Your awareness of petrol prices?

I cover 12 sites for work and I am painfully aware that my mileage reimbursment is only just covering my fuel and the two new tyres I've just had to buy. I love my job but its a fine line at the moment. I only use the cheapest petrol station and I check prices most days so I can fill up dn route or on the way home without going too far out of my way.

It's gone up 46 pence at our local fuel station and 28 pence at our local Tesco.

Not something we pass on to the customer, just take a hit.

I live rurally so have been keeping a close eye. Local supermarket is charging £1.45 while BP is £1.56. Most expensive I've seen it is in a small rural garage which was charging £1.82. It's always more expensive there but that is crazy.

I’m aware of it, as in I can see the price - doesn’t impact me filling up, I have no other option 😂

As someone who is self employed I’d hope they were calculating their prices with enough margin in to absorb the price rise in fuel (depending what the work is!) without it being a cost issue.

I’m not self employed but I am aware of prices. I’m know which petrol stations are cheapest, but tend to go to the nearest one, unless I’m near one of the cheaper ones.

Are you going to tell her or should I?

I noticed that our local Tesco had run out of diesel today. That doesn’t affect us but I made a mental note to fill up with petrol little and often now.

I’ve just gone part time to a job within easy 10min walking distance. (Opted for semi retirement). Saves me £200 in diesel under the new prices per month.

Electric car.

Unless you are very rural where you don't have any options at all, it's worth having an awareness of prices, especially just now, so if you see a garage offering a good price, you get fuel.

My local petrol station was selling petrol for 151.9p/l yesterday which was 11p p/l more expensive than cheapest price in town about 10 miles away. I had a meeting in the town, so topped up with the cheaper petrol while I was there.

I’ve said YABU, to vote that I don’t pay a great deal of attention (I know which the better priced garages are and fill up there, or at more convenient ones if necessary). But YANBU if you check or if other people need to. It depends what you need to do with that info really. If you have to make the journeys there’s not much choice really.

For visiting customers and adjusting prices - surely it’s the sort of expense that you look at over time? If you’re monitoring business expenses, you look to see what you’ve been spending over 3 months, 6 months, and adjust accordingly? I don’t think people change their prices every few weekday depending on petrol prices unless you’re a taxi driver or haulier or something?

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I am aware. I bought a new car just before this all kicked off. I needed a big car for towing. It was bad enough then filling up as was £120 for a tank and now closer to £160 and that gets about 450 miles (not towing, a lot less if I do!) 😳

I go to the one I know is cheapest but I don’t really keep track of how much I’m spending. It’s a necessary expense

I only put in £20 at a time so these price rises don’t affect me.

It costs whatever it costs, and can't be avoided.

But you can shop around to get it cheaper. Not by driving miles to find a cheaper petrol station, but just from observing forecourt prices as you pass garages and stop to fill up when you see one cheaper than the others.

I normally just fill up whenever I need it but I am trying to cut back on “aimless” driving now as it’s costing more and my genral household budgets are struggling (all costs not just fuel). I was £80 to fill up last time it’s gone up a lot imo. Similarly noticing large differences between garages in local area 10-20 differences add up. I don’t fuel shop though. I went to one today and they’d ran out diesel. Sign said waiting on delivery which doesn’t normally happen so can only assume people are keeping their cars topped up more frequently as anticipating further prices increases and potentially shortages.

I'm not self employed but I don't take the blindest bit of notice really. It costs whatever it costs, and can't be avoided.

I’m aware of the cost and know the pricing that the three petrol station i fill up at, where is cheaper etc but I have to use my car so I just need to absorb the increase and make it work I don’t drive less because it’s costing me more

Too aware. Have a chart of what petrol has cost me over the years!

I have no idea really. If I can only put £20 then that's what I put in, it's not going to make a difference knowing how much per litre it is really, there's absolutely nothing I can do about it.

I usually put 15-20 in at a time. And do it 2-3 times a month. Not really keeping track but I did put in 45 at the beginning of this month when it was still ~£1.20 a litre

I've got a hybrid and do a small mileage so fill up less than once month and so don't worry about the price.

We don't use much but we keep our eyes open when out and about so will put fuel in the car when we see somewhere selling it lower than most others, whether we "need" some or not. The differences in price between garages is insane at the moment, there being a 10p per litre difference between our two nearest garages and 20p per litre difference at a garage in the next town.

I fill mine up when it gets below 3/4 full but don’t pay attention to price as I need it anyway so can’t do anything about the cost.