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Found a great cheap fuel finder site
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No but if you are driving a certain route it's well worth buying at the cheapest place which can be significantly more than a couple of pennies.
Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.0 -
I’d imagine most use common sense and plan it as part of future trips. Cars are probably capable of 400+ miles as an average so it’s not really difficult.
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Some may.
Let's suppose you have a 50 litre fill-up that gives you 500 miles range (~45mpg), so a nice easy 10 miles per litre.
At £1.40/litre, that's 14p/mile. Each 1p/litre extra costs you 50p/tank.
Disallowing value of your time and other costs, you would break even on a three and a half mile round-trip detour per penny saved per litre.
On Wednesday, I passed several stations within the same area with a 20p/litre spread for diesel (all off-motorway). That's ten quid saved per tank, and you'd break even on a SEVENTY mile round-trip detour, let alone a few miles locally.0 -
This is a money-saving site after all!
You'll never guess what bears get up to in the woods…. 😉
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Yes but you need to factor in the opportunity cost. Time is money, I have far better things to do in life than scurry around in search of cheaper fuel. It’s one of the big advantages of having a filling station on our driveway.
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The vast majority of people do not have anything better to do
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Odd comment, on what sample of people are you basing your assertion about "The vast majority…."?
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Like I said, disallowing value of your time and other costs…
But I'm doing a 40 mile round trip to the nearby big town today. I'll be at a supermarket filling station, and passing directly past a few others, with a few others within a very short detour. If I needed to fill, which would I aim for?
Like I said - on a trip last week, there was a 20p/litre spread between stations. On autopilot, I'd filled the day before, from about 1/3 tank, at a mid-price within that spread. If I'd taken the time to check, I'd have saved the thick end of a fiver - for how much effort?1 -
14p/litre difference within half a mile today…
Fuel-finder shows there'd have been another 10p/litre saving for going half a mile off my route.
So is a shortish diversion for 24p/litre worth it? Yes.0 -
Yes, probably the same people that spent £20,000 on a new car because the tax was £30 not £200 even though
the new car is depreciating 10x that figure compared to the previous car.
Hard to explain to some people that the car they just bought is losing £3000 a year in value and they bought that
to save £170.Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...3
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