£1.86 in Bangor today at a Texaco but bizarrely £1.90 at the nearby Tesco. Since when are supermarkets more expensive than filling stations?
Since when are supermarkets more expensive than filling stations?
Same here in rural North Yorkshire. Esso, 8 miles away in Harrogate are now usually cheaper than our robbing bastid Morrisons.
Morrisons have no competition here so they can rip the locals off.*
*Sorry, ‘capitalise on the market’.
1.70euro near Lens - France.
192.9p at Esso near me this morning
189.9 at Sainsbury's
If I use 300 Nectar points at Esso though, it knocks 5p a litre off so down to 187.9.
I heard somewhere that Asda and some other supermarket were beginning to really cut fuel prices to try and get more footfall in the stores.
There's one near us about 20p less than everywhere else which has just been gridlocking the area around it. Despite this, none of the other 2 garages in town show any reduction.
ASDA by work was 15.2p/L cheaper than Tesco at home this morning.
I’ve just filled up at my localish garage ( east yorks) with petrol, £169.9 a litre.
Couldn’t get near the place on the outward journey for cars queuing in the road.
Diesel was £189.9
I’ve seen it at £181.9 last night, at a BP going into Melksham on the A350. I’ll check my local Sainsbury’s on my way out tonight, to see what they’re selling at, and top up if they’re the same, ‘cos I’ve got a 250 mile round trip to Heathrow, then Salisbury and then back home tomorrow.
£195.9 in Ross today. 😭
Checked out Sainsburys on the way out to pick up my mate to go to the pub, and they’re 180.9, so I topped up ready for tomorrow.
The BP going into Melksham is 179.9, and Sainsburys in Melksham is 173.9! 😳
If they’re keeping their prices at that sort of level, I’ll happily drive through Melksham on my way home and fill up there - because they’re off the road through the town, there are no obvious signs showing their prices anywhere around, you have to drive across the roundabout and look towards their car park to see the prices.
Local to me in Oswestry yesterday diesel was 1.98 still !
Drive to Bolton and it was 1.82
£1.63 for Petrol and £1.83 for diesel at Trago Mills Newton Abott yesterday on way home from Cornwall.
Must have been 50+ vehicles queueing down the road for it too, so carried on towards Torbay and went in the Harvest Garage at Kingskerswell. No one in there.
Same price for Petrol and 4p litre more for Diesel. I took the £2.80 hit to fill up in peace 😉
Must have been 50+ vehicles queueing down the road for it too
i bet some of those then only put £10 or £20 in too. People are strange.
Did a 200-odd mile trip today to Heathrow and Salisbury then back home to Chippenham, and I didn’t see any filling stations that were as cheap as the two in Melksham, most were roughly 183.9 to 189.9, or thereabouts.
Saw diesel at 1.83.7 at Asda in Glasshoughton, Castleford today.
Petrol was 1.70 something...
Tesco had their diesel down to 183.9 near me yesterday.
Still eye wateringly expensive as I remember my shock back in March when it passed 150p.
It should be coming down more, they just need the stock to wash through
175.9 at Asda Hulme Manchester for petrol.
169.9 at tesco
It should be coming down more,
they just need the stock to wash throughbut people are still queueing up to buy it at the higher price
Fixed
Some garages 199.9 in Salisbury this morning. Just passed a Tesco in Poole, 188.9
Oddly, seems a bargain!
169.9 Petrol Sainsbury Wakefield
ASDA in Warrington, E10 at 174.4
It's pretty ridiculous when I considered 188.9 a litre for diesel at Sainsbury's in Swindon a bargain. I put £50 in which gave me one litre more than if I'd bought at 195.9 closer to home.
BP sees profits soar…
Yeah, it is.
Whilst slightly obscene, your local BP petrol station has about as much to do with BP Plc on the news, as the guy pulling his Blur out of his T6 has to Santa Cruz LLC (they've both bought a product from a big company). BP don't even have a refinery in the UK anymore.
Why has OPEC not been blamed here? Surely they have been controlling prices as usual?
I know this thread is car fuels but I just did my meter readings (Octopus) and checked my balance. They have a newish feature that uses your monthly payments and historic usages to predict how your balance will evolve as you use more in the winter. At present it's on a flat basis of the current tariff, but they now have a 'crystal ball' mode where they predict based on new price cap estimates.
****, is all I can say.