Petrol prices- when does the madness end?
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e-honda said:
The enemy behind COVID and climate change is aliens right? Or have I stumbled onto a more ridiculous conspiracy?
The lizards, no? Illuminati? Or maybe the paedophiles from the Democrat party running out of a pizza restaurant in New Jersey? Anyway, here, I signed for a box of tinfoil hats earlier, are they for you lot??
Fusion777 said:
captain.scarlet said:
I.e. £2 and £1.98.
It's funny how Asda and Sainsbury's will mark their fuel to .7 and not .9, to get people to think it's cheaper when in actual fact there's no such thing as 0.7p or 0.9p - it gets rounded up anyway.
Asda have always loved their 7's. They use them a lot in store as well (£0.97 rather than £0.99, etc).It's funny how Asda and Sainsbury's will mark their fuel to .7 and not .9, to get people to think it's cheaper when in actual fact there's no such thing as 0.7p or 0.9p - it gets rounded up anyway.
Dracoro said:
captain.scarlet said:
Fusion777 said:
Local Shell is 199.9p for diesel. It's 197.9p at a local Co-Op. Bonkers.
I.e. £2 and £1.98.It's funny how Asda and Sainsbury's will mark their fuel to .7 and not .9, to get people to think it's cheaper when in actual fact there's no such thing as 0.7p or 0.9p - it gets rounded up anyway.
Not that it makes much difference to total cost of tank
e.g. 60ltr * £1.99.7 = £119.82
60 later * £1.99.9 = £119.94
Enjoy that 12p
Every little helps 
If that's 12p saved then have you gained the benefit of an extra 0.06 litres?
That's 60 millilitres.
Trying to visualise it:
Less than a 330ml can of Coke.
And still less than half a 150ml mini can of Coke... the sample size they hand out in city centres (which everyone madly queues up for or goes out of their way to ensure they're handed one by the brand ambassador).
Not to mention the drive to the forecourt which probably used up the 60ml of petrol.
Fusion777 said:
60ml of fuel is naff all (less than 2.5 shot glasses), but amazingly it's enough to propel my Golf (over 1300kg) nearly 4/5ths of a mile. For all that's said about the inefficiency of ICE (much of which is true), that's still pretty impressive.
I've seen some girls do far more impressive stuff after 2 shots to be fair. Go from zero to naughty Fusion777 said:
60ml of fuel is naff all (less than 2.5 shot glasses), but amazingly it's enough to propel my Golf (over 1300kg) nearly 4/5ths of a mile. For all that's said about the inefficiency of ICE (much of which is true), that's still pretty impressive.
I think it says more about the energy density of petrol. Niguy said:
TCX said:
DonkeyApple said:
TCX said:
Not trying to get at any one...but doesn't this tie in with net zero etc,people staying home,local,just another change that's forced on us by the green agenda
It's just coincidence. Excess pollution is a result of excess consumption, which in turn is a product of excess credit and capital. When either capital or credit reduce (or costs increase) then so does consumption and as a byproduct, pollution. Covid ,climate'ctisis',cost of living crisis....once is happenstance,twice is coincidence....three times is enemy action
Pollution isn't reducing, Pakistan is pushing through coal powered energy projects thanks to China,fires from exposed coal in Indian mines have burned unabated for over 100 years,can you imagine the carbon footprint of those....nothing we do in this country makes a blind bit of difference
Edited by TCX on Sunday 26th June 13:05
Slippybackside said:
Officially paid 2.00 for momentum in Surrey
There goes my hopes of a c63 as a daily
(((
Done 15k so far in my 340i and that was fine by now I feel like they’re pricing out ice
Soon not gonna be cheap to do an ev either with the price cap going up and the demand being insane. There goes my hopes of a c63 as a daily
(((Done 15k so far in my 340i and that was fine by now I feel like they’re pricing out ice
Best hope is that the price softens somewhat and you get that C63 before they no longer are acceptable at all
I'm bouncing between m4 and ev doing the same thinking as you.
a_dreamer said:
Slippybackside said:
Officially paid 2.00 for momentum in Surrey
There goes my hopes of a c63 as a daily(((
Done 15k so far in my 340i and that was fine by now I feel like they’re pricing out ice
Soon not gonna be cheap to do an ev either with the price cap going up and the demand being insane. There goes my hopes of a c63 as a daily
(((Done 15k so far in my 340i and that was fine by now I feel like they’re pricing out ice
Best hope is that the price softens somewhat and you get that C63 before they no longer are acceptable at all
I'm bouncing between m4 and ev doing the same thinking as you.
