donna_john
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just come cross this http://www.petrolprices.com/tesco.html 
why is fuel so expensive????
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why is fuel so expensive????
because they are a bunch of oil barrons, although morrissons have reduced it by 3p a litre again therefore sparking more of a price war on petrol and shell around me have reacted by slicing even more than that off i think petrol around me about 106.9
cause we have a chancellor as prime minister
Have you noticed the price of a barrel of oil has come down a lot lately but fuel prices have stayed almost the same a bit like interest rates , they shoot up but come down very slowly another example of rip of britain , in am glad i run a seicento shuie and not a 4x4 , regards marino bottali.
i believe their argument is that they have paid the higher price previously for the oil and so sell it at the higher price. though with that thinking it wouldn't shoot up without warning all the time.
Yea has come down in my area. Only thing was though i filled up a day or two before it came down again :bang:. Typical done that twice in the past few months lol
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Around 70p (IIRC) of the price of fuel is tax. That's where most of the cost comes in.
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donna_john
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thats what i was thinking to, well said.
we have expensive fuel because there is no alternative.
so far all i have seen is daft comments so i'm guess anyone with a solution is keeping quiet. if someone has a solution please dont keep it to yourself.
so far all i have seen is daft comments so i'm guess anyone with a solution is keeping quiet. if someone has a solution please dont keep it to yourself.
which fuel?
lpg
they buy the oil at the higher price fair enough, but they dont wait untill the oil at the lower price has gone from the pump do they??? the bang the higher price straight on top of all of it...(a trick used in the steel industry too)i believe their argument is that they have paid the higher price previously for the oil and so sell it at the higher price. though with that thinking it wouldn't shoot up without warning all the time.
probably cherry diesel...
they reckon from the price of oil dropping to the saving being passed on to the customer take from 4 to 6 weeks, but it doesnt take them 4 - 6 weeks to put the price up!
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The Chancellor and his cohorts will soon levy taxes on that to even things up, be happy that until the time everyone start converting to LPG (megga£...'s) you will be better off.
conversion cost makes it more expensive than petrol in many situations (unless you keep your car for years) and in 2011 the tax is set to more than double.
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From the OP's link...
"they are the first major retailer to incorporate biofuel into standard petrol and diesel with no extra cost to the consumer."
That's a bit of a porky. Tesco biodiesel is 95% diesel, 5% bio (value cooking oil?) and they charge 1p per litre MORE than for ordinary diesel.
"they are the first major retailer to incorporate biofuel into standard petrol and diesel with no extra cost to the consumer."
That's a bit of a porky. Tesco biodiesel is 95% diesel, 5% bio (value cooking oil?) and they charge 1p per litre MORE than for ordinary diesel.
you misunderstand, their ordinary diesel is also 5% biodisel, at no extra cost.
No No No.
It's all Gordon Browns fault. By pricing cars and lorries of the road and planes out of the air. He can engineer an economic meltdown in Britain. Because the price of fuel isn't a problem in the rest of the world.
The reason Gordon Brown wants this to happen is that he is really a super villan. Sent back in time from a future where a member of the general public knew all they had to do was force suppliers to drop the price of petrol to 50P a litre and abolish road tax. For Britain to return to the paradise it was just 15 years ago.
Honestly people there is no conspiricy. The government is not out to get you.
This is the world of supply and demand and there is no changing it, and there is no one person to blame. If you really think you can blame a single person you really have not got a clue whats going on and it might be better if you went to live with the nurses for a while.
