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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Just paid £1.36 per litre of diesel. How much is it in your area?"
No idea diesel is the fuel of farmers and Satan!
Petrol, however is £1.32 for regular and £1.48 for super... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've given up thinking about how much diesel costs, I know I have to pay it. Public transport is just as expensive so now I only drive when I have to and walk or cycle short distances |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I run my petrol car on LPG at 69.9p a litre and my diesel on Veg oil which averages out at about 72p a litre.......... im tight 
And your car smells like chips.  "
I like chippies |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When we had a diesel 4x4 we used to run it on 50% diesel and 50% veg oil from Netto.
We noticed the buggers soon caught on with the veg oil and started raising the price as the diesel went up.  
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I raised the following with my mp as i feel folk are being conned more than they know.
For example leys say a petrol station has on forecourt 50 gallons and charge 1.20 per litre then same day as happens price goes up. How can it be allowed to happen as theu already have stock on forecourt.
My mp said and i quote we do not interfere in the market to which i replied yes you do by the help to buy scheme on place.
He said its different. How the fuck is it different snd tsntamounts to nothing more than racketeering on back of folk struggling to survive. |
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" Lowest I've seen,
Diesel £1.35
Petrol £1.28
Same as in Brighton, maybe varies a penny here and there. Interestingly, fuel demand is very price sensitive whereas other consumables are not. "
That was a Texaco garage Steve near Tesco's, who were a penny more on both.
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
petrolprices.com is a great site for checking local prices..... I use it to see on my way to work where I can get the cheapest stuff...
here it is roughly 130p/petrol... 136p/diesel across the board |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Ben, was this supermarket or proper garage prices?...
It was a petrol station, but they seem to be matching the supermarkets that surround them"
That's pretty impressive as I refuse to use supermarket fuel no matter how cheap it is... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When i was still living on my island we expected to pay 15p a litre more than on the mainland.....so diesel still seems really cheap to me here in england |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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1.32 for petrol and 1.42 for diesel so its a whopping ten pence difference . and they say they aint profiteering yeh sure pull the other one its got bells on  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'll play devils advocate. The price of the actual fuel is actually pretty low, the tax is the killer, garages need to be able to make a profit in order to stay open and pay their staff.
It's not going to get much better until people stand together and call for changes (and let's not get political, throwing blame as its pretty much a worldwide problem now).
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The sooner it hits £3 a litre the sooner we will start to value the planet and what we have."
When it hits £3 the country will grind to a halt.
The planet is just fine, drive it like you stole it...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The sooner it hits £3 a litre the sooner we will start to value the planet and what we have.
When it hits £3 the country will grind to a halt.
The planet is just fine, drive it like you stole it... "
We will start having a better family life, better quality of life and less greed, cars will be a thing of the pasts
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The sooner it hits £3 a litre the sooner we will start to value the planet and what we have.
When it hits £3 the country will grind to a halt.
The planet is just fine, drive it like you stole it...
We will start having a better family life, better quality of life and less greed, cars will be a thing of the pasts
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We'd either be unemployed or held to ransom by the public transport companies. Plus the shelves in supermarkets would be empty. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
the supermarket have dropped their prices again....
asda have said no one will pay more than 126.7p per litre for petrol, and 133.7p per litre for diesel... and the other supermarkets have followed, sainsbury cut by 3p, tesco's and morrisons by 2p....
get while you can!!!! |
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My car always gets £20 put in it, as it rarely gets used.
Mrs JFL's car always gets filled to the brim, which if it's nearly on empty, costs the best part of £100 now...thank fuck we don't have to pay for it!
If it's not empty, I always like to put £69.69 in, so she gets embarrassed at the till |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The sooner it hits £3 a litre the sooner we will start to value the planet and what we have."
That's a bit delusional... and would totally cripple quality of life |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"The sooner it hits £3 a litre the sooner we will start to value the planet and what we have.
That's a bit delusional... and would totally cripple quality of life"
It's weird. People always seem to manage to afford fuel for their pride and joy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I raised the following with my mp as i feel folk are being conned more than they know.
For example leys say a petrol station has on forecourt 50 gallons and charge 1.20 per litre then same day as happens price goes up. How can it be allowed to happen as theu already have stock on forecourt.
