Wow, they’ve actually started writing headlines that say “be frightened”. No wonder I’m so fucking depressed.
I remember this headline when we hit the £1 a litre mark.
I biked to work this morning.
It was raining.
I put on my waterproof clothes.
Big success.
Where is it this price? I’ve been to 5 stations near me and they are all above 183.9p a litre.
Pffft – I passed a garage yesterday and it was £1.91 per litre of unleaded. Insanity.
We will be on bikes, sooner or later, tnose with bugatti veyrons ,can start to enjoy driving soon.
Not as frightening as a sea level rise of 1.77m if we don’t reign in petrol use tbh
Think of the positives. If it hits £2 / litre then it will be very easy to calculate how much fuel you have in your car based on cost.
Hopefully it’ll push all these big engined SUVs off the road and stop morons buying them for their one child
Recession is coming thanks to petrol and heating prices
They are taking the piss. Oil is currently trading at about $120 a barrel and yet petrol is pushing £1.80 when back in March it peaked at about $140 a barrel and petrol only got to about £1.63.
My local petrol station have increased the price from 169.9 to 184.9 in a week.
Cheapest is now 173.9 at local supermarket.
Robbing bastards.
I paid 182.9 for petrol yesterday. 177.9 is like a dream.
179.9p for diesel in St.helens.
Sounds like it is nearly past-time for our purported *governments* to get on the stick and figure out how to deflect the New French Revolution … just say’in.
Up too£1.90 diesel Manchester
Oil companies are very quick to bump the fuel price up, never act as quick to reduce the price even when they vat reduction by the government!!!!!!
They are just taking advantage of any circumstances.
Working from home.
The simple solution to record commuting costs.
I’m actually concerned that fuel could easily get to £3L without much effort.
There’s got to be an element of gouging, after all it’s not like many of us can just decide not to drive to work or school or the shops.
Public transport is shocking almost everywhere, I have personally seen the “every 15 minutes” bus I used to take to work manage to be over 45 minutes late, if I had a particularly anal manager I could have been out on my arse for that. That’s on a well-served busy route too, if I worked out in the sticks I’d be buggered without a car.
So if they ask me back into the office that’s 20 or so miles each way, even in my efficient hatchback thats something like 4 quid just in fuel *per trip*. 8 quid a day, forty quid a week, two bloody grand a year.
Where are these mythical forecourts that have so low that it brings the average down?
£1.93 for super unleaded on Friday 🤬
It’s complete madness
The UK has way more to go. In Portugal our prices are At £1.90
193.3 for regular petrol at the local shell
Thanks for the 5p off Rishi….
Good thing public transport is so cheap and wages are rising in line with inflation /s
When the hell is it going down now like genuine question
How much is that per gallon- asking for a friend?
Not gonna lie, about £2/l is the max I can afford before I will struggle to even get to work.
Well you didn’t expect BP and Shell to pay the windfall tax out of pocket did you?
HGV driver here.
I’d love to take public transport or even cycle (used to cycle everywhere when I was younger) to work, but if there’s a bus from Harlow to Hatfield at 3am I’d give it a go.
Not cycling 20 miles each way on the A414 because I value my life.
Must be time for a mass return to office /s
Mogg:Just walk and if you can’t feed your family, eat your youngest.
today, at 8am I put petrol in my bike for £1.72 and at 17:30 I went back, by the same pump and it was £1.79. There’s another pump down the road, that’s usually cheaper, at £1.85. 1 pence more expensive than diesel.
i’ve seen for the first time last week petrol more expensive than diesel
Yet the government does nothing.
Will prices ever fall…?
Drove past my nearest petrol station on Thursday and it was 172.9. drove past this morning it was 182.9. Drove past this evening and it was 189.2.
Terrifying stuff. Where does it end.
I think if it goes much above £2.00 a litre there will be a large bout of civil unrest. People will quite literally not be able to afford to drive to work. You couple that with the energy price hikes coming in the winter and there could be trouble.
Years ago I worked on the pricing systems used by forecourts and wholesalers to determine pricing. In short, if the punters keep buying it at that price it doesn’t drop. Years gone by, one retailer in a locality would drop the price by 1p and you could see within a day or two volume changes so others would follow suit enough to balance profit and volume. Nowadays we’re seeing a decline in forecourt numbers to you’re less likely to see this effect as there is less localised competition resulting in that competitive behaviour.
Saw it at 199.9p at Bridgewater services the other day.
This could easily be combated by strategically planning, organising and advertising targeted boycotts of certain companies. Supermarket fuel only or nobody use Shell garages etc. This has to be done for weeks if not months at a time, not a singular day. Once that company/sector starts taking a hit and is forced to lower prices considerably (not 2-3p, 15-20p minimum) then people switch over to the cheaper company until the other competitors then have to lower prices to stay competitive. Then start the boycott anew and so on.
Granted that not everyone has access to a multiple garages to pick and choose where they fill up but it’s easily achievable by planning ahead.
Near where I work there’s a Tesco and a BP right opposite each other on the same retail park. Tesco was 181.9 for diesel today and BP was 188.9, yet somehow there’s still people buying BP fuel. Unless you’re using a work issued fuel card and are restricted to certain companies or have some delusion that BP fuel is ‘premium’ and will be better for your financed vehicle that you don’t even own than cheap supermarket fuel then there’s literally no logic reason to be paying extra.
Diesel was 199.9 at services on the M6 last week. It’s insane.
That shit was £1.80 in the M&as by me last Saturday
22 billion in profit tho… amazing need to increase prices….
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I wish it was that cheap! £1.86 a litre for diesel and £1.83 a litre for petrol where I am.
Does anyone know if the NHS are paying community healthcare and nurses any more towards their expenses?
I paid £1.91 for BP Diesel Ultimate yesterday… I’m sure it will go up higher anyway.
