Cheap Fuel

I noticed on Watchdog on the One Show last night Matt Allwright was saying that the fuel companies are quick to put prices up but much slower to put them down despite falls in the wholesale market. 

By what some of you are paying for fuel, we must be being ripped off in MK as I paid £1.52 a litre for petrol a couple of days ago. Fortunately I don't do many miles in my car so the price is not a massive issue for me but can see how it could be for those that do higher mileage. The motorhome is a different kettle of fish!

David

...at the moment our cheapest is Asda at 146.7 (petrol) and 167.7 (diesel).  Just across the main road in Ventura Park is Sainbury's...  146.9 (petrol) and 167.9 (diesel)...., for the extra .2 of a p, you get the Nectar points      Mind you, I do sometimes use the local Esso, and the 4p off a litre with the Fuelpecker card. This sometimes works out slightly cheaper.

David

The fuel price at D A Roberts... the Essar garage near Whitchurch is showing at 142.9 for petrol and 150.9 for diesel.  If this garage can charge these prices then is it unreasonable to expect others to charge the same (or similar)?

There is also a much bigger price gap between petrol and diesel than ever there used to be.  In fact, I can remember the time when diesel was cheaper than petrol.....  then I bought a diesel car and look what happened!!  🤣🤣🤣

David

Interestingly, as an aside, my son works for a national company with uses a particular van and all staff used to fill up with diesel at a budget supermarket near their depot.  After several engine failures and many problems with injectors they issued everybody with cards from a well known fuel company after advice from the van manufacturers.  They would not mention the actual supermarket but said no fuel was to be purchased from any supermarket supplier.

fwiw ….

Maybe I’m just unlucky, as a longer term same car owner, but a long while back after saving a little on cheaper Supermarket fuel then had two expensive emission related repairs ( garage said caused by long term use of poor or dirty fuel).
So will only now pay a little extra for a branded upmarket grade fuel, normally Shell V Power (as Garage advised).
My 2013 MB ML Euro 6 AdBlue dirty diesel runs much smoother, has better mpg of 27 towing / 42 solo and returns almost zero MOT emissions annually. 
Equally now find the recent E10% Petrol (mistakenly filled with) causes pinking and rough running on my Up! and modest RE motorcycle.

Each to their own choice though ….

M

I am still using the CAMC Esso fuel card. Paid £148.9 in Yeovil Somerset last Tuesday, the pump price was £1.52.9.  Today I go in again today passed the stn and its now £149.9 so the discount price 4 p off £144.9.  The local Asda was £154.7 today. This is for diesel.

....so do I coachmanbutch.  I still wonder what will happen when my card expires.  Strictly speaking, they are not accepting new customers from the CAMC, but will existing cards be renewed...??  I recon I might be able to guess the answer... 🙁

David

Petrol £1.37.9 here in Abergavenny, diesel £1.54.

I paid £1.639 for diesel yesterday at a BP garage on the A5, its a penny more locally with one garage cheaper than the supermarkets who are stil charging £1.659. Perhaps it is all down to when their storage tanks are refilled and until then the old higher price remains

peedee

£1.64.9 at Tesco here when I filled up the MH a week ago and I don’t think it’s come down since. There does seem to be significant disparity across the country.