Diesel price

[Gafferbill]

Hi

Just been shreading some old buisiness records.

Came across a receipt for Diesel purchased at Thurrock

services M25 dated 18/04/1997........

58.9 pence per litre !!!

 

[Angus1]

It`s like finding an old steam train ticket!

Bygone days....

Just passed an independant filling station North of Sheffield, Diesel at 118.8 per litre, at least four pence cheaper than anywhere else I`ve seen.

 

[Terry_5112949]

I`ve just read on the news that the price of oil has dropped to 118 a barrel, does this mean diesel/petrol prices will come down? or will we be told it will when the fuel filters through, funny how we dont have to waite for an increase when the price of oil per barrel goes up.

 

[Ray R]

We are on holiday at Incleboro fields near Cromer at the moment and the diesel here is the cheapest I've seen for a while I paid 123.9 per litre at a local jet station and it's the same at Morrisons supermarket.

 

[Karen_374313821]

Here in N Ireland we are paying 127.99 pence per litre for diesel today last week it was 131.99p.

Rip off island!!!!

Karen

 

[rob_jax]

Hi Karen,

There are no oil refineries in Northern Ireland - so all the fuel needs to be shipped in - so yes, it's going to be a bit more expensive.

Robert

 

[SteveW77]

Rob-jax

You may have a point, but in Luton this morning i saw a Texaco site still selling diesel at

 

[rob_jax]

Hi Steve,

Not a point really, more a fact of oil production.

In the UK we live in Wendover, not that far from Luton - and in our village diesel is selling for around 125p per litre, with the cheapest locally at around 121p. And all of the fuel stations in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire will have been supplied from Buncefield...

Robert

 

[SteveW77]

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[colin(bridgend)]

Tesco in Bridgend has today dropped it's prices by 1p per litre to match Sainsbury. We are mid way between Cardiff and Swansea but as we only have Sainsbury as competition in the supermarket field Bridgend prices are approximately 5p per litre dearer than either of the cities. Even Port Talbot approx 12 miles away is cheaper because they have to compete with Morrisons. Rip off supermarkets charge what they like instead of having a standard rate throughout the UK.

 

[rob_jax]

"Rip off supermarkets charge what they like instead of having a standard rate throughout the UK."

If supermarkets didn't offer good value, they wouldn't be in business.

But what are the benefits of a standard rate? Other than everyone pays the same price - so high throughput fuel stations in towns and cities, or fuel stations near oil refineries would subsidise out of the way fuel stations?

And how about "5p off" discounts - those would need to disappear

And who would set the rate anyway?

Robert

 

[colin(bridgend)]

Supermarkets are a rip off - they force the small trader out of business by offering low prices and then raise their prices as they have killed the competition.

What is wrong with having a standardised price? why should those cloer to a refinery charge less for the fuel compared to other more distant towns/cities? As I said Bridgend is mid way between Cardiff and Swansea - should the fuel come either from the east or west via the M4 they still have to pass Bridgend to get to one or the other city. The argument of being closer to the refinery does not hold good as one or other city would be 20 miles further away.

Regarding the 5p off coupons that again is a rip off - if they can afford to offer these discounts just to attract the custom why not drop the price accordingly and save the expence of paper and print for the coupons.

Normally on a Saturday morning in Tesco in Bridgend there is a queue at the checkouts - last Saturday there was no queue at ANY checkout and four tills were closed. As I have previously stated a sign of the times for rip off supermarkets. Lidls have recently open two stores in town and Aldi one store and the effects of these discount stores are definately having an effect on takings at Tesco.

However since posting my comment yesterday at 5:43 pm Tesco have knocked a further 1p off the price of fuel making it now 125.9p per litre for diesel.

Another point to be answered - how on earth do the supermarkets/garages calculate the cost of fuel to include for excise duty and VAT and to arrive at a price of xxx.9p - They must have marvellous mathematicians to be able to calculate the basic costs that when taxes are added to arrive at this magical .9p each time there is an adjustment of price - again a rip off by all retailers.