Cost of fuel

[Thingamebobwotsit]

Not sure if this is the right place to post, but just had to pay £100 to fill up my very bog standard car. Everywhere cheaper had sold out.

We aren't exactly silly with our money, but can see us having to rein in spending even more.

Nothing really sensible to say, but it looks only set to get worse.

And we've got so much oil in the North Sea to drill but .. Net Zero (even though Norway are drilling relentlessly and their petrol is much cheaper).

Where I live diesel has gone from 1.68.9 on Monday morning to £1.76.9 this afternoon. If it continues to go up at this rate I will have to reconsider my job as a lot of it is driving to visits for NHS and we had our milage rate cut so it doesn’t even cover cost of fuel now.

The politicians don’t care about normal people who are trying to get on with their lives and trying harder and harder to make ends meet. They’re ideologically driven.

Quite. Imagine if Nadia Whittome was actually working class and not a privileged woman being paid nearly £100k a year by the taxpayer. She might have been calling for more drilling and making fewer speeches about trans rights

£195.9 here for Diesel and Welsh water have closed the main road to work so my 8 minute journey to work is almost 30 minutes now. Fuming 😡

And food prices will only follow from there. It’s so miserable. I don‘t know, maybe I shouldn’t complain because comparing to IIWW it’s not a real worry but how long can you go on penny pinching with no reward in the end.

Different type of fuel but we have no mains gas and heat our house with LPG. 500 litres, a half tank, is over £120 more than it would have cost two weeks ago.

I’m a self employed home care worker. I can only hold out so much longer before having to increase prices. I do nearly 200 miles a week. I work in a remote rural area with very vulnerable adults. This is crippling for people like me. I almost burst into tears driving past the fuel station today. I will have to fill up in the next couple of days and today the pumps were £1.71 a litre for diesel up more than 30p.

I filled up a couple of days ago it was £42 usually £38 so big difference

£1.27 for petrol here at the beginning of March, was £1.39 last week, just gone to fill up and it’s £1.44 which is the highest I’ve seen so far 🙁

It's not good. It's very hard to get to the end of the month now. I will just cut back somewhere. But that does get harder to do. I went to lunch today for end of term. Normally the cafe is busy Friday lunch time. It was 2/3 empty today and my first presumption was petrol prices. I'm rural so can't do without the car

I work in schools as supply and have decided not to accept as many jobs that are not within my local area.

£1.77 last night as everywhere cheaper had sold out. But I work FT and couldn't get to the garage and sit in a queue for hours.

And yes, it is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Supermarket prices were eye watering yesterday too. I really feel for anyone who has no slack in their budget going into this. We don't have loads, but we do have some.

I'm keeping the tank topped up in case rationing comes in. My car doesn't like E10 so it adds an extra 19p per litre on the pump prices.

Irritating but there it is.

I paid £56 yesterday and £52 4 weeks ago so not as big a difference for unleaded, it’s up 13p here but being near a city there is competition which I think is key, rural independents will be more affected. Oh and lady in the garage said the big players put orders in far ahead to hedge the price so really it shouldn’t have even gone up at eg the supermarkets, smaller garages can’t access such arrangements

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I paid £56 yesterday and £52 4 weeks ago so not as big a difference for unleaded, it’s up 13p here but being near a city there is competition which I think is key, rural independents will be more affected. Oh and lady in the garage said the big players put orders in far ahead to hedge the price so really it shouldn’t have even gone up at eg the supermarkets, smaller garages can’t access such arrangements

that’s insane- the supermarket pump went up first and the highest near us!!

I paid £1.78 for diesel yesterday , up from £1.42 10 days ago . Pleased I dont commute to work anymore but no doubt all the costs will go up .

Where did you get this untrue information from?

Norway have amongst the most expensive pump prices in the world. Converting to sterling it’s typically 50p+ more, per litre, for petrol.

Tapping a small amount of extra oil in the North Sea, and then selling it on the international markets where its quantity won’t move the dial, will do absolutely nothing for the UK motorist.

I filled up last night at I think 179.9 - tank had about 80mi left, and I spent just over £80, which is getting on for £10 more than usual.
We have been trying to use our electric car as much as possible, but that is a bit screwed at the moment, so we are having to use the diesel car more than we’d like (plus longer journeys coming up over the Easter hols anyway).

Norway still owns a significant % of its oil extraction (Equinor) we sold off all of ours in return for very little.

So any oil/gas extracted from the NS belongs to private companies (same with all the renewable energy we produce) so its sold at market rates

Its got nothing to do with Net Zero and everything to do with what the Tories did in the 80s with our assets.

Additional drilling would not mean lower prices.

Thats not to say we shouldn't do it but your post is a myth.

Yes and carers have been hit double, HMRC have lowered mileage rates.

Many carers will be quitting...

What? Why do you think Norway has cheaper petrol than UK? It's pretty easy to google things like that, Norway has one of the most expensive petrol prices in the world.

Have they? I can’t find this anywhere except they’re reviewing mileage rates across the board in recognition of them being frozen.

As a slight aside, HMRC decide on very little. Ministers in the treasury do, and then parliament votes on them.

For example, mileage rates are statutory and held in ITEPA 2003 at sections 229 to 236.

The head honcho at HMRC isn’t moving them.

Well just been back to fill up and it’s now £1.84 😲

Yes it’s going to rise in cost, as will food as you need fertiliser to grow it and it’s made from oil, as will medical scans become rationed as helium is required and that needs oil for process, and so on and so on!