Petrol going up again

Stonedofmoo

Stonedofmoo

Stonedofmoo

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I was reading yesterday that petrol should drop in price thanks to the high strength of the pound against the US dollar

But it seems to me petrol is going up about a penny a week at the moment. It's gone from 85.9 a litre to 90.0p a litre over the past weeks.

Is that a result of the Iraq, Iran and North Korea tensions?
 
Fuel companies taking advantage of us. Oil isn't really any more expensive now than it was 4 months ago, yet the petrol price keeps rising so long as they've got credible things to blame it on.
 
I think there was a similar post relating to this the other day. But yeh, you are right, its about 89p for Normal Unleaded and 99p for Ultimate atm
 
[TW]Fox said:
Fuel companies taking advantage of us. Oil isn't really any more expensive now than it was 4 months ago, yet the petrol price keeps rising so long as they've got credible things to blame it on.
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Yep, a bunch of boat people get captured in Iran, prices went up, they're back, flogged their story to the "meeeja" and the prices are still up.


/thanks the lord that weekly mileage has dropped from 730 to about 50
 
101.9 and 103.9 for petrol and diesel respectively here, just gone up. Saw tankers rolling out of the depot so we've probably had a new shipment - but why increase the prices for fuel that's already been bought and is in the petrol station's tanks? They are just taking advantage of us.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
Only 1.8p a litre which doesn't full explain the 5p rise.
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well yahoo forums ... ruf (road users forum ) might help

i say we make like the french and revolt.... im sick and tired of just taking the hit each time the government want to hike taxes, and the half arsed attempt at a fuel protest last time just strenghend the resolve of the whitehall muppets to keep putting the tax up
 
if you rember the first protest, the oil companies paped themselvs and droped the price of fuel to a minimum for six months, didnt stop them from making record proffits that year! the poor sods running the forecourt arnt making the money, but between gordy brown and the oil companies there raking it in


then heir blair got his jackboots on and changed the laws to stop another protest happening......
 
My hatred on French cars comes from direct experience.

The offending article was a Renault 11.

I can't even be arsed to type a list of the things that went wrong with that car but I will say that in the end it I seriously considered purposely driving it into a ditch to let the insurers take it off my hands. I actually went out one night looking for a safe accident spot (unfortunately I bottled it).

I know that sounds highly fraudulent and totally immoral but that car very nearly brought me to tears once with sheer frustration.

Never ever ever again will I buy a French car.

EVER!
 
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