Diesel £1.33

The price of fuel now is ridiculous. I have got receipts for diesel a month ago when it was £1.07 a litre - its now £1.30 a litre. I bought a diesel car last year because it does more to the gallon than a petrol but with such a big difference in the price of petrol (about £1.13 a litre) and diesel (£1.30 a litre)there is no longer much in it. May as well have bought a petrol car as they are cheaper to buy!
 
I do wonder how the haulage companies etc. are managing.
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I know it is eating into my dads (very low profits) who does a milk round in a 2 liter (no turbo) 4x4 pickup.
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I do wonder how the haulage companies etc. are managing.
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I know it is eating into my dads (very low profits) who does a milk round in a 2 liter (no turbo) 4x4 pickup.
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Go shopping and you'll see how it's affecting everyone. A loaf of bread was about 75p a year ago...now over £1. A Tesco cheese and tomato pasta salad was £1.03 a month ago...now £1.33
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Bottom line is we the consumers are the ones bearing the brunt of all this...the oil companies are lapping up the profits just as they always do...Tesco are making record profits quarter on quarter...and us...well, if we're lucky we might get an 'inflation related' pay rise of around 2%
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Not sure where most of the economists go to school these days but where I went the sort of increases in prices we are seeing are far greater than 2-3%
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Very interesting, live in South Africa, Cape, currently the price for a lt of diesel is over R10.50 and Petrol (unleaded) also over R10. To help out, the current exchange rate Rand vs Pound, 1 pound costs us about R14.

so perhaps we (SA) are not as badly off as we are all thinking??
 
Fuel
Food
Gas
Electric
Water
Council Tax
Mortgages
Bank / Credit card charges

What have I forgotton ?? oh horse feed, Hay, Straw all have increased in my area. Last year a bag of nuts was £4.85 now we are paying £ 5.85.

Its become so expensive to live in this country you have to be either a major high earner or on benefits where everything is paid for you, the people in the middle are drowning, I have a friend with a daughter at uni and she is so broke they are having to pay council tax and bills on her credit cards and she is at the point of not being able to juggle anymore. Not sure where it will end.
 
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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?

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No; and it's really grating me, only 40p per mile, that was the rate when diesel was 85p a litre, I nearly choked on my toast this morning when I drove by my local fuel station to see diesel was up to £129.9. I'm thinking back to 1998 when we had the fuel strike- I cant imagine why the road hauliers are putting up with this, cant we go and blockade or something?
 
Have started shopping in Lidl and Morrisons which is miles cheaper than Tesco and Sainsbury.

Would like to buy a cheap petrol run around as the 4x4 is costing me the earth in fuel for my 25mile round trip to work, but can't afford the outlay or the inevitable repair bills from having a cheapo car.

Gas and Elec has just gone up £10 a month and Council Tax too.

I'm fortunate that I've saved up my competing money for the year but next year I can't rejoin BE, and will have far less outings as quite frankly my salary isn't keeping pace with the outgoings.

It's a depressing time.
 
Petrol in the US is roughly $3.60 a GALLON which is roughly £1.80 a Gallon - which is about 36p a litre (rough calculations - OK) So we are paying nearly £1 a litre more than them which is about £5 a gallon more.

I last put diesel in my lorry in September and I was umming and ahhing about filling it right up - so glad I did as I paid 96p a litre and still have a full tank left.
 
I do some evening shift in a local pub in addition to my normal job and a lot of the regulars were saying that it is getting to the point were they may not be able to affort to get to their jobs. I was begining to say the same.
 
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They can afford to be in the pub though...
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Well got to drown our sorrows some how. Mind you at this rate we'll be fighting the teenagers for the bottles of whitelightening instead.

£95 to fill up my 4x4 sob. I don't have th efunds to chop it and anceint trailer in for a little lorry and a run about. As all the little lorries cost fortunes as the younger drivers need them as they can't affod £2k to take their 7.5 tonne or towing tests.
 
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They can afford to be in the pub though...
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yeah..... I always wonder about that one!
 
I beat that this morning!! Passed a garage on the way to work and diesel was at £1.35/ltr. My jaw nearly unplugged my seat belt!

It's got to stop soon - I've just changed my job in order to cut my fuel costs.
 
I'm still fuming from a government response to a petition that ended recently about fuel tax relief. Not sure if it was posted on here, but general feel was forget it.

Does anyone else get those emails saying "boycott shell & BP" - I've had them from various places for the last 12 months - the first one said "when the price of petrol goes over 90p a litre" - latest one was on about it being £1.20 in some areas. Pity the boycott idea just doesn't work.
 
A good website : www.petrolprices.com
You can search your area for the cheapest petrol and diesel, although i've stopped using it as it's so expensive now, you're going to get ripped off wherever you go. There is also some useful info on the site about why fuel prices are so high and other alternatives.

A big reason for the high prices is that the self appointed head of OPEC, is Saudi Arabia. They up the prices......because they can.
They will not allow Iraq to flood the oil market with cheap oil (which it has the capacity to do so) - they'll lose control of OPEC, Iraq will overtake them in production.
That's where your money goes, on Bentleys and bad taste Palaces.

A tank of petrol in Saudi Arabia is about £10. Go figure.
 
The reason is the tax & not the cost of the petrol/diseal itself.
When 75% of the price goes to the government, that means the petrol itself is currently approx 35p a litre. This 35p covers extracting & refining the oil, transporting it to the petrol station & the petrol stations profit. I don't mind that so much as that seems a fair price for what they do & I would happily pay 35p a litre plus VAT. Why does the government feel it's fair to tax a product so much??
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Plus that explains why fuel is so much cheaper in USA & Saudi as there is very little tax on it.
The only way prices will come down is if the govenment cuts the tax element....... sadly I can never see than happening
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wow! this makes my local petrol station cheap compared to £1.33..... I consider myself very lucky as the local station is £1.10
 
To be honest, it's getting to the end of the month, and I'm starting to worry that I won't have the money for fuel to get to work.
Rural area, frequent floods so need 4x4 as well as for the horse feed runs, practically no bus service.

If somethings not done soon, I see this country having serious problems.
 
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