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Title: Petrol Prices - Who has the dearest...
Post by: Markie on 21 May 2008, 15:46:52
Just read this

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1316645,00.html

Think we are ok for now at ONLY 110.9p  >:(

On a seperate subject this dozy arsed government doesnt seem to realise that EVERY single issue to do with inflation and price rises is to do with Gas, Electricity & Petrol price rises.

Every single item you can buy needs to be manufactured using power and/ or transported.

Wake up Brown  >:(
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Post by: Elite Pete on 21 May 2008, 15:50:05
£110.9 lowest and £1.18 highest :'(
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Post by: Debs. on 21 May 2008, 15:51:44
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£110.9 lowest and £118 highest :'(

 :o Jeepers crimeny!.....Northwich is an expensive place to buy fuel!  ;D

 ;)..... ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Kevin Wood on 21 May 2008, 15:53:31
I managed to get £29.46 worth of V-Power into the Westfield yesterday. It's only got a 27 Litre tank. :o

When I first built it 8 years ago I couldn't get anywhere near 20 quid.

Kevin
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Post by: Markie on 21 May 2008, 15:55:30
....that priceboard in the sky link is showing 132.9 for petrol  :o
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Post by: Vmax on 21 May 2008, 15:57:53
£1.23 for my wifes Diesel & £1.21 for my Petrol  >:(
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Post by: Elite Pete on 21 May 2008, 15:58:40
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£110.9 lowest and £118 highest :'(

 :o Jeepers crimeny!.....Northwich is an expensive place to buy fuel!  ;D

 ;)..... ;D ;D ;D
OOppsss :-[
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Post by: JamesV6CDX on 21 May 2008, 16:01:08
Diesel in Gloucester, near £1.30
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Post by: Debs. on 21 May 2008, 16:06:15
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I managed to get £29.46 worth of V-Power into the Westfield yesterday. It's only got a 27 Litre tank. :o

When I first built it 8 years ago I couldn't get anywhere near 20 quid.

Kevin
It`s truly shocking how fuel prices are soaring: last week, I ploughed/harrowed/rolled my fields in the tractor for three days (averaged out at 210 litres a day) burning nearly £447 of red-diesel........last time it was ploughed; 2 years ago, the bill would`ve been almost exactly half.  :(
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Post by: Markie on 21 May 2008, 16:08:26
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I managed to get £29.46 worth of V-Power into the Westfield yesterday. It's only got a 27 Litre tank. :o

When I first built it 8 years ago I couldn't get anywhere near 20 quid.

Kevin
It`s truly shocking how fuel prices are soaring: last week, I ploughed/harrowed/rolled my fields in the tractor for three days (averaged out at 210 litres a day) burning nearly £447 of red-diesel........last time it was ploughed; 2 years ago, the bill would`ve been almost exactly half.  :(


And as a result - and this is no slight on you - your production costs have increased, and you will have to at some point (and rightly so ) pass these increased costs on ?
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Post by: Big Fra on 21 May 2008, 16:16:40
www.petrolprices.com

This site has been really useful to me. ;)

Some of you chaps might find it useful.
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Post by: Debs. on 21 May 2008, 16:20:30
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I managed to get £29.46 worth of V-Power into the Westfield yesterday. It's only got a 27 Litre tank. :o

When I first built it 8 years ago I couldn't get anywhere near 20 quid.

Kevin
It`s truly shocking how fuel prices are soaring: last week, I ploughed/harrowed/rolled my fields in the tractor for three days (averaged out at 210 litres a day) burning nearly £447 of red-diesel........last time it was ploughed; 2 years ago, the bill would`ve been almost exactly half.  :(


And as a result - and this is no slight on you - your production costs have increased, and you will have to at some point (and rightly so ) pass these increased costs on ?

