Fuel up/down again

Gamefreak501 · 25 Mar 2011 at 13:57

^^ What TW Fox said...as soon as Oil was made a Commodity, before my time (I was a 1985 Baby) it is open to speculation and the 'People' in the Middle are the controlling parties..which means bad news for us (as well as the Duty of course).

utajoker · 25 Mar 2011 at 15:05

Unleaded Diesel LRP Super LPG
The Highest price in this area: 141.90p 145.90p 149.90p 153.90p 79.90p
The Average price in this area: 132.07p 138.93p 149.90p 140.15p 77.65p
The Lowest price in this area: 126.90p 134.90p 149.90p 132.90p 73.90p

i need to find htis 126.9 place.

Kutter · 25 Mar 2011 at 16:55

I got a full tank of tax free gas on warner robins airforce base. Sister in law had to drive the car onto the base, but once through the check point, I could drive round.

Duke · 25 Mar 2011 at 18:09

Paid 137.9 today for diesel which was the cheapest I could find around the last few days, most places were 139.9-142.9 region.

Savara · 25 Mar 2011 at 18:14

I've not seen better than that locally, (Twickenham) but I paid 133.9 in Bowburn, just outside Durham before heading down on Monday.

DJMK4 · 25 Mar 2011 at 18:32

Paid £1.37 for diesel.

1p off duty? pah, they can shove that, more protests to come I say, getting to the point now where I am having to make huge cuts in my live just to get to work, we are in a work but have no fun nation for some of us.

XeNoN89 · 25 Mar 2011 at 18:40

I bought a more thirsty car at the wrong time

Gone from a 1.4 to a 2.0 Turbo just as price shot up, argh

Duke · 25 Mar 2011 at 18:55

XeNoN89 said:
I bought a more thirsty car at the wrong time

Gone from a 1.4 to a 2.0 Turbo just as price shot up, argh

You bought a car back in 2005?

Lopéz · 25 Mar 2011 at 19:18

shifty_uk said:
Could anyone tell me how much fuel currently costs retailers to buy? Is it 8-10p?

Edit: Might be talking out my trumpet here, wholesale seems to be around the 40p mark?

Depends what you mean by retailers, but when I worked in a Texaco franchise we bought fuel at approx 1-2p a litre less than we sold it for.

[TW]Fox · 25 Mar 2011 at 19:45

Lopéz said:
Depends what you mean by retailers, but when I worked in a Texaco franchise we bought fuel at approx 1-2p a litre less than we sold it for.

Why don't Texaco buy fuel from Shell forecourts then?

Every Texaco in Plymouth is 5p a litre more than everyone else. They need a new wholesale deal! Might as well send the tanker to Sainsburys

#Chri5# · 25 Mar 2011 at 22:06

We've just spent a week in Northumberland and it's not cheap up there. The little rural garage in Bellingham was £1.49 for tractor juice. Mind you, came down the M6 tonight I have think Charnock Richard services was wanting around £1.44 (derv).

Princey · 25 Mar 2011 at 23:55

I paid £150.9 for SUL on the way back from the RR.

[TW]Fox · 26 Mar 2011 at 00:00

Princey said:
I paid £150.9 for SUL on the way back from the RR.

Wow, thats a new record. Thats almost £10,000 for a tank!

DJMK4 · 26 Mar 2011 at 00:03

You will find that services are cheaper as there is more volume of cars coming through, rural stations are obviously needing money, luckily I live 5 mins from magor services in south Wales @1.37 diesel

[TW]Fox · 26 Mar 2011 at 00:05

DJMK4 said:
You will find that services are cheaper as there is more volume of cars coming through

You have to be joking, right? With a few curious exceptions there is almost nowhere more expensive to fill up with fuel than a Motorway sevice station in the UK.

Most are well into the 140's for unleaded petrol now.

DJMK4 · 26 Mar 2011 at 00:11

Must just be the few services in our area then, either way I refuse to pay what one garage was charging @ 146 which is a small garage 2 mins from my house

[TW]Fox · 26 Mar 2011 at 00:14

I've always been quite principled with fuel - in 10 years of driving I've managed to never, ever fill up a Motorway filling station simply because I disagree with the prices they charge.

It doesnt seem that way in other countries - service areas in the USA and Australia are no more expensive than the inner city filling stations. Heck, they dont even rip you off on food and drink either.

It seems to be a very British thing to have Motorway Service Areas that charge massively more for everything than everyone else does.

Savara · 26 Mar 2011 at 01:04

Captive audience though, no? I'm surprised it's not capitalised on more in the US.

TaKeN · 30 May 2011 at 15:05

Motoring groups demand petrol price investigation.

Anyone think this will have an effect on the ever increasing fuel prices?

Pinkribbonscars · 30 May 2011 at 15:23

No it will make no difference, unless the EU is going to rule the extortionate fuel taxes we pay illegal. They should direct their anger at the UK political parties.