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MSE News: Asda to cut petrol prices
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Whatever happend to The Pipeline Card, all I ever got was marketing emails for wine and utility offers!0
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There was a time when Tesco's would guarantee they were the cheapest otherwise you would get double the discount off.
That was worth it then.
Now Tesco's are often dearer than most and not worth using.
I often find the local Shell garages to be amongst the cheapest - not the supermarkets. And that is despite having, several Tesco, Morrison, Sainsbury and Asda stations close by.0 -
Good Old Days eh ?
I remember petrol at £1.27 per GALLON !!
Pah.
I remember a gallon of 2* and a shot of oil (two stroke) for my first motorbike was about 85p at the garage I worked in part time. I only got paid a pound an hour so relatively about the same as today. if you compare it to the minimum wage."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
so the customer is £2.85 worse off.
every little helps (tesco's profits)!In the good old days, when petrol & diesel cost about £1.00 per litre, the savings of 1p here or 2p there were worth chasing, but now, anything less than 7-8p per litre saving is not worth worrying about. BP did a promotion a few weeks ago, where you got 5p off per litre if you bought 2 bottles of Coke at the garage. It actually would have cost me more, if I'd put less than 50 litres of diesel in my tank, because the coke cost £1.49 per bottle!!!
Are you both really surprised??????"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
ASDA are consistently the cheapest IMO.
My closest is 14 miles away but i pass it a couple of times a month so can usually top up although I do have to drop off the Motorway to do it.
Our local station, supermarket owned, (close to a busy motorway) and those in our closest town, 6 miles in the opposite direction are invariably 5p or more a litre.
Recently I found garages in the highlands of Scotland cheaper than our local ones."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Don't forget that there is a difference in petrol quality too
I find that I get perhaps 2 or3 mpg more from Texaco fuel than I do from Asda or Tesco !!
Before anyone queries this - try it yourselves and see
I am aware that, in theory, they "could be" one and the same - but it depends on storage (water component) etc.....0 -
Don't forget that there is a difference in petrol quality too
I find that I get perhaps 2 or3 mpg more from Texaco fuel than I do from Asda or Tesco !!
Before anyone queries this - try it yourselves and see
I am aware that, in theory, they "could be" one and the same - but it depends on storage (water component) etc.....
Doesn't make any difference in my cars (diesels), that are both driven sensibly.
Numerous threads on here have made it clear it comes form the same source."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »Doesn't make any difference in my cars (diesels), that are both driven sensibly.
Numerous threads on here have made it clear it comes form the same source.
Oil may not be so important to store properly than refined petrol - but I am not alone in finding that Tesco/Asda fuel does not go as far as Texaco etc....
I have actually done tests - driving several hundred miles with different brands of fuel - one, a unknown brand - bought at a motorway filling station in the midlands caused my car to stutter and missfire as well as giving noticeably less MPG - I am not talking peanuts either - it was about 5 mpg less !!0 -
Fascinating stuff, but having driven several cars, petrol and diesel, over 25 years or so, I have never taken any notice of petrol brands, nor noticed the slightest difference between them.2kWp Solar PV - 10*200W Kioto, SMA Sunny Boy 2000HF, SSE facing, some shading in winter, 37° pitch, installed Jun-2011, inverter replaced Sep-2017 AND Feb-2022.0
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Filled up at 133.9 (95 octane unleaded) today which was a pleasant surprise.0
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