Petrol prices- when does the madness end?
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snuffy said:
BBC Website:
Petrol prices fall to lowest level in two years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67729428
Which is 1p/litre more than it was in April 2012:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpricein...
Haven’t OPEC+ just decided to slash production, prices will soon be on the rise. Petrol prices fall to lowest level in two years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67729428
Which is 1p/litre more than it was in April 2012:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpricein...
Whilst I have no interest in EVs, I can see the plus points of not being beholden to those bunch of sisters when we eventually sort out our power generation (be that nuclear / renewables).
I suppose then it will be Chinese and the lithium instead.
Not really helpful and only vaguely on topic - I’ve basically been WFH for four years after doing an 80 mile (return) commute four about 30 years. I used to have to fill up every three to five days.
We both wfh and have three cars and are filling them up once every few months - which is bloody excellent.
The prices people are quoting now in the last few posts look to me the same as they were several years ago.
We both wfh and have three cars and are filling them up once every few months - which is bloody excellent.
The prices people are quoting now in the last few posts look to me the same as they were several years ago.
Dog Star said:
Not really helpful and only vaguely on topic - I’ve basically been WFH for four years after doing an 80 mile (return) commute four about 30 years. I used to have to fill up every three to five days.
We both wfh and have three cars and are filling them up once every few months - which is bloody excellent.
The prices people are quoting now in the last few posts look to me the same as they were several years ago.
Inflation makes a massive difference. It would be around 33% over the last 4 years due to the vid and the tons of extra money created during that period. £1.30 four years ago is relatively speaking a lot more than £1.30 in todays money, even over that short period due to the extreme circumstances. We both wfh and have three cars and are filling them up once every few months - which is bloody excellent.
The prices people are quoting now in the last few posts look to me the same as they were several years ago.
nickfrog said:
^^^ no in fact, petrol prices have gone down compared to say 2012. £1.40 then is close to £1.90 now, inflation adjusted.
Indeed, which I what I posted a few days ago.But, people will not have it. They just will not accept it because they have become so used to some things never increasing in price, that when they finally do, it's an absolute outrage, and the media whips them up into a frenzy about it. Look when McDs put the price of cheeseburger up by 10p - the BBC w
ked itself to death over that. Said cheeseburger had been the same price for 7 years (or something like that), so it had been decreasing every year in real terms - but that was never reported.snuffy said:
nickfrog said:
^^^ no in fact, petrol prices have gone down compared to say 2012. £1.40 then is close to £1.90 now, inflation adjusted.
Indeed, which I what I posted a few days ago.But, people will not have it. They just will not accept it because they have become so used to some things never increasing in price, that when they finally do, it's an absolute outrage, and the media whips them up into a frenzy about it. Look when McDs put the price of cheeseburger up by 10p - the BBC w
ked itself to death over that. Said cheeseburger had been the same price for 7 years (or something like that), so it had been decreasing every year in real terms - but that was never reported.
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