How do some garages ever sell any fuel?

[Scuzi]

99.9p in the Maxol just down from Kellys this evening

Aye well you live in hoity toity Portrush, you can afford it

 

[SteveB_NI]

The small Maxol further round the coast - near the Giants Causeway was 98.9p / litre earlier.... cheaper than the fuel at Tesco! (99.9p).

Off topic but I noticed Four Trees garage in Cushendall has now closed down... remember once I practically limped into that garage after nearly running out of fuel up round the coast road from Larne lol! I'll have to be more careful now in future!

 

[SteveB_NI]

Aye well you live in hoity toity Portrush, you can afford it

When I think of Portrush, I think of many things... Barry's for example. Hoity toity is not one of them!

 

[Cob]

Aye well you live in hoity toity Portrush, you can afford it

Pfffft. This is no Portstewart I'll have you know. We can't even get a decent grade of student here. Or Pole for that matter.

 

[therealnerd2]

Oh, on a fuel related thing, the best thing about being a student is that even despite the hugely uneconomical 22mpg I'm getting at the moment I have filled up just twice since 1st September and still have half a tank

Haven't filled up this term yet

 

[Raymond Lin]

They make money because they charge so much, and after driving for 3 hours + from rest of the country and get into Devon you pay whatever from the first garage you run into as you don't know the area. OR when you are about to leave and top up the tank before you go, but didn't plan ahead and fill up the day before.

 

[jamoor]

I have filled up at some texaco places charging 104p for diesel on the pumps, however I pay £0.99 per litre, because the cost is fixed no matter which station I fill up at.

These places could serve fuel card people and break even/make small profit on them and then rip the others blind?

I don't know what their business model is.

 

[Dup]

One of my local garages has unleaded up at 989.9, yes 989.9. Most definitely an error but still off putting.

I find I get 40 miles less to a tank with Somerfield, Total, Texaco, Tesco fuel etc. There are no fancy super fuels in this area either. I use the BP that's just nect to where I work almost. It's average on price (97.9 atm) and I get decent miles and nectar points.

 

[OllyM]

If people have non bunkered fuel cards that are brand specific they've got no choice about where to fill up so they'll pay the high price etc.

I guess that's virtually the only way they can stay in business.

 

[Scania]

How does Garage C not manage to go bust? I once stopped there for a bottle of coke and got charged £2.70 for a 2 litre bottle..

Because people like you pay £2.70 for a £1.50 bottle of Coke perhaps?

Oh, on a fuel related thing, the best thing about being a student is that even despite the hugely uneconomical 22mpg I'm getting at the moment I have filled up just twice since 1st September and still have half a tank

Too much time here & not enough time spent enjoying your 530i me thinks.

 

[Dogbreath]

Sainsburys, Esso, Texaco.

Is that Hartley Service Station just up from the Golden Hind pub? They have always been extortionately expensive, even when they were a Jet station years back.

 

[Confused]

Some people just plainly don't care.

My uncle is a prime example - he just stops in his X5 at whichever petrol station he comes across, picks up the pump, sticks it in, looks around, walks into the shop, hands over credit card, taps in his PIN, then walks out, throwing the receipt in the bin. At no stage during all of this does he even look, or think, about the cost of the fuel he's putting in.

 

[Muncher]

According to the BBC the retailer and delivery costs account for about 6.3pence per litre. Maybe about 2p of that is clear profit for the petrol station.

Stick a 10p markup on that and one station makes 2p on every litre it sells and another makes 12p. It only needs to sell one sixth the volume of fuel to cover its costs to make the same amount of money. However as most of the profit comes from stuff sold in the shop rather than on the fuel it's a dangerous tactic as the reduced footfall may hurt it there.

 

[Housey]

I never look at the price of petrol, I simply pull over and fill up when I need fuel. I hate stopping for fuel though, more so in the winter as cars are warm and comfy and standing at a pump filling your car is not my idea of fun. I think we should go back to the old days when a man used to come out and fill it up for you, then take your cash, give the screen a wipe and tip his cap wishing you a good day

 

[jamoor]

I never look at the price of petrol, I simply pull over and fill up when I need fuel. I hate stopping for fuel though, more so in the winter as cars are warm and comfy and standing at a pump filling your car is not my idea of fun. I think we should go back to the old days when a man used to come out and fill it up for you, then take your cash, give the screen a wipe and tip his cap wishing you a good day

Thats why I try my best to fill up in HGV filling stations - no fuss no bother, no silly old women digging around in their purses, no queuing unless your unlucky and best of all 70 liters dispensed in around 90 seconds

 

[OllyM]

Thats why I try my best to fill up in HGV filling stations - no fuss no bother, no silly old women digging around in their purses, no queuing unless your unlucky and best of all 70 liters dispensed in around 90 seconds

Can you use those HGV pumps with cars then?! I always thought the flow rate would be too high and it'd go everywhere

Some of the Shells round here have a button on the diesel pumps you can press if you're filling an LGV up which increases the fuel flow... when filling the Touareg up a bit of a speed boost might be handy!

 

[K.C. Leblanc]

Some people just plainly don't care.

My uncle is a prime example - he just stops in his X5 at whichever petrol station he comes across, picks up the pump, sticks it in, looks around, walks into the shop, hands over credit card, taps in his PIN, then walks out, throwing the receipt in the bin. At no stage during all of this does he even look, or think, about the cost of the fuel he's putting in.

I was in a petrol station the other day and some silly bint actualy managed to pay for my fuel instead of her's. She didn't notice that she'd been under charged by £17.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Is that Hartley Service Station just up from the Golden Hind pub? They have always been extortionately expensive, even when they were a Jet station years back.

It's the one on Embankment Road.

 

[Saytan]

there's a dual carriageway near my flat. one side has an esso that follows the prices of the nearby ASDA, and as such, is pretty cheap. the other side has a texaco charging a consistent 3-4p a litre more

 

[wonder_lander]

I fill up every week and often use either the shell or morrisions for ease without knowing how much I'm paying.

There are those people who also come along with 20quid and stick that "worth" of fuel in.

Lastly some people fill up so infrequently that ther probably don't keep tabs on the areas lowest price! The light comes on and they stop and fill up!