I would class 3p a litre difference as substantial. That's 13.6p a gallon difference, which based on 2000 miles / month @ say avg 50 mpg = £65 a year more.
At avg 40 mpg that's £81 a year, which would be ~2% of the yearly fuel cost.
Tesco Petrol prices in you area pls help
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I would class 3p a litre difference as substantial. That's 13.6p a gallon difference, which based on 2000 miles / month @ say avg 50 mpg = £65 a year more.
At avg 40 mpg that's £81 a year, which would be ~2% of the yearly fuel cost.
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£60 a year to me, if price goes up 3p.
Price was around 99p a litre when I bought my car in 2006, now local fuel price is 147p a litre.
Annual cost for same milage has jumped £960. A hefty increase, and would appear to be most outside govt control, some of it is tax, some of it is duty increase, but most of it is making Mr Oil Baron richer.
Not sure what my local Tesco is but Morrisons were 134.9p yesterday.
Seems to me that the OP is just after something for nothing. He has complained NUMEROUS times in the past and, because the companies have humoured him and given him something, he has come to the conclusion that moaning gets him a "freebie"
No different from the whiplash insurance scammers IMHO
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I think we need to invade some more oil rich countries to get the oil prices down 3p for you
I fail to see the problem to be honest. Tesco have looked at the local prices and priced accordingly. If I was the Total garage owner I wouldnt be to happy with Tesco offering cheaper petrol than I could afford to simply becuase of there buying power. So, there was probably some stipulation on the planning that Tesco wouldnt undercut the local petrol station.
I am interested to see how much 3p on a litre makes though so
if my car does 50 miles to the gallon its will use 4.54 litres of fuel to travel the 50 miles.
4.54x143.9=£6.53.
So if it was 3p a litre cheaper i would have saved 3x4.54=13.62pence for a gallon of petrol.
if I can travel 50 miles for £6.53 that means it costs me 13pence to travel each mile since 6.53/50 is 0.1306.
If I fill up with £60 quids worth of fuel I will be getting 9.18 gallons of fuel which is 41.67 lites. 41.67 litres of fuel would save me £1.25 if I was to save the 3pence per litre. I have to travel 10 miles to get there so it will cost be £1.30 to get there so its acutally cost me more money to get there than I saved going to get the fuel.
Every car is different as well I know my mates car only does about 20miles to the gallon so his costs a lot more for him to use, also I have always tried to fill up with small amounts of fuel when ever possible like £30 at a time so I am not paying loads of extra money just to drive around a tank full of fuel i am not even sure that is sensibile but its something I always try to do. Also tesco and morrisons quite often to a nice saving on fuel if you spend money in store. I often get the mrs to fill the car up after the monthly shop becuase you can save sometimes up to 5pence a litre doing that.
I am interested to see how much 3p on a litre makes though so
if my car does 50 miles to the gallon its will use 4.54 litres of fuel to travel the 50 miles.
4.54x143.9=£6.53.
So if it was 3p a litre cheaper i would have saved 3x4.54=13.62pence for a gallon of petrol.
if I can travel 50 miles for £6.53 that means it costs me 13pence to travel each mile since 6.53/50 is 0.1306.
If I fill up with £60 quids worth of fuel I will be getting 9.18 gallons of fuel which is 41.67 lites. 41.67 litres of fuel would save me £1.25 if I was to save the 3pence per litre. I have to travel 10 miles to get there so it will cost be £1.30 to get there so its acutally cost me more money to get there than I saved going to get the fuel.
Every car is different as well I know my mates car only does about 20miles to the gallon so his costs a lot more for him to use, also I have always tried to fill up with small amounts of fuel when ever possible like £30 at a time so I am not paying loads of extra money just to drive around a tank full of fuel i am not even sure that is sensibile but its something I always try to do. Also tesco and morrisons quite often to a nice saving on fuel if you spend money in store. I often get the mrs to fill the car up after the monthly shop becuase you can save sometimes up to 5pence a litre doing that.
this might be of use to you Easy
http://www.petrolprices.com/
I log on a few times a week to keep tabs of where the best place to fill up is.
some of the differences in prices are quite interesting. local to me asda lpg is 10p/litre cheaper than shells for example my local morrisons is currently cheapest for me by a good few p/litre
savings are everything on fuel atm for me every 1p/l works out at just over £100 p.a on my fuel bill,
although you have to bear in mind the supermarkets are using a lot of incentives for store purchases to reduce fuel costs. try and tie your fill ups with a shop etc and you'll save substantially, currently up here morrisons are doing 15p/litre saving when you spend over £60 in store tesco offer their perrenial 5p/litre and even the local shell garages are trying to tempt you with shop purchases allowing a few p/litre of your fuel
http://www.petrolprices.com/
I log on a few times a week to keep tabs of where the best place to fill up is.
some of the differences in prices are quite interesting. local to me asda lpg is 10p/litre cheaper than shells for example my local morrisons is currently cheapest for me by a good few p/litre
savings are everything on fuel atm for me every 1p/l works out at just over £100 p.a on my fuel bill,
although you have to bear in mind the supermarkets are using a lot of incentives for store purchases to reduce fuel costs. try and tie your fill ups with a shop etc and you'll save substantially, currently up here morrisons are doing 15p/litre saving when you spend over £60 in store tesco offer their perrenial 5p/litre and even the local shell garages are trying to tempt you with shop purchases allowing a few p/litre of your fuel
No I'm after fair pricing.
