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I have a Barclaycard credit card and a Halifax credit card. I recently decided to experiment to try to find out how much it costs to use them abroad to withdraw cash from an ATM. I might be crazy, but I wanted to know! Both cards have particular offers that mean you don’t get charged as much as most cards do to withdraw cash. I did a cash withdrawal of €50 from an ATM on both cards on the same day. Anyway, on with the results:

Petrol prices always seem to be in the news. This is mostly because it costs a lot of money and continues to increase all the time. Duty increases and VAT increases are both usually blamed. Also the price of crude oil is often blamed. This made me wonder if there was an actual correlation between crude oil and petrol at the pump. I did a little searching but did not find anything solid. In fact the graphs I did find were particularly bad, including one graph that plotted crude oil and petrol using different scales on the same graph. Some did produce vaguely interesting graphs but few provide their sources and none provided the raw source data.

To see how hardy DDS tapes were, I decided to do some tests. I apologise for the image quality. Anyway, on with the show.