Your awareness of petrol prices?

If you can’t change it why bother
depending the business you can’t go fluctuating your prices and risk pissing off your customers
if you were a hairdresser doubt your customer would be happy paying a different amount every time also would you reduce your prices when price of fuel dropped

If you don't travel very far, are you sure the extra cost of an electric vehicle is worth the saving on cheaper fuel?

I have a small petrol car and I worked out it would have been over a decade to recoup the extra purchase cost of a 2 YO electric car vs buying the same car with a petrol engine. And that's for 8k miles a year and assuming that the electric was so cheap it was effectively free.

Petrol isn’t as bad as diesel but needs must. Hopefully we’ll be having a change of circumstances very soon and we’re talking about changing my car (fiesta) for an electric vehicle as I don’t travel very far

I count to the pennies. I usually only put in what I can afford and what I need for the next 2 or 3 days to commute and ferry my kids around. I'm paid weekly so I budget weekly for this. I do the same for food shopping.

I can't afford public transport.
Buses are £6 return (adult) for town that's 3 miles away. No cycle paths or pavements on route either.
And £5 for a child's return!

£11 on buses just to pop into town. Nope!

I remember in the 90s people stealing petrol from parked cars. It was so common back then!

I'm a bit worried about this happening again.

I never look at the price. I fill up once a month and put the same amount in. Tbh I mainly use the car for school runs which will end for good in June. I prefer to use public transport.

Mileage allowances are set by HMRC.

For fuel only, its reviewed every 3 months, Google advisory fuel rates hmrc.

For total running costs for using your own car, its been 45 p a mile for getting on for 30 years. It used to be quite generous and obviously should be reviewed.

However it probably wouldn't go up that much as despite recent price rises, fuel is still cheaper than it was in the early 2000s when I remember paying close to £2 a litre for diesel. A lot of people also pay less road tax now if they have a pre 2017 low emissions car. Although other costs like insurance and servicing have probably increased

I don’t have a car so no skin in the game, but I did notice on our local Facebook group earlier posts about several places actually being out of fuel today.

I don’t keep track at all

There is the app to check the petrol prices. But I don't have a car but my partner does and while we do pay attention to the price and make comments about how expensive it is but we will still fill it up where it.is most convenient. We drive so little that it doesn't really make a difference.

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This is my dads joke aswell 😁

This. I am hoping that if the situation continues the company might consider upping our mileage allowance. Small chance but I can dream!

I don't think a lot of self employed builders don't know the price of petrol or their.mileage Because they charge so much. They don't need to.

As in " Yes Madame.The Price? That will be a £150 call out charge. Plus £65 an hour for labour And the cost of parts.

Oh. Yes and Vat at 20%

When prices are going up, I fill up more frequently and try to keep the tank full. When they start to drop i will let the tank go low, and once they stabilise, then I fill as needed, usually weekly.

I hardly need to drive and can go months without filling up. However, I've filled up for longish trips three times this month and have noticed the difference. I'm not normally a panic buyer but I did fill up today as well after returning from a long trip and it's reassuring to have a full tank which should last a good while.

I drive a lot for work. Last week probably 250 miles. Depends what I’ve got in. I’m employed though and get the usual 45p per mile. I was just saying the other day that mileage has been paid at that price for decades. I’ve started to notice differences so try and fill up at my usual supermarket where I can at least collect my points, or the Esso where I can also get points but the esso is much more expensive as usually more a service station type place - not the full on motorway ones but the one one petrol station near a small village where I’m heading to or from.

I am also still trying to work out if the E10 or E5 is better value. I was finding the cheaper one lasted less than the more expensive one. I’m not trialing since the prices have soared. I did get 1.42 the other day when I drove past somewhere else over 1.5.

I am aware of the cost but I can't change the amount I drive. I tend to put in about £12 a week. I only have a small car so get quite good mileage from it

I don't track it or pay much attention.

Agreed. They are rationing in Australia apparently. It’s not only the price is an actual shortage.
Without fertiliser though, the Autumn will be really expensive for food.

I’m not smug that I do minimal mileage, I’m stressed about remortgaging this year and living by myself on 28k but the OP didn’t ask about that

Sorry, what?
The OP asked how aware we are and we answered the question with an explanation.

The situation is dire and I'm surprised no one on gov seems to be doing more about it.

We just have a budget on it so no matter what the price we don't go over that budget