Fuel up/down again

muon said:
You also need to use RPI ignoring fuel price changes otherwise it tells you very little. You can't completely do that as even food and goods have a fuel element in them, but you can remove the pure fuel bit.
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This is whats amusing about using 'real terms' pricing to show something 'hasn't really increased' when the item being discussed is a fairly significant part of the metric used to calculate RPI in the first place!

'In real terms fuel hasnt increased, when we use a calculation driven by how much fuel has increased' :D

Rail tickets are another good one. 'Oh they are only going up by inflation, so really, if they didnt go up, in real terms they'd have gone down'!. Yes, but the tickets themselves are considered in the RPI calculation, so its a self fulfilling prophecy..
 
So oil has slid almost $10 over the last few weeks and is almost back to pre Christmas prices. Petrol continues to rise. Some of this will be currency related but not all.
 
Raymond Lin said:
What happened in Jan 09?
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It was the bottom of the oil crash that followed the record highs of almost $150 in mid 2008. It began falling from about September. The Labour government then used the period of time between this crash and 2010 to add almost 10p a litre of duty onto fuel whilst everyone was too busy being pleased about cheap fuel to notice.
 
Firestar_3x said:
BP sell fuel only, Supermarkets sell fuel and food.

Supermarkets sell things as loss leaders / limited profit to get punters in, something BP can't do.

The public have no idea what additives are in each fuel.
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But Shell don't seem to be so consistently more expensive than everyone else in the same way that BP are.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've ever filled my car at BP. Simply because they are always, IME, noticeably more expensive than everywhere else.
 
Simon said:
Proof is irrelevant. Perception, convenience and flavour of coffee is often a bigger factor in purchase decision.
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So really then you can't give us a good reason why its worth paying more for BP.

As I suspected. I'll stick to... well, everyone except BP.
 
It's not in the UK - I bought some in the Czech Republic. It was also available in Germany and Austria but the regular V-Power was only 95 RON so I ended up avoiding Shell in the end and buying 97-98 elsewhere.
 
Is this thread just going to become a 'spam the price of your local petrol station' thread again? :p

Don't forget to not mention the fact you have a voucher or don't live in the UK for added lolz.
 
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