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My local Tesco is currently charging 130.9 (Worksop, North Notts)
Is it that steep everywhere?
I have literally no idea. At a guess somewhere between 1.25/l and 1.35/l. I only really use the car for commuting, only pass one petrol station on the way home so just fill it up until it clunks full when it is nearly empty every couple of weeks, and pay whatever it costs by card. Usually around £65-75.
My parents who are retired will go out of their way for cheaper fuel , but life is too short to be chasing savings of a few pence per tank.
I think this is like one of the "how much does a pint of milk cost?" questions that MPs get asked to make them look out of touch with the electorate, everyone likes to laugh at the silly response but most people don't know the cost either .
Paid £1.43/litre for shell v-power diesel last Saturday (dumfries],
1.22 here (Galashiels)
Downside of a huge tank is £100+ to fill up, always makes me baulk slightly as I hand the card over. Upside of a huge tank is I haven't actually filled up since March, getting a bit low just now and it will get used a lot more over the summer
Costco was still below £1.20 for diesel last week- for members obviously. But the benefit for anyone else is that the Tesco across the roads has dropped its price to (almost) match...... so find a supermarket near a Costco.
Meanwhile the services on the M1 were wanting £1.50
Presumably this is a price we're paying for a small proportion of Americans electing a man-baby.
Just past the local garage.
£1.33.9 here for Diesel
126.9 here in Dunfermline tesco.
I’ve only filled up twice this year, due to breaking my leg in December, but i go back to work in two weeks, so that will be hard on the wallet eh.
Sainsburys in Leicester was 120.9 this evening
Morrisons in Boroughbridge, £129.9. Morrisons in Starbeck 9 miles away, £124.9.
It's hovering around £1.30 Peterborough way, with a bit of variation obviously depending if you fill up at Shell or Morrisons.
70p for a litre in Tesco. 80p in Sainsburys. Helps if your car runs on cooking oil 🙂
Shocking innit..
Whats the reason?
£1.22 here in Cheshire for Diesel.
The reason is Trump getting stroppy with Iran and the cost of a barrel of oil sky rocketing as a result.
£1.32 here. Every surrounding town has a Tesco and Asda etc so they all have it 10p a litre cheaper. Competition.
I've stopped filling by looking at the price now and instead buy in in litres. As in "put 10 litres in" as opposed to "put £10 in"
As Olly says, It's competition. Harrogate has a Sainsbury's, an Asda & a Morrisons. Theyre always between 4-6p a litre cheaper than the Esso's & BP in the area, whereas Morrisons near us with no competition are usually 4-6p more.
126.7 at Asda in Harworth.
It's probably the extra money the tanker driver wants for having to go to Worksop!
The reason is Trump getting stroppy with Iran and the cost of a barrel of oil sky rocketing as a result.
So, as typical, he's getting involved with something that doesn't affect him in the slightest yet affects Bn's of people all over the planet..
Arse.
Time to put the landy back on veg oil for the summer I think.
I can't really get stroppy over it. Rising barrel price means we might get some modicum of safety and sensibility back at work - as well as retaining my job.
Converts to 1.04 GBP for supermarket diesel in San Sebastián. Will be driving to UK in the summer so I'll have to fill up some jerry cans looking at those prices.
I paid 1.30Eur at the weekend which is quite high for Germany in recent times (petrol is 1.50Eur atm). Though the prices change hourly here which does my nut. It has happened to me that I have filled up the car only to find that the price has dropped after I have paid and I could have saved myself ten euros by being a minute slower to the pumps.
Was 130.9 in the Esso near us yesterday. 131.9 this morning.
Geopolitical instability, innit.
Oil Prices have spiked to $70 a barrel, which has given us £1.30 a litre.
But, I think there's a element of profiteering going on.
2008 when it reached $91 a barrel, the fuel cost then was the same, £1.30 a litre.
