BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK

Subject: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Rasener
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 11:14 AM

I had to go for petrol today, not because of the Grangemouth Strike, but because my tank was literally empty.

I paid £1.079 per litre in Tesco's, Market Rasen Lincolnshire.

It would be interesting to see how the petrol price hikes pan out in your area and the name of the supplying garage.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: nutty
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 11:41 AM

I'm paying 118.9p per litre for diesel. Thats 50p a gallon more than you TV.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 11:44 AM

I have seen 1.24p for super duper smelly diesel at the Shell garage in Purley, Surrey.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 12:20 PM

We're told that the main reason our gasoline in the US is so high, by the barrel and by the gallon, is that the US dollar is so low in value. If that is so, people in the rest of the world must be feeling a bit miffed at the US right about now.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 12:45 PM

108.9 per litre unleaded in Thorne tonight.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: pdq
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 01:05 PM

For those of us in the good ol' US of A:

1 US gallon = 3.79 liters

1 Pound Sterling = 1.98 US dollars

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Cats
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 01:35 PM

121.9 on the A30 at Plusha.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: nutty
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 01:42 PM

4.5 litres = 1 UK gallon .... just to add to the confusion

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 01:59 PM

Dunno. I just put £20 worth in the tank when it gets near empty.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 04:10 PM

A year ago I could fill my petrol tank with unleaded fuel for a shade over £40....it now costs over £50 for the same.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 04:59 PM

Ah, but I never fill my tank. Just stick in the £20 worth. Saves me from getting upset about that kind of stuff. And since there's nothing I can do about it, that seems quite a good idea.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 03:02 AM

Could people state what TYPE of fuel they're quoting prices of, please? Diesel and unleaded can differ in price by quite a lot!

Unleaded Petrol - 109.9p/litre at Tesco, Gainsborough, Lincs. last night.

McG, I always fill the tank - I've never understood the logic of not doing so, it's the same price no matter how much you put in! Filling it means less time wasted going to the filling station, more time to do useful things, surely?

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 03:04 AM

It seems that more people buy fuel 'by the £20' rather than counting in the litres. It makes far better budgetary sense, but every month, that £20 gets less fuel. Most drivers have, in their heads, a rough idea of how many car journeys £20 worth of fuel will get them, but I've seen a few on the roadside that have been caught out. 'I put in £20's worth, it's always been enough to get me home before' is going to be heard a lot more often by the Roadside Assistance companies.

I must admit to being one of the '£20 worth' people, I'm a natural blonde so I've no idea how far it will get me, but I do know that if my petrol gauge is showing only the one bar of fuel, it's time to hie me to the cheapest garage!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 03:15 AM

"Most drivers have, in their heads, a rough idea of how many car journeys £20 worth of fuel will get them"

Mmmmm, I have, in my head, a pretty accurate idea of how far a full tank will get me, and I have never, ever, in 43 years of motoring, run out of fuel - even when an old banger (Vauxhall Viva Rotbox) back in 1972/3 had a non-operative fuel gauge for over a year!

I find budgetting for four full fills a month easier than six, or maybe seven, or perhaps eight, or might it be nine, or could it be ten, part-fills! :-)

But maybe, at this early hour on a Saturday, that's just me being a contrary, grumpy old man! LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 03:17 AM

And anyway, nice to know I'm not the only person who can't lie in at weekends Liz! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Rasener
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 05:37 AM

>>I paid £1.079 per litre in Tesco's, Market Rasen Lincolnshire<<

That was unleaded.

Agree with BWM. Doesn't make sense to me to fill up £20 worth at a time. Gone up 2p a litre in less than 24 hours at Tesco. I assume they are charging the same amount in MR as Gainsborough.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: strad
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 07:15 AM

Between £1.23 and £1.30 in the UK oil capital of Shetland. And Autogas is between 68p and 73p per litre. Why don't I just stay home!

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 05:17 PM

Run out of petrol? These days I make a point of carrying a spare can.

