What's with the fuel prices! And cheap whisky, apparently ...

[Alex321]

I've got a diesel. Paid £1.80 ltr a week ago. Thank the lord I'm retired and don't drive to work every day. Passed a local fill up station today and it was shut. Shortage? It's a petrol station attached to a small Morrisons, which was open. My son in law works at a refinery and he says they've not seen any shortages yet.

No, shortages at the pumps are cause by people filing up more often than usual in the epxectation that prices are just going to keep rising, not by any less supply than usual.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

The Esso at Heathhall, Dumfries, was the quietest I have seen it since moving to the area.

 

[classic33]

I needs a 'runs on overnight oats' t-shirt for my bike commutes.... anyone got one ?

There's this one.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The Esso at Heathhall, Dumfries, was the quietest I have seen it since moving to the area.

Esso -here is where I normally go
normally it is 1p dearer than Tesco or ASDA - if anything

passed it Saturday and it was 155.99
Tesco was 147.99
ASDA was 149.99
so I went to Tesco for a top up - just half a tank but probably worth it at the moment until trump stops pratting about

 

[PeteXXX]

 

[Brandane]

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So the oil companies get 72.1 pence per litre. For that, they have to find the oil, extract it from the ground, transport it to a refinery thousands of miles away, refine it into petrol, then transport it to petrol stations from where we buy it. Not bad, considering the cost of other liquid products like bottled water, Cola, and other carbonated drinks which are basically water with syrup and gas added.

 

[Alex321]

So the oil companies get 72.1 pence per litre. For that, they have to find the oil, extract it from the ground, transport it to a refinery thousands of miles away, refine it into petrol, then transport it to petrol stations from where we buy it. Not bad, considering the cost of other liquid products like bottled water, Cola, and other carbonated drinks which are basically water with syrup and gas added.

The filling station gets some of that 72.1p, the oil company doesn't get it all unless they actually own the filling station.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The filling station gets some of that 72.1p, the oil company doesn't get it all unless they actually own the filling station.

But the ones they own (or appear to do so) are often the more expensive in the area

 

[biggs682]

149.9 petrol at local Morrisons

 

[chris-suffolk]

Next door neighbour has an electric Kia. He charges at home and is on the Octopus " Go " tariff which will be dropping to 4.9p kWh overnight from 1st April. He reckons he's paying the equivalent of 1.5 pence per mile 😮

But you have to factor in the (normally) increased cost of buying it, and the (often) increased depreciation too. Yes, running it is cheaper, but the overall TOTAL costs aren't so cut and dried. On a below average annual mileage, it would take about 5 years to break even, and that doesn't take into account that I already own my current car outright.

 

[DRM]

149.9 petrol at local Morrisons

The same at our local Morrisons, however there was limited unleaded,and no diesel, the Sainsbury's at the White Rose Centre had no fuel at all,this was yesterday

 

[PeteXXX]

As well as everything else, it's pay day for monthly paid people so more folk will be out shopping & fuelling up, or at least, attempting to fuel up!

 

[Alex321]

But you have to factor in the (normally) increased cost of buying it, and the (often) increased depreciation too. Yes, running it is cheaper, but the overall TOTAL costs aren't so cut and dried. On a below average annual mileage, it would take about 5 years to break even, and that doesn't take into account that I already own my current car outright.

You do, but those price differences are reducing all the time.

 

[gbb]

As well as everything else, it's pay day for monthly paid people so more folk will be out shopping & fuelling up, or at least, attempting to fuel up!

I've been watching my local station for maybe 3 days now, its almost always out of diesel and also has queues to the pumps almost every one of those 3 days.
Petrol (E10) £1.45...so i suppose given the near hysteria, plus 16p a litre from a week or so ago isnt too bad
Diesel (when they have it) is £1.71 litre.

The queues...being retired i just went at around 3pm before people start coming out from work and topped up plus filled a petrol can. Didnt need much but we have a few days over Caister tomorrow so I dont want any hiccups with availability while we're away, and of course, its bank holiday weekend so perhaps a lot of people are doing the same..hence the queues.

 

[gbb]

I've been watching my local station for maybe 3 days now, its almost always out of diesel and also has queues to the pumps almost every one of those 3 days.
Petrol (E10) £1.45...so i suppose given the near hysteria, plus 16p a litre from a week or so ago isnt too bad
Diesel (when they have it) is £1.71 litre.

The queues...being retired i just went at around 3pm before people start coming out from work and topped up plus filled a petrol can. Didnt need much but we have a few days over Caister tomorrow so I dont want any hiccups with availability while we're away, and of course, its bank holiday weekend so perhaps a lot of people are doing the same..hence the queues.

And the fuel ran out last night, they shut up shop. Now imagine the folk headed out for the bank holiday...just gonna fill up the car...oh sh...