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">2013 when it spiked again to $91, again, it reached £1.30 a litre. </span>
Duty as risen a bit over the last 10 years, but only 5p per litre, on the face of it, we shouldn't be this high.
I get the impression that customers will accept £1.30-£1.40 a litre before we complain too much, so they're quick to jump the price up in the face of rising crude costs and make a bit of extra profit at the start of the arch.
I filled up this morning, at Asda in Chandlers Ford. 126.7 for diesel.
but life is too short to be chasing savings of a few pence per tank.
The difference between the Cheapest and Most expensive in my area would have been somewhere in the region of £1300 per year in my last job.
Life’s not too short for that.
That little? No doubt they'll complain but I doubt enough to actually use significantly less of itI get the impression that customers will accept £1.30-£1.40 a litre before we complain too much
70p for a litre in Tesco. 80p in Sainsburys. Helps if your car runs on cooking oil
So do you just go in store and fill your trolley up with 5l bottle of cooking oil?
Is the MPG equivalent to diesel?
So do you just go in store and fill your trolley up with 5l bottle of cooking oil?
Pretty much. Rarely make a special trip, just as part of a normal shop. Don't do very many miles anyway
Is the MPG equivalent to diesel?
As far as I can tell. I am not an mpg nerd but it seems to do about the same range on a tank.
That little? No doubt they’ll complain but I doubt enough to actually use significantly less of it
Perhaps, people do tend to start looking at their MPG readouts rather than driving less, not to mention that back in 2008 when we at £1.30 a litre, 35mpg for a petrol and 40mpg for a diesel was considered pretty frugal for a family car. It's more like 45 and 55 now.
Paid 1.32 yesterday. Isle of Man. Noticed it had gone up by 3p this morning though.
Reading an article and there is all possibility of it heading back to the previous record highs of 2012...
"Reading an article and there is all possibility of it heading back to the previous record highs of 2012…"
indeed but in the trade I've been hearing that on a bi monthly cycle for the last 3 years
now its shifted to *UKCS to hire 40000 offshore workers* which of course when you read it contains the words *may* and *possibly require* and *over next 10 years*
Markets high...
It's up despite increased production due to the fact trump is an idiot
~£1.30 here in W Yorks but I saw diesel for £1.48 at an A1M services on Monday
Around £1.26 in South Cheshire at the moment but I was in Dukinfield yesterday and the ASDA there was doing it for £1.21.
120.9 when I filled up the other day at Sainsbury's in Tamworth the other night - it seems to have shot up pretty quickly and the cap between diesel and petrol has widened again.
Time for a cut in both the Tax & VAT on it then.
It was £1.38 at a Texaco in Coleford, FOD, this morning. £1.22 at ASDA in Hereford. ASDA, Tesco, Sainsburys all within a mile of each other means a price war.
i find it odd that the UK generally has higher prices for diesel than petrol.
prices in Italy are crazy. always have been, but more so last week. whilst in Finale the cheapest i managed was 1.48€. for "service" (i guy fills the car for you) was 1.89€...!
Austria was 1.20€ last week.
no idea what a litre of diesel costs in Germany. not had to fill up for over a year! that's less to do with my excessive usage of two wheeled transport...
1.30 a litre in Blackburn for diesel at Shell. It is cheaper at Asda but shell is closer. Missus puts £90 in her Vauxhall Insignia, lasts all month for work and random trips to Ikea warrington and the lakes.
Costs more to run my motorbike, £30 a week just doing the 32 mile there and back to work.
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It was £1.38 at a Texaco in Coleford, FOD, this morning.
That garage is always 6p or so higher than others in FoD, eg Cinderford, Lydney. Only garage in town so seem to get away with it. 1.29.9 -1.30.9 elsewhere in FoD at the moment.
117.9 at Sainsbury's in Yeadon (Leeds)
Just gone up to 118.4 at Morrisons in Guiseley - just up the road from the Sainsbury's in Yeadon in StuE's post. Having the two in competition really keeps the price down!
