Fuel up/down again

geekman · 18 Dec 2014 at 12:15

Honestly can't believe how cheap it's got now - long may it continue.

I just paid £0.95 equivalent for petrol, and diesel is £0.84. Can't say I'm missing the days of £110 fill ups.

LupoLover · 18 Dec 2014 at 12:16

Still in France then?

Muffin` · 18 Dec 2014 at 12:20

LupoLover said:
I was talking about 10 years ago it was only about 3p difference, totally agree its 5-8p a litre more now

It was a different product 10 years ago when it was only 97 RON, now it's 99 RON with some fancy lubricants for direct injection

geekman · 18 Dec 2014 at 12:25

LupoLover said:
Still in France then?

Indeed. It's always been a bit cheaper than the UK but not massively so - I remember when I first arrived I was paying around £1.22. Definitely something I'll miss when I leave as with the miles I do it really adds up.

Uncle_Gravy · 18 Dec 2014 at 12:34

I'm loving the prices right now, £40 on my Accord usually gets me up to just over half a tank, now its just over 3/4 tank its awesome, currently in my town prices are down to 112.9

kaiowas · 18 Dec 2014 at 12:47

At the rate it's dropping and given I only fill up every few weeks at the moment I'd guess there's an argument for only doing a partial fill and going more frequently than brimming it only to watch the prices fall.

Hagar · 18 Dec 2014 at 15:18

mrk said:
When I started driving fuel was something like 82 pence per litre, chances of it ever getting anywhere near that are slim I know but can only hope Still, at least it no longer costs almost £80 to fill up the tank.

35p here for a whole gallon. Still could not afford it. That was before the 1972 oil crisis.

LadFromWales · 18 Dec 2014 at 15:18

Or you could do a partial fill and prices go back up!

LeeUK · 18 Dec 2014 at 15:20

The Daily Mail (cough) are saying it will be 99.9p in the new year.

I'm likeing that idea :cool:

Jez · 18 Dec 2014 at 15:24

LeeUK said:
The Daily Mail (cough) are saying it will be 99.9p in the new year.

I'm likeing that idea

Unlikely....

acemastr · 18 Dec 2014 at 15:28

Still expensive

$40 to fill up now with premium (93), less with standard

Princey · 18 Dec 2014 at 15:29

RAC also reporting that but I doubt it'll go below 110p on average.

Johno please? · 18 Dec 2014 at 15:32

acemastr said:
Still expensive

$40 to fill up now with premium (93), less with standard

Haha, il be looking forward to that in May when im in Tampa in a mustang

fizzle-187 · 18 Dec 2014 at 16:00

Why is it that BP Fuel is more expensive than everything else?

It's also terrible, will make the extra 5 mins journey to Shell.

Rainmaker · 18 Dec 2014 at 16:22

fizzle-187 said:
Why is it that BP Fuel is more expensive than everything else?

It's also terrible, will make the extra 5 mins journey to Shell.

I prefer BP for several reasons, especially as their diesel doesn't contain FAME but rather HVO. Normal RME/FAME biodiesel increases NOx, leads to deposit build up and can affect the DPF and creep into engine oil. BP have their own sustainable sugar beet plantations which they use to convert waste feedstock to HVO and ethanol. Other fuel companies just use normal FAME/RME.

From biofuelsstp.eu:

Hydrotreated Vegetable Oils (HVO) / Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids (HEFA) do not have the detrimental effects of ester-type biodiesel fuels, such as increased NOx emission, deposit formation, storage stability problems, more rapid aging of engine oil or poor cold properties. HVOs are straight-chain paraffinic hydrocarbons that are free of aromatics, oxygen and sulfur and have high cetane numbers. They are also approved for use as aviation fuels. The aim is to produce HVOs from sustainable feedstocks.

Now I'm driving a petrol I tend to swap between filling up at the BP at the end of our street and at Costco where it's cheapest. Yesterday Costco was 109.9 (95), 111.9 (97) and 113.9 (DERV).

MooMoo444 · 18 Dec 2014 at 16:36

LeeUK said:
The Daily Mail (cough) are saying it will be 99.9p in the new year.

I'm likeing that idea

Might not be that low, but it'll definitely fall. Might try and hold back on filling the tank just for the moment.

Westyfield2 · 18 Dec 2014 at 16:59

Filled up today at Shell - regular was down to 114.9, and V-Power was 122.9

SoliD · 18 Dec 2014 at 17:08

Westyfield2 said:
Filled up today at Shell - regular was down to 114.9, and V-Power was 122.9

Saw 111.9 and 118.9 for tesco today.

~Divine~Wind~ · 18 Dec 2014 at 17:16

I'm getting 22L/100m, daft car doesn't give me MPG

Whats Shell vpower nitro+ running at the moment?

thewanted · 18 Dec 2014 at 17:19

~Divine~Wind~ said:
Whats Shell vpower nitro+ running at the moment?

Westyfield2 said:
Filled up today at Shell - regular was down to 114.9, and V-Power was 122.9

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