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Specialone 31-12-10 05:03 PM

Re: Fuel prices
 
It really boils my carrots tbh :(

To make it worse as well, every fecking garage in my area is always bloody packed no matter what time of day, the total garage I use never used to be as busy as the morrisons up the road, but it is now and I found out why, you have to pay first, WTF is all that about ? I took my DRZ there on Tuesday so how the hell do I know how much it will take?
So I wait in queue, pay £8, brim it, £7.60, so have to wait in the fecking queue again to get my 40p back, no wonder the garage is slow and packed.
Surely this must be hurting their profits ?

danf1234 31-12-10 05:09 PM

Re: Fuel prices
 
Ah great another dent in my NON- Pay rise this year!

leebex 31-12-10 05:11 PM

Re: Fuel prices
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by specialone (Post 2449768)
It really boils my carrots tbh :(

To make it worse as well, every fecking garage in my area is always bloody packed no matter what time of day, the total garage I use never used to be as busy as the morrisons up the road, but it is now and I found out why, you have to pay first, WTF is all that about ? I took my DRZ there on Tuesday so how the hell do I know how much it will take?
So I wait in queue, pay £8, brim it, £7.60, so have to wait in the fecking queue again to get my 40p back, no wonder the garage is slow and packed.
Surely this must be hurting their profits ?

What a crap idea that is, ok for car users who put in say £20 or £30 but how do you know how much a full tank will equal.

The petrol stations round my way are about £1.24 upwards, I notice sainsburys in a couple of the nearby towns are the cheapest of all the forecourts.

-Ralph- 31-12-10 05:14 PM

Re: Fuel prices
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by specialone (Post 2449768)
you have to pay first, WTF is all that about ?

Getting more and more common in Brum. The more the price of fuel rises, the more drive off thefts they are getting.

Stonesie 31-12-10 05:15 PM

Re: Fuel prices
 
What boils my juices is that we are forced to pay tax on a tax with fuel, that is all I'm going to say (vat is calculated on the value after the duty is added):smt076:smt067

Ed 31-12-10 06:26 PM

Re: Fuel prices
 
Happy New Year, Cameron you rich toff. All OK for him, if you're a multi millionaire and get driven everywhere in a Jaguar at our expense then of course you won't be complaining. Living where we do there is no choice but to have two cars. The bus service is a joke, the train goes through the village but the station went with Beeching n the 1960s.

hongman 31-12-10 06:42 PM

Re: Fuel prices
 
I'd actively go out of my way to make sure I never used a station that made you pay up front, its a joke!

Ed 31-12-10 06:52 PM

Re: Fuel prices
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by hongman (Post 2449851)
I'd actively go out of my way to make sure I never used a station that made you pay up front, its a joke!

Property rights in the fuel transfer when you put it in your tank (R-v-Edwards) so they introduced the Theft Act 1978 (new offence of making off without payment) to address this. Around here it's on the increase too.

Specialone 31-12-10 07:00 PM

Re: Fuel prices
 
It's very common in the states and I bloody hate it, it's double handling and more time consuming for punter and garage.

husky03 31-12-10 07:02 PM

Re: Fuel prices
 
i'd rather pay at the pump than go inside.


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