My mp said and i quote we do not interfere in the market to which i replied yes you do by the help to buy scheme on place.
He said its different. How the fuck is it different snd tsntamounts to nothing more than racketeering on back of folk struggling to survive."
I used to be in the merchant navy, imagine a ship leaving the Middle East where it has just topped up with 330000 barrels of oil. If the price goes up they love it. Just a penny a litre will give them over £300000 pure profit on that one cargo.
When you get a very rare drop in price that takes an age to filter through if it ever does.
There are 159 litres in a barrel of oil approx 1/2 will be refined into petrol. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The sooner it hits £3 a litre the sooner we will start to value the planet and what we have.
That's a bit delusional... and would totally cripple quality of life
It's weird. People always seem to manage to afford fuel for their pride and joy."
I don't ... I've had to go for a sensible car... but if it went up above 2quid I'd struggle to travel around and I need my car to be fair |
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I wanted to get an older petrol Jag when I replaced my Mondeo but decided to switch to a diesel as the fuel costs and road tax were better... if I'm going to waft around in a bit of luxury I don't see why the Chancellor should have the benefit |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I wanted to get an older petrol Jag when I replaced my Mondeo but decided to switch to a diesel as the fuel costs and road tax were better... if I'm going to waft around in a bit of luxury I don't see why the Chancellor should have the benefit "
I have a Jaguar diesel. £135pa tax, £165pa insurance and 40 MPG. Great car! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I wanted to get an older petrol Jag when I replaced my Mondeo but decided to switch to a diesel as the fuel costs and road tax were better... if I'm going to waft around in a bit of luxury I don't see why the Chancellor should have the benefit
I have a Jaguar diesel. £135pa tax, £165pa insurance and 40 MPG. Great car! "
thats why i wanted a 51 plated rover 75, but instead have a 99 plated one.
still
£200ish a year tax
£300ish a year insurance
nearly 50mpg no matter how i drive it
and as much comfort as one could ask for. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"The sooner it hits £3 a litre the sooner we will start to value the planet and what we have.
That's a bit delusional... and would totally cripple quality of life
It's weird. People always seem to manage to afford fuel for their pride and joy.
I don't ... I've had to go for a sensible car... but if it went up above 2quid I'd struggle to travel around and I need my car to be fair "
I'm not convinced that's how most people think about petrol.
Fuel, like fags, doesn't seem to be price sensitive - at least not enough to make a difference.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The sooner it hits £3 a litre the sooner we will start to value the planet and what we have.
That's a bit delusional... and would totally cripple quality of life
It's weird. People always seem to manage to afford fuel for their pride and joy.
I don't ... I've had to go for a sensible car... but if it went up above 2quid I'd struggle to travel around and I need my car to be fair
I'm not convinced that's how most people think about petrol.
Fuel, like fags, doesn't seem to be price sensitive - at least not enough to make a difference.
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It does when I travel so much... I've cut down on visits to friends and family .. I do one big shopping trip rather than lots of smaller ones.... I need my car as public transport is not really an option |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
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I'm not convinced that's how most people think about petrol.
Fuel, like fags, doesn't seem to be price sensitive - at least not enough to make a difference.
It does when I travel so much... I've cut down on visits to friends and family .. I do one big shopping trip rather than lots of smaller ones.... I need my car as public transport is not really an option "
I'm sure a lot of folk feel the same. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The sooner it hits £3 a litre the sooner we will start to value the planet and what we have.
That's a bit delusional... and would totally cripple quality of life"
It would enhance life, more time spent at home, more time for the family, better food choices, more time to do what is important, rather than being a slave to earning money to pay for fuel, it would start to break the cycle of need and greed. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"The sooner it hits £3 a litre the sooner we will start to value the planet and what we have.
That's a bit delusional... and would totally cripple quality of life
It would enhance life, more time spent at home, more time for the family, better food choices, more time to do what is important, rather than being a slave to earning money to pay for fuel, it would start to break the cycle of need and greed."
You could do that without a huge hike in fuel prices.
A big bit of thought and a lot of families could probably make a big reduction in their petrol/ diesel usage.
Sometimes the 'I NEED to go there.....' turns out to be 'I CHOOSE to go there......'. |
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