Fuel costs of Diesel worldwide

[Bob Golder]

Yes  OK  I did mean 115.9p.  Too busy thinking of our Waverley trip I guess

[sandystrone]

Jim (Red Hamish)
it doesn't make sense what you have to pay for your fuel. with Sullom Voe just around the corner.

[Red_Hamish]

Hello all, I know eaxctly what you mean Sandy.  The fact that the Oil Terminal operated by BP on behalf of a consortium of oil companies imports oil from thre major North Sea oilfields is all the more galling! Have a look at the following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullom_Voe

Co-ordinates http://maps.msn.co.uk/(mbnaewin30thcxux1quhp0rb)/map.aspx?lats1=60.4497&lons1=-1.3012&alts1=14&regn1=1

Then the government wonders why the islanders are revolting 
cheers

Jim

[steamboatmodel]

I received this and had to pass it on.
Regards,
Gerald

[herrmill]

Here in China with the government price controls, I pay 5.12rmb/l or $0.74/l, about 1/3rd the cost my fellow Americans are having fork over.  Regular unleaded is the same price, while 97 high test runs 5.40rmb/l.  How long that is going to last is everyone's question as the diesel lines are long at the pump with SinoPec rationing.

Chuck

[GreeboTheCat]

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I live in Tetbury and at the start of the last petrol problem we had 2 garages, Garage A kept prices at the norm while Garage B ramped them up to exorbitant levels but when the former one actually ran out, people just had to pay the high prices. But here's the killer - when the strike was over, evrybody in Tetbury remembered about Garage B and stopped going there and within 6 months he went out of business!  People Power. So during this current petrol problem Garage A (the only one now) put his prices up and guess what? they have stayed up! He doesn't seem to have learned a lesson so we residents of Tetbury are planning to teach him the lesson we taught his one time rival! 
Now if we all did this...

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[steamboatmodel]

The Problem is "Garage A (the only one now) put his prices up and guess what?" He has you by the short and curlies, unless there is someone else opening a Garage. If he is part of a chain or has to buy his gas from them, he may have no choice about setting the price. In my youth I worked at a number of Gas Stations and the price change was usually phoned in to you either in the evening or night shift, at one point I was covering a shift for a Friend at another Station (one of our company's compeditors) and I received a call from their dispatcher to change the price and it was the same person who had phoned me at the Station I normally worked at, so much for no price fixing!
Regards,
Gerald

[Eddy Matthews]

When this topic first started at the beginning of April, diesel was 116.9 pence per litre locally, thats £5.30 per UK gallon - Now (end of June) our local garage is up to 134.9 pence per litre (£6.12 per UK gallon).

So, less than three months and a staggering 16% increase in the cost of fuel - But my income hasn't gone up!

Of course, the cost of fuel effects almost everything we buy, so everything goes up in price..... When will the UK government realise that this cannot go on? They have (I believe) one of the highest rates of fuel duty in the world, and every litre at the pump nets the government approx 80% in tax!

Okay, rant over.....

Eddy

[Red_Hamish]

Filled up my 70 litre tank with just over 68 litres @ £ 1:42.9 / litre. The metre displaying the  cost in £ & p was getting frighteningly close to hitting the £ 100 mark and I could not bring myself to ccept the £ 100 fill was here for a family car.  a very sad reality. I could have done it but I realised that once that threshold is crossed the value of the coins in your pocket is almost worthless.

When I first did the £100 + fill it was in one of our trucks, I went and asked the attendant if there was a faster pump to use next time when I came, the answer "no it would only frighten you" was very candid.

a sadly dis-illusioned

Jim

[Eddy Matthews]

No wonder the truckers in the UK are up in arms at the cost of fuel in the UK Jim..... Consider an articulated tractor unit with a 200 gallon fuel tank - That'll be £1200 for your diesel sir!! 

Eddy

[Channel]

For latest fuel price info see www.petrolprices.com Handy if you want to try and save a bit each fill - I work in Bristol but live in Cardiff so where I fuel depends on where its cheapest - have saved over 5p per litre recently by using the site. Peanuts I know but every little helps . . .

I've also just bought a Fiat 500 1.3 diesel thats brought my fuel costs down, I can manage 70mpg doing 60mph. There's a downside to it though - it limits the size model boat you can have!

I've heard a lot of talk lately of companies raising the price per mile they pay employees, usually 40p I know of some who have gone up as high as 60p now after employees refused to use their own transport for company business.

Cheers
Chris

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD's....with OZ being so large & sparcely populated ......products have to be transported long distances.....every day I see the fleet of B Double semi trailers loaded with finished steel products destined for Melbourne...yes approx 1000 Km from Port Kembla

The 600 HP prime movers have four 250 litre diesel tanks & @ $1.86AUD per litre = $1860.00  - frightening isn't it

Having said this...our OZ fuel costs are still less expensive that most of Europe by 30%.....