Fuel up/down again

dave_beast said:
Filled up with Momentum 99 at Tesco - 139.99 :D
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Interesting you seem pleased at spending 1.3999/litre!

I don't pay for fuel (fuel card) but even so the fuel costs are making me twitch. Given I get paid on my productivity and P&L then indirectly I do pay for costs, albeit not directly.


Slow price creep is odd in that people just seem to accept it? Just to flip this, I accept it cos I appear to have no choice. Fuel has *always* been expensive hasn't it? Nobody has ever thought, wow, petrol is cheap at the minute? Same with buying a house?
 
Sainsbury’s said that prices of unleaded petrol and diesel will fall by 3 pence a litre at its 266 petrol stations across the country today.
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That would be good news if it didn't appear to be marketing guff.

Yesterday Sainsburys was 133.9p here. Today its fallen to 131.9p.

That doesn't seem like 3p to me. Does it to anyone else? :D
 
It'll go back up soon as it seems the oil price is up today on the 'expectation that perhaps we might maybe probably perhaps possibly' have more demand for oil soon. Gotta love how the price we pay is dictated not by the fundamentals of supply and demand but by a traders guess of what supply and demand might be in the future and whether he can make a profit by buying and selling the contract before the oil gets delivered :D
 
[TW]Fox;21971127 said:
It'll go back up soon as it seems the oil price is up today on the 'expectation that perhaps we might maybe probably perhaps possibly' have more demand for oil soon. Gotta love how the price we pay is dictated not by the fundamentals of supply and demand but by a traders guess of what supply and demand might be in the future and whether he can make a profit by buying and selling the contract before the oil gets delivered :D
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It isn't a regulated commodity, like water for example, so why expect any different?
 
shoes said:
130.9 here
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Where is here, seems you got it cheapest first

[TW]Fox;21971127 said:
not by the fundamentals of supply and demand but by a traders guess
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If they are trading they arent using it or producing it which means they have to follow what the big players are doing anyway. OPEC are aiming to set the oil price to 100 minimum because the dollar fell 40% in the last ten years

Iraq isnt producing as much as it could, Kurdistan stopped exports and they're cutting Iran off plus global demand and gdp grows like 3% a year at least



Don't fill it up.
Efficiency Improvement: Up to 1%

Fuel is heavy, so by filling the car up you're adding quite a weight. The less fuel your car has in it, the more efficiently it drives. Thus filling up slightly more often and putting less in (to 1/2 or 3/4 full) will make the car run more efficiently.
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http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheaper-fuel



http://www.staveleyhead.co.uk/utilities/petrol-prices/
 
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Figured I'd post in this thread, but I have been driving to Leicester a lot to see my 'girlfriend' and noted the fuel there is <129p a litre whereas in my hometown of MK it is more like >135p!!

I will be filling up there more often from now! Why such large difference?
 
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