Fuel prices

dubpolo · Post by **dubpolo** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:09 pm

yea but you get s**t fule from their! im sticking to shell! and my dad works for BP

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:18 pm

I use BP Ultimate, there is only one garage and one pump for it here in Shrewsbury, and no Shell garages within 15 miles

When I started filling with Ultimate I knew it would be more expensive and it is my own choice to continue using the premium fuel despite rising prices, and I'm not going to change back to standard supermarket fuel unless my BP garage runs out of fuel any time soon...

There isn't a great deal we can do about the rising price of barrels of oil IMO, but it would be pleasant if the Gov't dropped the taxation on fuel a bit (although it would then go onto something else - how about a bicycle tax?).

Talking of fuel, my petrol light is on... better top up before the mass panic caused by all those crazy eejits who think if they don't fill up immediately before the potential blockades they'll not get any fuel ever again

dubpolo · Post by **dubpolo** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:23 pm

Iâ€™m off to fill up a tanker! Iâ€™m an idiot!

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:38 pm

now where did i store my grandads ww2 jerry cans

-Ben-

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:55 pm

Jerry cans lol...

Just got back in from my little trip - BP Ultimate is 100.9p per litre here, which is officially the first time I have ever had to pay over the Â£1/litre mark. Not too bad though considering it's Ultimate and not standard supermarket fare.

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:51 pm

polopowah wrote:
GroovyCarrot wrote:103.9? That's cheap. It's 107p for regular unleaded at my local Esso..
About time someone organised a protest really.. obviously we can't help the fact that oil prices are rising due to instability in the middle east etc, but the government has far more control over the price of petrol than the oil companies do.. about time they did something about it really.

REALLY!!!!

Come fill up in Buntingford mate, 91.4 at time of going to press

-Ben-

That's pretty damn cheap.. might just have to do that. At the moment I'm using tesco in saffron walden, 96.7p/litre, that's the cheapest around here

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:56 pm

iNfa-ReD wrote:i filled up for 96.9p per ltr over at my local

apparently as well as this protest thats gna happen the best way to lower petrol prices is to NOT buy petrol from big companies

stick to small independants or at worst places like TESCO if u can

No, that's really not going to make a difference. All the supermarkets and independant petrol stations get their fuel from the big companies anyway.. not like the village petrol station is going to buy it's own oil refinery is it

Anyway, the cost of petrol really has very little to do with the oil companies, their margin is relatively small (although obviously it adds up to a huge amount..). The rising cost at the moment is due to the price of crude oil, which again isn't going to change. The main problem is that the government is holding fast on it's ridiculously high fuel taxes, they're the people who actually have the ability to lower prices and who actually have a responsibility to listen to public demand..

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:23 pm

PLEASE dont come to tesco new oscott or asda minworth for their 90.9p litres - the places are pretty much blockaded already (getting to the supermarket proper would have been quicker if i'd walked from home) and from the number of pumps actually open, look to be running dry. Then again it might just be because their tanker has been held up by the queues stretching waaaaaaay back onto the main road.

I'm going to go a bit later on, just before work, and see if anything's left. But before i do (in the astra..) i'm going to empty my spare cans into the polo and take them along as well.
no point in missing out on a couple of easily-syphoned gallons later on after all.

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:38 pm

Update
Buntingford BP 96.9

just came back from Pompey and i was just about to fill up at a local petrol station when i checked out the price 112.4 per litre!

o fudge the fuel protest is nigh.....

-Ben-

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 5:51 pm

Wednesday morning the refineries are going to be blockaded, along with a protest on the M4 in south wales. This is according to the Express (I think.. one of the tabloids we're forced to read at work).

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 5:52 pm

i love gordon browns excuses for not cutting some of the tax... like its all opecs fault or something, even though the raw cost before the govt's share has gone up from like 18p/L to 19p because of the massive effects of the hurricane on some of the USA's main refineries.

we need to up production, huh?
no how about cutting duty just a couple of percent to at least keep it under a quid a litre? well of course not because your administration is cashing it in bigstyle with every penny it goes up... t1t.

or hows about putting extra purchase and road tax on big, heavy, unneccessary petrol guzzling 4x4s and the like, and leaning hard on the states to do similar? half the things an average yank does in their car could be easily dispensed with by an electric or a 1-litre (thanks to all the traffic and the low occupancy), rather than a hummer or similarly consumptive, low-taxed vehicle.

fighting a few less fuel-munching, politically suspect wars might be an idea, too.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:13 pm

i dunno, it shot right up after katrina, i wonder what it's doing now?

maybe we could be cheeky, try to restrict supply to keep their prices up at our levels and see how quickly they all scramble for second hand golfs and kia prides

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 7:06 pm

Even having "shot up" the prices in america are still half what they are here..