Was on the Isle of Lewis on the weekend. 145.9 for diesel.
There’s a few fuel stations around the country who are managed to do it about 15p/L cheaper than the rest.
It’s a bit of game theory. Reduce price and you’ll get extra business but only until everyone around you matches, which could be less than an hour. Then you all sell the same and make less.
It takes one to think they can make more profit in the time it takes for others to match for the mover to go ahead.
Where I live it’s £1.57
The town over from me it’s £1.48
Supermarkets especially just pull these numbers out of their arse and expect no one to notice.
Supermarkets used to be able to be relied on to keep other fuel retailers honest. That was pre COVID. They have now joined the line to screw the customer as is evident from the figures they keep producing . “ shut up and hold up the Vaseline ‘
Ever since Asda sold off their petrol stations, competition seems to have died.
Inflation is being driven be corporate profiteering and price gouging
this endlessly comes back, but the truth is they sometimes bought the fuel in advance or have already bought what’s in the tanks, so they may figure it’s worth selling it for what they paid for it
Some people are only comfortable buying a big-name advertised brand, so if they won’t switch away from that brand then the brand has no reason to match prices with unbranded.
I live in a small village that has a garage with fuel pumps, current price of diesel there is 145.9 a litre. I asked the owner how he’s managing to undercut the bigger petrol stations/supermarket petrol stations in town and he said it’s simple, he’s just not ripping people off and price gouging. He has much less buying power than them as he only orders a minuscule amount a month compared to the bigger petrol stations. Yet he still managed to turn a profit and undercut them by anywhere from 6p to 12p a litre depending on which of the garages in town you compare it to! This flagrant profiteering (money grabbing) by petrol stations is definitely helping fan the flames of inflation. If the government stepped in and helped regulate the price to make sure it was fair, I bet it would help accelerate the calming of inflation.
Large multinational companies profiteering, you say?
Colour me shocked
We’re paying 162.9 ish round here (NW England) for diesel, with unleaded up to 12p cheaper.
We went to Belfast for the weekend and every station was in the region of 142.9 for both unleaded and diesel. To say we felt mugged off would be an understatement.
Not sure about diesel but where I live you cat get petrol for 1.35 at Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco but when I drive to work, 40 min away, the Asda is charging 1.46. madness
Petrol at Shoreham Tesco is exactly 10p more expensive than that sold at Crawley Tesco – the same petrol sold by the same company using, within 25 miles of themselves. Burgess Hill Tesco fuel is ALSO fully 10p more that sold by Crawley, less than 15 miles apart.
What’s the justification for this shite?
The country is a scam. The rich get richer with nothing but an unsatisfied greed in order to squeeze every penny possible from the millions who have no chance to go without, so that they can do fuck all with it other than put it with their other millions (billions?) Where it will make no fucking difference to their quality of life.
Plain and simple. Cunts.
Absolutely bonkers they are trying to stop people using diesel but diesel engines are way more efficient.
Weird how all these companies are making record **PROFITS** during a cost of living crisis. Claiming higher costs their end are forcing prices up in kind. If that were truly the case it would be record **revenue** with stagnant profits. Wonder whats going on then…
I paid 134.9 for diesel on Monday near Newport, whereas near me in Birmingham the average seems to be much higher around 150-155
In fairness, I have noticed Diesel being cheaper than petrol in my local area and I thought it was an error.
However to note another poster I can drive less than 10 miles and the prices can vary by 5-6p.
Depends on nearby competition. Asda v Morrisons for example, if close together= cheaper than independent.
For the love of god people – think of the profits and investors, all this profiteering goes to a good cause
The BP near us is the cheapest at £1.52, Tesco next door to them is £1.55.
Costco £1.44. If I’m out and about locally I go to BP, it’s not much saving but it’s better in my pocket than theirs
And in shocking other news just in, Pope found to be Catholic. Next up, what do bears get up to in the woods? Prepare to be shocked.
Our local garage is selling both Petrol and Diesel for 139.9p per/l
has been around this level for weeks too
Was shook to see diesel consistently cheaper than petrol while driving around Germany this Easter
It’s not good enough to make a great profit anymore. It’s all about having that next record breaking profits. They’ve already proven all they need to do is wear an ugly charity shop sweater and everything will believe they’re a penny pitching everyman.
