Fuel Sales Slump Hurts Treasury In Recession

[Apache]

"Plunging sales of fuel this spring even as pump prices dropped by 10p a litre is further proof that the market is failing, according to the AA."

10p? really?!! not round here it hasn't

http://news.sky.com/story/992542/fuel-sales-slump-...

[Rawwr]

10p? Fuel here is more expensive than ever.

[Johnnytheboy]

Rawwr said:

10p? Fuel here is more expensive than ever.

Ditto.

[Rawwr]

And when you offer truckloads of incentives - in the form on sticks, traditionally - for people to drive uber-MPG diesels, hybrids and baby-petrols, is it really that much of a shock that we're using less of the damn stuff?

Fecking asstards.

[schmalex]

I heard something about this on the breakfast radio this morning.

I can see that more fuel efficient cars and the escalating cost of fuel has reduced consumption quite significantly, but there was some cocksocket on there saying that "everyone filled up during the tanker driver crisis in March, which meant that everyone had full tanks for the next quarter & didn't need to go to the pumps...."

What utter drivel.

[Johnnytheboy]

I wonder if the eerily quiet roads during the Olympics had a noticeable effect on the amount of fuel sold, compared to the average summer?

[MissChief]

schmalex said:

I heard something about this on the breakfast radio this morning.

I can see that more fuel efficient cars and the escalating cost of fuel has reduced consumption quite significantly, but there was some cocksocket on there saying that "everyone filled up during the tanker driver crisis in March, which meant that everyone had full tanks for the next quarter & didn't need to go to the pumps...."

What utter drivel.

I wish a full tank would last me three months!

[Steve vRS]

schmalex said:

cocksocket

[DrTre]

Fuel prices did drop in the spring/early summer.

I'm not saying that at slightest chaffinches fart of possible trouble that might affect something, somewhere in the world they didn't shoot back up (plus VAT) but they did drop.

[Jazzy Jefferson]

The price of petrol is not the problem.
What the government add on in tax is what buggers it up for most. It should be the government lowering their tax, not the oil companies lowering their prices.
Hopefully, due to lost revenue for the chancellor, they will take note. But I doubt it.

[Blue Oval84]

Johnnytheboy said:

I wonder if the eerily quiet roads during the Olympics had a noticeable effect on the amount of fuel sold, compared to the average summer?

Most of the UK didn't really notice so I doubt it was enough to affect national sales levels

[Johnnytheboy]

Blue Oval84 said:

Johnnytheboy said:

I wonder if the eerily quiet roads during the Olympics had a noticeable effect on the amount of fuel sold, compared to the average summer?

Most of the UK didn't really notice so I doubt it was enough to affect national sales levels

We did, the designated route to the sailing venue at Portland was very quiet compared to usual.

Meanwhile in other unrelated news:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...