January Duty Rise Scrapped

[martin84]

Apologies if already posted. One piece of slightly good news out of the Autumn Statement is the 3p rise for January 2012 has been scrapped and the August rise has been reduced from 5p to 3p.

[JAHetfield]

The price is still going up though. Hardly good enough.

[SB10]

The prices will still rise as most petrol stations don't give a rats arse and will increase it regardless.

[martin84]

Given the picture of Doom painted in the Commons today im surprised its been scrapped at all. I said at the time of the Fair Fuel UK debate thing that i think most people would accept a freeze. Who knows what could happen by August, oil market might crash (its due one) and 3p might then become 5p again.

[iain014]

Have the prices fallen in the past few weeks or have I imagined that?

[Marf]

Been largely static (+-1p) local to me. V-Power has actually come down a couple of pence in the last month.

[zcacogp]

iain014 said:

Have the prices fallen in the past few weeks or have I imagined that?

You imagined it.

Sorry.


Oli.

[VladD]

Sainsburys in Leamington Spa is now £1.29.9 now, for regular unleaded, when it was £1.32.9 about a month ago.

[Ozzie Osmond]

iain014 said:

Have the prices fallen in the past few weeks or have I imagined that?

Yes, definitey down a few pennies, despite what the PH doom-mongers may say.

Presumably the Chancellor can afford to postpone the escalator for the simple reason his VAT increase is at least making the price back up to what it would have been.

[Elroy Blue]

Ozzie Osmond said:

Yes, definitey down a few pennies, despite what the PH doom-mongers may say.

Not around my way. All the local garages have put their prices up three times in the last 10 days.

Edited by Elroy Blue on Tuesday 29th November 16:12

Edited by Elroy Blue on Tuesday 29th November 16:12

[powerandtorque]

Unleaded seems to have dropped noticeably, but diesel has crept up if anything.

I know that it's now 9p difference between the two locally to me - £1.28 vs £1.37

(serves me right I spose for my daily hack being fuelled by the devil)

[Allyc85]

iain014 said:

Have the prices fallen in the past few weeks or have I imagined that?

With a new Tesco in town petrol has fallen 5p a litre in the last couple weeks

May the price war continue!

[J4CKO]

I get the Petrolprices.com update and looking at the history since March when it was 131.9 and it peaked in May at 135.9 and now it is 131.9 again, thats for unleaded, not the cheapest and onbly one area, but seems to tlly with what people are seeing.

[iain014]

J4CKO said:

I get the Petrolprices.com update and looking at the history since March when it was 131.9 and it peaked in May at 135.9 and now it is 131.9 again, thats for unleaded, not the cheapest and onbly one area, but seems to tlly with what people are seeing.

I know that I was the first to mention this but clearly we should be whispering, Mr Osborne may change his mind...

[saleen836]

Unleaded has dropped by a penny a litre at hy local Morrisons but diesel has gone up by 2p a litre!

[andy-xr]

Only watching diesel really, it's gone up 3ppl in the last fortnight around here (notts)

[MG CHRIS]

Around me (blackwood) petrol has dropped from 132.9 at morrision to 128.9 and the local indipendent station has dropped 3-4p from 134.9-131.9

But deisel has creeped up and is now 10p difference between the 2 even super unleaded cheaper than diesel.

At least it will not be rises by tax and hopefully will come down again remember 2009 when it dropped to under 90p so it can happen.

[Vladimir]

Unless they half the tax on fuel, we are still utterly bu99ered.

And they won't.

So we are bu99ered.

[Orcain]

J4CKO said:

I get the Petrolprices.com update and looking at the history since March when it was 131.9 and it peaked in May at 135.9 and now it is 131.9 again, thats for unleaded, not the cheapest and onbly one area, but seems to tlly with what people are seeing.

I get those updates too, in the first 5 months of 2011 petrol went up by 17p a litre. It's stayed pretty much the same since.

It started off 2010 at a level just 10p below the start of 2011.

If it continues along the same lines we'll be paying over £1.50 a litre for super unleaded by the middle of next year even without the Duty Rise.

[va1o]

Marf said:

Been largely static (+-1p) local to me. V-Power has actually come down a couple of pence in the last month.

Likewise here, its been 129 for the past couple of months. Good news anyway about the duty rise been scrapped.