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Fuel price discussion thread (was ‘chaos’)
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Underboss
Apparently oil prices have fallen today because of Irans attack at the weekend ..
They shot up Friday anyway and with no response priced in this is just a drop from Fridays pump.
How is that linked?
Soldato
Yeah not like Iran is in OPEC...
Soldato
I'm in the honeymoon period of changing from a big diesel to a small petrol so fuel is about 10p a litre cheaper for me just now. 
If oil comes from iran why would their attack lower oil prices?
Underboss
Oil prices dip after Iran attack on Israel - BBC News
Prices had already risen in expectation of action, with Brent crude near a six-month high last week.
www.bbc.co.uk
Soldato
Because there were questions over what retaliation Israel would take and when, and to hurt a country you might not only target their military installations but also wealth generating facilities! Ie oil supply infrastructure. Isn't that obvious?
I think the US stance has help calm things hence the reduction in prices.
Fundamentally I think the original statement was a bit misleading which has led to the confusion - prices did not fall because of the attack by Iran. They fell (only very slightly) after the attack because of the geopolitical aftermath of the attack and stance from US etc as mentioned, with the expectation of the attack having already been priced in.
Soldato
Everytime I driven past a certain PS, the fuel has gone up by 1p. Beginning of this month - 145.9p for unleaded and now 151.9p
Soldato
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Finally got one of them Esso cards for price off fuel... waste if time as the esso garages are like 4 p more so pointless.
Getting to mid 150s now for diesel.. annoying creeping up again
Getting to mid 150s now for diesel.. annoying creeping up again
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No difference in prices here the little independent used to be massively expensive as much a 10-15p more than the supermarkets now they're all the same I don't even bother to look at the price anymore they're all the same i.e. expensive.
The lowest petrol prices I saw is £1.27 a litter, for e10 Asda Milton Keynes. Anyone else seen prices this low for a while? What's driving the low prices and will this last?. Even if the trend doesn't last, still a bit of positive news, considering everything else going up.
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Man of Honour
£1.29 is the best I've seen again at Asda. I assume we'll see a nice bump back up once fuel duty comes back up in the budget unlike the near zero drop we seen when it was reduced.
Soldato
Petrol/Diesel prices have been falling slowly for while, diesel is around £1.34 where I live, the drop is likely a side effect from Ukraine destroying all those Russian refineries forcing Russia to pump more crude to make up for the lost revenues. As above I don't get use to it, I would expect the chancellor to increase duties to plug this black hole in the countries finances.
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