Petrol prices on the up again

[cslwannabe]

Last week noticed my local Shell station put their prices up by 1p and then over the weekend another 1p increase and then yet again this morning another 1p - three increases in around 10 days...

When petrol was coming down in price at one point the premium between Unleaded and VPower was 11p at the same petrol station, presumably because they hadn't had a delivery of VPower in the time that the price of unleaded had been failing. How come it never works the other way round - ie will VPower only be 5p more than unleaded tonight if they haven't had a delivery of VPower in the time they have increased the price of unleaded by 3p a litre. I think I know the answer to that one!

Edited by cslwannabe on Wednesday 25th July 08:01

[Monty Python]

One of the BP stations I pass on the way to work is the same - it goes up and down almost on a hourly basis. Compare that to the Tesco station and that hardly moves at all. I'm beginning to think that some stations edge the price up until trade starts to decline, then drop the price again until they find the sweet spot.

[Dan_1981]

My V Power is still sat at a very reasonable £1.37

Standard unleaded currently at 1.31

[DonkeyApple]

Nothing to do with Syria having chemical weapons and oil spiking last week as a result?

[Riley Blue]

School holidays have started, families use their cars more. Profit matters.

[Triumph Man]

Dan_1981 said:

My V Power is still sat at a very reasonable £1.37

Standard unleaded currently at 1.31

I hope that "very reasonable" is sarcasm? Me and dad were discussing how prices came down a little the other day, I said Morrisons had fallen to 133.9 p/l, and he said that was cheap. We looked at each other and said "no it's not!" It's still a rip off. You could say it's relatively cheap/reasonable.

[Dan_1981]

Don't worry - tongue firmly in cheek.

Its all relative isn't it?

A few years ago i was doing mega miles for work and can clearly remember being horrified at paying £1.23 for diesel.

Now i'm relativly pleased that I'm only paying £1.37 for super?!

I can't see us ever being in a situation again where i'll be paying £1.23 for either fuel!

[Triumph Man]

Dan_1981 said:

Don't worry - tongue firmly in cheek.

Its all relative isn't it?

A few years ago i was doing mega miles for work and can clearly remember being horrified at paying £1.23 for diesel.

Now i'm relativly pleased that I'm only paying £1.37 for super?!

I can't see us ever being in a situation again where i'll be paying £1.23 for either fuel!

Ah well that's ok then I know, like I said above I thought, wow 1.33, that's good! Still, whinging about it won't achieve anything.

[lescombes]

School Holidays and bank speculation.... forced the price from $97 a barrel (should have been £1.15 at the pumps at that point .....to last weeks $110 a barrel.... now fallen to $103 as they try to keep it above $100 a barrel to "justify" the rip off prices at the pump.... someone is making big money out of this aside of the 80p tax on a litre...

[Chicane-UK]

Was going to say - thought barrel prices were pretty low now compared to the start of the year so trying to work out why we're still taking a reaming at the petrol pump?

[markcoznottz]

Petrol isn't that exspensive really, it's all the other things we can't avoid paying, council tax, insurance, paye erc that is the killer. It's amazing petrol isn't more expensive considering demand from the east.

[andym1603]

Fuel is coming down in price here (Inverness)
Unleaded is £127.7 per litre while diesel is £130.7
Maybe something to do with a new Asda opening and a price war starting with Tesco.

[Kozy]

Are you expecting the people controlling the price to not rip you off at every opportunity? Bless!