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Post by PG on Feb 10, 2023 19:34:59 GMT
I've read in a few places that reducing car park spaces will be the next torture inflicted on motorists. ..... Unless we become a Police state where travel is not allowed or "Beam me up Scotty" technology makes an appearance, trying to stop people's movements by personal transport will never work. The wide availability of motor cars to the general population has, in my view, been the biggest driver of social mobility, social change and self-improvement over the last 50 years. An ability that politicians of all persuasions now want to remove and the eco-lobby (which they all seem in thrall to) would dearly like to un-invent. We need to rise up.
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Post by ChrisM on Feb 10, 2023 21:09:12 GMT
The price of petrol round my way seems to be creeping up again.... 1p to 2p more expensive at most filling stations this week
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Post by alf on Feb 14, 2023 10:04:42 GMT
What has suprised me the most is the way diesel is hanging on around 170p anywhere I see, did more diesel come from Russia originally?
I always did so on the Porsche, but have started running the Jag on Super now - after 7 years running the Jag 5.0 as my main engine on 95ROM - it does run more sweetly on it. It's weird when Super is so much cheaper than diesel....
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 14, 2023 12:16:39 GMT
Yes, due to lack of refinery capacity, we did import more diesel from Russia.
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Post by Tim on Feb 17, 2023 10:05:20 GMT
Travelled to Aberdeen yesterday and needed to get fuel. Decided to stop at Stracathro on the A90. £199.9 for diesel Got £15.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 17, 2023 10:41:06 GMT
Travelled to Aberdeen yesterday and needed to get fuel. Decided to stop at Stracathro on the A90. £199.9 for diesel Got £15. They must still be in June last year.
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Post by Tim on Feb 17, 2023 11:19:13 GMT
For pricing yes but the services are more like something out of the 90s.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 17, 2023 11:43:44 GMT
I used to regularly stop there as their sandwiches were pretty decent.
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Post by Tim on Feb 17, 2023 12:45:51 GMT
Prepare for disappointment if you ever visit again.
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Post by Alex on Feb 17, 2023 17:28:29 GMT
Saw petrol at £1.40 in Crawley this morning. Cheep as chips that! (Not that chips are cheap anymore - ourly local fish and chip shop charges £3 a portion now)
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Post by ChrisM on Feb 17, 2023 22:15:31 GMT
Filled up at Sainsbury's on my way home this evening, petrol 149.9, super unleaded only 156.9
If they can manage to only charge 7p per litre more for E5, why to the major brands charge about 20p/litre more ??
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Post by rodge on Mar 17, 2023 20:58:25 GMT
Going through paperwork in the house and getting rid of it. I found a bank statement from back when I owned the 325 (around 2009). One of my statements had the price of a fill up and it was about €63.00. Considering I’m paying about €100 to fill up the Mondeo now and the BMW had a smaller tank by about 2 litres, it was about €1.00 a litre back then- maybe 75% of an increase.
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Post by johnc on May 8, 2023 8:34:50 GMT
Just noticed at the Esso station next to the office that diesel has fallen in price considerably to 149.9p/litre with basic petrol at 146.9p/litre.
Are falling (plummeting) diesel car sales having an impact on the supply/demand curve?
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Post by Martin on May 8, 2023 9:41:49 GMT
It’s 157.9 here, so has come down 5p since I last filled up just before we went away.
It’s 143.9 for std unleaded and 150.9 for the good stuff.
Aren’t prices just slowly coming down towards where they should be?
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Post by johnc on May 9, 2023 9:07:28 GMT
It’s 157.9 here, so has come down 5p since I last filled up just before we went away. It’s 143.9 for std unleaded and 150.9 for the good stuff. Aren’t prices just slowly coming down towards where they should be? 161.9p for the good stuff up here unless I go to Costco!
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Post by bryan on May 9, 2023 9:35:59 GMT
It’s 157.9 here, so has come down 5p since I last filled up just before we went away. It’s 143.9 for std unleaded and 150.9 for the good stuff. Aren’t prices just slowly coming down towards where they should be? 161.9p for the good stuff up here unless I go to Costco! Costco has come down to £1.35 for standard but premium is still £1.46, making it fore than diesel at £1.40
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 27, 2023 13:50:54 GMT
Diesel cheaper than petrol for the first time here. £1.39 a litre v £1.40 at Morrisons.
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Post by alf on Jun 5, 2023 8:31:46 GMT
We went to a Center Parcs in the Netherlands last week then on into Germany briefly. In 5 years of regularly taking the XFR to Europe, this was the first time I recall the prices being much higher there. Normal petrol is €2 in the Netherlands, even in Belgium (always a bit less than Germany and France) petrol was €1.77 ish for normal and 20cents more for Super. With Super being around £1.50 here currently, that was a surprise (not a good one given travel exhange rates either).
