Petrol Prices

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Mikey

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 Paderborn, Germany and Llantrisant S/Wales
Has anyone noticed that the price of fuel is again slowly started to creep up? Every week we drive past the same garages and low and behold they have increased the price from between 1-2 pence per litre. F....ing government keeping it quiet, they must be trying to claw back the money they've used to bail the banks out. Can't wait to go back to Germany and get away from this bloody robbing government!!!!!!!!!
 
Mikey said:
Has anyone noticed that the price of fuel is again slowly started to creep up? Every week we drive past the same garages and low and behold they have increased the price from between 1-2 pence per litre. F....ing government keeping it quiet, they must be trying to claw back the money they've used to bail the banks out. Can't wait to go back to Germany and get away from this bloody robbing government!!!!!!!!!
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You are going to be running for a long time if you are looking for a government who is not into robbing its people. :(
 
If only they could invent a car that ran on bullsh*t... governments have that as a renewable resource!
 
Noticed this too. Slowly but surely we'll be back at £1.00/litre again soon for petrol :x

But with the price difference between petrol and diesel, it still works out cheaper for me to drive my Z4 3.0 than my VW Transporter 2.5 TDI - bonus. In fact, it only costs me 1p/mile more to fuel my Z4 compared to my previous car (a Seat Ibiza Cupra diesel) because of the price difference...
 
A lot is down to the fact that the £/$ is very weak... Used to be 2:1 and now is only 1.4:1. Crude is bought/sold in $ so our £'s we pay at the pump don't get us as much motion lotion :(
 
Well, that I would believe if only they did not say last time when the $ was so weak and getting weaker, it did not mean that the prices were going down.
 
I just get upset with a commodity varying in price so much within a small geography.

At the moment you can get 1 liter of standard 95 ron from 85.9p to 97.9p locally. Cheapest is a Shell garage, not a supermarket.

14% variation on a commodity within 5 miles?

Why do people complain about miss managed economies when they don't even research and manage their own motor fuel bill?

Sceptre
 
Sceptre said:
Why do people complain about miss managed economies when they don't even research and manage their own motor fuel bill?

Sceptre
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Ooooooooooo....Handbags out!!!!!!!!!!! You must be an MP to make that sarcastic comment.
 
Oh joy!!

UK budget is increasing fuel tax by 2p a litre from September!! This is on top of the 2p rise in tax that happened this April!! :headbang:
 
Don't forget the 2p additional VAT by the end of the year as well ... That will be on top of the then current price, so will be actually more then 2p.
 
Oil is still on it's arse.

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/fds/hi/business/market_data/commodities/143908/twelve_month.stm

But the shitty £ hasn't helped us... if the $ goes south (which it may well yet do, maybe they are surviving on inertia of all those dollars), then it'll get a bit nicer for us again I guess.


I rekon it's a nice bit of profiteering more than anything, oh and Gordon Brown and his badger friend adding more duty!

Dave
 
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