Prices near me are fluctuating like fuck between 158.9 and around 163.9 for unleaded. Shell is currently the cheapest which is weird.
Love how supermarkets are pushing adverts on how they are helping out during cost of living crisis with savings whilst simultaneously hiking prices beyond inflation for more profits. Stop the earth I want off
Asda’s buyout by the Issa brothers, who own Eurogarages (and have recently purchased Co-Op petrol stations) has absolutely fucked the petrol market. Companies have been happy to sit on the fat margins for a while
they can sell at the prices they wish to, they still seem cheaper than various branded garages e.g. BP, or you can also go and pay a fortune at a motorway service station.
They’ve previously been accused of using their filling stations as loss-leaders to pull in customers, therefore damaging smaller station operators – this is a chance for smaller operators.
Additionally people have mentioned complex forward contracts that have been entered into by companies, so maybe there is no real way of knowing what profit margin they are applying.
When you buy into car dependency, the list of people who can take you hostage/take advantage of you is apparently pretty long!
The oil extractors, the refineries, the retailers, the foreign states, the taxman, tanker drivers… Every man jack of ’em has you by the balls.
Our society should be straining at every level to rapidly undo the past seventy years of stupid development that’s locked people into full-bore car dependency. Bikes, buses, trains, trams, escooters, densification, local amenities, etc.
Saino’s and Tesco used to be cheaper than the independent garages around where I live but they have been 3-4p dearer than them for quite a while now.
Seems like the supermarket is no longer the place to find the cheapest petrol
I’ve thought this for ages. Always used to get fuel from Tesco but no more. Supermarkets are using fuel to relieve the pressure on their core profit margins
The supermarkets are still the cheapest for fuel though in my area. So they maybe raising fuel margins but if they are still the cheapest what does that say about all the other petrol station chains?
In can save 5p a litre on Morrisons petrol just by spending £40 with them.
Or I could fill up at jet and spend 6p/litre less than Morrisons.
What we have learnt is if someone has power and money and are a Tory (99% of those with power and money) they will fuck EVERYONE else down the line to get more power and more money.
Sooner or later the people they keep opressing, those who make this country actually run through their hard work, will stop and hopefully they’ll start punching upwards.
Never mind that I paid £7.69 for 2 bottles of milk and a chocolate bar!
What’s annoying is that the price of petrol still hasn’t gone down, but we’ve just stopped talking about it.
The real scalpers are motorway stations
Still seeing 180p compared to 158p at Tesco
Asda used to consistently be the cheapest in my area by a good 3-4p a litre. They’re now consistently the most expensive in the area by around 6p a litre, they’re now even more expensive than the branded garages like BP and shell.
If supermarkets are profiteering then everyone else must be. Supermarkets are usually the cheapest for fuel.
Weirdly the shell garages near me are now usually cheaper than the supermarkets. Never seen that until a few months ago.
Two petrol station either side of an A-road near me, same chain. In the morning, the London-bound side is more expensive. In the evening, they swap and it costs more for those coming home from work.
3weeks ago the local Texaco was 153.9. Steadily crept back up to 161.9….. Obviously they weren’t making enough profit!
We have an organisation called trading standards – but if tories make the rules profit is king! Wankers!
Costco who generally see the fuel stations as just a service to entire like their cheap hotdogs for comparison are currently charging this for fuel;
Unleaded Petrol 145.9 Premium Unleaded Petrol 153.9 Premium Diesel 168.7
There’s a BP near me that’s more than the BP 4 miles away. They make up the prices as they go.
My
Local garage with traditionally is very expensive is 1.49 atm my
Local Asda is 1.60 it’s weird
Classic Tories.
Whenever they deign to do something, it has the complete opposite effect of what they wanted.
Small wonder so many of them walk around wanting to change absolutely nothing.
Never! Must have seen what happens in New Zealand, I suppose.
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Prices near me are fluctuating like fuck between 158.9 and around 163.9 for unleaded. Shell is currently the cheapest which is weird.
