Fuel up/down again

Simon said:
No one will notice the different as the effect is over time. Dirty injectors and inlet valves with low additives fuels (supermarket).

It's worth paying 1p a litre more for decent oil company branded fuel.
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If it was that simple I would.

Nearest Shell is 10 miles away and premium priced as a result of its location beside the A38. The smattering of BP garages we have are 7-10p a litre more unless you catch them on one of the bizarre 'Cut Price Fuel' days when they match the supermarkets.
 
I also find the "decent" stations to mostly have a larger price gap than I'd like, locally to me. There used to be a Shell that pretty much matched the Asda / Tesco down the road, but now they are a good 5-6p a litre more. 1 or 2p I could live with.

However, I don't actually like using Tesco or Asda fuels as I find I get less miles in my tanks when I use them. Consistently around 30 miles less per tank in fact. However, I find Morrisons and Shell to be similar in this regard. And so I just fill up at Morrisons, unless I happen to pass a Shell that's actually reasonably priced.
 
Simon said:
I honestly know that long term performance IS affected by trying to save 50p a tank of fuel
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Is there actually any proof of that though? Considering most cars are sold in a wide range of countries, many of which have far lower quality fuel than us, I'd be incredibly surprised if British supermarket fuel genuinely caused a performance loss with a normal type of car.

I know for instance that when I switched from French supermarket 95-E10 which I'd been using for a year, to British BP 95, my car had exactly the same top speed, which happened to be 1MPH over book speed.
 
opstrat said:
Does it not all come from the same refinery? I can't imagine there are separate tanks for esso shells etc then supermarket fuels stores separate.
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If you wait around long enough, a variation of this topic goes around and around. :p Most fuel comes from the same refinery for a given area.

Exceptions include VPower (contains methane GTL, made in one place and shipped around to all Shell garages) and BP Ultimate (ethanol free unleaded, methyl ester free diesel - which is good news if you have a DPF). Tesco is supplied by Greenergy (of which they own a significant stake) and Morrison's is supplied by Harvest Energy.

For the rest queuing up at the single refinery in your area, they all get the same base fuel but each driver swipes a card which doses the tanker with their brand's particular (secret) additive package. Whether the difference is appreciable is debatable. Thomas at Autogefühl recently visited Total's development lab and they had some interesting parts comparisons on offer for 'premium' v standard additive levels.

 
So Brent Crude down yet again to approx £25 a barrel.

Any idea what this should level out to at the pumps?

The only graph i could find that was reasonably useful was this:

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However obviously exchange rates/duty/VAT/abolishment of fuel escalator etc means its not a direct comparison.

Surely though we must be considering sub 90p a litre at this rate though?
 
The problem is that even if oil was free of charge, refineries worked for nothing, tanker drivers drove free trucks for love and retailers expected nothing, a litre of fuel would still cost 70p a litre.
 
[TW]Fox;28964853 said:
The problem is that even if oil was free of charge, refineries worked for nothing, tanker drivers drove free trucks for love and retailers expected nothing, a litre of fuel would still cost 70p a litre.
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It's amazing to think that of the current 99p a litre of petrol, the government takes such a huge slice of that price.
 
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