 :-[....would that it be that easy; the supermarket-buyers whom bid on 'finished' Lambs at the sales have a top price which currently is less than the production costs for the animal, supermarkets (whom are pretty much the only buyers at auctions hereabouts) want all the profit, the only choice as a seller is to not sell to them and to bring the animal home from the sale.
Ploughing with it`s fuel/machinery/fertiliser/lime-spreading and re-seeding costs is an investment, in the hope that improved pasture will yield better grass sward and consequently a higher quality meat carcass in the years to come....but with all such investments the payback time is long (if at all). ::)
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Post by: Markie on 21 May 2008, 16:23:32
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I managed to get £29.46 worth of V-Power into the Westfield yesterday. It's only got a 27 Litre tank. :o

When I first built it 8 years ago I couldn't get anywhere near 20 quid.

Kevin
It`s truly shocking how fuel prices are soaring: last week, I ploughed/harrowed/rolled my fields in the tractor for three days (averaged out at 210 litres a day) burning nearly £447 of red-diesel........last time it was ploughed; 2 years ago, the bill would`ve been almost exactly half.  :(


And as a result - and this is no slight on you - your production costs have increased, and you will have to at some point (and rightly so ) pass these increased costs on ?

 :-[....would that it be that easy; the supermarket-buyers whom bid on 'finished' Lambs at the sales have a top price which currently is less than the production costs for the animal, supermarkets (whom are pretty much the only buyers at auctions hereabouts) want all the profit, the only choice as a seller is to not sell to them and to bring the animal home from the sale.
Ploughing with it`s fuel/machinery/fertiliser/lime-spreading and re-seeding costs is an investment, in the hope that improved pasture will yield better grass sward and consequently a higher quality meat carcass in the years to come....but with all such investments the payback time is long (if at all). ::)


Ouch  :( I knew agricultural times were hard but production costs> final sale cost  :'(
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Post by: Martin_1962 on 21 May 2008, 16:26:55
This will come back and hurt soon.

Get your meat from a butchers not Tescos
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Post by: Gaffers on 21 May 2008, 16:33:50
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£110.9 lowest and £118 highest :'(

 :o Jeepers crimeny!.....Northwich is an expensive place to buy fuel!  ;D

 ;)..... ;D ;D ;D

Last time I was back in Nantwich the petrol price was always 4p more expensive than in Stoke 15 mins down the road!

Now thats more like petrol stations fixing prices but the government are robbings us too.  >:(  >:(  

If only my job allowed me to protest  :(
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Post by: Kevin Wood on 21 May 2008, 16:40:22
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This will come back and hurt soon.

Get your meat from a butchers not Tescos

Damned right. Mate of mine runs a farm. Sells all of his meat through local outlets, farmer's markets and a farm shop, as that's the only way he can survive these days. Fantastic stuff it is too. He makes the best sausages I have ever tasted.

We also have a great independant butchers in our village.

Taste produce from either and you realise what rubbish the supermarkets are pushing on us.

Problem is, most people can't be @rsed to go anywhere else, never mind the quality. We have said butchers, a greengrocers and a general store at the end of our road, about 10 mins walk away, and I still see Tesco delivery vans arriving at neighbours' houses on a regular basis.

If we take the path of least effort all the time I guess we're going to be exploited. :-/

Kevin
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Post by: Varche on 21 May 2008, 17:27:47
Today 1 euro 20 cents. Gone up 3 cents in two days. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of fuel anywhere so why is the price so high? Is it just in everyones (except us the consumer) interests for it to keep going up?

I think it is an absolute scandal in the UK the way that farmers are treated. I saw an article on milk the other day. the farmers were getting very little more than years ago despite costs having rocketed. The supermarkets trot out the rubbish about housewives wanting rock bottom prices. If the housewives wasted just a little less (throwing over bought stuff out just because it had reached the packet sell by date and so on) then they could afford to pay a few pence more per litre which could be passed on directly to the farmer. Or is that too simple. Instead cows in UK fields may just be a memory in the not too distant future. Still then the UK could buy its milk from an EU country at whatever price they wanted to charge the supermarkets then.

