Actually did drop 2p at the one I cycle past sometime in the last week
Making hay while the sun shines. Petrol’s a dying market in eight years (though then they’ll probably make a shocking profit off the car park chargers)
Shock horror, capitalism is bad. Companies shouldn’t be able to make a profit.
I will never understand small petrol stations. Yes, they get less frequent deliveries, so the petrol in the tanks lasts longer. But why do they sell it at the price they bought it for, and not at current market rate (the price they will have to pay to fill up the tanks again)?
I mean, just because you have expensive petrol sitting in your tanks does not mean people want to pay a premium for it. That is a risk smaller stations just need to accept.
Adjusted for inflation, petrol is quite a lot cheaper than it was a decade ago. It’s also not priced proportionally to the amount of harm that’s caused by using more petrol.
I know it’s an extremely unpopular view, but petrol should probably be a lot more expensive!
And here’s my Dad calling me cynical for assuming they’d make record profits due to the price increases.
“Prices don’t drop quickly at the pumps because we buy in bulk at X price, and have to use up those reserves before we move on to the lower-priced bulk as oil prices drop.”
Yeah but the second oil goes up, so do petrol prices. WHY? You bought in bulk remember?
“Yeah but oil prices went up so we have to reflect that.”
It’s just fucking lies and greed.
Shocking when fuel is price gouged, but nobody cares when the same happens for homes.
I wonder if this is anything to do with suspension of competition laws? Has the suspension been lifted now or are retailers still free to fix prices amongst themselves?
How dare companies make a profit off selling petrol, good grief it’s like we’re living in a capitalist country!
C-Suite meeting at Global Warming HQ.
“So we have huge resevoirs of a fuel grade that’s about to be phased out. Solutions?”
“Let’s tell a journo we’re running out, create a panic, push up prices, empty the resevoirs, tell the journo we’ve now run out, push up prices again, refill ’em with the new stuff and keep charging the panic prices?”
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Actually did drop 2p at the one I cycle past sometime in the last week
Making hay while the sun shines. Petrol’s a dying market in eight years (though then they’ll probably make a shocking profit off the car park chargers)
Shock horror, capitalism is bad. Companies shouldn’t be able to make a profit.
I will never understand small petrol stations. Yes, they get less frequent deliveries, so the petrol in the tanks lasts longer. But why do they sell it at the price they bought it for, and not at current market rate (the price they will have to pay to fill up the tanks again)?
I mean, just because you have expensive petrol sitting in your tanks does not mean people want to pay a premium for it. That is a risk smaller stations just need to accept.
Adjusted for inflation, petrol is quite a lot cheaper than it was a decade ago. It’s also not priced proportionally to the amount of harm that’s caused by using more petrol.
I know it’s an extremely unpopular view, but petrol should probably be a lot more expensive!
And here’s my Dad calling me cynical for assuming they’d make record profits due to the price increases.
“Prices don’t drop quickly at the pumps because we buy in bulk at X price, and have to use up those reserves before we move on to the lower-priced bulk as oil prices drop.”
Yeah but the second oil goes up, so do petrol prices. WHY? You bought in bulk remember?
“Yeah but oil prices went up so we have to reflect that.”
It’s just fucking lies and greed.
Shocking when fuel is price gouged, but nobody cares when the same happens for homes.
I wonder if this is anything to do with suspension of competition laws? Has the suspension been lifted now or are retailers still free to fix prices amongst themselves?
How dare companies make a profit off selling petrol, good grief it’s like we’re living in a capitalist country!
C-Suite meeting at Global Warming HQ.
“So we have huge resevoirs of a fuel grade that’s about to be phased out. Solutions?”
“Let’s tell a journo we’re running out, create a panic, push up prices, empty the resevoirs, tell the journo we’ve now run out, push up prices again, refill ’em with the new stuff and keep charging the panic prices?”
“Bonus time for all of us! Woo-hoo!”