Pica-Pica said:
DonkeyApple said:
TCX said:
Not trying to get at any one...but doesn't this tie in with net zero etc,people staying home,local,just another change that's forced on us by the green agenda
It's just coincidence. Excess pollution is a result of excess consumption, which in turn is a product of excess credit and capital. When either capital or credit reduce (or costs increase) then so does consumption and as a byproduct, pollution. If you build a wind turbine to get 'free energy' the total cost of it includes designers and all the costs associated with their livelihood (family, car, house, kids, food, healthcare, pension), it includes the erecting and maintenance, financial services such as investment and insurance, it includes the disposal, it includes the infrastructure to connect it to the grid, there is some land use to consider (could the land be used for something else?), wind power also requires gas turbine backup and all the same costs apply to that with the addition of the fuel supply and all the associated costs of that (including war to keep the oil supply going). Stupid people just see the windmill, coo and say 'free energy'.
Joey Deacon said:
Passed five petrol stations today, two of them were selling regular diesel at 199.9, even Tesco which is always the cheapest is currently 197.9
Unless something happens in the next few days I am confident that next weekend I will see prices beginning with a 2 for the first time ever.
First time ever? There’s a couple of local texaco (or maybe esso?) garages selling diesel at 201.9 for the last week. As you mentioned, even the reliable Tesco extra has been 199.9 for just over a week, and the cheapest I e seen diesel recently is 196.9. Unless something happens in the next few days I am confident that next weekend I will see prices beginning with a 2 for the first time ever.
My mum and dad got caught out in the M5 last week, and had to do a quick 5 litre pit stop on the motorway to get them home. 212.9 a litre for standard unleaded!!
TeaNoSugar said:
First time ever? There’s a couple of local texaco (or maybe esso?) garages selling diesel at 201.9 for the last week. As you mentioned, even the reliable Tesco extra has been 199.9 for just over a week, and the cheapest I e seen diesel recently is 196.9.
My mum and dad got caught out in the M5 last week, and had to do a quick 5 litre pit stop on the motorway to get them home. 212.9 a litre for standard unleaded!!
Assuming he means in his location. My mum and dad got caught out in the M5 last week, and had to do a quick 5 litre pit stop on the motorway to get them home. 212.9 a litre for standard unleaded!!
Where I live it's still not quite £2 for non premium.
Pica-Pica said:
DonkeyApple said:
TCX said:
Not trying to get at any one...but doesn't this tie in with net zero etc,people staying home,local,just another change that's forced on us by the green agenda
It's just coincidence. Excess pollution is a result of excess consumption, which in turn is a product of excess credit and capital. When either capital or credit reduce (or costs increase) then so does consumption and as a byproduct, pollution. Is it the bloke who makes the designer underpants and how lives on a bowl of rice a day or the bloke who buys the designer underpants and all the other junk?
What's needed is a simple formula that tells you how many people you need to murder to cover the pollution from each shopping trip.
Without going back over the thread, might have been covered already.
I've never had to look further than my local Tesco for the cheapest unleaded, but over the last few weeks they have been a few 3/4p a litre up on the other retailers around them.
Diesel is the same as the local competition.
Seems odd that they appear to have given up their undercutting?
I've never had to look further than my local Tesco for the cheapest unleaded, but over the last few weeks they have been a few 3/4p a litre up on the other retailers around them.
Diesel is the same as the local competition.
Seems odd that they appear to have given up their undercutting?
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