If you owned a car before the 1920s then chances are you would have had no fuel gauge and would have to guess when you needed fuel or simply had to wait until it ran out.
Companies have been hard at work attempting to make alternative fuel out of the most outlandish things like used nappies, coffee grinds, bad batches of chocolate and sawdust.
After disputes over office closures, pay, privatisation and jobs, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union in Swansea walked out of their office for three hours on Friday.
According to a survey 63% of motorists have said that running a car is more of a financial worry than mortgages, job security and keeping up with rent payments.