Here I have a vested interest in the price of olive oil which has remained constant despite labour costs, fuel and chemicals rocketing. Chemicals for May spraying cost nearly twice as much as last year alone. It is a mad world.

varche  
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Post by: Kevin Wood on 21 May 2008, 17:35:27
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Or is that too simple. Instead cows in UK fields may just be a memory in the not too distant future. Still then the UK could buy its milk from an EU country at whatever price they wanted to charge the supermarkets then.
 

It would be like all the rest of the items vital to our national infrastructure - energy supply and distribution, transport, services, etc. Sell it off overseas to the highest bidder for a fast buck then watch helplessly as they get the thumbscrews out. >:(

Kevin
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Post by: Danny on 21 May 2008, 18:07:00
petrol 108.9ppl, LPG 50ppl

but i'll add this pic of tesco express Esso station in Bolton from 8th May and I will say now... it has NOT been photoshopped!

(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x267/T8DPR/PP.jpg)
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Post by: albitz on 21 May 2008, 18:34:30
pulled into sainsburys yesterday,range showing 18 miles left,in a rush,filled up with super,didnt realise until it was nearly full,cost 75 quid >:( >:(
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Post by: amigov6 on 21 May 2008, 18:37:24
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I managed to get £29.46 worth of V-Power into the Westfield yesterday. It's only got a 27 Litre tank. :o

When I first built it 8 years ago I couldn't get anywhere near 20 quid.

Kevin
It`s truly shocking how fuel prices are soaring: last week, I ploughed/harrowed/rolled my fields in the tractor for three days (averaged out at 210 litres a day) burning nearly £447 of red-diesel........last time it was ploughed; 2 years ago, the bill would`ve been almost exactly half.  :(
Did you sow the good seed on the land? ;D
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Post by: waspy on 21 May 2008, 18:54:24
£127.9p at my nearest Texaco for diesel. In real terms= £5.80 a gallon.
I've started biking to work, takes me 40 mins & i only have half a mile of roads to go on  :y :y So Mr Clown stick your £5.80 up your ESRA  :P :P
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Post by: TheBoy on 21 May 2008, 18:58:11
113.9p unleaded and 127.9p diesel in brackley.  Which reminds me, I need to fill up...
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Post by: Debs. on 21 May 2008, 19:01:42
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Did you sow the good seed on the land? ;D
;D...a harvest festival favourite hymn! :y
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Post by: HolyCount on 22 May 2008, 17:13:49
Popped in for fuel this morning -- garage down road is at 113.9 unleaded and 125.9 diesel. Unleaded in the next garage 200 yds away was 115.9 -- didn't catch the diesel price there -- I was still crying  :'(
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Post by: FRE07962128 on 22 May 2008, 17:20:27
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Popped in for fuel this morning -- garage down road is at 113.9 unleaded and 125.9 diesel. Unleaded in the next garage 200 yds away was 115.9 -- didn't catch the diesel price there -- I was still crying  :'(

If you are crying over this Holy Count, read what I have placed under a different thread:

"Today the price of a barrel of oil has reached $135,  with the Daily Telegraph (front page) quoting economists predicting $200 is now a distinct possibility as demand from China and India continues to escalate with no signs of slowing down.  They state the price per litre will soon be hitting an average of £1.25. :'( :'(

The same economists are also quoted as predicting the price of fuel at the pumps is set to constantly rise over the next 8 YEARS, to reach within that time at least £1.50 per litre! :'( :'( They are therefore advising all major users of fuel (airlines, transport concerns, etc) to secure / purchase fuel deals at today's prices on their requirements for the next 8 years.

It is a shame that all oof members cannot club together and secure such deals for the next eight years by buying and storing fuel in bulk.  We could make a killing if we had the money to do it in the first place!

Just proves how the rich are going to get richer, and the rest of us much, much poorer!.....and the Government are not only enjoying inflation linked petrol tax of around 50p per litre, but escalating VAT on the ever increasing price now in excess, I am led to believe, of 11p, equating to a total of 61p per litre in all to the Government.    ;  :'( :'( :'( 

Who's for joining the planned for hauliers protests against fuel prices?"

