Well aren't you lot lucky? If we didn't have a 5p fuel duty derogation, we'd be paying £1.50/L diesel and a couple of pence less petrol. Mind you, trip last week show fuel, even in supermarkets approaching the top end of the
£1.30s.
It's ironical - those whingeing - with a fair degree of justification - about bad air pollution get cheaper fuel than those with virtually no air pollution and precious little public transport?
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I can't remember the last time I used Esso or BP and they haven't gone bankrupt yet.
I usually use my local Texaco station because it is convenient and my car seems to run well on it, but it annoys me that they always seem to charge 3p a litre more than any of the other garages in the area...dearer than an Esso and a BP garage nearby.
I posted this elsewhere and couldn't believe the crassness of some of the replies and the utter stupidity of some of the responses , it was almost as if trying to get sense out of an elected representative
In the end it was removed .
It all comes in on a ship and then to the holding station.
All fuel is the same at this point.
Then Esso, Shell, Bp Tesco, etc etc, add there own additives as the wagon is loaded, from the relevent tank.
Crude is all the same at point of coming out the ground, its what they do with it between that, and the pump.
Quote: Originally posted by ficklejade on 05/6/2018
Well aren't you lot lucky? If we didn't have a 5p fuel duty derogation, we'd be paying £1.50/L diesel and a couple of pence less petrol. Mind you, trip last week show fuel, even in supermarkets approaching the top end of the
£1.30s.
It's ironical - those whingeing - with a fair degree of justification - about bad air pollution get cheaper fuel than those with virtually no air pollution and precious little public transport?
I feel sorry for anyone living on an island having to put up with these prices of fuel. It's where you need it more than ever! When I went to the Orkneys many years ago now, the price of petrol there took your breath away.. and they had an oil refinery (Flotta) nearby as well! I reckon if you have to have an oil refinery on your doorstep, the very least they could do is give you a discount on your fuel.
I'm eeking out my last tankful in the hope that it goes down before I need to fill up... probably no chance of that though!
Quote: Originally posted by Gerry Williams on 07/6/2018
Just wait until we all have to run electric vehicles - then see the price of electricity go through the roof!
Yep, that is if they can generate enough in the first place.
Quote: Originally posted by Gerry Williams on 07/6/2018
Just wait until we all have to run electric vehicles - then see the price of electricity go through the roof!
The electricity prices are already through the roof but I understand what you mean.
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With the number of generating stations we would need I think everyone having an electric car is still decades away. I doubt very much whether it will happen in my lifetime, and maybe not even in my children's. If the government bans the production of cars with fossil-fuel engines in 2040, as they say, there will still be some around in 2050 and maybe even 2060. By then, if I am still around, I will be 110 and my daughter will be 85.