Cheapest Petrol & Diesel Discussion Area

Jebecanie

Martins article suggesting ways to reduce fuel consumtion and find the cheapest petrol station will of course help save money. However, the best way would be to get the tax on fuel reduced!
At 50.35p a litre, the duty paid on diesel in the UK is the highest rate in Europe , where the average level is 22.7p a litre. Did you know that around two-thirds of the price of petrol is tax? For every £50 you spend at the pumps, you only get £17 of petrol. And don't forget that VAT is charged fuel tax too - a tax on a tax. Why should an essential like fuel be taxed at several hundred %, when heating fuel is only taxed at 5%?

Below is a link to the official government petition aiming to lower fuel tax

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Lowerduty30/

Sign it, you all complain about high fuel prices, so do something about it,

To 'sign' the petition via email you need an email address and a home address, THAT'S IT !!!!!

Pass this on to EVERYONE you know, even if they don't drive yet, one day they will and they WILL complain about fuel prices.

Dicky2K

All very well, but if they reduce tax on Fuel, They'll only find some way of recovering the losses else where, such like VAT, I beleive that at the moment we're no where near the highest VAT rate, I read somwhere that places are paying 25% or even higher..
We'll all learn one day, if we save £10 somwhere, they'll take £15 somwhere else for somthing else..

Dusty_Vinyl

With price exceeding £1.30 at the pump for diesel, we invested in a storage tank with pump (cost about £900) and buy our fuel in bulk from the same people we get our heating oil from... we now pay £1.05/litre... it worked out that it takes just over a year (60 weeks) to make our money back for what we paid on the tank and we'll get cheap diesel for the evermore now!

Dicky2K

£1.05??? With me using over 1500lts per week, per lorry... i think its about time the boss had a word with the Fuel card companys.. think we're on about £1.25 inc the vat at the moment..

Dusty_Vinyl

we got our tank from www.commercialfuelsolutions.co.uk it was a 1400L model and only cost us £819+VAT it came with a pump and hoses etc... they have other sizes up to 10000L, ring them on 0845 688 9755

top.position

ncb wrote: »

Seriously, anyone got any advice as to which is the better saving - taking the risk of a pricier fill up (well few litres to let me looking for cheap) and potential loss of loyalty, or lose a couple of gallons of weight, and that is heavy when it is water in the watering can and fuel can't be that different?

I can't understand why anyone would go to the petrol station more often than they need to. My time is valuable and I'd rather not spend it on the forecourt.

My technique is simple. I pass 4 petrol stations on my journey to work. I know which ones are cheapest (both are near work rather than home). I also know when I will need to fill up (tip; there is a button to zero the speedo when you fill the tank). If I get to work and know I won't have enough to get there next day I fill up to the brim. The additional weight of half a tank of petrol is about 20kg or less than 2% of the total weight of the car. I wonder how much difference that additional weight makes to my fuel consumption? Not much I bet!

top.position

Daisymay wrote: »

The diesel here in Norfolk is now £130.9 well it was yesterday! As we have an old deisel vehicle we are now putting half & half cooking oil and have to say it is running much cleaner with no loss of performance, not that the it had performance before

I tried this with my old landrover (1972). At first I thought I was onto a winner as the power actually went up when I used rapeseed oil but I think I was using much more fuel so I've gone back to 'normal' diesel.

real1314

americanv8 wrote: »

I consistantly find Petrolprices.com to be wrong, this is probably due to the rapidly changing price of fuel however the site is no longer viable in my opinion. It told me that Tesco extra 4 mile away was the cheapest a few week ago at £1.19 so drove there to find it was £1.22 and ended up driving a further 4 mile to get it for £1.20.

Driving 4 miles will have cost you at least 40p. That's 20 litres of your 2p saving thrown away as soon as you filled up.

Drving a mile to get 1p off a litre means you must put at least 10 litres in to just break even. 2 miles is 20 litres, 3 miles is 30 etc.

Look for cheap places en-route to save money.

top.position

Dicky2K wrote: »

The government say they are not making any more money out of the fuel because its just the oil price from the suppliers that are going up.. and not the tax rate.. But what about the extra VAT they have made? In the last year fuel has gone up in some places by about 50p per litre (diesel especially).. and based on VAT being 17.5% thats an extra 8.75pence per litre they're making.. - and me being a HGV driver that takes 550 litres to fill up the lorry (3 times a week) thats an extra £145 per week.. JUST in VAT for ONE lorry to work.. And they're not getting any extra revenue??? Hrmm..

Of course they're making loads of money on the VAT - from those of us who can't claim it back. But surely your business is VAT registered.

Dicky2K

Is it.. - I dont own the business.. Im merely a donkey that drives.. But i have to run my own car at the weekend.. The point i was making was that they seem to think that they're not making any extra money from the price increase of Fuel.. But they neglect to mention the extra VAT..