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Old 05-27-2010, 05:11 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Thumbs up Newbie here and non supermarket petrol



Hi All

The thingy is I have a V reg suzuki wagon with full service history.

2 weeks ago 90 miles on £12.10 for 10.01 ltrs @ £120.9 ppltr unleaded supermarket petrol, not bad I though, is that 45 mpg round town in the evenings mostly delivering irong for me' wife.

BP 125 miles last week £12.63 for 10.11 ltrs @ £124.9 ppltr, gives me loads more mpg but not sure how many

Could it be better to get er decent petrol than cheapest???

Again hello all, roll on the summer.

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Old 05-28-2010, 05:39 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I would stay with the better grades of gas (petrol), I have heard horror stories about supermarket gas in Limey Land. I stick to good gas when over in the UK. Why do you think they can sell it cheaper!
I still say you guys are getting ripped off, I paid $.92 cents per liter last night here in Ontario for my car.
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Old 05-28-2010, 11:49 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Taxes Neddy. You Canadians pay a lot more for fuel than us Americans. Although the Europeans get taxed all to hell compared to you and I. In March those in the UK were paying about $6.55/gallon while us Americans were paying only $3.05/gallon while Ontario, Canadians were paying about $3.69/gallon. Taxes is what kills the cost of gasoline and diesel, not the cost of oil per barrel.
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Old 05-28-2010, 06:45 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Hi, and welcome.

Short answer - go for wherever your cheapest fuel comes from.

In the UK supermarkets have a load of purchasing power so they get their fuel from the same refiners as the big fuel company stations (e.g. BP, Shell, Mobil etc.), same additives, same processing. Your fuel filter will pick up a load of crap if there is any and a new one is a few quid and 2 minutes to change.

If you have a fetish for some kind of special fuel (e.g. Shell VPower) then go and visit a Shell garage and you will get whatever extra goodness that may offer (which in my view is zero), otherwise supermarkets are fine. Supermarket stations also have the following advantages :

a) they often use fuel as a loss leader, so they are cheaper.
b) have a strong throughput which means their tanks are refilled more often, so less chance for dirt and crap to settle.
c) there is usually a "fuel for shopping" or a "shopping for fuel" discount on.

You will see much more benefit from the 100 tips thread on here especially with a petrol car.

Good luck and keep tapping experiences. We in the UK need more presence here
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Old 05-29-2010, 02:49 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I'm lucky in that where I live I pass an indian casino on my way to and from work that has a Chevron gas station and is always cheaper than the discount gas stations like ARCO. High quality gas at the cheapest rate, hell yeah!
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Old 05-29-2010, 04:22 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Taxes Neddy. You Canadians pay a lot more for fuel than us Americans. Although the Europeans get taxed all to hell compared to you and I. In March those in the UK were paying about $6.55/gallon while us Americans were paying only $3.05/gallon while Ontario, Canadians were paying about $3.69/gallon. Taxes is what kills the cost of gasoline and diesel, not the cost of oil per barrel.
Current UK price for Diesel is 1.21GBP a litre, petrol is a couple of pence less - almost 75% is tax. The up sides of this are :

- Free health care (but not dentists ironically )

- More economical cars

- Insulation from the usd/barrell prices rises
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I admit, I really do wish that we got some of the cars the Europeans do (like the Volkswagon Blue Motion Polo).
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Old 05-29-2010, 08:09 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I remember paying 79 cents for 3.8 liters and I'm not that old!

It should be a crime that gordon brown sticks it to you all every time you get petrol. (or is it the new bloke?) Seems there is a government official with gold lined pockets in the land of the not-so-free.

Being able to get a VW blue motion sounds like a wet dream to me
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I was amazed how cheap it is to fill your car up when I visited the US recently. We get totally ripped off on fuel prices here!
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G'day there,
You are all lucky with such a low price for fuel, here in New Zealand we pay a lot more for fuel, like at the moment $1.85 NZ dollar per litre that is about....$7.00 per US gallon or $8.41 GB gallon for regular that includes roadtax orfor diesel, 1.05 NZ dollar per litre and that is about...$3.98 US gallon or $4.78 GB gallon, But...with a diesel car you have to pay roadtax on top of the fuel price and that is 6.2 cents per KM, that is 10 cents per mile, that is upto 3.5 tonne, any heavier then it spirals out of control and roadtax kms have to be bought in advance, if stopped by cops and are not upto date with the milage, the fines are very high, also to register a diesel car for the anual registration was also $140 dollars more than a petrol/gas car and that works out for a car not very economical anymore.
Ive had 5 diesel cars and for that reason i went back to a petrol/gas car.
Now you can say....oh that is only....GB pounds or.....US dollars but.....We earn here New Zealand dollars, so that makes no sense to us here cos for us its very expensive.
Have a nice day and Greetings,
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