Fuel price discussion thread (was ‘chaos’)
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Super was £1.65 a litre yesterday at Donington
A50 services was like £1.80, local BP in Donington was £1.65
All above for Super, was happy to see track fuel station was not adding a premium.
The Lotus has a small tank, but now a fill up is like £80 compared to near £60 back in October.
We have just taken delivery of 25,000l of derv at £1.90.8 including VAT at work.
Anything below that price at the pumps is currently cheap and wont last. By Friday you will be lucky to see diesel at less than £2 per litre anywhere.
Anything below that price at the pumps is currently cheap and wont last. By Friday you will be lucky to see diesel at less than £2 per litre anywhere.
Diesel at £2+/L will make my fuel bill eye watering :s and some people I know literally will be in a very bad place in terms of being able to afford to get to work even.
Yeah I know a few people on just over min wage with 40 + mile round trip commutes to work who will be in a lot of trouble.
The cost of everything is going to go through the roof if this continues.
Everything is gonna get expensive, increased fuel pricing, increases transportation cost so it will start meaning everything goes up in price, gonna be some crazy times ahead.
Brexit, then Covid and now War, which could now lead to worse things to come. Last few years just been a total mess.
I'm just glad I sold my C63 a couple of weeks ago on motorway.co.uk. It's already dropped £1500, and £1000 this week alone. Fully electric for the moment now with an i3 and Polestar 2. I have a big south facing roof so time to revisit solar panels/battery storage again.
Yes I've definitely put my thoughts of getting a XKR 5.L sub 20mpg Jag on the back burner!
Perfect storm. Will be tightening the belt a bit more. I have no choice but to drive my 60 mile round trip, no bus service goes passed my place of work. Will have to absorb the extra cost of living by not saving as much. I have already made cutback, by changing gyms to one of those £20/month places.Everything is gonna get expensive, increased fuel pricing, increases transportation cost so it will start meaning everything goes up in price, gonna be some crazy times ahead.
Brexit, then Covid and now War, which could now lead to worse things to come. Last few years just been a total mess.
Just glad I am not still running my old V8. I certainly feel for those who will be struggling if fuel get to expensive.
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blimey, i thought it be like £2 per litre at Trackdays !
oh and i thought id be filling up at 169.9 today for super unleaded , but nope..
oh and i thought id be filling up at 169.9 today for super unleaded , but nope..
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I'll ask again, now the squeeze is biting, has anyone done the maths re running a red diesel fuelled generator to supply an out in the sticks property that has a pre recent energy price hikes average quarterly electricity bill of £1200. I can maintain a diesel gennie myself, just the fuel versus electricity per unit cost calculations for a few year old "silent running" three phase gennie? Or a link to someone reputable that has done proper calculations over a longish period?
If you didn't get an answer the first time to a pretty niche question, then maybe it's time to spread the net wider than this forum?
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don’t know how much a diesel generator is so not really interested in doing the maths for you.
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M6 J1 Rugby services apparently...
Motorway services are always at least 10p a litre more than anywhere else you don't shop there unless you've no other choice.
Prices are rising almost daily here Shell is 161 sainsburys 158 yesterday though wouldn't be surprised if its gone up today its almost a case of fill up to the top today because you'll be paying far more next week
From april you have to run the generator on white diesel not red so that must sink a hole in your maths?
Anyway unlikely to be viable even on red. Even small 8kw diesel generators use up to 3 litres per hour in fuel. So thats £2.40 on red or £4.77 on white diesel.
On red if you were using the full 8kWh then it would only be 30p per kWh. If you have to use white diesel then its 59p per kWh.
If you arent running at max usage the figures are even worse. Supply 2kWh of electric for an house on an 8kWh generator still uses a litre of fuel so either 80p or £1.59 so 40p per kWh or 80p per kWh.
Best to just stay on grid. Maybe viable as a "backup" if you have solar panels and a wind generator. Potentially cheaper then if you ignore the initial investment costs.
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Can’t be long until the queues are back. Hopefully the expensive petrol will chill people out a bit.
Probably is because unlike my small generator maths, generators get much more efficient as they get bigger. An 8kwH generator may use 3 litres per hour but a 24kWh only uses 7 litres and improves further as you get bigger until the sweet spot of around 120kWh and it starts and goes the other way.
I glad I got my EV wouldn't go back
now it time to invest in solar panels.@4,800blimey, i thought it be like £2 per litre at Trackdays ! oh and i thought id be filling up at 169.9 today for super unleaded , but nope..
I saw along queue about 33 cars at fuel station yesterday with just three pumps working as I drive pass in my EV,
so it cost you £39.05 for 22.26lt, but it only cost me £14.10 full home charge.
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