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Post by Tim on Jul 3, 2023 11:18:01 GMT
Looks like the price, of diesel at least, is creeping up again. The Shell station on the Fife side of the Tay Bridge was at 143.3 on Saturday but 149.9 this morning
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Post by clunes on Jul 3, 2023 11:39:29 GMT
Looks like the price, of diesel at least, is creeping up again. The Shell station on the Fife side of the Tay Bridge was at 143.3 on Saturday but 149.9 this morning I read this article on the beeb this morning related to pricing www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66085232The focus is on supermarkets but basically highlights that the target margins now are way above what they were - irrespective of price "According to the watchdog, average annual supermarket margins on fuel had increased by 6p per litre between 2019 and 2022. It also found that Asda's targeted fuel margins for 2023 were more than three times what they had been for 2019, while Morrisons' target doubled in the same period."
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 3, 2023 13:59:53 GMT
Looks like the price, of diesel at least, is creeping up again. The Shell station on the Fife side of the Tay Bridge was at 143.3 on Saturday but 149.9 this morning Hardly creeping at 6p a litre!! Looks like the price, of diesel at least, is creeping up again. The Shell station on the Fife side of the Tay Bridge was at 143.3 on Saturday but 149.9 this morning I read this article on the beeb this morning related to pricing www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66085232The focus is on supermarkets but basically highlights that the target margins now are way above what they were - irrespective of price "According to the watchdog, average annual supermarket margins on fuel had increased by 6p per litre between 2019 and 2022. It also found that Asda's targeted fuel margins for 2023 were more than three times what they had been for 2019, while Morrisons' target doubled in the same period." So, in summary, not-so-super market greed wins out again. Quelle surprise!
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Post by johnc on Jul 3, 2023 14:55:58 GMT
Diesel is still 141.9p and the petrol station next to the office and petrol is 143.9p. Super is 157.9p!
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 3, 2023 20:04:21 GMT
The supermarkets have been taking the piss for a while now. I've mentioned before that the Tesco in Blairgowrie has almost always been a penny or two dearer than the one in Cumbernauld, but that differential has only recently been restored after Blair being cheaper by anything up to 5ppl! (This is for diesel prices)
We were up North last week, as far as Inverness, and over to Nairn, Banff etc. Nowhere was it dearer than 143.9ppl, and that included Esso and Shell stations!
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Post by Alex on Jul 3, 2023 22:33:29 GMT
It used to be that you'd go to the supermarket because it was a few pence cheaper but now it's the same as all the branded filling stations. In fact our Tesco in Horsham is 2p more expensive than both the Shell and BP garages in Billingshurst. 140p-145p seems to be what most are charging but around here the anomaly seems to be in Crawley where both Tesco and Sainsbury's are 135p (for petrol) which doesn't seem to be replicated anywhere else I've been on my travels. I'm sure it was only 75p when I started driving.
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Post by ChrisM on Jul 4, 2023 6:26:06 GMT
75p per litre or per gallon?
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Post by johnc on Jul 4, 2023 7:23:18 GMT
The local Shell station was 147.9 last night for both petrol and diesel. This morning it is 149.9 for both. Having passed the Shell station this morning, I decided to stop at the Esso station beside the office and only half a mile from Shell, to fill up. However despite their 143.9 price for petrol, their super is now 169.9, so I drove on and will have a look at Shell on my way home!!
Someone is taking the p*ss!
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Post by Tim on Jul 4, 2023 7:34:52 GMT
Courtesy of Mrs Tim I had to just about free wheel to the local station last night but only paid 144.9 despite it being a BP.
I was surprised when we were in Ullapool last year that the fuel price was the same there as at home (and was, in fact, cheaper than Perth) as in years gone by it's usually been at least 10p/litre more expensive, presumably due to lack of competition and no doubt transportation costs
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 4, 2023 9:36:53 GMT
After a bit of an uplift here it's settled around the £1.43 a litre for petrol and diesel, although our local shell is £1.39 for both. Might stock up and fill a couple of wheelie bins in the garage while it's this low.
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Post by Martin on Jul 4, 2023 10:55:15 GMT
I’m up in Chorley today to visit a new site (another one to add to the list of free electric), petrol is £1.36, diesel £1.40 and super £1.43.
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Post by Alex on Jul 5, 2023 4:15:55 GMT
75p per litre or per gallon? How old do you think I am Chris?
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