Diesel £1.33

its £1.33 in a village near to where I live. I filled up yeaterday atSainsburys for £1.19.
elsewere 1.23 seems to be the norm
has anyone seen it at more than !.33? its getting seriously rediculas now.
 
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I have a petrol... but i know what you mean, it is getting silly... they recon petrol will go up to 1.50 but the end of June...
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We're about 50 miles from the oil refinery and its 1.33p/l here too!

We've just bought a little petrol run around
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And I'm told diesel will be nearly £2.00p/l by Christmas
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Yup, went to Oxfordshire today to see my sister and it was that price over there (the Shell garage on the A40...)

Where I live (small town, one petrol station) it is now £1.30 a litre, but seems to be going up every few days
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£122.9 in my local Sainsbury's.... When is it going to stop?

Petrol isn't the normal supply and demand.... People can't simply stop buying, it's not a case of choice nowadays in the most part. Something has to be done to intervene. (Sorry, can you tell I'm an economist
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I don't understand why it is so expensive - has it gone up due to tax increases?

Also why are petrol companies making record profits this year?
 
was yold on friday by someone at the avonmouth depot that both petrol and diesel will be 1.50 ltr before august...
 
I've got a petrol car but it only scrapes 30mpg on a run
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Can barely afford to go to work and it's only going to get worse. They have just announced that our pay rise this year is less than 1%
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Apparently, the petrol companies are making their profits from extracting the oil, not off the forecourts..... Hmmmm.....

The government takes a lot in tax, I think it's a percentage, so that doesn't help. It's the price of oil per barrel that's the problem. I think the world wide credit crunch isn't helping with speculation etc... I'll shut up. You ask an economist one question, you'll get a 20,000 word essay as an answer!
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I know what you mean about getting to work.i work 3 days a week. I have a 50 mile round trip and have been put on short hour days because its quiet at work, not as many customers as usual. it costs me 2 hours work per day in fuel.
spoke to manager last week and hes put me on 1 day less a week but longer hours on the other 2 days.
but if fuel goes up much more i'll quit and look for something nearer home. it just wont be worth it.
 
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I have a petrol... but i know what you mean, it is getting silly... they recon petrol will go up to 1.50 but the end of June...
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And I'm told diesel will be nearly £2.00p/l by Christmas
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WTF it is crippling.
 
Its totally unbelieveable and unfair..... I can remember very recently when it was below 0.99p and I would hunt around to get the diesel for 0.98 if I could....

Eldest daughter has just passed her test and needs her car for work but since passing the price of petrol for her has gone up nearly every week.... how is she supposed to get to work and also pay the high insurance premium that she does....

I think its the younger generation that are being hit as they are on the lowest income....

this country is going downhill weekly..........
 
It's getting to be something I think about before planning any long journeys now, I've downsized my car, had the computer in it mapped so it is more economical , but living where we do using a lot of fuel is inevitable.
The nearest garage is nearly 8 miles for a start, so you don't tend to go hunting round for cheap petrol .
I'm actively driving more slowly too.
The biggest laugh this morning was my husband, who saddled a horse up to ride one and a half miles into the village for the Sunday papers..
He met a friend and told them he was thinking of his carbon footprint, bo**cks, he was thinking of how much it would cost him to drive there and back..
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It's getting to be something I think about before planning any long journeys now, I've downsized my car, had the computer in it mapped so it is more economical , but living where we do using a lot of fuel is inevitable.
The nearest garage is nearly 8 miles for a start, so you don't tend to go hunting round for cheap petrol .
I'm actively driving more slowly too.
The biggest laugh this morning was my husband, who saddled a horse up to ride one and a half miles into the village for the Sunday papers..
He met a friend and told them he was thinking of his carbon footprint, bo**cks, he was thinking of how much it would cost him to drive there and back..
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LMAO...maybe others will follow suit
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Its another nail in the coffin for people who live in rural areas. I have to have a 4 x 4, we live 5 miles from the nearest salted road in the winter and there is no public transport.

HH - I have often considered turning one of the garages at work into a stable and riding to work everyday - at least my mare would lose here grass tummy!!
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I've been working where I am now for 7 years in that time the mileage rate that we get paid for using out own car has not increased - has anyone elses increased since the price rises?
 
I have a 4X4 and when i first bought it (about 5yrs ago) it cost £48 to fill it up it cost me £79 pounds know. I would love to go and buy a enviromental friendly car, but have you seen the prices of them. If this bloody goverment want us to drive vehicles with low emmisions, be that small/large or lorry's they should try and subsidise the costs.

i can't sell my 4x4 as the value is low due to a knock on effect of the fuel costs, yet they continue to put up the cost of the tax etc, AAAHHHHHHHHHH it really drives me up the wall.
 
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I have a petrol... but i know what you mean, it is getting silly... they recon petrol will go up to 1.50 but the end of June...
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And I'm told diesel will be nearly £2.00p/l by Christmas
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I actually feel physically sick at the thought of this. The way prices are going up is really starting to scare me now
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this is very scary, and the knock on effect of overpriced fuel will have an effect on every single person in the uk, from transporting our horses, to the old lady payin over the odds for a loaf of bread trucked into her local shop, WHEN FOR GODS SAKE are the government going to step in!!!!!! talk about a F**K**G detatched govenment!!!! WAKE UP GORDON!!!!!
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bring on the elections!!!!!!!!!
 
The Government take almost 80% at the pump, and they still insist on increasing it by 2p per litre in October.

I have the same problem as Girla. We want to buy a envirnometally friendlier car, but just can't afford to.
 
No, mine has not. I get a monthly lump sum (or a car) and then its either 10p or 11p a mile. Thankfully I don't have to drive too much.

What gets me, is that the Partners, who earn way more then 'plebs' like me, and who get massive bonusses, get a company credit card to pay for the fuel with.

It surely can't carry on like this, can it?

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I put diesel in the lorry on saturday on the way back from Felbridge....main road, major high street fuel retailer......129.9ppl. It usually takes me an age to put fuel in the wagon as the filler is at a stupid angle......so i let it fill for a few minutes this time......and it was showing £40 before i realised it ! It used to take me 10 minutes to get £20 in
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The tank is a quarter full after £40 going in...i put £150 in it to go to Towerlands last time out ! Think we'll be reviewing our schedule closely from now on and considering some overnight stays...
 
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I think its the younger generation that are being hit as they are on the lowest income

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I think pensioners in rural areas with no bus service are hard hit too, as they and local volunteer drivers won't be able to afford to do the runs to hospital, doctors, shopping etc, and taxi fares will rise too,as sell as domestic heating costs and food prices.
 
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as well as domestic heating costs and food prices.

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Domestic heating costs are the single biggest killer of all !

Five years ago when i bought my house, heating oil was about 15p per litre......today it's 59.97p +vat
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That;s a 400% increase in the space of 5 years ! Makes petrol / diesel look cheap by comparison....and we don't have a choice where we live...it's oil or.......freeze....

One good thing will come of all this.........labour will be gone...but the fear !? Who will take over....
 
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