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?

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

This is my dads joke aswell 😁

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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.

I don’t keep track at all

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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

I keep track of it. But I keep track of spending/prices in general.

Very, very aware. We've got one 20yo car that's diesel and are looking into petrol next.
The wiggle room in my wage just isn't there any more so I'm also job hunting. I love my job but needs must (primary support staff).

And yes, public transport is hugely expensive here too. If me and the two (older) teens go to the nearest town by bus it's £18! It's only 3 miles.

Because Rachel is raking in the extra tax revenue!

You’d be the first to complain if the government subsidised fuel prices with taxpayers’ money.

Sadly some people actually don't understand it's a joke and genuinely think that they're not paying any more because £20 is still £20!

Exactly. I have a second job as a self employed cleaner and there's no way I would risk increasing my hourly rate...I can't afford to take the risk so I'll just have to suck it up.

DH always lets me know which one is cheapest as he keeps an eye on the app. I try and fill up at Costco as much as possible, but no special trips to fill up as it’s far enough away to defeat the purpose.

Annoyingly atm the cheapest locally is one I don’t use as the mpg from their fuel is the lowest. One of the others is 19p/L more expensive than most

Happily driving an EV with 25% of my miles coming off my own roof.

Hopefully you’ll still have somewhere to drive it to…

I know which two petrol stations nearby are usually the cheapest, but other than that, no. It costs what it costs.

You’d hope they’re few and far between, not sure that someone who can’t understand something so straightforward should be in charge of a moving vehicle.