 
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Post by: Growler on 22 May 2008, 17:21:22
Thats just it Gaffer we just don't know how to protest here, take the french when they strike it causes problems even this side of the channel! now that's how you get you point across bring the place to a standstill.
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Post by: Growler on 22 May 2008, 17:26:05
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This will come back and hurt soon.

Get your meat from a butchers not Tescos

Damned right. Mate of mine runs a farm. Sells all of his meat through local outlets, farmer's markets and a farm shop, as that's the only way he can survive these days. Fantastic stuff it is too. He makes the best sausages I have ever tasted.

We also have a great independant butchers in our village.

Taste produce from either and you realise what rubbish the supermarkets are pushing on us.

Problem is, most people can't be @rsed to go anywhere else, never mind the quality. We have said butchers, a greengrocers and a general store at the end of our road, about 10 mins walk away, and I still see Tesco delivery vans arriving at neighbours' houses on a regular basis.

If we take the path of least effort all the time I guess we're going to be exploited. :-/

Kevin
I have to agree with what you say about supermarket quality meat, a few years ago I worked in a chilled warehouse where chilled foods for all the major supermarkets would be collected and then distributed to the regional hubs of each supermarket chain. Some of the meat (and food in general) that came through I wouldn't feed to a dog it was disgusting and put me off supermarket meat forever.
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Post by: Richie London on 22 May 2008, 20:36:48
1.16 unleaded
1.28 diesel
texaco seem to be the dearest garages around here.
m8s car is in for repair after a WOMAN ( ;D ;D ) backed into him. courtesy car, landrover discovery, reckons hes put in 150 quid in it in  a week  :o :o

richie
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Post by: Entwood on 22 May 2008, 20:45:39
Smug smile ...  :)

LPG ... 54 p /litre

Consumption on petrol : 23.52 mpg @ £114.9 = 22.18 p/mile
Consumption on LPG   :  20.03 mpg @ £054.0 = 12.23 p/mile

saving .... 10 p a mile or £30 a tank full :)

(admittedly the LPG figures are only over 400 miles, and I haven't towed with it yet  ..... still a tad new for a definitive answer :) )
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Post by: Lazydocker on 22 May 2008, 21:17:42
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Smug smile ...  :)

LPG ... 54 p /litre

Consumption on petrol : 23.52 mpg @ £114.9 = 22.18 p/mile
Consumption on LPG   :  20.03 mpg @ £054.0 = 12.23 p/mile

saving .... 10 p a mile or £30 a tank full :)

(admittedly the LPG figures are only over 400 miles, and I haven't towed with it yet  ..... still a tad new for a definitive answer :) )

That's not very nice... UL gone up 3ppl overnight to 115.9, didn't see the diseasel but it was deep into the 120's

Time for the LPG conversion to be brought forward!!! Although LPG is quite expensive here it's still only 59.9!!
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Post by: platty on 22 May 2008, 21:24:30
Drove to Wisbech last weekend and at a garage on the A1101 diesel was 135.9p - holy sh*t. I'm just glad I have got my chip in, I can afford to run the car again...
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Post by: Baron Von Spongebob on 22 May 2008, 21:27:03
Cheapest nearest me is £1.12.9 unleaded

Diesel £1.28.9

Anyone know for a tandem  :D
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Post by: Gaffers on 22 May 2008, 21:51:00
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Thats just it Gaffer we just don't know how to protest here, take the french when they strike it causes problems even this side of the channel! now that's how you get you point across bring the place to a standstill.

I used to live in France and know exactly how they operate, we should be more like them in that respect.

I cant protest as I may lose my security clearance and thus my job  :(
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Post by: MutantCav on 22 May 2008, 22:40:43
Gainsborough...Tescos is now just charging the same as the others at 1.15 for petrol...SLady bitshorpe just 20 mins away 1.09 and Lincoln about the same 1.10...we are being ripped off here!

Also, Diesel has for quite some time been 4p more than petrol...why is it suddenly now a whopping 10-20p more??