"I always fill the tank - I've never understood the logic of not doing so..." The logic of not filling the tank for me is that it saves me from getting upset about it costing more than it did last time. If doing it that way worked out marginally more expensive I think it'd be worth the difference. But since I generally buy petrol at the same time as doing the shopping it doesn't in fact involve any extra mileage.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 06:39 PM

I have a LARGE van that I don't drive much anymore. The tank is quite low. If I had filled it a couple months ago, I could have saved ...maybe $10 over what it would cost me today. But, on the other hand, gas/petrol degrades if it just sits in the tank, and running on very old fuel can cause problems....so I will buy just enough for current needs.......and I may just try to sell the van! If I got $4000 for it, that would buy a LOT of gas for our 2 smaller vehicles.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 07:08 PM

McG -

There's a certain advantage and convenience in having the tank generally "near full" rather than generally "near empty."

The rationale that it "costs more" to keep it full just means that you drive it till it's empty before you add any. You don't really have to do that.

If you want "regularized expense" when you've used 20 put in 20, whether it's gallons, litres, $, €, £, ¥, or glass beads and lizard skins.

It makes no real difference if it's the top 20 in the tank or the bottom 20 in the tank.

Although the benefit is probably less than touted by some, a smaller air volume in the tank probably does reduce condensation and oxidation of fuel in the tank. An offsetting factor is that a full tank might be more attractive to thieves if they knew ti was full, but they really can't tell how much is in the tank when they punch the hole in it.

My real reason for prefering a "near full" average is that in a couple of very rare - but repeated - instances when the local population all went mad it was impossible to get enough fuel to get out of town.

I find it "inconvenient" to be forced to stop at the first fuel pit when there's a mob following, and besides the price may be better (and frequently is) a little further from my immediate neighborhood.

Having failed to follow my usual practice of keeping my fuel in the "top half," I did pay $78 (~£40?) at my last topping up, but it had been 97 days since I'd added any and I only had about 100 miles worth left in the tank. (I do keep an accurate log.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 03:49 AM

"I find it "inconvenient" to be forced to stop at the first fuel pit when there's a mob following, and besides the price may be better (and frequently is) a little further from my immediate neighborhood."

That's a sensible argument for going that bit further, like always wait for the second bus... but it's not always possible. We no longer have a petrol station less than a mile from the house, whereas when I moved here 17 years ago, there were four. There is one on the mile mark, three between that and 2 miles. This means that there are fewer pumps for more cars - and this is in a huge city. For those in small communities it must be impossible to choose between the one garage they have.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Sooz
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 04:24 AM

Only 105.9 at Asda in Scunthorpe yesterday. Not for much longer I suspect!

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 10:10 AM

Long way to go for a fill though Sooz!

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: pdq
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 11:05 AM

The highest price mentioned yet seems to be 1.30 in Shetland.

That is about $9.75 for a US (smaller) gallon.

I paid $3.59 yesterday. That was out here in the western US.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: GUEST,Arnie at work
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 11:32 AM

Ok then - is anyone going to enlighten us and work out how much in £ sterling a litre of unleaded petrol(gas) costs in the US? All the information seems to be in the above threads but I only got my O level maths, and then at the 3rd attempt so there's no way I'd ever work it out!

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: pdq
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 11:40 AM

If Brits paid the equivalent of $3.59 (US dollar/US gallon), they would be paying about 0.47 Pound Sterling per liter.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: GUEST,Arnie at work
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 11:48 AM

pdq - that really was pretty damned quick! Thanks for working it out. Unfortunately I feel even more depressed about fuel prices now I know what our friends over there are paying!

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Crane Driver
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 12:45 PM

The short answer seems to be 'Yes, the highest price paid for petrol IS in the UK' - as ever.

I've traded in the petrol car for a diesel - more per litre but less per mile, as the fuel consuption is better. I certainly notice the difference.

Out here in the sticks, I find I need to put more in the tank - further between fillups - £20 gets me nowhere, I have to put £50 in at a time or I'd be living on the forecourt. Even with the diesel. It's nearly 40 miles a day to the office & back.

Most of the price here is tax - duty on the fuel, then VAT on top of that, so we're paying tax on the tax we pay. Thanks to that nice Mr Brown. Of course, HIS fuel is bought for him by the taxpayer. Not that a change of government would change anything.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 04:12 PM

The downside of always 'filling up' is that the additional weight makes your car less efficient in the miles per gallon stakes.

And why, when there looks like there may be a shortage, do garages (US=Filling stations)start sprouting "£20 Max" signs? This encourages people to top up regularly, and so make more visits to the garage. Each time wasting fuel while sitting in a queue. It makes the garages look busier, and persuades more people to join the queue as they may miss out.

