!!!!!! - Petrol up again!

Hintza

I thought you were off to Australia last month? When you were kicking off about petrol and immigrants?

prowla

There is an oil cartel that decides on prices, and despite price fixing being illegal, the government doesn't mind about it too much because they get a lovely tax take (and can't control it anyway).
The only way out of it is to drive less.

LeeSouthEast

Or drive more efficiently.

I took the crap out of my boot, gave the car a service, pumped up the tyres and leaned off the accelerator a little. My mpg (400 mile average I think it does) went from 47 to 65.7 !

flyingscotno1

Petrol up 1p. Hadly the end of the earth and reason to be sick of the country. Oil companies do the same thing worldwide!

kevin.nicholls

One thing I've never worked out .. why do two Tescos / Morrisons / Sainsburys / Asda 20 miles apart charge 2p a litre different for fuel.

It's not like bread or milk costs less down the road.

dzug1

kevin.nicholls wrote: »

One thing I've never worked out .. why do two Tescos / Morrisons / Sainsburys / Asda 20 miles apart charge 2p a litre different for fuel.

It's not like bread or milk costs less down the road.

Cos they price it to the local market, not to a national price.

And other prices (true not often bread and milk but I have seen it) do vary in price between stores

whatmichaelsays

Of course, none of it has anything to do with currency fluctuations, oh no siree. (Apart from in Aus where they use monopoly money)

It's all that nasty governments fault. Oh yes.

Gavin83

00ec25 wrote: »

good bye, you've just freed up a job for someone else who is committed to this country so well done :T

Why should you be committed to a country? What a strange thing to say.

rev_henry

LeeSouthEast wrote: »

Ignoring the surrounding points of the original post, it is irritating when fuel rises are never replaced by fuel drops. Diesel was 99p last week when I filled up. I see this week it's shot up to 107.9 !

Fortunately I keep a hedge fund to absorb fuel bumps so it doesn't really affect my bottom line as such. But it is annoying. It sounds complicated but you can easily do it. For a quick 'idiots guide' take a click here.

Surely you don't actually save money by doing this, merely set aside some for when the price goes back up? Isn't it just a way of stopping you frittering away the savings from the lower price and making sure you keep it locked away?

rev_henry

prowla wrote: »

There is an oil cartel that decides on prices, and despite price fixing being illegal, the government doesn't mind about it too much because they get a lovely tax take (and can't control it anyway).
The only way out of it is to drive less.

The UK government can't impose laws on the OPEC countries so OPEC can do as it likes, no?