109.9p around Watford!
Thats better!:w00t:
get a bike like mine , fill it for less than a fiver 
Living in Watford does have a few benefits, the price of petrol was one of them.
Fill up myself the other day, i put £18 quid for 232 miles. That is 62mpg, however the down side is £13.40 in TAX!!!
Still not enough encouragement to make someone want to live in Watford, sorry 
How many miles do you get out of a tank, 50? 
+1 on that jetstream, very weird people live there 
place in dartford is £1.08.9 filled the car up there this morning :Dstill think it should be a maximum 97p like it was last year when i bought my gas guzzzling car 
, i save money now and fill up when half empty only cost me 30 quid instead of 60:D:D;)
I know there is a lot more to the pricing of petrol than I probably realise – but I want to know what was the real reason petrol shot up to £1.20 (and above in many cases) ??? why was it deemed necessary to do - while the likes of Shell and BP are recording bumper profits – they simply push fuel prices up on a whim it seems… the market is no more stable than it was a month ago. in fact with conflict with Russia and the recession being recognised by the Bank of England you could almost say it is worse.
our interest rates and inflation is directly respondent to the costs of fuel. raise the cost of petrol and diesel and everything will follow in due course— which it has.
so now bread costs more - but for some reason petrol prices have dropped a bit.
who gave them the right to raise it in the first place - where do all those profits go and why isn’t anyone swinging by the neck yet?
can’t believe we’re excited at 109.09
thats also what my local morrisons is charging and Tesco does price match.
I almost kissed the cashier :w00t:
Was still over £75 to fill up the car though
:pinch:
Not that I’m trying to defend Oil Companies (especially as I work for one… :Whistling: ) but very little of the profit actually comes directly from the pump price.
Crude Oil prices shot up in the first 6 months of the year and then came off slightly, why depends on which expert you talk to. Currently showing at about 36 usd a barrel less than a month ago, future prices also significantly lower.
Also, the numbers look big, but this is relative to the industry, to build a new off-shore facility to collect & export oil in the area that I work will cost 4-5 Billion USD.
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pfft!
nah atleast 130 in london traffic
Where does the money come from? Is it future price estimates based on the amount of oil they reckon is left in the ground/has been extracted but not refined? I’ve always wondered that…
It’s about 110p here in Greenwich. I was chuffed to get 140 miles out of my tank before the light came on - I reckon it would’ve gone to 170 or so if I’d decided to push it.
It still sticks in my craw watching the price go up faster than the litre amount, though.
If i pushed mine it would go for a couple of hundred i reckon… or untill my legs got tired:D;)
Most of the cost has bugger all to do with the oil companies, its our own government and their extotionately disproportionate tax margin that goes onto every litre that makes it so damn expensive.
Makes me sick to see that Tosser Brown on tv claiming he understands how people are feeling the pinch, claiming he’s going to hold meetings with the oil companies to see what can be done. What a reprehensible scumbag he is saying things like this when 80-90% of the total cost is TAX levied by his government and unavoidable for most people.
I just don’t understand why the media insist on reporting possible investigations into “windfall taxes” on these companies, but don’t instantly jump on government spokemen and demand they reduce the tax burden to a more realistic level.
Sorry, rant over but this really gets on my nerves.