Your awareness of petrol prices?

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How aware are you when you fill up your car if what it's costing you?

Talking to a family member yesterday, who uses their car to travel round for work,and they said they just fill up and don't bother really keeping track of the cost.

Surely if self employed, you'd need to know as you mean need to adjust your prices to your customers you visit.

Do you just fill up and pay or are you actively tracking the price.
AIBU to assume, someone who is self employed and visiting customers would be monitoring the costs?

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

@DefiantRabbit9 Both people I know with epilepsy get their partners to drive and get their cars cheaply through the mobility scheme. Theirs are brand new and fuel efficient.
My privilege gets me a reliable 20 year old Volvo that however costs £65 a week to fill up just to get to work.

Why is this in aibu?

We’ve just paid £1.85 a litre for Diesel on our way back from visiting friends who live a couple of hundred miles away. Very grateful that we only have to use this car infrequently and only for leisure trips/holidays (so if things gets really bad, we’ll just have to cut down on leisure trips)

DH works at home and I drive an electric car. The COL is kicking us up the arse in multiple ways but at least car fuel is not one of them.

DH is the car owner/driver but I pay for petrol - we know which are the cheapest places near us. We have a very small car and two default options - top up with £20 when it's below half full or 'fill her up' if we have a long journey planned - 'fill her up' was costing £35 to £40 before recent price increases (from one or two bars) - we're going to have to do 'fill her up' again this week so I am expecting it to be more expensive.

I never used to check how much diesel was until recently with the Iranian war. I filled up about 2-3 weeks ago and it was £1.48 a litre. I looked on Friday and diesel is now £1.70 a litre. This was in Tesco which is usually one of the cheaper places. Luckily I don't use my car much.

Not self-employed, not visiting customers, etc, but painfully aware of petrol costs, which is why I signed up to Costco 2 years ago, their fuel is general 5-6p per litre cheaper than the supermarkets, and it doesn't hurt that there's a Costco about 3miles from home.

I fill up roughly once per week. I use the more expensive E5 rather than E10 since an expensive fix later when I discovered it is better for my engine.

There's no point getting my knickers in a twist over the cost as I'm stuck with it.

I don't really pay attention, obviously I am aware it's increasing but my car is used for work and back with very little mileage and a small engine.

I'm painfully aware. I have a mini and it's costing an extra £10 to fill up. Which I can't afford.

For all the people gleefully saying fuel prices don't affect them as they don’t drive...wait until everything which is transported starts to increase. You'll be affected then.

I have always been aware. Wecran a business and always kept an eye on prices, if you buy 59 litres a week, and pay just 2p a litre more than necessary, that is £100 a year thrown away, out of taxed income, so £135 to £160 pretext. I woukd rather have in my bank than the petrol companies. I would drive out of my way, but would certainly know the cheapest on my routes. The petrol prices app is useful. Recently gone electric and a 150 mile trip has cost us £3.00 of electricity, compared to over £20 in petrol. To me, spending more than you have to, because you can't be bothered to check is just throwing money away.

Apologies..I didn't mean to quote you 😀