close call and I was more worried about my mate going over with the car if I got out of my side of the car.

[mach1rob]

Someone pretending they were driving the Italian Job coach? Gotta love some of those Welsh mountain roads

Mind long way to go to get cheap petrol from down here

[Sheaf]

Amazing! Guess where I'm going on holiday next month

Mind, we'll need cheap petrol.. driving there from Hampshire in a 3.0 V6 Omega.. which isn't exactly economical

[Gary]

That looks like an abandoned garage, so the prices are not correct. LMAO.

[Punx0r]

That better not be true, I paid 96.9p a fecking litre today! Not on services either, at the supermarket. It's about average round here

[BlueRover]

That looks like an abandoned garage, so the prices are not correct. LMAO.

Gary, you are correct. It was like going back in time. I did a little paintshop work on the windows as the one nearest the road was boarded up. Also I cropped the image to avoid showing the pump next to the one showing which had been stripped of it's covers, exposing the innards. They did have padlocks on the holsters but they weren't fastened. I was almost tempted to get my mate to hold one in the fuel filler to look like he was filling it up. It would be worth driving 50 miles to fill a tank at those prices.

Punx0r, blame the Yanks for the fuel price hike. They want more so the price goes up. If it gets much higher, I think the fuel protests would be a good idea once more with everyone doing their bit.

[agw_01]

After a little potter over the horseshoe pass and back to Wrexham, my mate sugggested we go and see the old lead mines and after going across the tops of the hills for ages we eventually got onto a narrow twisty road. We weren't going very fast, 25 mph at best when I had to avoid an oncoming Fiesta van driven by a farmer. I skidded on some wet mud and headed straight for him. I took my foot off the brake and narrowly missed him only for the nearside front wheel to drop off the tarmac and onto the verge, 12" away from a 8ft drop into a small river.

Close call and I was more worried about my mate going over with the car if I got out of my side of the car.

[Sheaf]

Git, I was all excitied then

[IrishRover]

Haha I've driven by that garage many times. It's been unused for a couple of years at least I reckon. Strange how it hasn't been used for something.

Here's some more cheap petrol in Sligo

[Si]

Punx0r, blame the Yanks for the fuel price hike. They want more so the price goes up. If it gets much higher, I think the fuel protests would be a good idea once more with everyone doing their bit.

More like blame that nobber Bush for threatening to Nuke Iran, one of the worlds biggest Oil producers

[The Flying Dutchman]

Don't worry. We're still the most expensive in the world. £1.05 per litre now.

[Sheaf]

Don't worry. We're still the most expensive in the world. £1.05 per litre now.

Yeah, but your country is smaller than ours, so you dont need to drive so far

[The Flying Dutchman]

Never thought of it that way.

Ah...never mind I always put 10 Euros in, so I won't notice.

[helix]

When was petrol that cheap, I seem to remember '97 or so ?

[Sheaf]

Nah, I've paid for petrol at that sort of price... and I only passed in 2001.

In fact I'm sure it's been near 80p in the last couple of years.