But isn’t this the “Trickle down economics” that the Tories love to talk about where the only thing that trickles down is high prices?
If only we had a body in charge of making sure the prices are fair……
As all these massive companies release their record profits from the money they are stealing from us, I hope the top people start to feel very nervous. Lets make it hard to spend their ill gotten gains. Let the guilt start to chip away at their soul, make them squirm.
This cannot continue.
Same shit going on here in Australia. Makes me think something majorly fishy is going on world wide.
There is an app called PetrolPrices you can use to compre prices based on your location (relies on customer input so not wholly accurate).
Definite profiteering, found in the past that supermarkets generally offer cheaper prices than other petrol stations but even across the board now and in some cases more expensive at supermarkets
Costco sell premium diesel cheaper than the petrol at my local station.
Every day they have 15/20 minute queues, all day long.
Theres no reason costco can sell premium cheaper than normal diesel at all other stations other than profiteering.
A small village 20 mins away from Glasgow. First time I have seen prices equall for years.
I just spent 2 weeks driving round Italy in a diesel campervan.
Every time we passed a petrol station my wife would say “go there, diesel is only £x.xx/l and I’d say “no, that’s the petrol price, diesel is the bigger number”
As a driver I’d got so used to diesel always being the bigger number for my whole life that it took my wife, who doesn’t drive, to actually read the sign properly, and notice that I was wrong.
I know electricity is run off different sources but let’s see how many years it takes to bring those prices down as demand is slowing and sources opening up from other markets than Russian Gas etc
It’s not just diesel, organisations r profiteering to the extreme. Just take a look at wholesale food prices v retail…
Guess what car I have? Guess what car I bought because I was told it more ecologically friendly than petrol? Guess what car I bought because the government told me to?
That’s right?
FUCKING DIESEL.
I tell you now, I guarantee it, that in ten years time there will be a government campaign entitled something like: “Parp! Parp! Why Wind Cars Are Better Than Poisonous EVs”.
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Was on the Isle of Lewis on the weekend. 145.9 for diesel.
There’s a few fuel stations around the country who are managed to do it about 15p/L cheaper than the rest.
It’s a bit of game theory. Reduce price and you’ll get extra business but only until everyone around you matches, which could be less than an hour. Then you all sell the same and make less.
It takes one to think they can make more profit in the time it takes for others to match for the mover to go ahead.
Where I live it’s £1.57
The town over from me it’s £1.48
Supermarkets especially just pull these numbers out of their arse and expect no one to notice.
Supermarkets used to be able to be relied on to keep other fuel retailers honest. That was pre COVID. They have now joined the line to screw the customer as is evident from the figures they keep producing . “ shut up and hold up the Vaseline ‘
Ever since Asda sold off their petrol stations, competition seems to have died.
Inflation is being driven be corporate profiteering and price gouging
this endlessly comes back, but the truth is they sometimes bought the fuel in advance or have already bought what’s in the tanks, so they may figure it’s worth selling it for what they paid for it
Some people are only comfortable buying a big-name advertised brand, so if they won’t switch away from that brand then the brand has no reason to match prices with unbranded.
I live in a small village that has a garage with fuel pumps, current price of diesel there is 145.9 a litre. I asked the owner how he’s managing to undercut the bigger petrol stations/supermarket petrol stations in town and he said it’s simple, he’s just not ripping people off and price gouging. He has much less buying power than them as he only orders a minuscule amount a month compared to the bigger petrol stations. Yet he still managed to turn a profit and undercut them by anywhere from 6p to 12p a litre depending on which of the garages in town you compare it to! This flagrant profiteering (money grabbing) by petrol stations is definitely helping fan the flames of inflation. If the government stepped in and helped regulate the price to make sure it was fair, I bet it would help accelerate the calming of inflation.
Large multinational companies profiteering, you say?
Colour me shocked
We’re paying 162.9 ish round here (NW England) for diesel, with unleaded up to 12p cheaper.
We went to Belfast for the weekend and every station was in the region of 142.9 for both unleaded and diesel. To say we felt mugged off would be an understatement.