Just get the garages to act in concert, and display "Minimum Charge £20- (except motorcycles)". Cars would only queue if they had room in their tanks for £20- worth of petrol (or more) thus invalidating the vicious circle described in the previous paragraph.

Just my two-pennorth

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: folk1e
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 05:32 PM

I don't care how much it costs at the moment!

I just traded my 1992 volvo 940 (under 20 mpg) petrol guzzeler for a
Volvo V70 (2004) V5 Diesel! (45 mpg) .....650 miles to the next fill up and the guage shows 95% full after 90 miles!

A happy folk1e!

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Phot
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 06:04 PM

My daily commute costs around £20-£25 a day in fuel, and yes it's my fault for having a V8 Discovery, but I can't afford to get somthing else as due to my posting to a new job where I have to "live in", and the old girl is worth just about £750 at current prices. Also my pay packet is now some £500 a month light on what I was earning this time last year, and I'm still doing the same job!

On my way to work there is a petrol station where petrol is £1.13, and diesel is £1.24! But Tesco in Aldershot charge £1.09.9, yet in Portsmouth £1.07.9, same refinery, distribution depot, and retailer, so why the price difference?............Just food for for thought.

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 07:31 PM

Nigel, I would take issue with your "garage / (US=filling station)" etymology.

Nobody in the UK nowadays refers to a filling station as a "garage".

a "garage" is where you go to get your MOT done, get your brakes checked, etc.

a "filling station" is where you go to get your petrol.

No "garage" that I am familiar with operates as a filling station, although there may well be rural areas outwith my experience where both functions are combined.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: pdq
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 08:13 PM

In the good ol' US of A:

a place near your house (should be enclosed) where you can park a car is called a 'garage'

a shop that repairs your car is called a 'repair shop'

a place to buy gasoline is called a 'gas station'

a store with gas pumps next to it is called 'a store with gas station'.

Perhaps we in the US are just a simpler lot.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 03:01 AM

Yes, you in the US are all simple....       :D

LTS (ducking and running for cover)

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: skarpi
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 03:25 AM

161 Isl kr, thats about 1 : 50 pound

ATB Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: The Barden of England
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 03:32 AM

a place to buy gasoline is called a 'gas station'

But here in the UK I buy GAS for my caravan to heat my food on my gas cooker. And I use GAS at home for my Central Heating

I buy PETROL (From PETROLeum) for my car from a petrol station. You can buy GAS for your car at some, but it's LPG (Liquified PETROLeum GAS). The dual use of the word gas in the USA has confused me at times.

John Barden

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: pdq
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 09:19 AM

Please, now. The word was simpler, not simple.

Perhaps our ordinaryness helps us be so successful. Hmm?

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: GUEST,Windsor Knot
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 10:12 AM

Here is the solution on youtube.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wdxs77Ysgk4

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Mr Happy
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 10:13 AM

103.9p Morrisons, Shrewsbury on Saturday

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 10:13 AM

"The dual use of the word gas in the USA has confused me at times"

Dual?? Try three uses.... I was very concerned when an American friend told me she had gas and was sorry about it. Having come across its use as 'petrol' I was shocked to think of my friend having to 'pass' her gas....


Although, maybe there's something the biofuel inventors should be looking at.... how much of that 'gas' is there in the world and how can we harness it?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: The Barden of England
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 10:27 AM

Nice one LTS :-). Forgot that one.

John Barden

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 10:29 AM

Trust me to remember the fart jokes! :D

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Cats
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 12:11 PM

121.9 at the BP garage in St Austell, Cornwall for diesel today.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 05:27 PM

£1.12 at the BP garage at the bottom of Gravel Hill in Croydon - obviously geared towards the builder oiks who live in new Addington who pay for everything in cash and drive white vans.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Rasener
Date: 09 May 08 - 04:20 AM

Just filled up at Tesco's Market Rasen UK, this morning.

Unleaded £1.089 a litre

So it has gone up a penny since 25th April 2008

All this whilst the petrol companies make huge profits.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 09 May 08 - 05:12 AM

That's capitalism for you Les.

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: Rasener
Date: 09 May 08 - 05:16 AM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 09 May 08 - 05:26 PM

Devon = £1.13p

Sal

Subject: RE: BS: Highest price paid for petrol in the UK
From: skipy
Date: 09 May 08 - 08:34 PM

1.23.9 here in Grove this morning & no smoking shed!
Skipy