Anyone considered that the price rise is a good thing?
At the margin people will choose to drive less resulting in less pollution and congestion , the better traffic flow further increases efficiency and reduces pollution.
It makes electrics and hybrids more attractive in cost comparisons. Even less pollution as people switch.
It encourages car sharing which again cuts pollution and may save people money.
It encourages public transport use. When fuel prices went high a few years back Madame's colleague joined her on the train, as soon as prices dropped she went back to the car.
It encourages walking and bicycle use
I paid 129.8p at Sainsbury's in Chester last night filling up the wife's Evoque, man that car has a small tank.
The day before it was 130.9p at the Shell near Northwich for my car
for once i agree with you edukator on a personal level
how ever by proxy it also drives up the cost of anything that is *shipped* to location.
but if it drives development of better methods for shipping then im all for it .
Combination of tax rises and oil price has raised the price in Brittany to around 1.42€/litre (supermarket) - headline in the local paper is "death of diesel...."
Anyone considered that the price rise is a good thing?
As someone who is extremely tied into a high number of personal annual miles due to circumstances beyond his control, I’m going to go with no. It’s a bad thing, that will make me and my family worse off. If there actually were viable and cost effective alternatives available to me I would be less negative, but...
Dare I ask what car you do your "high number of personal miles in", V8ninety? (I realise it's unlikely to ba a V8 ninety)
Anyone considered that the price rise is a good thing?
I live in the city centre, at time of writing there are two transit vans clattering away outside my window and they have been for 15 mins or more. So, yes.
132.9
Dare I ask what car you do your “high number of personal miles in”, V8ninety? (I realise it’s unlikely to ba a V8 ninety)
Ha! No, those days are gone. Family mileage is split between a Skoda Fabia diesel and a diesel pickup. Need the diesel pickup, but it’s forced to do more miles than I’d like to do in it because it’s not (yet) economically sensible to run another smaller more efficient vehicle along side it due to replicated servicing, insurance and capital investment. FWIW, Fabia will be getting replaced by a Nissan Leaf in a few months, which will hopefully reduce our exposure to pump price hikes. What I’d really like to see is Nissan produce an eNavara...
two transit vans clattering away outside my window
I suspect that the person who isn’t turning these engines off, isn’t the person paying for the diesel, so the point is moot.
Seems like high diesel prices are encouraging you to make some good decisions for both yourself and the planet, V8ninety. That not sarky, ironic or anything, because if everybody makes the same decisions we'll all benefit.
Seems like high diesel prices are encouraging you to make some good decisions for both yourself and the planet, V8ninety
I see your point, but diesel prices were high enough already. These recent hikes simply represent increased pain and reduced buying power for something more efficient.
because if everybody makes the same decisions we’ll all benefit.
Either that, or the government will slap a massive tax hike on the currently massive tax dodge that electric vehicles represent. Gotta get that revenue from somewhere, eh? Long may electric vehicles be outliers.
Britain is an oil importing country, the damge done to the balance of payments by oil imports is a massive drag on the economy. Yes tax revenues will have to come from somewhere but as the country won't be bleeding capital and selling off it's productive assets there will still be something to tax. Britain has the opportunity to become a leader in EV production, as do other countires, or go on making OPEC richer and Britian poorer. Unfortunately I suspect that Britian will just end up inporting cars whatever makes tham move, because inward investment is less likely following the Briexit vote and there's no drive to EV from within Uk manufaturing.
As with any tax issue the fist thing to tax in the 300bn or so of GDP (IIRC please check and correct if necessary) that currently escpaes tax completely thanks to Britain's no tax on the rich laws.
Between 130.9 to 133.9 Bedfordshire. Its seemingly going up every few days
That article is grossly misleading, Paton. The truth comes out in the last paragraph, they are just talking about crude and ignoring refined oil products:
Once processed fuels like gasoline and diesel are counted, it’s still a big net importer.