Filled my Scoob up today and was horrified by the cost. Nothing much new there, I know. (Now it's Scooby related )

The price was 78.9 per litre for 95 RON unleaded. Is this the most expensive in the country?

It turns out that since I live on the Isle of Wight, I have a choice of BP petrol or going thirsty. No matter what garage I go to on the island. Apparently they have the only pipeline to the island, and they are charging more or less what they like here.
I don't think this is very fair considering I can see Fawley refinary from my house.

The price seems to have dropped a bit on the mainland recently, but it has been going UP on the island.

For reference, in Portsmouth - only about 5 miles across the Solent - last night, the petrol prices were all around the 74p mark.

Moan!!

 

79.9ppl for 95 RON at the BP Southbound on the A74 before it meets the M6.

Or how about 84.9ppl for it in Ullapool?

 

74.3 for 95RON UL @ local asda

 

its 77.9 here in milton keynes, if you want optimax though its 82.9 what are we to do!!!!

 

Simple, make fuel taxation an election issue. Don't forget that the vast majority of the cost of a litre of petrol is tax, so if you want it to get substantially cheaper, it's the Government you should be talking to, not the oil companies.

 

Optimax in Stoke on Trent is currently 78.9p.

Not bad seeing as some ppl are paying over 80p per litre.

Skoosh.

STILL BLOODY DEAR THOUGH MR.BROWN !!!!!!!!

 

This time a couple of years ago we were all queuing down the road when prices were this high.

So what's changed? Why are we accepting it lying down now?

The Government are laughing at the motorists, because they know our hands are tied. They could tax petrol to any level they wanted and we'd still buy it, eventually...

 

Telboy

It was exactly 3 years ago

 

Blimey, it was too.

How time flies when you're being ripped off. [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

 

78.9 to 79.9 here in the north west for Shell Optimax.

For cheapest petrol of a type in an area( does not show optimax tho! ) try the AA's web service ...

http://www.aapetrolbusters.com/

 

Greasemonkey - you're right about the tax thing, but surely it must be the oil company in my situation...

Portsmouth doesn't pay less petrol duty than the IOW, as petrol duty is set nationally, isn't it?!!!

 

put it this way, until just recently my old man used to work in RAF lakenheath with the yanks

on camp they have their own petrol station run by the AAEFES (or whatever it is)

anyway their fuel was (last time i was there) 35 cents a litre, but wait.......

......it comes from the same fuel depot place that supplies all our petrol stations.

And guess what else...only the yanks can use it.

chris

edited cos i dont know my currency

[Edited by CHRIS_D - 9/9/2003 8:09:14 PM]

 

The joke is that on holiday I hired a Vitara (that's not the joke ) and it only cost £10 to fill from empty in Cyprus that's just over £11 - £12 in english money [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Paul

 

I have to disagree, I'm afraid - they should tax the buggery out of it to reduce unneccesary trips and to get all the povs off the road.

Sorted

Gordo

 

Chris - 35 bucks a litre? Surely you meant 35 cents?

 

$35 per litre???

Christ, did it have dissolved gold in it???

 

i paid 83 p litre for optimax yesterday along the a10 near ware

 

I paid 87 cents for 98 RON SUL at an AGIP filling station in Spain yesterday- about 67p ltr.

 

Dnb,

wonder what the price rise will be like when they move from
(un)Fairlee to Harwoods?!?!?!

Weava

 

i pay 37.9 for lpg so i dont care

 

Expensive, must ship it from USa...

 

...And what will you be paying when LPG gets "mainstream", and the Government removes the tax concession it's currently running under?

The only reason it's cheap now is because HMG want more people to use it. What do you think is going to happen when LPG usage starts to reduce income from petrol taxation?

[Edited by greasemonkey - 9/9/2003 4:37:12 PM]

 

Sounds good to me - less tax on petrol and MORE on LPG !

Ban Diesel, let us breathe!!

 

i will fill up from propane bottles
i dont think the government will up the tax anyway but till they do i am saving money

 

less tax on petrol that will never happen

lpg is the same lpg that houses use for heating where there is no gas supply they pay about 25p a litre

think i will move into the sticks

 

It has been 78.9p for Optimax in Watford for the last couple of weeks now

I have seen some smaller shell stations(LOCAL) @ 85.6

 

Yeah, like that's likely to happen.

BTW, Peugoetru, autogas may be chemically the same as heating gas, but if/when the powers that be want to charge you more for it, they'll just start doing what they've done with red diesel for decades...

 

how can you dip a sealed gas tank lol

 

btw i have used red diesel in the past got done twice first time £250 fine second time
£500 fine saved thousands in fuel costs so still worth it

 

Surely you dont run a scooby on LPG