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But I understood what you meant when you said they instead of their.
Fuel price discussion thread (was ‘chaos’)
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Soldato
Ah didn't even notice phone auto correct for you. I'll go and edit it just to keep you happy.
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In the interest of being pedantic it’s only fair.
Soldato
Notice I didn't criticise your incorrect use of their and there.
You going to continue the back and forth? Or add some facts which is all I was doing.
Caporegime
The government are allowing rampant profiteering. They can stop it.
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We point it at the government and they can point where they need too. We should all be supporting any action that puts pressure on those able to make the necessary changes. Those that won’t will happily benefit from any potential reduction that may result.
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Never mind we’ll both get over it I’m sure.Notice I didn't criticise your incorrect use of their and there.
You going to continue the back and forth? Or add some facts which is all I was doing.
Soldato
Someone pass me a damp flannel - its getting hot in here with all the flirting.
Soldato
Actually, they can't - as proven by the fact the previous reduction in duty wasn't 'passed on'.
I'm confident private companies can choose to make whatever margin they see fit, unless that margin is from anti-competitive measures such as price fixing through being in cahoots with each other.
Caporegime
They can, they just won't. They can enact laws, bring in regulation. They can even seize assets.
They won't though because too many ministers and their chums will be profiting from this.
Soldato
The visibility of the reduction was almost nil due to the increasing oil prices and the stronger $. So both of them wiped the 5/6p saving out in less than 3 days. Most people wouldn't/didn't notice as what are the chances of them using the places within 3 days? So when they turned up to higher prices they said it wasn't passed on .
Soldato
Great, so the government will wave some magic wand and everything will be fixed. The government can't do anything but reduce duty and VAT on fuel and even that doesn't guarantee lower prices because the retailers can simply put that onto their bottom line.
The government is simply playing lip service on this issue because they can't do anything else. Ohhhh Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng wrote a letter to the industry saying certain things are unacceptable (note, he didn't say illegal) such as the same retailer charging different prices in different regions. Funnily enough drivers have been screwed at the pump on motorway service stations since they were a thing.
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They can’t even force these muppets into paying there fair share in taxes. Look they work for us fullstop. We tell them enough is enough sort it out or we’re shut the country down. Let them figure out how to go about it.
Caporegime
I pass multiple stations on the way to and from work. There was no decrease. None.
Soldato
My local Morrisons and Esso both reduced it the following morning.
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None here either
Passed quite a few fuel stations today - not a single one over 190 for unleaded or 199.99 for diesel surprisingly - a small number had decreased about 1-2p recently but most still at what they've been. Surprisingly one at what is quite a prime location on the A303 is at 193.9 for diesel which is amongst the cheapest around.
Crude oil is below $100 a barrel. Its fallen more than 15% since the end of June. And yet I dont see pump prices plummeting..........
Of course, for the last few months Sterling has been in decline so fuel prices have quite often gone up not because crude oil has, but because the pound is buying less and less of it,
Fuel processing plants must be making a killing atm.
Woah hold you horses there son, you are starting to sound like a commie like Comrade Corbyn!!!!!!!!
Most of the fall is today though so things should move down in the next few days. But yeah, refining cost is through the roof for some reason.