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How to save money on Petrol?

movilogo
movilogo Posts: 3,238 Forumite
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I've started to drive for last 3 months.

So far, I always bought petrol from a shell pump besides my house for 84-85p/L.

Is there any petro card or similar thing to save money?

Thanks a lot.
Happiness is buying an item and then not checking its price after a month to discover it was reduced further.

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  • Hintza
    Hintza Posts: 19,420 Forumite
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    Not that I know of but it might be worth signing up to this lot. On saying that we have all been waiting over a year for it to get off the ground.

    http://www.pipelinecard.org/default.html
  • ollyshaw
    ollyshaw Posts: 704 Forumite
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    Drive better! Using higher gears, not accelerating hard then braking for a junction, etc etc

    http://irishcar.com/opeleconomy.htm

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  • saintjanet
    saintjanet Posts: 723 Forumite
    Or do what i do and drive like the stig,and dont worry about the cost:D
    :) There are two sides to every story.
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  • pinkfluffybabe
    pinkfluffybabe Posts: 2,989 Forumite
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    movilogo wrote:
    I've started to drive for last 3 months.

    So far, I always bought petrol from a shell pump besides my house for 84-85p/L.

    Is there any petro card or similar thing to save money?

    Thanks a lot.

    Shell have a pluspoint scheme where you get points for litres bought. You can exchange points for high street vouchers once you have 1500.

    They usually have leaflets instore or google 'shell pluspoints'
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  • Dunc6
    Dunc6 Posts: 59 Forumite
    If you have an Asda near you and use their credit card to buy fuel you save 2p a litre.
  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,935 Forumite
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  • movilogo
    movilogo Posts: 3,238 Forumite
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    Shell pluspoint is not useful to me as I fill much less than 35 L/week.
    Happiness is buying an item and then not checking its price after a month to discover it was reduced further.
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