Fuel Prices

[Fazerider]

Meanwhile, my friends in the US are pissing and whining about the 65 to 75 pence per litre they have to pay. :wall

[locksmith]

My local shell was 144.9 last week when I filled up. And they are always the cheapest round here and theres almost always a queue of some sort!

[goldfazer]

LPG is often 80p now :moon

[markp2]

Most places on East Devon seem to be 1.43 - 1.45 at the moment - including supermarkets. Interestingly, although the price of a tin of baked beans is probably the same at Tescos from Glasgow to Plymouth, the price of a litre of sunflower oil follows the price of diesel and varies greatly around the country.
I wonder why they do that?
(actually I know the answer because I run my car on sunflower oil)

[JZS 600]

Not long back from Greece, it was 1.95 Euros a liter

[Gingernutz]

Asda announced a price freeze 137.9 in all stores from tomorrow

[VNA]

Apparently the speculators have well over egged the price.  Demand has fallen sharply.  Crude prices are expected to take a sharp little drop.  Unleaded in turn should fall to at least a bargain basement 135p in 4-5 weeks (maybe - maybe not)

[Captain Haddock]

Be glad you have a small tank, I've just filled my boat up with diesel, about 1/2 a ton of the stuff  :eek
Luckily I only paid 72p/litre for it as I have it delivered direct from the tanker last year into a heating oil tank.

[Farjo]

VNA, what do you think the SNP would do about the tax on petrol? In Westminster their MPs ask for lower prices because of the high prices in the areas you state, and because there is handly any / no public transport in rural Scotland. However if the SNP do reduce duty it will leave a large hole in the finances.

ps I'm not after an argument - if you're going to get all pissy please start a new thread in MFU :lol

[pilgrim]

Top tip! (Apparently)
Fill up in the morning when its cooler because petrol becomes more dense when its cooler so you get more fuel than later in the day when its warmed up and expanded blah blah............. :z
Read that somewhere a few years ago in a bike mag. Never bothered to actually try it out to see if its true, might be, might not be.
Damn!! I'm going to have to try it now aint I? :\

[AdieR]

I've heard that theory of fuel being denser when cool, not convinced it's a good thing though (assuming of course it works) - there's always that thought that if you've brimmed the tank, and it expands, it has to go somewhere (ie, you might find it leaks from vent pipes etc).

As for the prices in Durness, I just checked prices in Thurso which isn't far away (I'm heading up that way mid-May), unleaded lowest 149.9p/litre, highest 150.0p/l, diesel high / low both 152.9p/l. Oil firms cite "the cost of transport" as the reason fuel prices in rural areas are so high......Prices on the Islands will be truly frightening  :eek

[Fazer Jake]

i pay 137.9 Asda or tesco  shell is 1p more  :'(

[Fazerider]

I've heard that theory of fuel being denser when cool, not convinced it's a good thing though (assuming of course it works) - there's always that thought that if you've brimmed the tank, and it expands, it has to go somewhere (ie, you might find it leaks from vent pipes etc)...

I can confirm that theory. :'(  Filled the car early one morning and left it parked on the drive in full sun, a few hours later came out to discover fuel squirting out around the filler cap. These days I only brim it if I'm going to be driving at least a dozen miles immediately.
Probably not a problem on the bike, that filler tube at the top of the tank stops you over-filling unless you're patient enough to keep dribbling the stuff in until the pinhole in the side is drowned.

[Grahamm]

there's always that thought that if you've brimmed the tank, and it expands, it has to go somewhere (ie, you might find it leaks from vent pipes etc).

But mostly where you'll find it is on bends and roundabouts, ready to dump the next poor biker who's minding his own business and then suddenly finds himself on the tarmac because some prat doesn't understand (or care) that petrol pumps have an automatic cut off for a *reason*!

[Fazerider]

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there's always that thought that if you've brimmed the tank, and it expands, it has to go somewhere (ie, you might find it leaks from vent pipes etc).

But mostly where you'll find it is on bends and roundabouts, ready to dump the next poor biker who's minding his own business and then suddenly finds himself on the tarmac because some prat doesn't understand (or care) that petrol pumps have an automatic cut off for a *reason*!
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The usual reason for diesel slicks on bends is absent-minded drivers setting off leaving their filler cap on the filling station forecourt. :rolleyes

[VNA]

VNA, what do you think the SNP would do about the tax on petrol?

They have already introduced a 5p tax relief/subsidy to try and help the Islands.
Obviously under devolution, any Scottish Government has limited room for manoeuvre on this.
But certainly fuel prices, and as such fuel tax, can have a big impact on the economy.  Of course it doesn't help that our economy is so heavily dependent on fuel now.
One successful SNP policy, for example, was the RET experiment (road equivalent tariff) introduced on ferries between the mainland and the outer Hebrides.
My understanding is that large increase in ferry traffic and resultant economic boost for the islands since the introduction of RET has more than made up for the extra subsidy provided for the ferries.  So RET stays in place.
So a reduction in fuel charges or fuel duty doesn't automatically equal a reduction in government income.
 
Of course Tory government policy is tax cuts for the rich, and then hope that that magically, that the rich being richer will mean everybody will be better off, or hang about a minute, do they give a foc anyway.

[Farjo]

Unlucky Andy - you almost made a whole post without slagging off the tories but just failed at the last :lol But otherwise an interesting read :thumbup

[VNA]

Unlucky Andy - you almost made a whole post without slagging off the tories but just failed at the last [img alt=:lol]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/lol.gif[/img] But otherwise an interesting read [img alt=:thumbup]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/thumbup.gif[/img]

Surely now't wrong wi slaggin Tory scum bags! :lol

[Jacko]

138.9 Sainsburys Sheffield