Your awareness of petrol prices?

I don’t take notice - I fill up once a month at most. Even when prices rise it only adds a couple of quid to the cost so not really noticeable.

Very aware but need fuel so can’t do much about it.

I do 400 miles a week, I’m painfully bloody aware!

I'm also surprised by the people who either don't ever know what the fuel price is or shrug and say, it costs what it costs - without seeming to realise that the price varies from garage to garage.

But it's not just the cost of filling your own tank. It's the knock on effect on the prices of goods and services!

I notice a lot. My car has a 100 litre tank. Even pennies on the per litre price makes a reasonable difference to me.
I know the cheapest fuel prices at petrol stations near me and plan so I fill up there.
Currently Sainsbury's are cheapest but even with them there is quite a difference in price between the 3 stores I am near regularly.

My taxi driver friend can't either really. Most of his is now in a contract (so fixed prices) anything local they have to use a meter (& the council are entirely shit at putting the prices up) & anything out of borough is mostly existing customers so he doesn't like to. His contract is SEN kids school runs through the council & as contacts need renewing the council are dropping the price by a minimum of 25% & the good drivers aren't taking them
on, in some cases they'd be costing them money, especially with fuel increasing.

parents are going to end up with different drivers turning up each day not knowing who is going to be taking their kids to school or picking them up & not getting the more experienced, safer drivers. Some runs won't get done.

Oh you've set me off I was doing so well not laughing. 🤣🤣🤣

On the farm we can see our costs going up. We don't have a choice as can't farm without machinery. We don't have the option of passing on the full cost to the buyer as they just won't pay.

Majority of fuel is red diesel so obviously cheaper but still seeing the same increase

Yeah but using motorway stations is a fools game.

@Netcurtainnelly well he'll be keeping a record of it for tax, but tracking it? How do you think he should 'track it'? He needs to put fuel in when he needs to irrespective of the cost as he needs to get to customers. What does he do? Most SE people can't just change their prices on a whim depending on the price of petrol that day and even
if he can. How does 'tracking' help. It's down to what it actually costs.

my very good friend is a taxi driver so we use a petrol app to check on the current prices as for him at 3 tanks a week it makes a good difference. However. his preferred fuel is currently still only 3p a litre more than the cheapest locally so he's sticking with that. I'm not using much and due to a health issue I'm sticking to my local station I'm comfortable with, it's a few pennies a litre more but with how little I'm using & being comfortable there it's worth it to me

It's the same if you commute by train. You just have to suck up any above inflation increases. It makes a huge difference if you buy an annual season ticket. At least with fuel it does drop down periodically.

People do notice though, even if you can take the hit. They just have no choice.

I use about tank a month and that's about £80. Diesel has gone up about 20% so really it's about £15 a month extra.

I fill the car up each time and am fortunate enough to never have to worry about the total.

However, I do compare prices per litre. I'm slightly alarmed to see the rises and know it'll get worse. I generally go for the cheapest petrol stations whilst trying to frequently support those local to me.

Because you may have to fill up regardless and/or they have have sufficient funds that the price rises don’t materially impact them. Plenty of people can absorb the cost without noticing.

I think it was a joke. Quite a good one.

I fill up once a month and am aware of how much petrol costs in my area, doing our big shop at Costco tomorrow so will fill up there because it’s much cheaper than locally. There’s nothing I can do because we need to be able to use the car but if I’m paying more for fuel I need to adjust other things in the budget to cover it.

We're a 1 tank a month household so we're not going to be ruined by the increases.

Smart.

Between 1.44 and 1.55 a litre near me. But you are going to need fuel if you drive so nothing you can do except shop around

I don’t compare prices but I’m not on a tight budget and am frivolous. I pass one petrol station on my way to work so that’s usually where I fill up.
I don’t look when I’m going past others in my local area because I only ever fill up when my petrol warning light comes on. My memory is also pretty shit so would have no idea if the one at Tescos was more or less than the one at Sainsbury’s or whatever.
Some people are very financially savvy through either need or generally looking after the pennies. I’m not one of those people.
It’s such a hot topic at the moment but honestly it usually costs me about £70
to fill up and it’s now costing around £75 2-3 times a month so £15 more. It’s not breaking the bank.

Im self employed and Ive no idea how much I pay for petrol. I agree my prices with the schools I work for annually and don’t take the cost of petrol into account when reviewing my charges.

I know how long a tank of diesel lasts roughly and I'm aware of the cost per litre, and I'll fill up at places I know are cheaper. But it's one of those costs I have very little control over so I don't spend too much time dwelling over it. Sometimes I don't really notice the total cost as I have to put in my credit card before I fill up.

Petrol at my nearest supermarket was 138 last week. This week it's 145 at the same supermarket. I passed a different garage today, where it was 155

fully aware! I’m a district nurse and petrol costs cripple me at the best of times never mind the bad ones

I've always lived in places where a car is optional, and I wouldn't run a car if I needed to quibble about the extra pence.

My dad is always directing me to the station that's .7 per litre cheaper and I imagine is silently appalled when I don't drive a couple of miles out of my way to do so.

Totally unaware and always have been. I’m always befuddled if anyone mentions price per litre as it could be £5 or £20, I have no clue.

I need to fill up tomorrow. We’re going away over Easter, but using dhs company car which is an EV. If worse comes to the worse, we will just use the one car as Dh uses the train twice a week and DDs and me can get buses in between. If they’re a no go, we’ll just use the EV.