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MSE News: Supermarkets cut petrol prices
Former_MSE_Helen
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in Motoring
"Fuel and diesel from Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Tesco forecourts will be cheaper from tomorrow morning..."
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Is this a standard cut and paste report once again?
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I don't know why the garages don't react to shifts in the oil market prices as the American ones do. It is not uncommon for one major city garage(s) to have a change almost daily.
Last July I was buying petrol in Montana (not the cheapest State) for the equivalent of £2.60 per English gallon and in Mississippi for £2.30.
In the UK any drops are not passed on when they happen. What has happened to the fuel price investigation by the Govt? It seems quite wrong that we pay £4 odd a gallon more than the Yanks do for their gas guzzlers.:mad:0 -
Still a much greater percentage of independently-owned gas stations in the USA - and the penetration of supermarkets is much lower although on the increase.0
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sailorchief wrote: »English gallon
Imperial gallon.0 -
sailorchief wrote: »I don't know why the garages don't react to shifts in the oil market prices as the American ones do. It is not uncommon for one major city garage(s) to have a change almost daily.
Last July I was buying petrol in Montana (not the cheapest State) for the equivalent of £2.60 per English gallon and in Mississippi for £2.30.
In the UK any drops are not passed on when they happen. What has happened to the fuel price investigation by the Govt? It seems quite wrong that we pay £4 odd a gallon more than the Yanks do for their gas guzzlers.:mad:
Considering most of the reason fuel prices are so high is thanks to the government's astronomical levels of tax levied; I'm not sure what the fuel price investigation was ever going to achieve.
It is pretty hypocritcal for them censure the oil companies for adding a few pence on here and there when they are taking 80p a litre in tax for doing absolutely nothing whatsoever.0 -
sub standard petrol rather pay for decent shell/esso etc0
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Wholesale petrol prices fell a further 1.5p per litre yesterday - time for another cut?0
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Wholesale petrol prices fell a further 1.5p per litre yesterday - time for another cut?
How much of a link is there between wholesale petrol prices and home heating prices? If forecourts can cut petrol prices why have utility companies just put theirs up by around 10% or isn't their any sort of link or similarity to the wholesale markets?0 -
The usual excuse peddled by the utilities is that they buy their fuel well in advance. Unfortunately it seems their buyers appear unable to purchase at a time when prices are falling. Pretty poor form if you ask me considering how astronomical their salaries must be. I could do their job with minimal training and a tenth of their wages. It would be difficult to perform any worse!How much of a link is there between wholesale petrol prices and home heating prices? If forecourts can cut petrol prices why have utility companies just put theirs up by around 10% or isn't their any sort of link or similarity to the wholesale markets?0
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