FUEL PRICES

[MVP]

Whats the highest you've seen this week!

Ive seen Diesel 1.26.9 A20 Texaco Garage!

Can anyone beat it?

 

[medwayjon]

127.9, texaco chatham, yesterday morning.

 

[brendy]

And I thought 1.22 was bad over here! That said though down south the fuel used to be dirt cheap now its within 10p a litre of our expensive fuels.
Petrol is 10p cheaper than diesel at the moment also, how long before petrol is the economic choice? (not that I believe mr brown would allow that for one second)

 

[Atticus_Finch]

1.60E in Belgium,Holland & France last week. At current rate works out at about £1.27
Don't believe that we pay the highest in Europe, because I can assure you, We Don't.

 

[Tommo21]

I use this site all the time.

http://www.petrolprices.com

 

[haplesshacker]

All the fuss over fuel going to £1 a litre, and it's rocketed since then. We as a nation are generally to soft. We're quite happy to mumble in our little groups, but useless when it comes to actually doing something about it. Anyone remember the 'Pipeline' Card that an anti fuel price lobby set up on the internet, nowt came of that.

Although a capitalist at heart, I do see a major problem with the system.

We all want to earn more, therefore prices have to go up, but we want to pay less for goods, it don't work. Costs of running a business are going up, rates, NI etc. Raw materials are going up rapidly, which means that margins are getting squeezed, which means there's less in the pot to pay people. The whole system is heading for a communist style collapse, or has it already started?

After seeing those dreadful pictures of the earthquake on the TV last night, I'm beginning to wonder what it's all for anyway. The footage of the colapsed schools and corpses was heartbreaking.

Nice to be idealistic but we still have bills to pay etc. Personnally I can't see a way out of this economic mess.

Sorry if went off thread a bit!

Carry on.

 

[blindpete]

I have just got my pushbike back on the road for the 15 mile round trip to work, which I will probably do twice a week, just to save a bit of petrol money which I can use for Golf...

 

[vig]

I would love to use my bike but 40 miles is a little far to cycle.
It's taken me 20 years of big brother trying to persuade me to buy a diesel, when i do the price rockets. £1.23.9 is the cheapest in my area.

 

[MVP]

same garage i mentioned earlier...since wednesday ..has gone up to A WHOPPING 1.29.9!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[vig]

Apparently fuel theft crime as gone up a ridiculous amount in last three months.

It costs me £90 to fill up from reserve now

 

[backwoodsman]

£1.29.9 equal about £5.90 a gallon. Jeez. Who else remembers the hoo-ha when it went up to 50p a gallon?

Not kidding, get your self a big maxi-scooter. My 500cc still only takes eleven quids worth which lasts all week. And I can get PW to 5 iron under the seat to go to the range.

 

[madandra]

When I passed my test in 1988 it cost £1.35 for a gallon of four star and two star was £1.25.

 

[barb]

It's 1.25 here at the moment. My predictament is I have to use my car for work (I work in the community visiting clients) and it now costs me an extra £50 a month in fuel but our fuel allowance hasn't changed in over 10 years , I now don't get enough to cover my fuel costs. We are fighting for an increase but doubt it'll happen.

 

[billyg]

Apparently fuel theft crime as gone up a ridiculous amount in last three months.

It costs me £90 to fill up from reserve now

It could be worse - Landcruiser V6 petrol - 90 L/ 20 G tank @ about £1.14 a L = over a £100 to fill. Average consumption: town= 17 to the gallon longhaul= 20.5 to the gallon with a light foot.

Needless to say I keep her under 2000rpm where possible and pootle at 60-65 mph on the motorway nowadays

Having said that I love the beast to bits even though she's an expensive mistress.

10 years from now i'll be showing people photographs of this car saying something like, ' do you remember when the government let us drive these things? that was way back in the days when petrol was only a tenner a gallon and we could drive as much as we wanted and before they brought the headlight, steering wheel and car stereo tax in'

It's closer than we think





Enjoy 'em while you can - were at the end of the age of privately owned internal combustion engines( be that for good or ill )and something not many generations to come will have the luxury of.

 

[USER1999]

Unless you live in China, or Africa, when you are still paying about 20p a litre.

 

[madandra]

My wife was in ther UAE a couple of years ago and was shocked to fing petrol was cheaper than water. Some countries have governments that serve their people, ours is out to fleece as much as they can get from us. I think anyone who wants to be a councilor or politician should be BANNED from doing so.

 

[teetime72]

We had better get used to paying these prices, and more.

Oil is currently trading about $125 a barrel, I`ve read somewhere it`s trading on the Futures Market for December At around $200 a barrel.Of course these people could be heading for a fall but I wouldn`t hold my breath.

 

[Marko77]

I see this email is doing the rounds encouraging a course of action...

See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it

We are hitting £123.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £2.00 a ltr. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy petrol on a certain day campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT,whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.

Please read it and join in!

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the market place not sellers. With the price of petrol going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket by not purchasing their Petrol! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. Here's the idea:
For the rest of this year DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP.

If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact we need to reach literally millions of Esso and BP petrol buyers. It's really simple to do!!
Now, don't wimp out at this point... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and
pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it...

THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all.(and not buy at ESSO/BP) How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8days!!! Acting together we can make a difference . If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE RANGE
It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso

 

[teetime72]

The 69p a litre range is easily obtainable if the real perpatrators of high pump prices,the government,would stop trying to tax us out of exsistence.We now all know what to do come the next election.

 

[RGuk]

I had to fill up today and thought I would check out a few prices before doing so.

Cheapest = 120.9 (I bought)
Most Expensive = 129.9

Now, this is well dodgy.....BP charging 9p a litre more than the others......are they deliberatley trying to p*** off customers.....

£5.40 more to fill up ... unacceptable ... me thinks some retailers are using the free-for-all to mint it for a few days...

Bye, bye BP.....end of.....NEVER again....