Love how supermarkets are pushing adverts on how they are helping out during cost of living crisis with savings whilst simultaneously hiking prices beyond inflation for more profits. Stop the earth I want off
Asda’s buyout by the Issa brothers, who own Eurogarages (and have recently purchased Co-Op petrol stations) has absolutely fucked the petrol market. Companies have been happy to sit on the fat margins for a while
they can sell at the prices they wish to, they still seem cheaper than various branded garages e.g. BP, or you can also go and pay a fortune at a motorway service station.
They’ve previously been accused of using their filling stations as loss-leaders to pull in customers, therefore damaging smaller station operators – this is a chance for smaller operators.
Additionally people have mentioned complex forward contracts that have been entered into by companies, so maybe there is no real way of knowing what profit margin they are applying.
When you buy into car dependency, the list of people who can take you hostage/take advantage of you is apparently pretty long!
The oil extractors, the refineries, the retailers, the foreign states, the taxman, tanker drivers… Every man jack of ’em has you by the balls.
A very vulnerable position to be in.
[Lord, Mr ford, this four wheel buggy’s a’dollarin me to death](https://youtu.be/cUcVUpGOejM)
Our society should be straining at every level to rapidly undo the past seventy years of stupid development that’s locked people into full-bore car dependency. Bikes, buses, trains, trams, escooters, densification, local amenities, etc.
Saino’s and Tesco used to be cheaper than the independent garages around where I live but they have been 3-4p dearer than them for quite a while now.
Seems like the supermarket is no longer the place to find the cheapest petrol
I’ve thought this for ages. Always used to get fuel from Tesco but no more. Supermarkets are using fuel to relieve the pressure on their core profit margins
The supermarkets are still the cheapest for fuel though in my area. So they maybe raising fuel margins but if they are still the cheapest what does that say about all the other petrol station chains?
In can save 5p a litre on Morrisons petrol just by spending £40 with them.
Or I could fill up at jet and spend 6p/litre less than Morrisons.
What we have learnt is if someone has power and money and are a Tory (99% of those with power and money) they will fuck EVERYONE else down the line to get more power and more money.
Sooner or later the people they keep opressing, those who make this country actually run through their hard work, will stop and hopefully they’ll start punching upwards.
Never mind that I paid £7.69 for 2 bottles of milk and a chocolate bar!
What’s annoying is that the price of petrol still hasn’t gone down, but we’ve just stopped talking about it.
The real scalpers are motorway stations
Still seeing 180p compared to 158p at Tesco
Asda used to consistently be the cheapest in my area by a good 3-4p a litre. They’re now consistently the most expensive in the area by around 6p a litre, they’re now even more expensive than the branded garages like BP and shell.
If supermarkets are profiteering then everyone else must be. Supermarkets are usually the cheapest for fuel.
Weirdly the shell garages near me are now usually cheaper than the supermarkets. Never seen that until a few months ago.
Two petrol station either side of an A-road near me, same chain. In the morning, the London-bound side is more expensive. In the evening, they swap and it costs more for those coming home from work.
3weeks ago the local Texaco was 153.9. Steadily crept back up to 161.9….. Obviously they weren’t making enough profit!
We have an organisation called trading standards – but if tories make the rules profit is king! Wankers!
Costco who generally see the fuel stations as just a service to entire like their cheap hotdogs for comparison are currently charging this for fuel;
Unleaded Petrol 145.9 Premium Unleaded Petrol 153.9 Premium Diesel 168.7
There’s a BP near me that’s more than the BP 4 miles away. They make up the prices as they go.
My
Local garage with traditionally is very expensive is 1.49 atm my
Local Asda is 1.60 it’s weird
Classic Tories.
Whenever they deign to do something, it has the complete opposite effect of what they wanted.
Small wonder so many of them walk around wanting to change absolutely nothing.
Never! Must have seen what happens in New Zealand, I suppose.