And as a consumer I have the right to complain.
Fact most people in the UK are to scared to complain.
If I buy a pint in a pub and its no right I take it back...Are you one of these people that mutters under your breath as you don't have the balls to complain?
All those companies realised their mistake hence why I had grounds for complaining inthe first place.
My complaint to viewsonic about the monitor for example was the levels of back light bleed.
Their responce was not to use the monitor in the dark can you believe...Hence why I complained
Missed the point...If you dont get it then poor you
This is what I intend to find out
it's the same story with Sainsbury's here.
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Sainsbury's in Newbury has historically charged around 2-3p more a litre than than the other one in Calcot, which is 12 miles away. Been that way for years but the local prices also differ in the local areas. Reading is cheaper than Newbury.
Great thankyou for this
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10miles is bigger than Edinburgh is wide, as the crow flies. No way would I drive out of Edinburgh to save 3p!
As people have said it's not price fixing. Drive out of any major route out of a city and you'd notice that they have put up the pricing. Why? Because people will still pay for it. If they really need the fuel then they have no choice. It's like motorway petrol stations. I can think of several petrol stations across Edinburgh that does this, even a couple of the "city centre" charge a premium centre rate. Just like how a RSMcCall (or even a locally own corner shop) charges more for a Mars Bar city centre or at the train station than they do else where.
Every area has their own micro-economy that adjusts local prices. On a much larger scale it's like the Euro, each country's Economy is different. Go to Spain and write to the PM why a pint is a different price than it is over the border in Portugal. You wouldn't, yet it's being paid in the same currency.
There's also the cost involved of transporting the petrol, again which causes differences. Penucuik 9.8miles outside of Edinburgh is more expensive, Peebles at 23miles is even more "remote" and even more expensive.I would hate you to see the price of fuel in the Highlands. Of course these price increases are due to transport increases and they're the only stations around and on main car transport links, so they have the sellers market.
I think what you're forgetting is that each station is run as a seperate store, with it's own profit and loss. Yes sometimes national stores will prop up failing stores, but mostly they have their own profits to think about. If it costs more to transport the fuel down a 10mile country track then the station has to increase costs to cover this.
You're letter of complaint should be a letter of society for accepting these price difference and not to the company. If you feel like writing to the CEO then write to every other business owner and chamber of commerce in the UK please. That's the only thing that will help with price variations.
In the meantime if you're willing to travel to save a thrupence then I suggest signing up to this website: http://www.petrolprices.com/
Five petrol station's "locally" within 2.36miles- most I wouldn't even consider unless seriously cheaper, with three price variations. Shocking.
And here's a serious question? Are you sure both are 100% Tesco and one isn't a Tesco/Esso hybrid as this affects the pricing.
As people have said it's not price fixing. Drive out of any major route out of a city and you'd notice that they have put up the pricing. Why? Because people will still pay for it. If they really need the fuel then they have no choice. It's like motorway petrol stations. I can think of several petrol stations across Edinburgh that does this, even a couple of the "city centre" charge a premium centre rate. Just like how a RSMcCall (or even a locally own corner shop) charges more for a Mars Bar city centre or at the train station than they do else where.
Every area has their own micro-economy that adjusts local prices. On a much larger scale it's like the Euro, each country's Economy is different. Go to Spain and write to the PM why a pint is a different price than it is over the border in Portugal. You wouldn't, yet it's being paid in the same currency.
There's also the cost involved of transporting the petrol, again which causes differences. Penucuik 9.8miles outside of Edinburgh is more expensive, Peebles at 23miles is even more "remote" and even more expensive.I would hate you to see the price of fuel in the Highlands. Of course these price increases are due to transport increases and they're the only stations around and on main car transport links, so they have the sellers market.
I think what you're forgetting is that each station is run as a seperate store, with it's own profit and loss. Yes sometimes national stores will prop up failing stores, but mostly they have their own profits to think about. If it costs more to transport the fuel down a 10mile country track then the station has to increase costs to cover this.
You're letter of complaint should be a letter of society for accepting these price difference and not to the company. If you feel like writing to the CEO then write to every other business owner and chamber of commerce in the UK please. That's the only thing that will help with price variations.
In the meantime if you're willing to travel to save a thrupence then I suggest signing up to this website: http://www.petrolprices.com/
Five petrol station's "locally" within 2.36miles- most I wouldn't even consider unless seriously cheaper, with three price variations. Shocking.
And here's a serious question? Are you sure both are 100% Tesco and one isn't a Tesco/Esso hybrid as this affects the pricing.