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MSE News: Petrol prices rise beyond 140p again
Former_MSE_Helen
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"Petrol at the pumps has reached the 140p a litre mark again, while diesel is 146.38p on average, the AA says..."
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That's strange.
Due to the supermarkets most of ours are at 136.9 the cheapest was 132.9 and the worst (BP as usual) 139.9What if there was no such thing as a rhetorical question?0 -
opposite to your story other day that petrol prices are 4p cheaper than last month due to supermarkets 'slashing prices'Year 2019 (1,700/£17000mortgage repayment)Overall mortgage (71,400/165568) (44
.1%) (42/100) payments made. Total paid 2019 year £1,700
Total paid 2017 year £15,300Total paid 2018 year £13,6000 -
I've gone past caring. It has been beyond a joke for a number of years now.0
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Northern Ireland is the most expensive
*rolleyes*Wealth is what you're left with when all your money runs out0 -
What's the point of calculating the average petrol price on an unweighted sample of forecourt prices? By number there'll be some charging over £1.40 to get the average up to £1.40, but the going rate looks like it's about £1.36. So the only people paying over £1.40 would be people who are desperate (or lazy), or those in hotspots like Kent.
It's a meaningless figure. The average price actually paid for unleaded petrol today will be well below £1.40.
A more representative figure might be 'the average of the 30% of cheapest petrol stations, by region, according to petrolprices.com' - they're the ones where people are actually going to be buying petrol!0 -
The price has been so high for so long I'm surprised these things even make the news anymore.
The government is skint, fuel is one of the easiest ways of raising revenue. If the whole nation changed their car tomorrow for one that was twice as economical, the price of petrol would double overnight!!0 -
I'd quite happily see the same demonstrations that we had when it was approaching £1 a litre.
Instead we're just bending over and accepting the inevitability that it'll rise and rise. I'm flushing between £300 and £400 a month down the toilet on fuel at the moment (and then there's the wifes car on top of that as well).
When it hits £2 a litre (in a few years the way it's going) will we still be happy about it?0 -
Our local BP was 143.9 for unleaded earlier this week0
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Tescos around here are currently at £1.45 for diesel (not including the 5p/litre discount). The BP at Severn View services is £1.55
They seemed quite offended when I pulled up at one of their pumps, running on fumes, looked at the price, pulled into a parking space and started filling up from my 5 litre can instead. Asked what I was doing and I told them I was refusing to pay £1.55 a litre when there's a Tesco on the other side of the bridge that's 15p cheaper.0 -
Tescos around here are currently at £1.45 for diesel (not including the 5p/litre discount). The BP at Severn View services is £1.55
They seemed quite offended when I pulled up at one of their pumps, running on fumes, looked at the price, pulled into a parking space and started filling up from my 5 litre can instead. Asked what I was doing and I told them I was refusing to pay £1.55 a litre when there's a Tesco on the other side of the bridge that's 15p cheaper.
I've done that twice, once at Clacket Lane (M25 Kent) when it was just over a quid a litre and everywhere else about 85p, and once at a place with really loud music and mindless disc jockey broadcast on the forecourt at 2.30 am0
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