The cost of petrol

£1.10 unleaded in Manchester, Also similar in Cheshire. It does seem to keep rising.

£1.21 for diesel

We have to use V-Power in one of our cars, which i have this week, and i filled up this mornng 117p per litre?

It's £1.10 in North Yorkshire
I was listening to a "petrol expert" the other day who predicts it will be £1.50 by September?

£1.10 in Aylesbury, heard on the news the other morning some expect the cost to rise to about £1.50 by September

At the moment it seems as though my dad was right when we (my family) all laughed at him just over a month ago when he said "give it another year and we (my mum & dad) won't be able to afford to drive anywhere".

Looks like it's coming true, it's a good job they've got their free bus pass.

Crikey I thought it was expensive here - £1.07 at the weekend. Obviously I should be grateful about this![V]

Its up to £1.09 here, I know what you mean about the profits though. I still have to buy petrol though it makes me wince as well.

One report suggests prices could peak at £1.50 before the year is out.

Maybe this will finally see people thinking a bit harder about the journeys they make.

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£1.08 here in Brighton. I was just reminscing this morning about how it used to cost me £32 to fill my car - and now it costs £45!

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The reason I bought a Smart car to get to work is the fact that it costs over £110 to fill the tank in my Pajero, and that would just get me to work and back for one week.

Its bonkers, and it looks like its still rising too!?

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One of the petrol stations I pass on my way to work, last week was 1.12 for petrol and 1.23 for diesel. Im in Bournemouth

Not sure of prices this week as am on nights later this week.

I have just paid 108p in Reading

The reason the oil companies are making so much money is because of the rising cost of oil per barrel. They are at record prices and keep rising.

Don't forget - the largest proportion of money you pay at the pump is not to the oil company, it's in tax to the government.

In December last it was about 52p for diesel and 55p for unleaded but then they put the car tax on it so now it's about 89p for diesel (once you take discounts off) and 92p for unleaded (after discounts). However I suppose at least we don't have to pay car tax each year!

£1.09 in Wokingham today

£1.06 at last look here in the south west.

Apparently the French people tend to refuse to buy things like petrol etc. when they go up high, it forces providers to reduce the price. My dad told me this so I hope it's true, he read it somewhere.

Anyway, I wish we could all do something like that but we tend to go to the other extreme and fill our cars up like the petrol is in short supply.

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One report suggests prices could peak at £1.50 before the year is out.

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If one good thing comes out of this, then I hope it is this. However I'm already someone who doesn't use the car much, preferring to car share/take the train to work. However, now I have a child it is harder to keep my car use down as although I can walk/take the bus to the station to go to work, getting my daughter to and from her place of childcare scuppers this.

It used to cost me £30 to fill my car up (1.4 engine) and now it's pushing £50 on a completely empty fill up for the same amount of miles(ouch).

It's just cost me £41 to fill a mini!!!!!

It ranges from 109-112 in Telford for unleaded

I saw Diesel today for 135 in Wolverhampton

quote:Originally posted by Sunset21
£1.06 at last look here in the south west.

Apparently the French people tend to refuse to buy things like petrol etc. when they go up high, it forces providers to reduce the price. My dad told me this so I hope it's true, he read it somewhere.

Anyway, I wish we could all do something like that but we tend to go to the other extreme and fill our cars up like the petrol is in short supply.

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Oil companies make very little profit from petrol sold at the pumps - it's not the providers that are the problem. It's the tax on top that is.

105p at Asda in Leeds, 109p is the cheapest I've seen so far in Rotherham.

It was high 60s when I first started driving 11 years ago[V]

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£1.06 at last look here in the south west.

Apparently the French people tend to refuse to buy things like petrol etc. when they go up high, it forces providers to reduce the price. My dad told me this so I hope it's true, he read it somewhere.

Anyway, I wish we could all do something like that but we tend to go to the other extreme and fill our cars up like the petrol is in short supply.

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Oil companies make very little profit from petrol sold at the pumps - it's not the providers that are the problem. It's the tax on top that is.

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ok, sorry tax then. It confused me when someone mentioned about Shell etc. making large profits.

So answer a dullard question then - with all these rises in certain foods, bread, eggs etc. and rises in petrol prices (all having knock on effects) are we likely to see a reduction in taxes? Why are the taxes rising all the time? Surely this situation has to come to a head at some point, wages just aren't covering the extra costs.

Gryfon do you mean car tax as in the little disc I buy each year? Did I miss something?

Voldemort, You say that it was high 60s 11 years ago which means that it had only increased by 5-8p in 5 years based on what I remember from when I passed my test. But in just 5 years since then to the present day, its risen a whopping 30.5p! Such a sharp contrast.

They're making the profits because of the record high prices of crude oil per barrel.

[oldfart] I remember my gran giving my brother £1 petrol money and he could buy 2 gallons of petrol for that [/oldfart]

its frightening really - we got rid of one car to cut down on running costs/fuel etc - but it means that H is driving a 7 seater to and from work 6 days a week [:I] he can't get the bus/train because of the time he needs to be in by and he can't car share as no one else lives anywhere near us and it is too far to go by bike. Getting a job closer to home really isn't an option [unless he considers landrover which might not be wise ?] and i really don't want us to move closer to his work

so i think that basically we are stuffed [:I]

It's recently hit $4 a gallon here and there's practically been world war 3 over it - to the extent of there's been serious consideration of taking the tax off it over the summer to help the lower income families.

It works out at about 52p a litre! ?

The difference is tax. The actual oil and refinery costs are about the same but about 10% of the price at the pump here is tax vs about 70% in the UK.

This explains it quite well.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/apr/29/businessqandas.royaldutchshell

I'm sure I read that it's something like 70% of the pump price is tax.

The govt. gets 52p in duty and about 17p in VAT per litre. THAT'S where the money goes. It's appalling the way the govt. treats the motorist as a fcuking cashmachine.

quote:Originally posted by Sunset21
So answer a dullard question then - with all these rises in certain foods, bread, eggs etc. and rises in petrol prices (all having knock on effects) are we likely to see a reduction in taxes? Why are the taxes rising all the time? Surely this situation has to come to a head at some point, wages just aren't covering the extra costs.

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I think this is the question being thrown at the government at the moment. Their inflation figure doesn't really match with the reality as it doesn't include fuel in their calculations (think that's right).

And with the scrapping of 10p tax band it hasn't helped either.

Basically people's wages aren't rising in line with inflationary costs but because the government has borrowed so much cash it needs to keep the taxes as they are to cover the outgoings.

Someone who understands it all a lot better than I can probably answer the question much better than I just did. I only know about the oil/petrol stuff as my brother works for one of the big oil companies.

Here in Lincolnshire it is £1.13 per litre for Diesel ☹️

This may digress slightly but I'm sure whilst watching a charity thing for Pop Idol over in the states Gordon Brown came on and pledged about £10million of the UK cash in support and yet you're saying we owe money and have to hike taxes to cover it.

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This may digress slightly but I'm sure whilst watching a charity thing for Pop Idol over in the states Gordon Brown came on and pledged about £10million of the UK cash in support and yet you're saying we owe money and have to hike taxes to cover it.

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Yep - that's why people were questioning it.