Your awareness of petrol prices?

Hybrid car, only fill up once a month with wfh and one major motorway trip a week. I haven't filled up since the price increase, but tbh the cost doesn't worry me. I fill up when there is about 50 miles remaining.

I couldn't be arsed over a few pence per litre. Wouldn't be worth not having the inconvenience of just going to the petrol station on my route.

When I need to fill up I will check the app for where is best prices, and I will fill up now rather than half a tank as I know prices are only going one way at the moment!

But I need to drive and don’t use the car when I don’t need to so there isn’t a lot I can do other than pay it as frustrating as it is.

Presumably you use taxis, buses, trains etc for transport. Presumably you eat food. Presumably you buy other goods/services. Do you buy things online - the delivery to you will probably be petrol/diesel vans. Higher oil prices feed through to almost everything else. Taxes may even have to rise as public services like the NHS, local council waste collections, police, fire service, etc will all suffer increased costs due to fuel price increases.

I am self employed my current jobs and prices I agreed in January. I do keep an eye prices and I managed my fuel usage so I can fill up at Costco most of the time.

It will still affect you in food prices unless you don't eat. And the general cost of living will increase.

I would have to drive several miles to buy petrol at £1.39 a litre, so I filled up at £1.49 the other day at my local petrol station.

Mine’s a hybrid and the electric range is pretty good. I have to fill up maybe 2-3 times a year so not concerned with oil price.

I don’t care I just buy petrol when I need in whatever petrol station is closest to me at the time. I always fill the tank completely for convenience

I don’t look either, I just put £30 worth in everytime I run out 🤷‍♀️ no point in stressing over it, it is what it is

Also the increased costs of shipping stuff all over the World will start to impact on shop prices soon, as the huge cargo ships are mostly run on oil.

It goes so far back in the chain too. For example, for potatoes you have getting the farm workers to work, the farming vehicles, transport from field to lorries, out to the central warehouses of the supermarkets and then on to the individual stores.

Nail on the head. Pump prices are only the start of it, the tip of the iceberg. Rising fuel costs in transportation, manufacturing, farming, etc will soon feed through to higher inflation in the shops for food and virtually everything else. There's also the multiplier effect due to the multiple stages in the production/delivery cycle, where a price increase at each stage multiplies into much bigger end prices, and then there's often 20% VAT on top of all the increases too! Rachel will be racking it in -not just extra 20% on the fuel price increase, but also 20% more on the higher prices in shops. Kerching!

It will impact you nonetheless. Deliveries? Goods don’t beam into shops or to your door.

Trouble is our local Tesco is cheapest but people know this and have been queueing down the block when I pass. I have a small car with a 37 litre tank so I'd rather pay 5p more a litre and nip in elsewhere on my way to work.

Yes, a different topic, but a big yes to wasting fuel due to poor driving habits, particularly the heavy right foot syndrome of heavy acceleration closely followed by heavy braking, which is often completely unnecessary but just a poor driving habit. Smooth driving can save a fortune in fuel costs and also save money in less wear and tear on the car, particularly brakes and suspension.

But that could be a tenner on a tank of petrol. Just for keeping your eyes open when you're driving round on your normal journeys and filling up when you notice a petrol station 10p per litre cheaper than your "usual" one. To me it's a no brainer, but each to their own!

Fair enough, but I just can't get my head around this. If you're filling up twice a week that's 8 or 9 tankfulls a month, surely that could be £100 more if you get the most expensive compared with supermarket fuel?

I guess you might mean you have no choice where you fill up or you get it from a supermarket anyway, but I couldn't ignore that potential saving.

I'm not self-employed, but I have absolutely no idea about petrol prices. I just fill up and pay. It would never occur to me to check the prices. My husband asked me a few weeks ago what the price of petrol was in Sainsbury's and was astonished that I had no clue!!

We mostly use EV but do have one petrol car. I filled it last week and it wasn’t much more expensive than last time I did it a few months ago, maybe £10 ish more for nearly a full tank. I didn’t look if other petrol stations were cheaper, it’s not going to make a huge difference.

I don’t pay attention to the cost. I just fill the tank to full and move on.

I work for the NHS in the community. I drive about 300 miles a week for work. I know exactly how much fuel costs. Across my area prices vary by 10p a litre so I go to the cheaper places.
It's pretty grim at the moment.

I carry on as normal. Fill up when it needs filling. If it costs more then I will have to suck it up.

At least lots drive electric cars now so in theory less demand for fuel at least 5% of cars on the road are electric and I think they make up 1 in 4 sales now.

I’m not so worried about how other people manage their finances

What I am aware of is people concerned about fuel prices, but they drive in a way that abundantly wastes the stuff 🤷‍♀️

keeping their foot on the accelerator when approaching a red light, on the motorway slip road, approaching a queue of traffic