TBH we are not the cheapest or the most expensive in Europe at the moment. But at the higher end.
[https://www.cargopedia.net/europe-fuel-prices](https://www.cargopedia.net/europe-fuel-prices)
Wow, they’ve actually started writing headlines that say “be frightened”. No wonder I’m so fucking depressed.
I remember this headline when we hit the £1 a litre mark.
I biked to work this morning.
It was raining.
I put on my waterproof clothes.
Big success.
Where is it this price? I’ve been to 5 stations near me and they are all above 183.9p a litre.
Pffft – I passed a garage yesterday and it was £1.91 per litre of unleaded. Insanity.
We will be on bikes, sooner or later, tnose with bugatti veyrons ,can start to enjoy driving soon.
Not as frightening as a sea level rise of 1.77m if we don’t reign in petrol use tbh
Think of the positives. If it hits £2 / litre then it will be very easy to calculate how much fuel you have in your car based on cost.
Hopefully it’ll push all these big engined SUVs off the road and stop morons buying them for their one child
Recession is coming thanks to petrol and heating prices
They are taking the piss. Oil is currently trading at about $120 a barrel and yet petrol is pushing £1.80 when back in March it peaked at about $140 a barrel and petrol only got to about £1.63.
My local petrol station have increased the price from 169.9 to 184.9 in a week.
Cheapest is now 173.9 at local supermarket.
Robbing bastards.
I paid 182.9 for petrol yesterday. 177.9 is like a dream.
179.9p for diesel in St.helens.
Sounds like it is nearly past-time for our purported *governments* to get on the stick and figure out how to deflect the New French Revolution … just say’in.
Up too£1.90 diesel Manchester
Oil companies are very quick to bump the fuel price up, never act as quick to reduce the price even when they vat reduction by the government!!!!!!
They are just taking advantage of any circumstances.
Working from home.
The simple solution to record commuting costs.
I’m actually concerned that fuel could easily get to £3L without much effort.
There’s got to be an element of gouging, after all it’s not like many of us can just decide not to drive to work or school or the shops.
Public transport is shocking almost everywhere, I have personally seen the “every 15 minutes” bus I used to take to work manage to be over 45 minutes late, if I had a particularly anal manager I could have been out on my arse for that. That’s on a well-served busy route too, if I worked out in the sticks I’d be buggered without a car.
So if they ask me back into the office that’s 20 or so miles each way, even in my efficient hatchback thats something like 4 quid just in fuel *per trip*. 8 quid a day, forty quid a week, two bloody grand a year.
Where are these mythical forecourts that have so low that it brings the average down?
£1.93 for super unleaded on Friday 🤬
It’s complete madness
The UK has way more to go. In Portugal our prices are At £1.90
193.3 for regular petrol at the local shell
Thanks for the 5p off Rishi….
Good thing public transport is so cheap and wages are rising in line with inflation /s
When the hell is it going down now like genuine question
How much is that per gallon- asking for a friend?
Not gonna lie, about £2/l is the max I can afford before I will struggle to even get to work.
Well you didn’t expect BP and Shell to pay the windfall tax out of pocket did you?
HGV driver here.
I’d love to take public transport or even cycle (used to cycle everywhere when I was younger) to work, but if there’s a bus from Harlow to Hatfield at 3am I’d give it a go.
Not cycling 20 miles each way on the A414 because I value my life.
Must be time for a mass return to office /s
Mogg:Just walk and if you can’t feed your family, eat your youngest.
today, at 8am I put petrol in my bike for £1.72 and at 17:30 I went back, by the same pump and it was £1.79. There’s another pump down the road, that’s usually cheaper, at £1.85. 1 pence more expensive than diesel.
i’ve seen for the first time last week petrol more expensive than diesel
Yet the government does nothing.
Will prices ever fall…?
Drove past my nearest petrol station on Thursday and it was 172.9. drove past this morning it was 182.9. Drove past this evening and it was 189.2.
Terrifying stuff. Where does it end.
I think if it goes much above £2.00 a litre there will be a large bout of civil unrest. People will quite literally not be able to afford to drive to work. You couple that with the energy price hikes coming in the winter and there could be trouble.
Years ago I worked on the pricing systems used by forecourts and wholesalers to determine pricing. In short, if the punters keep buying it at that price it doesn’t drop. Years gone by, one retailer in a locality would drop the price by 1p and you could see within a day or two volume changes so others would follow suit enough to balance profit and volume. Nowadays we’re seeing a decline in forecourt numbers to you’re less likely to see this effect as there is less localised competition resulting in that competitive behaviour.
Saw it at 199.9p at Bridgewater services the other day.
This could easily be combated by strategically planning, organising and advertising targeted boycotts of certain companies. Supermarket fuel only or nobody use Shell garages etc. This has to be done for weeks if not months at a time, not a singular day. Once that company/sector starts taking a hit and is forced to lower prices considerably (not 2-3p, 15-20p minimum) then people switch over to the cheaper company until the other competitors then have to lower prices to stay competitive. Then start the boycott anew and so on.
Granted that not everyone has access to a multiple garages to pick and choose where they fill up but it’s easily achievable by planning ahead.
Near where I work there’s a Tesco and a BP right opposite each other on the same retail park. Tesco was 181.9 for diesel today and BP was 188.9, yet somehow there’s still people buying BP fuel. Unless you’re using a work issued fuel card and are restricted to certain companies or have some delusion that BP fuel is ‘premium’ and will be better for your financed vehicle that you don’t even own than cheap supermarket fuel then there’s literally no logic reason to be paying extra.
Diesel was 199.9 at services on the M6 last week. It’s insane.
That shit was £1.80 in the M&as by me last Saturday
22 billion in profit tho… amazing need to increase prices….