Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊
What are you paying for fuel ?
- Thread starter Leekbrookgull
- Start date
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
To be honest i never look, the fuel light comes on telling me i need fuel so pull in the next station and fill up.
I never look at what the cost is as i just need it what ever it is.
One thing i do hate when filling up "do you have a Nectar,club/loyalty, FU@K OFF, hate all these with a passion.
I never look at what the cost is as i just need it what ever it is.
One thing i do hate when filling up "do you have a Nectar,club/loyalty, FU@K OFF, hate all these with a passion.
hitony
Administrator
As a matter of interest, what car / vehicle do you drive, and is it a company vehicle?
TheJasperCo
Well-known member
Gateshead MetroCentre Asda had 98/97p per litre - can't remember exactly as I didn't care because I wasn't driving, but it surprised me all the same to see it so low.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
No its my own private van, I'm now a sole trader.
But in previous lives when i did have company cars i was the same, felt over a tank full of fuel the difference was only a couple a quid or so and wasn't worthy of my concern even though i was doing 30-40k miles a year.
spongy
Well-known member
I've got a bit of a brute of a car so need to run on Bp ultimate super unleaded or the tesco momentum99. Prices for that don't really change too much here in mid Sussex.
Perhaps I should consider downscaling as if I drive like a grandad in 6th gear at 30mph I can squeeze 280 miles from a 55 litre fuel tank.
Perhaps I should consider downscaling as if I drive like a grandad in 6th gear at 30mph I can squeeze 280 miles from a 55 litre fuel tank.
1066familyman
Radio User
- Jan 15, 2008
- 15,185
59.9p a litre in Hastings.
53.9p a litre in Polegate.
53.9p a litre in Polegate.
AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit
New member
I know you don't like to hear about how low petrol prices are around the rest of the world but let's compare.
In Indiana just outside of Chicago I have seen petrol prices as low as 30p per litre (US$1.729 per US gal).
In Venezuela where the government is the provider of petrol and keeps the price artificially lower than anywhere else the price is 1.3p per litre (yes, less than 2p per litre)
In Indiana just outside of Chicago I have seen petrol prices as low as 30p per litre (US$1.729 per US gal).
In Venezuela where the government is the provider of petrol and keeps the price artificially lower than anywhere else the price is 1.3p per litre (yes, less than 2p per litre)
Last edited:
Would'be been £1.069 for normal unleaded earlier, but they didn't have any at the pump I chose at Tesco Newbury so I decided to treat my new motor to the £1.093 a litre 'Momentum' stuff, Still cheaper than regular stuff at my local Texaco and Shell garages, which were £1.11 at the weekemd.
The Birdman
New member
Should be € whoops £1 by Christmas
~£180/ cu m if it's kiln dried.
Biscuit Barrel
Well-known member
Why is it that fuel is always priced at .9p per liter? for example 104.9p.
Ex-Staffs Gull
New member
Here in Aus, its abou $1.10 so about 60p a litre.
Very much this. Always confuses me why fuel seems to be much cheaper in Sussex when most other things are pricier
Uckfield Esso is worth detouring to if you're doing the A22 commute. I do Uckfield to Uxbridge 4 days a week (my wife goes the other way into Brighton) and it's consistently the cheapest branded fuel I see by a few p a litre - including the Shell just a couple miles away on the A22/26 roundabout. 104.9p this morning, but I've recently seen 102.9. They recently started doing the two days a week cut price thing, I'm expecting to see sub-100 prices before the end of the year.
I steer well clear of Asda and the like. Partly due to bad experiences with supermarket fuels in Australia (where they cut the fuel with cheaper fuel alternatives to such a high degree that the government was forced to step in and regulate), and partly due to local experience with my motorcycles not running as cleanly or efficiently on non-branded fuels.
I steer well clear of Asda and the like. Partly due to bad experiences with supermarket fuels in Australia (where they cut the fuel with cheaper fuel alternatives to such a high degree that the government was forced to step in and regulate), and partly due to local experience with my motorcycles not running as cleanly or efficiently on non-branded fuels.
About £60 a gram these days. It's good stuff mind.
severnside gull
Well-known member
I do 30k miles a year (a large part following the Albion) so yes it matters!
Bognor Bystander
Looking for a new job
..about £109 per month for Gas and Electric with EDF 
Even doing 30,000 miles a year means that you'd probably save less than £30 a month (I'm guessing at fuel consumption but if most of it is motorway and you get less than 40mpg then change your car) if the price dropped by 20p a litre.
People aren't talking about 20p though, they're talking about 5p or less differences. So maybe a fiver a month even to someone doing high mileage like you.
I have more important things to deal with and think about financially than a fiver a month, or £30 a month actually. I just don't get the obsession.
Especially when most people aren't doing 30k miles a year.....