Fuel prices are up again – with reports saying one filling station in Chelsea is charging an amazing 134p for a litre of petrol.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has blamed oil producers for not increasing supply, causing oil prices to rise.
But the price can’t purely be blamed on the rocketing prices of crude oil.
In the UK, after including the duty and VAT paid on a litre of fuel, tax makes up more than 60 per cent of the cost.
Car makers are making the vehicles they sell more efficient, but this doesn’t help people who rely on their cars but can’t afford a new, clean machine.
Are these prices tempting you away from your car and onto the bus or mountain bike?
So how much are you paying for a litre of diesel or unleaded? And where did you buy it?
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40 Comments
April 28, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Tescos Express Petrol Station in Durrington, Worthing, West Sussex was advertising £1.07p a litre for standard unleaded on their shevron sign, but when you park up to fill up, it states that it is £1.10p a litre.
After speaking/complaining with the sales attendant, he said he knew what they had done but it was “the managers idea”
Totally out of order this is
April 28, 2008 at 9:09 pm
I am paying 106.9p per litre (petrol), from my local independent supermarket!
Its outragous! When I first started driving I was only paying 85.9p per litre!!
April 29, 2008 at 11:34 am
Paying 112.9 at our local garage for Petrol. Its crazy given I remember when petrol was 49.9 back before I started driving.
April 29, 2008 at 12:00 pm
the amount we now pay for petrol and diesel is beyond stealing its just plain money sucking to cover the debts of the government wars……not forgetting the outstanding finance on their Bentleys. problem is people are far too lazy to do anything, prices go up people whine for a while then eventually get used to it. this is just another small example of the falls of our ‘great English empire’…………………………pathetic and crumbling. hope i wont be in this to be deteriorated country in years to come.
April 29, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Diesel at my local BP station, who have just announced making 3.92 billion profit in the first 3 months of this year, has risen from 115.9 on the 7th April 2008 to 122.9 on the 28th April 2008. (I’m not a petrol price researcher, I have just started a new job and this station is en-route!)
Why on earth should the the car driver be penalised fro utilising an essential commodity (the motor vehicle). I live in a small town in Dorset and work in a small village in Wiltshire for a big company (HMPrison Service). There is no alternative way for me to get to work using the ‘political answer to all of our problems’ public transport.
I used to be so proud to be British but just what the hell is the Government doing to this once great, leading country. I pay tax after tax and sometimes I get tax deducted on commodities that I have already paid tax on at source. Gordon Brown and his cabinet need to be held accountable for their actions and start working in the interests of the majority. Sorry, rant over!!
April 29, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Money makes money, what do you except your living in one of the world’s most expensiviest countries?!?! No one is forcing you to buy petrol at such prices, if you collectively agree to do something about it, then something will be done. The fact is the majority of you are all weak individuals who talk big but can’t follow up on your words? Capisce?
April 30, 2008 at 10:27 am
Ahh.. stop your complaining, all of you. Relative to what your weekly wage is, petrol’s cheaper than it’s ever been. If it’s such an isuse, stop buying it. But you wont do that will you? You’ll carry on buying it until you literally cannot afford to drive to work any more. I dont see anyone whining about the price of beer, and at £3.50 a pint (£28 a gallon) its a heck of a lot cheaper than petrol.. I could whine about the good old days when petrol was 60p a litre (11 years ago, when I started driving), but I earn 10 times more per week than I did then, and it’s only doubled in price. I’m quids in!
“The price of petrol is stealing” – hah, yeah right.. Where do you think money comes from? The government print it, they let you have it for a time because you think it’s important, but they want it back. It’s not stealing, it’s taxation. As Kayc Jones says, noone is forcing you to buy it, so go and bleed somewhere else. Move closer to work, buy a bicycle for less than the cost of 1 years finance on your precious vanity-necessity BMW X5 that you cant afford to run because you lied about your earnings in order to get the drip, and get a healthier outlook on life. If might even stop you complaining like a 4 year old who had his dummy taken off him.
