Has anyone else noticed....

[fleetfootmike]

3 months ago: diesel, 100.9/litre, petrol 91.9/litre
Today: diesel STILL 100.9/l, petrol 98.9/l

It's been stealthily creeping up a penny at a time over the last few weeks.

I wouldn't care, but my clapped out old wreck of a Vectra's a petrol-engined model.

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Interesting, what I've noticed is that the gap between diesel and petrol has been widening, diesel up to 104.9 in most places (not North Watford, their prices are consistently the lowest I've seen anywhere; Leighton Buzzard Shell is close but usually 1p or so higher).

Probably different depending on location (prices often are, the difference is as well). I'll need to check the local petrol prices again, normally I just look at them, swear at the difference, and forget the exact numbers (because my car is diesel)...

[aunty_marion]

Maybe in your neck of the woods - round here it's diesel 105.9, petrol 100.9/101.9 at the moment. Tesco is cheaper by usually about 2p/3p per litre for petrol; haven't checked their diesel prices.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Everywhere's over a pound a litre for petrol here now. I'm putting in fivers and tenners whenever I can--filling the tank is an impossible dream, it's a case of nursing it as far as possible and hoping I don't run out before I get to the next filling station.

Ain't life a hoot.

[armb.livejournal.com]

Prices here are similar to that too.

And the Ka has been stalling less and travelling further on a tank since I happened to switch from filling up at Tesco to filling up at the Shell garage near the Park and Ride. It might just be coincidence, but for the moment I'm prepared to go on paying the slightly higher Shell price - especially as it's right next to my normal commuting route, and Tesco is a bit out of my way.

[plaid-dragon.livejournal.com]

When I bought my car, the first tank of diesel was 122.9. Since then it's been as low as 98.9p/L. I'm not best pleased that that price has crept up again over the past few months, but at least I get a better economy than Dave, who is running two petrol cars. Disturbingly, in the village diesel is 104.9 but petrol is 107.9.

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

I hear you, brutha.

Particularly painful as I traded in my diesel Corsa (which ran on used chip fat) for the petrol Vectra.

Pah! A pox on fuel prices!

[poltr1]

Over on this side of the Great Pond, petrol prices have risen from nearly $2/gal in the winter to $2.75/gal currently. Diesel is running about $2.50/gal. I chalk it up to supply and demand, since more people go driving in the summertime. That and rising crude oil prices, and the demand for profit of the oil companies.

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

So, lemme get this straight...
You pay $2.75 per (8 x 16 oz pint) gallon.

So that's 44.7p / litre.

And you complain??? :D :D :D