Can someone please explain this?

aardvaak

This morning at the start of a long journey I filled up my car with petrol at tesco Copdock,Ipswich at a price of 116.9 ppl
This evening at 5pm I filled the car up again at tesco Copdock,Ipswich (same station, same pump) at a price of 117.9ppl.

I thought the Chancellor had cancelled the duty price increase?

Aylesbury_Duck

There is a long and detailed explanation, far too complicated to go into here as Fermat would say. The simple explanation is that the garage put the price up.

Warwick_Hunt

aardvaak wrote: »

This morning at the start of a long journey I filled up my car with petrol at tesco Copdock,Ipswich at a price of 116.9 ppl
This evening at 5pm I filled the car up again at tesco Copdock,Ipswich (same station, same pump) at a price of 117.9ppl.

I thought the Chancellor had cancelled the duty price increase?

Tesco put the price up by a penny.


What more do you need explaining?

aardvaak

Warwick_Hunt wrote: »

Tesco put the price up by a penny.


What more do you need explaining?

Tesco put the price up by a penny

On budget day in a matter of hours - surely a bit of a coinstance?

ACG

I went into Sainsburys once, I came out 40 minutes later and the price of unleaded (not diesel though) had gone up by a penny. I did see the big tankers filling up the station when I went in though.

daveyjp

I once saw a station actually change prices as I passed. They were being reduced.

Warwick_Hunt

aardvaak wrote: »

Tesco put the price up by a penny

On budget day in a matter of hours - surely a bit of a coinstance?

Price of a barrel of oil has probably changed, nothing to do with the budget.

aardvaak

I know they do vary at different times up & down but I wondered if either they had expected duty to rise or mis-heard the news.

Wig

Tesco is IME & IMHO always the one, in any area, to try to push the price up.


If the competition like the idea they will follow suit, if they don't Tesco will be "forced" to put it back down again.

docmatt

I think your car is drinking fuel.

BeenThroughItAll

aardvaak wrote: »

I know they do vary at different times up & down but I wondered if either they had expected duty to rise or mis-heard the news.

You don't think that a business like Tesco might have a slightly more robust method of determining the impact of the Budget than some bloke sat listening to Radio 4 on his wireless?