Petrol prices

antrobus

Kim_13 wrote: »

Surely more vent worthy is the fact that prices are creeping back up in general when oil hasn't gone the same way?

But the price of oil has gone the same way.

Brent Crude has been down as low as $30 this year, but is creeping back up again and is now $41.

bod1467

The Esso near me on my way home today was 103.9p. The Sainsburys in my town was still 99.9p. (Both were diesel prices). Guess where I went.

Zinger549

It seems to have gone up by a few pence in the past week.

Valli

Now I know why my Hammers-supporting cousin posts COYI on Facebook when travelling to away games! Thanks zinger!
(Why irons though?)

giraffe69

Surely more vent worthy is the fact that prices are creeping back up in general when oil hasn't gone the same way?

It might be "vent worthy" if you had your facts right. The price of oil (Brent Crude) has gone from $27 at is lowest to around $41 today.

agrinnall

Valli wrote: »

Now I know why my Hammers-supporting cousin posts COYI on Facebook when travelling to away games! Thanks zinger!
(Why irons though?)

Has Google stopped working for you?

West Ham were originally known as Thames Ironworks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Ham_United_F.C.

NBLondon

It really is local competition driven.. When I used to drive to work regularly - I noticed:

• At the home end of the run; I could choose between Shell or Esso stations 200m apart and they always price matched each other. Or I could go a little out of the way and have a tank of Sainsburys 1 or 2p per litre cheaper
• At the work end - there was a single Shell which was cheaper than the large Tesco 250m away but often had longer queues because all the cabs filled up there.
• There was a Total station mid route which I only ever used for the really good jetwash but never petrol because it was 1 or 2p more than any other. It was revamped and became a Shell station - and the price went up even further (to pay for the refit?) but since there's no other within a mile, it still looks just as busy.

In my neck of the woods - BP is often 1p dearer - unless there is a Shell or Esso within sight then they price match. There was a Texaco that for many years was regularly dearer than the Esso 1/4 mile away but because the latter was out of sight and the former on a main route - they got away with it. It's only in the last 6 to 9 months that they've started price matching.

Bigphil1474

We used to have a Jet Service station near work which always seemed to be the cheapest around. The sites been taken over by BP and is now around 3p/litre more expensive than the Sainsburys up the road. Where I used to work, we had to use a particular company because we paid on contract - can't remember if it was Esso or Shell, but didn't bother me as I wasn't paying.