MSE News: Petrol prices hit highest level since 2013, says the AA – how to cut costs

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I don't really take any notice of fuel prices now. I still need to get from A to B and sometimes Z so no matter the price I still have to buy it. 

Ebe_Scrooge

Deleted_User said:

I don't really take any notice of fuel prices now. I still need to get from A to B and sometimes Z so no matter the price I still have to buy it. 

That's fair enough if you're driving round town, where the difference is small from one garage to the next.  Just last week we had a long trip - 500 miles each way, almost exclusively on the motorway.  Motorway services were charging £1.50 a litre.  Used Google maps to find the nearest non-motorway petrol station - next junction, 0.6 miles away from the junction, an Asda station where it was £1.32 a litre.  55 litres to fill up, by my reckoning that's just shy of a tenner saved on the tankful, and it's not like I had to make a huge diversion to save that.

[Deleted User]

Ebe_Scrooge said:

Deleted_User said:

I don't really take any notice of fuel prices now. I still need to get from A to B and sometimes Z so no matter the price I still have to buy it. 

That's fair enough if you're driving round town, where the difference is small from one garage to the next.  Just last week we had a long trip - 500 miles each way, almost exclusively on the motorway.  Motorway services were charging £1.50 a litre.  Used Google maps to find the nearest non-motorway petrol station - next junction, 0.6 miles away from the junction, an Asda station where it was £1.32 a litre.  55 litres to fill up, by my reckoning that's just shy of a tenner saved on the tankful, and it's not like I had to make a huge diversion to save that.

Yeah I don't use motorway services forecourts. While around town I now tend to use branded fuel more due to some issues of supermarket fuel blocking fuel filter up.