petrol price wars
 

The big 3 supermarkets have started a price war on fuel, unleaded down 5p a litre and diesel down by 3p ....Story http://news.aol.co.uk/supermarkets-l...02391150903823

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yep if its going down then the goverment will slap there 2p tax hike on it soon!

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Soooo true! :mad:

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Utter bolloxs really......

I filled up this morning at sainsburys....no difference.

The thing that boils my **** the most is that they are making out they are DOING US A FAVOUR.........they fail to mention completely that the price of oil has dropped $25 in the past week.

So all they are really doing is stopping their profiteering.

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think sainsburys only do it if you spend over £50...

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agreed............. but at least they are dropping it (if only by a few pence)

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Nah that's completely wrong. Forecourt sales of fuel only net a couple of pence profit per litre - hardly profiteering.

If you're anoyed about fuel prices then the government is to blame, noone else - they take 80% of the money you pay on fuel.

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What like this time -

Old price war... but look at the price.

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83p???!!!???

dear god!

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And less than 4 years ago lol......I cant remember what price it was when I started driving in 2000.......50p comes to mind, but I'm not sure.

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:laughat: nope , it was around the 80p mark .

it was about 60 when i learnt in 97.

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I like the following quote:

" Last month, US oil prices rose to a record $42.45 a barrel. "

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I'm interested to know why Tesco haven't done the same... though as I don't use them for fuel since they started demanding I take my lid off before filling :(

I was happy (happier) to fill up at Morrissons this morning with a 4p/l drop in price though, and, to top it off, got my 5quid off voucher for saving up all those 'Morrissons miles' :)

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Watch the Morrissons fuel though, I've had some problems with the bike being a bit 'rough' round the edges after using it.

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I paid 117.9p this morning at a normally expensive pertol station, last week I paid 119.9 in a Tesco Express. Not much but at least its going the right way!

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Hmm, been using the same morrissons for a year or so now and haven't noticed anything odd. It could be that I was so used to the crap coming out of the tesco pumps that I didn't notice and its just 'been fine' to me ;)

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I can remember buying two stroke premix for my old track bike & it was 50p a gallon, mind you i am an old fart, they were the days, we had real butter for tea & clean newspapers on the bed, bye eck.

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Most interesting is that diesel is only 1p litre more.

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The price of oil is still dropping at a decent rate.

http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/


On another note, doing the maths.

Saudi Arabia produces 10million barrels of oil a day......at $130 a barrel

Thats a cool $1.3billion a day being made......insane amounts of money.

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Was a time when it was about 75% the price of petrol. :(

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What kind of meaningless statement is that?

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Cheapest round here was 114.

:)

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It was a fact relevant to the topic. Funnily enough the cost of oil and fuel are related. Its much more relevant than your patronising bullsh1t question that you always seem to have to come out with :rolleyes:

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Waitrose near my house this morning had suddenly dropped from 118.9 to 115.9 - woohoo! Its starting! :D

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Waitrose fuel... is that fairrtrade?

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Dunno about you guys, but as well as my beloved SV I have to drive the car for work - I get petrol expenses, but have to lay out the money up front, so I got an Adsa credit card which lays out the money up front for me AND, I get 2p a litre off petrol bought from Asda petrol stations! Worth doing if you use quite a bit like me..

Steve

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112.9 - in morrisons here!

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Gee... it will be at 110 soon... crosses finger, toes, legs, arms and anything else that it goes back down to less then a pound...

'Back in the real world'...

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I don't mean it was meaningless in the context of the thread, I mean the figure its self was meaningless. Saying $1.3bn is insane amounts of money, insane amounts of money for who? For one person yes, for one country no.

It's like saying that the lower castes of India have 'insane amounts of money' because they've got £2bn between them, ignoring the fact that there's a billion of the poor blighters so they've only got £2 each.

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They need to be educated in the ways of saving.

just laziness and greed is all it is

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Its made from free-range hydrocarbons

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$1.3bn a day from a 365 day a year production is insane to me, as a single source of income even for a country...I'm Sure the Sultan of Brunie doesnt think so though as alot of it goes to him and his family.

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I am happy the prices are slowly dropping but I dont like the fact that the supermarkets initially offered better prices if you spend £50+ in store excluding filling up! I also think the prices are not dropping as quick as they went up - we will see.

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Asda is 113p without spending in store.

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111p if you buy with an Asda credit card!!

Steve

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Cheers guys.... you just depressed me.

Guess who filled up with 56litres of diesel at 131.9p/litre on Friday, just before the prices started falling.... :lol:

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its always the way lol