petrol prices
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It's not that big a difference! Beer can vary by as much as a £1 a litre from pub to pub.I can't beleive it 5p a litre cheaper in some places
Pence, 100p to the pound.
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Profit.
Pence per litre, ie its currently £1.09 per litre here, or $8.15 per US gallon in your language
Yeah but I don't drink 50/60 litres of beer every other week do I
I honestly don't think that is a relervant comparison.If I fill up that is a £2.75 difference!
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Yeah but I don't drink 50/60 litres of beer every other week do I
If I fill up that is a £2.75 difference!
The comparison is relevant. My point is that 5p/litre is small - Most things we buy have a much larger variability.
You may not drink 50 litres of beer every other week (100L a month) but the value isn't that crazy. A litre of petrol is £1.15, so that's £1380 a year. If a pint of beer is £2.50 and you drink 10 pints a week (~20 units, ~government limit), then that's a total cost of £1300 a year.
Beer and petrol expenditure in the same ballpark, yet the variation in beer prices far far greater than the variation in petrol prices. That's my point.
Of course it isn't a relevant comparison, petrol/oil is a commodity beer is not, last time I checked they don't drill beer from deep under the earth crust! The price of beer hasn't been pushed up by speculation on the commodities market!
The profit margin on beer is huge, the profit margin on pertrol isn't as large.
No brewers I know make as much money as the major oil companies.
Regional variation in fuel prices is just profiteering, there is no reason why petrol being offered by a chain across the UK shoudl be different from one area to another. If I buy electricity in Cambridge I wouldn't expect somebody else in Cardiff to pay more/less.
Sorry but your comparison is flawed
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How is it relevant? Do I NEED beer to goto work? Do I NEED beer to go shopping? Do all the good I buy from said shops NEED beer to deliver them?I'm sure heroin has a more varied price but were not going to compare them!
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110.9p (+2p) at Asda in West Bridgford. I was feeling smug being on 108.9 for so long...
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87p a litre of veg oil here
Not clear what your point is here, the petrol's profit is made in the upstream market and beer's in the downstream?
They do though, electricity prices vary between regions.
The comparison is about variability - not about where beer and oil comes from or whether we NEED it. My point is that, of all the things we buy day to day (beer was my example) the 5p/l variation we see on petrol was small. Less that 5% in fact. Most things we buy (certainly beer) do vary by more than 5% from one retailer to another.
The comparison is nothing to do with NEED, it's to do with price variability.
I'm sure heroin has a more varied price but were not going to compare them!
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It's your choice to buy beer at a certain price, if you don't buy it then it will have no adverse effects on your life (the opposite infact) but you can't decide to not have petrol.
Although if you are so determined to use beer as an example then compare the prices of a can of beer in supermarkets round the country, I bet they are within a few pence at the same chain. What your comparing is the establishment, take food for example, you can pay £6 for steak at a pub beefeater, yet goto a top restaurant and you will problably pay £40+ for basically the same meal but this has nothing to do with regional differences as the Beefeater chain will charge the same down south as they do in the midlands and up north.