Fuel prices in the UK ul now £ 95p per litre

[habbers]

<Rant mode on>where i live at its cheapest and i have seen it for 99p.

this time last year i was paying around 81p per litre for the same fuel.

I am getting pissed off with the hike in prices, 2 p per litre in the last three days alone!

Now i can get 30-32 mpg from our 24v Galant if i am careful which i have been. I am still spending £ 30-45 per week on fuel which is not alot compared to some .

The RAC (i think) made a suggestion to the government to cap fuel duty to keep a litre below £ 1.00 per gallon which seems sensible, but, The government decided this was not a good idea, how else do you fund the war, all the human rights lawyers sticking up the for scum of the earth in our jails + all the immigration costs?

How long before there are fuel protests and this government are made to realise that you cannot just keep squeezing the motorists for every penny to fund everything else?
<rant mode off>

I'll get my coat......

[BraindG]

this current hike is due to Katrina..
My local is 101.9 for optimax - with 105.9 being what i paid to get back home from silverstone this weekend...

someone posted today with a pic of 107.9 for normal unleaded :rolleyes4

[Big Ian]

/pan SHH!......i don't want to here (or see) the fuel cost's..."i'm looking at buying a VR4" :rolleyes4

[habbers]

Just found this site

http://www.lesstaxonfuel.co.uk/ (http://www.lesstaxonfuel.co.uk/)

Makes interesting reading

[Nick Mann]

Bad at the moment, ain't it?

I had a little smile on sunday evening - passed Tescos in Bletchley with an empty tank to discover 99 ron for 97p! Result!!

[Wodjno]

I just put 12.57 gallons of Shell Optimax in my tank after 178miles at a price of 100.9 p per litre.. /yes Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus.. /help

[ANTHONY]

well at the moment optimax is the cheapest in london 97p so thats what i'm filling up with./Steeringw ........................... BP is 99.9p/grr

[am2801]

b****y hell! how much?
I paid 88.9 at tesco 2day for normal unleaded.
their superclean high octane thingymajig stuff u know the 1 for powerful cars was only 94.9

[Nick VR4]

SUL here is 99.9p Litre /grr /grr /grr

[KiwiTT]

I read that a lot of UK pumps are scrambling to put biggers signs so they can display x.xx.x prices.

Maybe they should have some fore thought this time and be prepared to display xx.xx.x prices.

We are looking at NZ$2.00 a litre by Xmas. And as our income is less than the UK on average, this price will hit quite hard.

[Kyoshu]

Yeah, it bites. Oil prices have come down to about 64c-67c (peak) per barrel as the US has released their reserve from the aftermath of Katrina.

Not that it will effect NZ prices thanks to our greedy GOVT.

[Louis]

Bad at the moment, ain't it?

I had a little smile on sunday evening - passed Tescos in Bletchley with an empty tank to discover 99 ron for 97p! Result!!

I just paid £1.069 for BP Ultimate 97 ron, outside Glasgow.

Where is Bletchley??, I am tempted to come down with buckets and basins!.

What if we all chip in for a tanker full from a foriegn country, I,m sure we can sneak it in somehow!

[pezza]

Hmm I have been using 95 RON for a while now but local texaco is now 99.9p for UL and 101.9 for SUL??!?!! :embarasse

It just didnt seem right that the counter for the price mirrored the counter for the amount of fuel in litres as I filled up...

15quid for 15.01 litres of UL??? /help

My last fill of 42litres (for Trax) only got me 185 miles... (Not even going to work out MPG as I dont want to know) ..... and I dint even go on track?!??!!

[Dream Weaver]

this current hike is due to Katrina..

Not quite. Europe has plenty of fuel reserves. In fact so much they are sending it to the good old USA for them to pour into their good old hummers.

Comes down to cynical exploitation of the oil market spot prices by dealers who know a good thing when they see one.

And of course for every, say, 10p rise Gordon gets 8p per litre sold. So if you use 100 litres a week, Gordon gets £8 for doing not a thing.

If he stood up in parliament and demanded that amount off every sucker in the country there would be an outcry. But its money for nothing and he does not lose a single vote.

[habbers]

Looks like a protest is on the way, and, maybe panic buying like back in 2000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4221296.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4221296.stm)

I do agree with a protest, how else do you let this government know how it hurts - not that the seem to care!