Can someone please explain this?

Mercdriver

Wig wrote: »

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.

Tesco is usually the most expensive station in Port Talbot - they do go around the area and check and when Morrison's puts their price up to the same as tesco, Tesco put it up by a penny. Yet their lorries still have "Why Pay More" emblazoned on them. Hmmmm

aardvaak

docmatt wrote: »

I think your car is drinking fuel.

It was a long journey and wasn't completely empty when I refilled

Lomast

Barrel price has gone up recently I suspect they held up putting up the price until the budget so they would not have to put it up twice if the chancellor had put up the duty immediately

Head_The_Ball

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?

Can someone please explain this?

You exceeded light speed on your journey so you arrived back at the filling station a week earlier than you left it and prices were higher last week.

Shaka_Zulu

Perhaps this will help:-



Price of oil

GunJack

or in numbers.....

a month ago, oil price $51 a barrel, today almost £58 a barrel..

UncleZen

I was once in a fuel station, all new vehicles were told to wait. All those that had just filled up could go after paying. They amended the price and then let us all in. At the same time the numbers on the big sign changed electronically. I cant remember now if the price went up or down.

Gloomendoom

At some petrol stations in Germany, the price goes up and down depending on the time of day.

interstellaflyer

docmatt wrote: »

I think your car is drinking fuel.

What makes you think that? The OP makes no mention of how long his/her long journey was neither did the OP mention how much fuel He/She put back in.

AnotherJoe

aardvaak wrote: »

Tesco put the price up by a penny

On budget day in a matter of hours - surely a bit of a [STRIKE]coinstance[/STRIKE] coincidence ?

1. Prices change in a matter of seconds, not hours. They could have changed 1 second before you entered the station or 1 second after you left. So nothing strange about them having changed hours later.

2. Unless petrol stations are not allowed to change prices on budget Day (unless there is a tax change), then inevitably there will be times that prices do change on budget day just as they can change in any other day, so nothing strange there either.