“Vanity – my favourite sin” – Devils Advocate
April 30, 2008 at 10:29 am
PS; Omar, you’ll want to be in this country when the rest of the world runs out of oil and Britain still has the massive reserves untouched under the Falklands, cause then we’ll be stinging the countries that forced us to buy oil at $high per barrel..
April 30, 2008 at 10:34 am
Correction:
“beer … is a heck of a lot cheaper than petrol” should read “beer … is a heck of a lot dearer than petrol”
Apols for any confusion
April 30, 2008 at 11:05 am
the fuel here in north yorkshire is reaching 119.9p per litre for diesel and i saw a service station selling it for 123.9 the other day it is ridiculous and me as a college student who travels to and from college each day can bareley afford fuel to get to and from college.
April 30, 2008 at 2:01 pm
why is it supermarket filling stations charge differntly depending on location, surley this is bought at a corporate level. I have seen two Tesco garages with 3p differnce.
April 30, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I’ve got to say I’m with Matt on this. I only started driving in 2005 when, if I recall correctly, petrol was about 75p a litre. I now drive a bigger and more powerful car that’s fairly thirsty (20-25mpg on a good day) 40 miles each way for work and have more spare money than I’ve ever had.
Okay so petrol prices have risen considerably over the past 12-18months but pound-for-pound my pay has increased significantly more.
If you don’t like it catch a bus, get a more economical car or get a more local job, simple as that.
With regards to tax why not just buy a car that was registered prior to March 2001 where it’s still at the big engine/small engine rate?
April 30, 2008 at 2:44 pm
i agree petrol is going up and up and slowly we;ll get to a stage where we will start protesting again and believe you me this time will be alot worser big lorrys have had enough and something will be done about it soon!!!
April 30, 2008 at 3:30 pm
long story Matt many more reasons behind all of this but that’s another website and another story, but if you think that the western world will not be on its knees in years to come then yo are incredibly naive.
April 30, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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http://www.teslamotors.com/
Sorry, I cant help being smug about this. Enjoy your petrol, I’ll enjoy my solar array in 2009.
April 30, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Let’s face it; the rising taxes on the motorist have nothing at all to do with the environment… it’s simply a way for the Labour government to make more money after they’ve spent the last 11 years wasting it.
April 30, 2008 at 7:08 pm
LOL at matt! I dont think the people compalaining are those with X5’s and other such large cars, which by the way commonly achieve in excess of 30mpg in diesel form and seat 7 people.
The people complaining are the individuals who purchased cars such as the 2.0 vauxhall Zafira who now pay £440 a year or the larger estate mondeos etc, hrdly gas guzzlers really and certainly were not considered as such when people purchased them lagitimatly several years ago.
PS Matt, i cycle to work, live less than 10miles from my job but people should have a choice!!!
April 30, 2008 at 7:44 pm
I don’t have a problem with petrol prices being high. I do however have a problem with being lied to.
Fuel duty and road fund licensing have nothing to do with climate change or any other ecological issue. If the CO2 output of my car is the problem then taxing more powerful cars more isn’t going to resolve the issue. I could own a BMW M3 and only drive a couple of thousand miles a year or i could own a Citroen C1 and drive 40,000 miles a year. I could easily push out more CO2’s from a smaller engined car than a bigger engined one.
If this has anything to do with fuel economy then they should scrap road fund licensing and put all the tax on fuel. But it has nothing to do with that.
April 30, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Where is the money going to come from to pay all the pen pushing civil servants?? Tesco pumps!!! Hey all you truckers just keep the wheels rolling and the tax rolling into scumbag Darlings coffers. Over 55 years of age and a lazy retired civil baron well done, 80k in your hand. Thats why your all paying 1.20 ltr.
May 1, 2008 at 9:52 am
Hi everyone, well I am paying about 117.9 for Shell V-Power, I would rather it stayed around the £1 mark, but its only gonna keep increasing! I think we should all stop worrying about petrol prices, and start thinking of ways to make money!