I don’t understand this obsession. Is there some shortage of competition?
I drove past a BP garage that was £1.32 a litre which seems to be the average around here in places like Tesco and Sainsbury etc.
But literally 15 minutes away the Shell garage was charging £1.48 a litre.
I swear they just make these prices up.
Hah just fuel? We are paying too much for everything compared to our slave wages that offer no route out of poverty for most people at this point.
I think by this point we’re getting robbed from left right and centre so an extra few pence a litre has kind of been forgotten about, and they’re getting away with it because they can.
I’m wondering at what point the headline might be “drivers not paying enough for fuel”. Compared to public transport, the cost of driving has dropped significantly. The government has been steadily lowering the subsidies for public transport for decades, while increasing the subsidies (yes, drivers are subsidised) for motoring over the same period. And there’s a vocal majority of councillors who refuse to enable more active travel, because “everyone needs a car”. Of course they need a car, you’ve built fuck all else but car infrastructure for the last century.
I know this varies regionally and even within regions but paying £1.46 per litre really stings. I remember the uproar when the price passed £1 a litre.
There’s no uproar anymore. We’re downtrodden and apathetic.
I’ve started filling up at BP because of this, it’s only a tiny bit more expensive but the rewards program is a lot better and it’s slightly more convenient for me to go to.
There used to be such a large gap between supermarket and garage prices but when Tesco is £1.44 and BP is £1.48, realistically what is 4p a litre actually going to add
Which is another reason to get better public transport and improve cycling infrastructure. We need to drop our dependency on fossil fuels immediately and keeping prices high might not be the bad news this article hints at. It is bad in the short term, no doubt, however it could be a place to instigate real change in society.
No shit sherlock. The same can be applied to almost everything else you can currently purchase.
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I don’t understand this obsession. Is there some shortage of competition?
I drove past a BP garage that was £1.32 a litre which seems to be the average around here in places like Tesco and Sainsbury etc.
But literally 15 minutes away the Shell garage was charging £1.48 a litre.
I swear they just make these prices up.
Hah just fuel? We are paying too much for everything compared to our slave wages that offer no route out of poverty for most people at this point.
I think by this point we’re getting robbed from left right and centre so an extra few pence a litre has kind of been forgotten about, and they’re getting away with it because they can.
I’m wondering at what point the headline might be “drivers not paying enough for fuel”. Compared to public transport, the cost of driving has dropped significantly. The government has been steadily lowering the subsidies for public transport for decades, while increasing the subsidies (yes, drivers are subsidised) for motoring over the same period. And there’s a vocal majority of councillors who refuse to enable more active travel, because “everyone needs a car”. Of course they need a car, you’ve built fuck all else but car infrastructure for the last century.
I know this varies regionally and even within regions but paying £1.46 per litre really stings. I remember the uproar when the price passed £1 a litre.
There’s no uproar anymore. We’re downtrodden and apathetic.
I’ve started filling up at BP because of this, it’s only a tiny bit more expensive but the rewards program is a lot better and it’s slightly more convenient for me to go to.
There used to be such a large gap between supermarket and garage prices but when Tesco is £1.44 and BP is £1.48, realistically what is 4p a litre actually going to add
Which is another reason to get better public transport and improve cycling infrastructure. We need to drop our dependency on fossil fuels immediately and keeping prices high might not be the bad news this article hints at. It is bad in the short term, no doubt, however it could be a place to instigate real change in society.
No shit sherlock. The same can be applied to almost everything else you can currently purchase.