Price of Diesel

[BensGrandad]

Went to Tesco in Burgess Hill earlier today and intended to fill up with diesel in the car but noticed that they have put the price up by 2p a litre since yesterday. now £144.9p per litre, it is no wonder they can afford to offer 5p a litre off if you spend £50 because everybody else is subsidising it.

 

[moggy]

Get an LPG if you don't like it !

 

[Don Tmatter]

What time was that? i paid £1.42 at 2:15pm. Shell at Hickstead was £1.40 before they ran out

 

[BensGrandad]

It was about 10.30 this morning. Just looking at the petrol comparison site ASDA is now £140.9

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

Maybe i am just an old cynic but this may have a bearing on it.Are they getting the extra hike in now so when they are forced to lower it they are still at the old price.

Petrol prices are to be investigated by the Office of Fair Trading,
The watchdog will examine whether falls in the cost of crude oil are passed on to customers or simply siphoned off beforehand.
Critics stress that prices at the pumps are quick to rise when the price of crude oil goes up, but the cost to motorists is slow to fall when crude becomes cheaper
The OFT will collect evidence from the fuel industry, motoring groups and consumer bodies – and admits the market could be 'susceptible to manipulation or distortion'.
Those under scrutiny include major petrol firms and the big four supermarkets (Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons) as well as City speculators






Read more: Energy giants face petrol price probe: Market at risk of manipulation, warns watchdog | Mail Online

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

On the A5 today I saw 3 petrol stations in about 5 miles the most expensive had diesel at 146.9 and the cheapest at 139.4...what the f*** is that all about? I don't get it.

 

[slinky]

and the really annoying thing is i work for a process automation company that make getting the oil out of the ground and processing it more effective and cheaper, yet as the consumer we see bugger all of it

 

[Captain Sensible]

It's a f***ing joke, we are all being held to ransom by the oil companies and the government. I'm well pissed off that the Cameron government didn't bring in their fuel matrix to cut the amount of duty we pay. But then like the Heathrow 3rd runway and alot of simple obviously good ideas the f***ing idiot lib dems scupper it.

 

[ferring seagull]

http://www.petrolprices.com/

Suggest you look at petrolprices.com which will flag up the cheapest price in your vicinity.

They send me an email weekly of the best prices within 5 miles or thereby.

It is good and reliable !

 

[seagull_in_malaysia]

36p/litre for diesel in Malaysia at the moment, and petrol is 38p/litre! And the weather is warm

 

[hitony]

36p/litre for diesel in Malaysia at the moment, and petrol is 38p/litre! And the weather is warm

You know how to make friends on here eh!!

 

[Timbo]

In the outer Hebrides last week diesel was just over 160p, not a lot of competition out there though.

 

[Titus]

They should have a cheaper tax rate for diesel. Delivery and taxi companies are going to the wall over this. There is no real reason for diesel to be dearer than petrol. Cheaper delivery costs would benefit everybody.

 

[beorhthelm]

They should have a cheaper tax rate for diesel. Delivery and taxi companies are going to the wall over this. There is no real reason for diesel to be dearer than petrol. Cheaper delivery costs would benefit everybody.

agree, but the reason was pollution. it used to be cheaper but the then government decided it needed to be taxed more heavily as its sooty exhaust was deemed a health concern.

i think this time round they (whoever they are) have been found out. im the first to say its complicated, theres alot of unseen issues behind the costs so oil price != pump price. however we recently saw oil drop from $120-125 in Mar to $90 in July and petrol did drop a bit. oil's gone up to $112-115 past few weeks but petrol has gone up back to the March prices (or more?). doesnt add up does it, and theres been no duty rises which usually explain away or hide these discrepencies.

 

[Postman Pat]

They should have a cheaper tax rate for diesel. Delivery and taxi companies are going to the wall over this. There is no real reason for diesel to be dearer than petrol. Cheaper delivery costs would benefit everybody.

Old-fashioned diesel requires less crude oil to produce, and less refining than petrol. Hence the heavy clouds of black smoke you used to see behind a bus or a lorry.

But the modern ‘clean’ variant – ultra-low sulphur diesel, made to modern established standards, and now the norm – requires a more complex refining process. You can refine less ultra–low sulphur diesel from a barrel of crude than you can petrol, unless you use some extremely expensive refining processes.

In addition, demand has gone through the roof as Diesel cars passed 50% on the british roads. Demand increases, price goes up.