Petrol prices- when does the madness end?
Discussion
Jimmy No Hands said:
We've done it boys. £2.01 at my BP this morning.
Diesel was £2.06 two weeks ago at the Esso station just outside Swindon on the Oxford road.Traffic levels don't appear to be dropping, nor are car prices, those benefitting from ever increasing prices have no reason to do anything other than keep increasing them, until people say enough and stop all but essential travel the prices will continue upwards.
SebastienClement said:
This is my fuel spending for June. ALL of that mileage is work related (mostly commuting), but I've visited some customers this month so I'll be claiming approx £50 back.
23ppl increase in price since the start of the month
But daily increase of just £1-53. Hardly enough to notice 23ppl increase in price since the start of the month
craig1912 said:
Smiljan said:
Which is cheaper the fuel or the mayonnaise?
My local Costco doesn’t have a petrol station
I buy mine from Southampton Costco currently 12p a litre cheaper than the Tesco superstore. I have to drive into Southampton once or twice a week so always fill up.My local Costco doesn’t have a petrol station
)bloomen said:
Definitely me.
Almost all my mileage is entirely discretionary. I can easily go without when your pointless day trip costs £50.
Same here, we are now retired and just cut back on the unnecessary journeys from the last fill just over two weeks ago barely 130 miles and if I do take the TR6 out on a gratification run I combine it in doing something we need to do.Almost all my mileage is entirely discretionary. I can easily go without when your pointless day trip costs £50.
Anyone playing the pence game?
Heard a couple of guys talking about it yesterday, you slightly overfill by pence over the pound, pay in notes and see if you get let off, one got to 8 pence last three places, another can't get over 4p where he lives, what has the world come to lol
Heard a couple of guys talking about it yesterday, you slightly overfill by pence over the pound, pay in notes and see if you get let off, one got to 8 pence last three places, another can't get over 4p where he lives, what has the world come to lol
Edited by NFT on Saturday 25th June 19:31
QuattroDave said:
Costco petrol station in Southampton on a saturday is as good as a no go zone! Last time I went there it took 30 minutes to get to the pump the queue was that long and that was when they had it at 146 something (you know, like a week ago )
Yep I know. At 9:30 on a Tuesday (and I guess any week day) there are no queues. )NFT said:
Anyone playing the pence game?
Heard a couple of guys talking about it yesterday, you slightly overfill by pence over the pound, pay in notes and see if you get let off, one got to 8 pence last three places, another can't get over 4p where he lives, what has the world come to lol
I genuinly made a mistake and went a penny over when filling £70 worth (before things went wild so near a tank). Who would've thought that wasn't enough to fully fill it... especially when I stopped at 69.98 and 1 tiny click and it goes to 1p over.... anyway they demanded I pay the penny by card after years of leaving the penny's for them each week. I do wonder what the card transaction fee cost them for that. Heard a couple of guys talking about it yesterday, you slightly overfill by pence over the pound, pay in notes and see if you get let off, one got to 8 pence last three places, another can't get over 4p where he lives, what has the world come to lol
Edited by NFT on Saturday 25th June 19:31
bigothunter said:
But daily increase of just £1-53. Hardly enough to notice
1. That's also to do with mileage covered divided by days in the month.2. My daily discretionary spend is £15. £8+ is over half of my daily budget on fuel, before food etc...
3. I use the car 5 days a week, so the daily spend would be higher if I calculated it against the days I used the car only.
4. A full tank is +£12 more expensive than it was less than 30 days ago.
hotchy said:
I genuinly made a mistake and went a penny over when filling £70 worth (before things went wild so near a tank). Who would've thought that wasn't enough to fully fill it... especially when I stopped at 69.98 and 1 tiny click and it goes to 1p over.... anyway they demanded I pay the penny by card after years of leaving the penny's for them each week. I do wonder what the card transaction fee cost them for that.
If you paid by debit card then it is likely that they paid a flat fee many times more than 1p, or that’s certainly how it used to work.Credit cards tend to have charges that are a percentage of transaction value I think.
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