Daylight robbery diesel!

[Helen F H]

Holy cow. I knew it was going to be bad when we arrived at the garage to fill up with fuel and they didnt have their prices on the board outside....i suspect it was because they had run out of numbers.

Guess how much per litre for diesel? £1.34 For that price i want Orlando Bloom nekkid working behind the counter! Now i know Grangemouth is shut for strike action, but £1.34 for a litre of diesel just isnt funny when all the fuel for Orkney comes from Liverpool by boat. Dont get me started on red diesel either, cos that had more than doubled too

And breathe

[Scubee]

holy shit.
it is going to be about 10 days before Grangmouth is operating fully again. Wonder how high the capitalist bastewards will hike the price before then!

[gwilson]

At least you can get diesel, most of the garages around here are now running out. Be interesting to see if they drop their prices once Grangemouth is up and running again, or if the garage owners will just keep the prices up.

[Twinsetmad]

At the moment in Northampton the cheapest is £119.9 per llitre. For every 1p they put the price up... it costs me another £1 to fill my van. Since Christmas its gone from £1.09 to £1.20... so I'm now paying £11 a week more to fill up, which I have to at least once a week.

I can remember the fuel strikes... when petrol got close to £1 per litre... its about time again.

Two of the biggest house builders in the midlands, Persimonds and Barratts have suspended all work on their building sites as they just can't sell the houses they are building, which means my work will dry up very soon with a knock on effect.

We ARE in a resession........

[Odin]

I am now thinking about the cost of getting to and from dive sites.
It now cost me £5 more per trip to most dive sites. Not a lot individually, but over a year it will be in the hundreds of pounds.

[big_si]

Originally Posted by Helen F H

Now i know Grangemouth is shut for strike action, but £1.34 for a litre of diesel just isnt funny when all the fuel for Orkney comes from Liverpool by boat. Dont get me started on red diesel either, cos that had more than doubled too

Ah, Shell, Ellesmere Port, I guess... I suppose as a result of Grangemouth striking their demand has gone up too...

Or maybe it's just the petrol station jumping on the band wagon and screwing everyone over?


Prices are crazy now... Not good

[essexbloke]

Originally Posted by Scubee

holy shit.
it is going to be about 10 days before Grangmouth is operating fully again. Wonder how high the capitalist bastewards will hike the price before then!

i blame the unions and a weak Scottish pm


up the Maggie

[Mark Chase]

Its so insaine now that my petrol bill is usualy arround £1000 a month. With the congestion charge and parking costs my general moter expenses are usaualy arround £1500 a month or £70 a day.

We charged a lady £650+vat to do a two day job yesterday and she got upset about it and was screeming about how we were ripping her off.

Two men wages two days £400 so out of £250 we have to cover motor, advertising, insurance, materials and office overheads and some how make a profit

There is a garage in Haywards Heath selling 50/50 bio fuel for 1.11p If the govt were serious about green issues all garages would sell bio petrol and bio deasel.

But they are not serios and the green lobby are just idiots pushing for the wrong things. The price of fuel doesnt affect my usage. I use what I have to use.

Push for Bio fuel at every petrol station and push for more economical large capacity vans and cars.


I drive a Shogan Diesel at the moment if they did a LPG version id get it and if they did Bio fuel at the petrol station Id use it. But I need a large 7 seater and preferably 4WD so theres no point ofering me a Toyota Pryas.



ATB

Mark

[BJ]

Helen, I thought you used the red stuff...oh, hush my mouth!

Mark: Bio fuel may be a good idea but not if we have to pay £10 for a loaf instead. (Hasn't news of the world food shortage reached south of the river yet?)

[thewisestfish]

This is a good web site - you can shove in your postcode (you have to register) and it tells you the cheapest petrol in your area. Free UK fuel prices. 9,701 petrol stations covered - PetrolPrices.com