Cheapest Petrol & Diesel Discussion Area

rowdyyates

I was told recently by a chemist that putting effercent asprin tablets into your petrol tank will increase mpg by 13%, I tried it and got an increase of 15%. You must use one asprin tablet to every 10 litres of fuel, it MUST be water soluble/effercent asprin and it DOES NOT WORK with diesel.

Geoffrey_Coan

rowdyyates wrote: »

I was told recently by a chemist that putting effercent asprin tablets into your petrol tank will increase mpg by 13%, I tried it and got an increase of 15%. You must use one asprin tablet to every 10 litres of fuel, it MUST be water soluble/effercent asprin and it DOES NOT WORK with diesel.

Well I have to admit to being highly sceptical as to this suggestion - on what basis does Asprin improve MPG - does it help keep the car happy and prevent it getting bad headaches (thus runs more efficiently)?

More seriously, top tip is the Egg credit card that I have to admit being on the verge of cutting up since the benefits over other cards completely evaporated, but from now until end March they're giving 2p per litre instant cashback on all Shell purchases. Nice money saving bonus!

And since the Shell at Chiswell Green (near M25 J21a) is on my route home every day and is the cheapest fuel station for miles around, I'm an even happier moneysaving bunny

Cheers

Geoffrey

shinydoc

Geoffrey_Coan wrote: »

Well I have to admit to being highly sceptical as to this suggestion - on what basis does Asprin improve MPG - does it help keep the car happy and prevent it getting bad headaches (thus runs more efficiently)?

More seriously, top tip is the Egg credit card that I have to admit being on the verge of cutting up since the benefits over other cards completely evaporated, but from now until end March they're giving 2p per litre instant cashback on all Shell purchases. Nice money saving bonus!

And since the Shell at Chiswell Green (near M25 J21a) is on my route home every day and is the cheapest fuel station for miles around, I'm an even happier moneysaving bunny

Cheers

Geoffrey

If you get a Shell Citi Credit Card then you get 3% back at Shell filling stations. If you join the Shell Drivers Club (like a Tesco Clubcard) then you get even more :money:!!!! I never thought I would prefer an oil company over a supermarket!!

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PIPELINE CAR :rolleyes:!!!!!!!Yes, I know really, and it was a rhetorical question, but we have been waiting long enough now, haven't we?!

FRENCHIE44T

I have got an Asda Mastercard and that gives me an EXTRA 2p/litre OFF every time I fill up.:money:

I-LOV-MONEY

Anybody know why the price of petrol at my local Shell garages have gone up 1p since last week ?

Premier_2

I-LOV-MONEY wrote: »

Anybody know why the price of petrol at my local Shell garages have gone up 1p since last week ?

Cost of crude going up? Now over $41 a barrel, was less than that recently.
Value of stirling plummiting? Currently $1.3372 = £1.00, was about $2 = £1 not so long ago
General inflation?
To provide for a bit of bubbly at the shareholders annual meeting?

Take your pick!

I-LOV-MONEY

Premier wrote: »

Cost of crude going up? Now over $41 a barrel, was less than that recently.
Value of stirling plummiting? Currently $1.3372 = £1.00, was about $2 = £1 not so long ago
General inflation?
To provide for a bit of bubbly at the shareholders annual meeting?

Take your pick!

According to teletext the spot prices are still going down !

I think they will be able to buy a number of bottles of bubbly at the AGM :beer:

I-LOV-MONEY

From Shell Customer Service Centre

Petrol prices are based on traded refined product prices and not
traded oil prices, there is a time lag between oil prices
increasing/decreasing and refined product going up/down.
Price of refined product is not only influenced by oil price and
therefore a direct correlation cannot always be drawn.
- A major influence is demand for fuel (can drive refined product
prices up even if oil is static or going down)
- Another is refining capacity, while linked to the previous
point, even if demand for fuel is static a reduction in capacity
(caused by a refineries breaking down) can increase prices.

On Shell dealer locations Shell cannot legally stipulate how these
sites should price product.

The aggressiveness of competition does, differ from place to place.
This means that although prices in local areas are often very close
to one another, variations can occur. The most intense competition
tends to occur in areas with high population densities and large
numbers of service stations.

Yes - why didn't I think of that :mad:

Premier_2

I-LOV-MONEY wrote: »

According to teletext the spot prices are still going down !

...

Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose more than $2 a barrel in New York, the most in more than two weeks, as traders purchased futures for February delivery before the contract expired today.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aDdCUapiG.P8&refer=australia

TOKYO, Jan 21 (Reuters)...U.S. crude oil prices CLc1 have risen over 25 percent since settling below $33 a barrel on Dec. 19, to stand at over $41 on Wednesday,...

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKT684520090121

...and that's before you take into effect the collapse of Sterling

ToggleUK

Just a heads up to everyone. ASDA recently wrote me to advise there 2p per litre off petrol forcourt prices will end with effect 1st march when the discount will lower to only 1p per litre. This, they say reflects the recent fall in oil prices..lol..given they (and others) are still charging more per litre now at less than $40 a barrel than they were charging around 1 year ago when the barrel price was higher..its a bit of a joke..but at least I had a few discounts while it lasted..