Fuel Down Again!

[Norfolk n Chance]

Local Shell's now only 87.9p!!

I'm loving this credit crunch!

[jaxx]

Its in the 86's round our way :)

[Norfolk n Chance]

My local Morissons is 86.9p but i don't trust supermarket fuel!

[Hoovie]

My local Morissons is 86.9p but i don't trust supermarket fuel!

I'd risk Morrisons weasel pee at that price

Oh, sorry - thought you typed 8.69p ;)

[Karma Supra]

How handy.... I'm down to 1/4 of a tank and the Mrs is using my car to drop me off this evening.... With her lead foot that'll need a fill up lol.

They never seem to reduce premium fuel as much :(

[Kev Mc]

It had better keep coming down too with the way the oil prices have dropped, they're more than happy to wack huge %ages on when oil prices go up yet when they go down dramatically they only knock it down a little bit. I'm happy it's cheaper but I still can't help but feel we're getting anally abused by companies who are breaking records with the amount of profit that they're making while continually telling us it's all tax

[JappyBeast]

It's like going back in time!!!

[Tegan]

our local tesco is 86.8 - well it was today when i went past

I have new appreciation for the work that actually goes into producing fuel after visiting the Shell stanlow refinery last week, i actually think its a bargain that we get one litre of fuel for £0.86! They are a business at the end of the day , thats what there main aim is - to make money

and 74% of the cost of fuel is made up from tax - both fuel duty and vat, so for a litre of petrol at £0.86, £0.64 of that is tax - and so the fuel companies make just £0.22 per litre - i think thats astoundingly cheap for fuel! I cant think of many other industries into which so much research is done and the product is sold for so little

[-T- Sport]

Just put £20 in at 86.9 at our local Shell.

It was Rammed!! ASDA has ran out of petrol and the price had dropped around 5 minutes before I got there. QUite lucky really as my needle was about to fall off!

[Bizarra]

99 cent per litre here for both Petrol & diesel (Texaco)

I can't be bothered doing the math. but I think the Euro is about 89 cent to the Pound, so we are probably paying slightly more. Big improvement, though

[Pompey Gaz]

86.9 here in the local Shell, wooo full tank for £30

(waits for 'double the price of your fiat' jokes)

[Norfolk n Chance]

86.9 here in the local shell, wooo full tank for £30

(waits for 'double the price of your fiat' jokes)

People actually pay money to drive a Fiat??

My local Shell's also down to 86.9p now! :D

[Kev Mc]

86.9 here in the local shell, wooo full tank for £30

(waits for 'double the price of your fiat' jokes)

£30? That's twice the cost of your...

Bugger

[-T- Sport]

You can sell Buggers for £15 each? i'm gunna be rich!

[Blue84]

87.9 here at the mo, need to fill the Yaris up and the more money to save on petrol the better!!

[balli hi]

Lets enjoy it while we can , not many people noticed that Gordon increased fuel tax by 2p a litre, to coincide with the cut in vat , on the 1st of december... a further rise in fuel tax is also planned for april.

[RiverAuris]

Still a large differential between petrol & diesel tho, grrrrr

[Pompey Gaz]

Lets enjoy it while we can , not many people noticed that Gordon increased fuel tax by 2p a litre, to coincide with the cut in vat , on the 1st of december... a further rise in fuel tax is also planned for april.

got an email from petrolprices.com about that

[Norfolk n Chance]

Lets enjoy it while we can , not many people noticed that Gordon increased fuel tax by 2p a litre, to coincide with the cut in vat , on the 1st of december... a further rise in fuel tax is also planned for april.

The idea was that with falling prices and a reduction in VAT it wouldn't make a difference to what we pay at the pump.

And since the 1st December petrol has still been falling in price

[Bizarra]

Still a large differential between petrol & diesel tho, grrrrr

No difference @ my local Filling Station here in Ireland. Both are 99 cent per litre

[Pompey Gaz]

85.9 in cleethorpes, with alot more drops planned in the coming months :D

[Bizarra]

85.9 in cleethorpes, with alot more drops planned in the coming months :D

Always provided that the "you know what" doesn't hit the fan for any one of a myriad reasons <_<

Sorry I'm a dyed in the wool pessimist. If I am right, it was only what I expected. If I am wrong, I get a pleasant surprise It is a Win, Win attitude

[Karma Supra]

I have used the same logic for years...

Probably why everyone thinks I'm a miserable C-unit

[Blue84]

85.9p for Unleaded and 90.9p for Super Unleaded at the Tesco's near here :D

Thats a little Xmas pressie itself! :)

[Demonic Angel]

our local tesco is 86.8 - well it was today when i went past

I have new appreciation for the work that actually goes into producing fuel after visiting the shell stanlow refinery last week, i actually think its a bargain that we get one litre of fuel for £0.86! They are a business at the end of the day , thats what there main aim is - to make money

and 74% of the cost of fuel is made up from tax - both fuel duty and vat, so for a litre of petrol at £0.86, £0.64 of that is tax - and so the fuel companies make just £0.22 per litre - i think thats astoundingly cheap for fuel! I cant think of many other industries into which so much research is done and the product is sold for so little

I never thought of it that way Teegs...

But I guess if you put it in perspective.... there are approx 32million vehicles on UK roads - that includes buses, lorries, vans and taxis as well as cars. All those vehicles need fuel.

If each of those 32 million vehicles put in one litre each that'd be £7,040,000 (I think) per litre of fuel for the oil companies.

Of course, that's unrealistic to say that each of those 32 million cars fuel up at the same time and each put only one litre in. But bearing in mind the amount of traffic on our roads, that's a hell of a lot of money going to the oil companies...

Of course, it's a hell of a lot more for the government but lets not go there!

The maths is probably wrong - I'm a software tester, not a mathematician!