Not sure about diesel but where I live you cat get petrol for 1.35 at Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco but when I drive to work, 40 min away, the Asda is charging 1.46. madness
Petrol at Shoreham Tesco is exactly 10p more expensive than that sold at Crawley Tesco – the same petrol sold by the same company using, within 25 miles of themselves. Burgess Hill Tesco fuel is ALSO fully 10p more that sold by Crawley, less than 15 miles apart.
What’s the justification for this shite?
The country is a scam. The rich get richer with nothing but an unsatisfied greed in order to squeeze every penny possible from the millions who have no chance to go without, so that they can do fuck all with it other than put it with their other millions (billions?) Where it will make no fucking difference to their quality of life.
Plain and simple. Cunts.
Absolutely bonkers they are trying to stop people using diesel but diesel engines are way more efficient.
Weird how all these companies are making record **PROFITS** during a cost of living crisis. Claiming higher costs their end are forcing prices up in kind. If that were truly the case it would be record **revenue** with stagnant profits. Wonder whats going on then…
I paid 134.9 for diesel on Monday near Newport, whereas near me in Birmingham the average seems to be much higher around 150-155
In fairness, I have noticed Diesel being cheaper than petrol in my local area and I thought it was an error.
However to note another poster I can drive less than 10 miles and the prices can vary by 5-6p.
Depends on nearby competition. Asda v Morrisons for example, if close together= cheaper than independent.
For the love of god people – think of the profits and investors, all this profiteering goes to a good cause
The BP near us is the cheapest at £1.52, Tesco next door to them is £1.55.
Costco £1.44. If I’m out and about locally I go to BP, it’s not much saving but it’s better in my pocket than theirs
And in shocking other news just in, Pope found to be Catholic. Next up, what do bears get up to in the woods? Prepare to be shocked.
Our local garage is selling both Petrol and Diesel for 139.9p per/l
has been around this level for weeks too
Was shook to see diesel consistently cheaper than petrol while driving around Germany this Easter
It’s not good enough to make a great profit anymore. It’s all about having that next record breaking profits. They’ve already proven all they need to do is wear an ugly charity shop sweater and everything will believe they’re a penny pitching everyman.
But isn’t this the “Trickle down economics” that the Tories love to talk about where the only thing that trickles down is high prices?
If only we had a body in charge of making sure the prices are fair……
As all these massive companies release their record profits from the money they are stealing from us, I hope the top people start to feel very nervous. Lets make it hard to spend their ill gotten gains. Let the guilt start to chip away at their soul, make them squirm.
This cannot continue.
Same shit going on here in Australia. Makes me think something majorly fishy is going on world wide.
There is an app called PetrolPrices you can use to compre prices based on your location (relies on customer input so not wholly accurate).
Definite profiteering, found in the past that supermarkets generally offer cheaper prices than other petrol stations but even across the board now and in some cases more expensive at supermarkets
Costco sell premium diesel cheaper than the petrol at my local station.
Every day they have 15/20 minute queues, all day long.
Theres no reason costco can sell premium cheaper than normal diesel at all other stations other than profiteering.
A small village 20 mins away from Glasgow. First time I have seen prices equall for years.
https://i.postimg.cc/y6hg6FYz/343641009-1408037409960994-7108261971505803660-n.jpg
I just spent 2 weeks driving round Italy in a diesel campervan.
Every time we passed a petrol station my wife would say “go there, diesel is only £x.xx/l and I’d say “no, that’s the petrol price, diesel is the bigger number”
As a driver I’d got so used to diesel always being the bigger number for my whole life that it took my wife, who doesn’t drive, to actually read the sign properly, and notice that I was wrong.
I know electricity is run off different sources but let’s see how many years it takes to bring those prices down as demand is slowing and sources opening up from other markets than Russian Gas etc
I know, I posted this a few days ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/131ol33/the_difference_between_wholesale_and_retail/
It’s not just diesel, organisations r profiteering to the extreme. Just take a look at wholesale food prices v retail…
Guess what car I have? Guess what car I bought because I was told it more ecologically friendly than petrol? Guess what car I bought because the government told me to?
That’s right?
FUCKING DIESEL.
I tell you now, I guarantee it, that in ten years time there will be a government campaign entitled something like: “Parp! Parp! Why Wind Cars Are Better Than Poisonous EVs”.