Fuel up/down again
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They don't sell Super.
Does anyone who doesn't have a company fuel card buy from motorway services?
I was looking at diesel prices coming back from London on Monday. IIRC...
Warwick Services (M40) was £1.49/litre
Keele Services (M6) was £1.53/litre
Frankley Services (M5) was £1.54/litre
I filled up at the Shell at M6 J16 which was £1.44/litre and usually a couple of PPL more than a supermarket. I got just over 55 litres in a 58 litre tank so didn't have a lot of choice.
I was looking at diesel prices coming back from London on Monday. IIRC...
Warwick Services (M40) was £1.49/litre
Keele Services (M6) was £1.53/litre
Frankley Services (M5) was £1.54/litre
I filled up at the Shell at M6 J16 which was £1.44/litre and usually a couple of PPL more than a supermarket. I got just over 55 litres in a 58 litre tank so didn't have a lot of choice.
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No fuel card so only when desperate, and usually enough to get me home only.
Recent price rises are a lot to do with the pound's weakness than the price of oil. Blame QE and our balance of payments.
It never ceases to amaze me how much attention fuel prices receive. Firstly fuel prices are incredibly uniform across the county. Literally only varying by a few percent from the most expensive forecourt to the cheapest. I can't think of a more stably priced good. Beer, pizzas, clothes, rent etc. all vary far more than fuel.
Secondly, we have a huge amount of control. In the face of prices literally only changing by a few percent we can choose to drive at 55mph or 75mph saving dramatically more than price change. Most of us can reduce our milage a bit by cutting out a trip every now and then, working from home occasionally, car sharing once in a while etc. In the longer term we can choose to drive a car that does 30, 50 or even knocking on 70mpg, again a difference dramatically greater than the price change.
In short; I see small price changes in the grand scheme of things, I see a lot of control over our fuel use and yet a major overreaction by a lot of people.
A "shocking" 7 percent higher in at one pump than another? Name me a widely sold product that doesn't have higher disparity? Look around the 'net at books, computer parts etc...The disparity in prices is really quite shocking, I filled up in Birmingham for £1.337 and coming back into Cambridge I noticed it was £1.429
It never ceases to amaze me how much attention fuel prices receive. Firstly fuel prices are incredibly uniform across the county. Literally only varying by a few percent from the most expensive forecourt to the cheapest. I can't think of a more stably priced good. Beer, pizzas, clothes, rent etc. all vary far more than fuel.
Secondly, we have a huge amount of control. In the face of prices literally only changing by a few percent we can choose to drive at 55mph or 75mph saving dramatically more than price change. Most of us can reduce our milage a bit by cutting out a trip every now and then, working from home occasionally, car sharing once in a while etc. In the longer term we can choose to drive a car that does 30, 50 or even knocking on 70mpg, again a difference dramatically greater than the price change.
In short; I see small price changes in the grand scheme of things, I see a lot of control over our fuel use and yet a major overreaction by a lot of people.
According to this the average petrol price was 137p a liter last week.
And according to this it was also 137p in May 2011. 138p in May 2012. This at a time when inflation is running around 2-3%! It looks to me as if fuel's got cheaper in real terms over the last couple of years.
Seriously folks, there's nothing to see here.
And according to this it was also 137p in May 2011. 138p in May 2012. This at a time when inflation is running around 2-3%! It looks to me as if fuel's got cheaper in real terms over the last couple of years.
Seriously folks, there's nothing to see here.
They are a rather different commodity though, it's not like I can type 95RON petrol into Google, find the best price and have 60L delivered to my house the next day. Also to keep the comparison going I can go into PC World in Birmingham and find a Computer for the same price as I would in Cambridge whereas Shell will offer me exactly the same product for massively differing prices.
No, not massively differing prices, 10% at most and usually less then 5% between forecourts. Highstreet shops are all over the place, it's quite usual for prices to vary 25% for identical products in shops on the same street, let alone different cities. A quick browse around websites shows massive price disparities for most products.
Compared to most other goods - fuel is very uniformly priced.
Now I haven't been into Edinburgh recently but I will be on Saturday. Typically the prices at Shell stations in Edinburgh are 3p a litre cheaper than the two Shell stations in my town. 'Uniformly the same' doesn;t seem to apply in Livingston. Apparently Asda were supposed to be opening a petrol station in this town. Personally I can't wait as they're supposed to have Uk wide uniform pricing.
How else are we to pay for your pension liabilities?
getting silly
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I cant see how this can continue to rise? Its becoming obscene how much it now costs.
As clv101 pointed out, it's not changed massively in the last few years. Yes the pound is sliding and that does help our debt and exports but we also see the brunt of the increased cost of imports like oil and gas, not that we're particularly expensive compared to the rest of Europe.