MSE News: Supermarkets cut petrol prices

Former_MSE_Guy

This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story:

"Four major stores have reduced the cost of filling your car at their forecourts, taking up to 2p off a litre of fuel ..."

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Supermarkets cut petrol prices

Barneysmom

Good news :cool:
Tesco have been 2p a litre more for my diesel due to the 5p off if you spend £50 deal. So I'll go to Sainsbobs or Asda from tomorrow.

Spiggle

Where do you get your highest and lowest prices (quoted in the article) from? One station near Swansea has had unleaded at 114.9 ppl for weeks and I passed one on the way to Portsmouth last week that had it at about 122.9 ppl.

rookie_2

In Glasgow at Anniesland Cross Morrisons have been selling petol for 113.9p this week.
Also is it not time garages stopped using the '.9p', trying to make it look cheaper-lets all be grown up and call it 114p/litre and be done.

peter_the_piper

Well its still 119/122 around Hastings, unless they've changed it in the last few hours.

molerat

I paid 112.9 yesterday in Asda while Tesco was 116.9. Does this mean it is coming down again tomorrow ?

wizk1

I've still got 2/3 of a tank left, so that should be enough for me to sit back and watch what happens for a little while

ghostmadlittlemiss

It's 117.9 at Sainsbury's in Bath. Made my day when I saw it'd gone down from 119.9.
Kayleigh

harveybobbles

Morrisons in Warrington was 113 unleaded and 116 derv. I think...

davidgmmafan

At least it happened before the VAT increase, lets hope they keep dropping then maybe people can afford it.

Did anyone else notice that amazing example of political double speak in the budget?

I am not raising duty on alcohol, petrol or cigarettes. I am however raising VAT applies to all of these and so comes to the same thing.

peterbaker

I think we have seen enough price manipulation by fuel retailers including the supermarkets to realise that MSE should not be sucked in by a 2p drop.

In my experience the drop will soon be followed by some to-ing and fro-ing in some quasi-competitive dance between the main players, but in just two or three weeks from now it will end up by more than it went down.

My tank was on a 1/4 full for a trip to the Midlands yesterday and my loca Asda was selling diesel for 116.9. I had a feeling that it wasn't the best price so I hedged and only put in enough for the round trip (20 litres). I was right. Shell and Asda were both selling at 115.9 at the other end so I filled up with Shell. The prices in the middle part of the journey were of course ridiculous.

The Asda diesel I'd bought seemed pretty dull stuff. Once I'd diluted it with normal Shell diesel I got much more lively performance on the way back.

I wish there was a way to know the actual energy value per litre of the fuel before you decide to buy it.

Most motorists know as much about the energy value of the fuel they choose for their vehicles as they do about the relative merits of Duracell, EverReady and Sainsburys cheapest AA batteries.

Amazing it should be so now we blindly spend so much of our disposable income on vehicle fuel swayed by almost nothing but price.