Petrol prices

[Davros]

Been noticing at work and at the pumps how the price of petrol is on the up again.

Infact its gettin towards the same levels as it was last october... but it's funny how people dont seem to care about these things when the media doesnt hype them up??

 

[Guest]

I noticed today as I went past a Jet garage charging 90.9p

, I was like what the hell!

 

[Smiffy]

Yep, sneaked that hike in quietly didnt they, the bastards...

Average prices in the Southend area must be around 90p now...

Ive seen Total, and Shell garages both charging 92.9p and 93.9p in the area too...

Rip off merchants...

Now, wheres my syphoning kit gone...

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Even LPG has gone up... 44.9p a litre (or 67.4p a litre when compared on like-for-like with petrol).

Outrage!

 

[Upminster Blue]

Quote[/b] (Smiffy @ April 10 2006,18:25)]Yep, sneaked that hike in quietly didnt they, the bastards...

Average prices in the Southend area must be around 90p now...

Ive seen Total, and Shell garages both charging 92.9p and 93.9p in the area too...

Rip off merchants...

Now, wheres my syphoning kit gone...

The Southend area is still the cheapest area for petrol in the country, so it could be worse.

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

€1,00 a litre in Spain. Scandalous!!

 

[shrimper4life]

93p in Shell but still 89.9 in tescos i think

 

[southend_utd_fan]

I remember that BP near the Ground was the cheapest, Im not sure if it is now. I dont go down that way anymore.

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

With the emerging economys of China and India, the mostly densley populated in the world...and they all want cars, petrol consumption is likely to increase on a logarithmic scale. The West with its desire for gas guzzling 4x4's isn't helping.
petrol is non sustainable, when its gone, it's gone for good and it will go in most of our lifetimes bringing chaos and war, and if China want petrol, they'll get it by all means necessary. Our great grandchildren will look at this generation and call us wasting and greedy.

The school run, the people who drive half a mile to work, who go shopping in monster trucks. No sympathy.

....I'm off to camp bling with my soap box, bring your garden implements we're storming westminister!

 

[perth shrimper]

Expect it to sky rocket more due to the increased levels of tension between Iran and the USA.

I pay $1.20 a litre here ( 50p )
It was 70c ( 25p ) 2 years ago.

Scandalous, but not as bad as you guys have got it

 

[Mad Cyril]

Whilst we are loosely on the subject of energy......

My father in law took a photo that when blown up shows lots and lots of wind turbines out in the Thames Estuary.

There is a project to build a wind farm there but according to all the websites I have looked at it is still in the planning phase and no turbines have been built.

Strange......

 

[Grayson]

I'm in Belgium at the moment, and the price here is 1.289 Euros per litre.

 

[Guest]

Join the fight at Pipeline Card

 

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (Rayleigh_Blue @ April 11 2006,11:03)]Join the fight at Pipeline Card

So you sign up to this scheme and one day you *may* get a discount on fuel?

The bloke that set up this website sounds a bit of a ****.

On one hand he gives us a sob story about nurses, teachers etc having to pay extortionate prices for fuel yet on his profile describes his hobbies as driving (and racing) Mitsubishi Evo's and Caterham 7's.

Is he after a fair deal for the working (wo)man or simply looking to make his hobby a bit cheaper?

 

[Davros]

Quote[/b] (Smiffy @ April 10 2006,18:25)]Yep, sneaked that hike in quietly didnt they, the bastards...

Average prices in the Southend area must be around 90p now...

Ive seen Total, and Shell garages both charging 92.9p and 93.9p in the area too...

Rip off merchants...

Now, wheres my syphoning kit gone...

sneaked what hike in??

Duty remained the same in the budgets, and petrol prices are largly controlled by Platts prices, which are not hiked or lowered, just the prices at which Petrol/Diesel/Red Gas and lots of other fuels are bidded for/ sold at, in dollars per ton .

As TAS says, with industrialisation in china, and the uncertainty in Iran at the moment, supplys have become at ever more of a premium.

Also, the guy doesnt even explain how the 'pipeline' card works... and imo, i cant se how it could

 

[The Flying Scotsman]

This is how it works:

Strength in numbers

There are nearly 32 million of us in the UK. If a large number of us band together and choose to give our custom to one major forecourt chain, we could negotiate a substantial discount for ourselves. Pipeline Card has been established to achieve just that and we are well on our way to success.

Our target

We have already secured an agreement in principle from a major UK fuel retailer to provide a discount to our members. We need you - and your friends and your work colleagues - to join with us in order to win a substantial reduction in forecourt prices across the whole country.

Act now!

It costs absolutely nothing to join, but by joining Pipeline Card today you strengthen our clout as well as making yourself eligible to buy fuel at a discount. By telling other drivers about this website you can make that happen sooner - and do them a favour into the bargain.


Basically they are saying to a petrol company that they will have loads of customers if they can give a discount to cardholders.

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (perth shrimper @ April 11 2006,09:34)]Expect it to sky rocket more due to the increased levels of tension between Iran and the USA.

Increased levels of tension?! Understatement of the year as it appears that fecking idiot Bush is leading the world to the brink of nuclear war! That buffoon has no idea what diplomacy is. He's destroyed Iraq, turned Afghanistan into a allcomers battle zone and made the world a much, much more dangerous place to live in.

And all in the pursuit of total control of the world's oil reserves.

 

[shrimptank]

If Bush runs out of oil, i have some Extra Virgin Olive in my cupboard if he wants to pop round!

 

[perth shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Xàbia Shrimper @ April 11 2006,19:28)]

Quote[/b] (perth shrimper @ April 11 2006,09:34)]Expect it to sky rocket more due to the increased levels of tension between Iran and the USA.

Increased levels of tension?! Understatement of the year as it appears that fecking idiot Bush is leading the world to the brink of nuclear war! That buffoon has no idea what diplomacy is. He's destroyed Iraq, turned Afghanistan into a allcomers battle zone and made the world a much, much more dangerous place to live in.

And all in the pursuit of total control of the world's oil reserves.

Whilst i agree with all the Bush sentiment it's important to acknowledge the men and women in the shadows.

Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rice are all War Hawks who promoted and came up with the middle east invasions. In the weeks Bush came into power THEY, not Bush himself, promoted the invasion.
Bush still remains one of the biggest terrorists alive today but it's his backers that are primarily to blame.

There is just so much literature around pointing to the total bankruptcy of the USA government. However i'm sure the Spanish, Australian and British powerbrokers have their own moral bankruptcy to deal with too.

 

[Guest]

Bournes Green Roundabout 93.9 p a Litre
Deisel 96.9p a litre

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