Fuel price discussion thread (was ‘chaos’)

Rroff said:
Most places now 1.82-1.85 for diesel around here - won't be long until some people I know will be priced out of being able to get to work and/or having to make some pretty serious sacrifices to do so.
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179.9 seems to be the common price here. No let up despite the duty drop and oil prices dropping. If only we had a competent government with balls.

Not noticing a let up in traffic levels yet though.
 
Couple of garages around here have shut half their pumps (8 of 16 in one place) and the open pumps only have petrol.

I filled up as to be sure there would still be petrol.

Before I get called "part of the problem" - my standard method is to wait till nearly empty and fill the tank (CBA going to garages weekly). I only had ⅛ of a tank so just brought it forward a couple of days. A full tank will last me my usual 4 weeks.

Price has increased by 11p/litre since I filled up 4 weeks ago (1.69/litre for E10)
 
This was E10 95 as well. FML

Summer holidays are going to be grim. German motorways were selling E10 north of €2.50, with E5 SUL nearing €3. Absolute madness.


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Rroff said:
Traffic has been if anything worse than ever with the better weather the last few days.
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I can’t say I’ve noticed any reduction in traffic, nor have I noticed any reduction in speed n motorways or dual carriageways. If I sit at 70 on the cruise control I’m still passed by cars and vans. The vans likely have fuel cards paid for by the business, and some cars maybe too, but not all of them. In many cases people have no real alternative to buying fuel and the fuel companies know it. I doubt they’ve even seen any reduction in sales since the price started to skyrocket and it’s basically given them free rein to put the price up whenever they like knowing people will have to pay it to go to work.
 
Every driver I know makes unnecessary journeys by car, so petrol is still fairly 'good value' compared to other means of transport. Perhaps when it starts costing over £100 for people with small/'normal' size tanks to fill up with basic fuel there will be a bit of a symbolic threshold that will make people take notice, can't use contactless etc. To get a real change in behaviour we need a proper price hike to £5+/litre.
 
HangTime said:
Every driver I know makes unnecessary journeys by car, so petrol is still fairly 'good value' compared to other means of transport. Perhaps when it starts costing over £100 for people with small/'normal' size tanks to fill up with basic fuel there will be a bit of a symbolic threshold that will make people take notice, can't use contactless etc. To get a real change in behaviour we need a proper price hike to £5+/litre.
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Shush you!

Honestly, charging prices aren't exactly cheap now, so as as been said above, I'm sure charging rates will skyrocket in due course.
 
They already have, commercial electricity isn’t subject to the price cap. In 6 months non-subsidised (E.g. you are paying the full cost of it) charge points have gone from 30-35p to 50-60p, some are even more.

Of course in reality most people you’ll charge at home on much cheaper rates, as low as 7.5p overnight.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
They already have, commercial electricity isn’t subject to the price cap. In 6 months non-subsidised (E.g. you are paying the full cost of it) charge points have gone from 30-35p to 50-60p, some are even more.

Of course in reality most people you’ll charge at home on much cheaper rates, as low as 7.5p overnight.
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How long until home rates quadruple?
I know I'm in a completely different country, but my current fixed-rate tariff is up in the summer and you can only get variable rates now, so I'll be paying double what I am now!
This means 25c on the day rate compared to 12, and my overnight rate is roughly the same as what you mentioned.
 
I am in a very good situation where I have changed career and job where my commute is a mere 42 miles a week so I am only filling up once a month. Even still £124 for 70 litres of premium is painful!
 
Diesel is creeping up again looks like, 181.9 at the minute.

A few pennies more and it will be cheaper to get the train for a return journey, or I just have to not come home as regular. Currently spending nearly 350 a month on fuel, up from 240ish only 6month ago I think.

Or I can just get another job, or get electric apparently? :)
 
Highest I've seen so far was 174.9 for diseasel a few days back

Paid 167 or so for premium pizzle

Does this mean Im gonna have to stop driving like I stole it everywhere haha :p

in saying that my mpg has gone from 20 - 25 :Eek:

This new more expensive fuel is much more economical ;)
 
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