How much is gas where you live ???
I paid $3.09 ,it has come down some in the last couple of weeks here in Ohio.
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braveheart21 · 61-69, M
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@braveheart21 Has it risen in the last week or so? It was <£1.60 / litre quite recently.
The cheapest I saw this year was £1.50 / l; back in August, but that was in Hawes so hardly local to me living well over 300 miles away!
On a recent M5 / M6 journey I saw one service-area charging 20p a litre more than the average off-motorway prices!
The three on the M5 from Bristol to Taunton usually all charge the same as each other, too.
The cheapest I saw this year was £1.50 / l; back in August, but that was in Hawes so hardly local to me living well over 300 miles away!
On a recent M5 / M6 journey I saw one service-area charging 20p a litre more than the average off-motorway prices!
The three on the M5 from Bristol to Taunton usually all charge the same as each other, too.
Jacko1971 · 51-55, M
@braveheart21 it fluctuates a lot.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Jacko1971 They are, and for more than the fuel. I think that 20p (more than £1 / gallon) was an exception though. Most seem to average 10p more.
I try to avoid using them. Occasionally I travel up the M5 so starting with a full tank and topping-up in Tewkesbury is usually enough to reach a filling-station off the motorway near my destination. I use the service areas only for the food and drink I take from home, a rest, and for the toilets. I can't recall when I last used any of the cafeterias. I think it was in the Winchester or the costlier-still Fleet services; but I abjure the up-price-down-value, Mactuckycostabucksburger chains anyway!
I try to avoid using them. Occasionally I travel up the M5 so starting with a full tank and topping-up in Tewkesbury is usually enough to reach a filling-station off the motorway near my destination. I use the service areas only for the food and drink I take from home, a rest, and for the toilets. I can't recall when I last used any of the cafeterias. I think it was in the Winchester or the costlier-still Fleet services; but I abjure the up-price-down-value, Mactuckycostabucksburger chains anyway!
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Jacko1971 Usually, yes but nearby, easy to find and easy to regain the motorway? For example, the one at the Preston turn-off used to be accessible but is now a swine to reach from the M6, and if you make a mistake you can end up driving for several miles along the dual-carriageway to the town. Even some motorway services, where placed alongside major junctions, are desperately confusing and difficult to enter and leave - it's as if road-planners attend special courses in making junctions as hard and hazardous as possible!
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I recall one Summer journey through Staffordshire where I became totally confused by a particularly labrynthine service-area, and accidentally exited through a one-way, staff-only road on to a T-junction with a rural lane!
"Ah", thinks I. "Well, I am going North, the sun is to the North-West this being an August evening, and is ahead to my left, the lane runs West-East, the motorway is to my right. SO...."
I followed the lane over the M6, met a main road, turned left. A few miles on I found a low-cost filling-station, refuelled, worked out my position from the atlas and duly regained the M6 several miles further along this parallel A-road.
Perhaps I should have made note of which services, for future reference.
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I recall one Summer journey through Staffordshire where I became totally confused by a particularly labrynthine service-area, and accidentally exited through a one-way, staff-only road on to a T-junction with a rural lane!
"Ah", thinks I. "Well, I am going North, the sun is to the North-West this being an August evening, and is ahead to my left, the lane runs West-East, the motorway is to my right. SO...."
I followed the lane over the M6, met a main road, turned left. A few miles on I found a low-cost filling-station, refuelled, worked out my position from the atlas and duly regained the M6 several miles further along this parallel A-road.
Perhaps I should have made note of which services, for future reference.