Fuel up/down again

The proposed fuel duty reduction for the remote islands in the UK is proposed to take 5p a litre off to try and make fuel the same price as it is on the uk mainland, but with fuel prices of 145.9/L taking 5p off is going to still make it more expensive than what most of the rest of the UK is paying.

As for people coming to stock up on cheap fuel, a ferry fare of at least 100 quid return isnt going to pay anyone to come to the islands to get the cheap fuel.
 
Brimmed mine today as normal. Paid 128.9/L. Saw another station at 129.9/L and the Supermarket at 127.9/L.

Was clearing out my glovebox and found a recipet from 05/11/2010 - 119.9/L :(. Should have filled a few jerrycans then!
 
Filled up for £1.44 today! £1.44!!! WTF OMG I hate it!!11111oneone

£1.35 really, cheapest I could find, normal diesel Fox! ;)
 
Ollie133cup said:
I live in rural Aberdeenshire , and the only way I can get to the shop and get to work via a 80 mile round trip is by car and I've had to pay 1.35 for a litre of fuel absolutely ridiculous. After all Aberdeen is the oil capital of Europe why should we pay the most in the UK?
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To pay for the UK ;)
 
Dolph said:
Or more realistically, because oil isn't petrol until it's been refined...
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Which is done down the coast where it is piped through Fife into Grangemouth.

"The Grangemouth refinery, on the Firth of Forth, processes about 210,000 barrels of crude oil per day, providing fuel to Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland."

Which still has higher prices than elsewhere in the UK.

The original poster was right, when you are an oil producing nation the situation is completely perverse.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/8-gallon-of-petrol-looms.6698807.jp
 
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Just watched Darren Johnson, Green Party member, on BBC Breakfast saying that we should keep rising the price of fuel year on year, regardless of the economic situation or the needs of people.

What is it with the "green future at any cost" rhetoric? It's really annoying. I honestly think that yes, we should strive toward a cleaner and more efficient future; but people like him don't seem to live in the real world - simply jacking up the fuel duty and pricing people off the roads will not work as most people do not have a viable alternative.
 
I personally don't think that people are to blame for this commuter trap.

The housing boom or bubble has forced people to move further away from their jobs, particularly the young. Places of high employment with decent salaries tend to be the most expensive to live. When house prices and rents rocketed it forced people further and further out.

I grew up in surrey, when I left home I was forced into a long commute. I couldn't afford to live near my work so I had to move further out. I moved further out but couldn't of got a mortgage on local salaries to my home. You end up trapped in an ever decreasing circle.
 
I changed from 1.4 Petrol 27mpg Corsa to a 1.7 Diesel 55mpg Corsa, so I am doing a bit better, but the more the duty and pence per litre goes up, the more I'm thinking of using WVO in my Corsa so I don't have to pay over 70% in fuel duty alone, merely out of principal!

I can't afford a place near to work due to my Salary; or a place of my own for that matter, so I have to pay for the privilege of going to work, be taxed on the fuel to go to work, and be taxed on my earnings from work before being taxed on most of the goods I purchase!

I think it costed around £34 for me to fill up last week, but I fill up on a weekly basis out of habit.

Still, it's one thing to whinge and moan and another to do something about it.
 
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[TW]Fox;18288038 said:
What?

How is this possible? A 27mpg 1.4 Corsa? If you were driving in circumstances that you returned just 27mpg from a 1.4 Corsa there is no way you'd then get 55mpg from the diesel variant!
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I don't understand it either - I think my old Petrol Corsa was in a bad way, perhaps it had a leak.

But I promise I'm not making this up at all, I tot up my Fuel receipts every week with the help of the Torque Cars MPG calculator and the highest I got from my Corsa 1.4 was 31mpg before it started getting bad, the lowest was between 25 and 27mpg.

55mpg is the average I now get from my 1.7 Diesel Corsa, but it has been as low as 47mpg and it mostly stays between 52 and 55mpg.

Bearing in mind, I pay the higher tax rate for my Diesel Corsa, because it's a 1998 model.
 
Petrolprices reckons the prices within 5 miles of OCuk are:

Highest / Lowest / Average

Diesel - 136.9p 127.9p 130.9p
UL - 134p 122.9p 125.9p
 
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