Fuel price discussion thread (was ‘chaos’)

[NVP]

Anyone see that thing where you can filter red diesel through cat litter to remove the colour...

 

[m4rmite]

Anyone see that thing where you can filter red diesel through cat litter to remove the colour...

The Irish been doing it for years.

 

[tom_e]

I just filter mine through my cat, he's gone a funny shade of pink but other than that seems happy enough

 

[mattyg]

Diesel isn't clear

Anyone see that thing where you can filter red diesel through cat litter to remove the colour...

 

[Dup]

Anyone see that thing where you can filter red diesel through cat litter to remove the colour...

My farmer mates used to use a loaf of bread

 

[Uther]

As a rough "finger in the air" guess as to the coming increases, last time oil prices was at mid-$90's per barrel (March 2022) the UK fuel costs were about 20p a litre higher than right now for petrol & 10p for diesel at 167p and 179p respectively and both were climbing, hitting £2 by June 2022.

I wonder how close we are to repeating that same peak?

Although as an extra ****take diesel prices have stayed around 20 a litre more than petrol here.

 

[m4rmite]

As a rough "finger in the air" guess as to the coming increases, last time oil prices was at mid-$90's per barrel (March 2022) the UK fuel costs were about 20p a litre higher than right now for petrol & 10p for diesel at 167p and 179p respectively and both were climbing, hitting £2 by June 2022.

I wonder how close we are to repeating that same peak?

March you say? and sept/oct and nov 22 spiked into mid 90's

Mar-22​	$112.4​
Apr-22​	$103.41​
May-22​	$110.1​
Jun-22​	$116.8​
Jul-22​	$105.08​
Aug-22​	$95.97​

 

[ianh]

@m4rmite -Good catch, I've looked at the wrong graph somewhere.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

My farmer mates used to use a loaf of bread

Black marketeers used to do that in the war someone replicated it for a TV programme and it worked...

 

[Bear]

My farmer mates used to use a loaf of bread

Crumbs!!

 

[MissChief]

Costco pricing unchanged so far, £1.469 for Premium, £1.419 for standard. Didn't see the diesel price I'm afraid.

 

[sandys]

Interesting, Costco Bristol is 1.379 1.449 1.479 I thought'd they'd be the same around the country.

 

[lemonkettaz]

1.47 for diesel North East Costco I believe...

 

[~cw]

1.37 Costco Manchester and adjacent ASDA and Eccles Morrison are both 1.38; other stations and brands are in the mid-1.40s already for E10.

 

[eeriestgiraffe]

1.359 at Tesco when I filled up earlier...

 

[~cw]

Incidentally you might enjoy this fun little aside on Auto Shenanigans channel from the other day: https://youtu.be/bCHlRtJzE9E

 

[MissChief]

1.37 Costco Manchester and adjacent ASDA and Eccles Morrison are both 1.38; other stations and brands are in the mid-1.40s already for E10.

Up a penny to 1.47.9 for Premium in Edinburgh on Friday night.

 

[Steven Rimmington]

Anyone see that thing where you can filter red diesel through cat litter to remove the colour...

My old man used to own a few taxi companies back in his youth. Most if not all drivers were buying red diesel, I remember seeing barrels of it in the yard. Madness, but I can see this happening again I imagine it's easy to get and still in use today due to prices.

 

[Freakbro]

When over in Rhodes last week it was noticable how much more expensive unleaded was than diesel, €2.04 compared to €1.72, since diesel has been more expensive over here for some time now.

I guess that's due to different levels of taxation/duty for Greece?

 

[ALD]

Anyone see that thing where you can filter red diesel through cat litter to remove the colour...

There is also a chemical marker added that the HMRC can detect if they take a sample.