Diesel prices

[Hyzer373]

Absolutely ridiculous at the moment! Will they hopefully come down a bit next year or is it looking unlikely? Costing me £100 to fill up.

 

[Pjj]

Absolutely ridiculous at the moment! Will they hopefully come down a bit next year or is it looking unlikely? Costing me £100 to fill up.

The price down hear is £189:9 per ltr for diesel petrol is £167.9

 

[Shinyboy]

The price down hear is £189:9 per ltr for diesel petrol is £167.9

shell is 186.9 here.

 

[Hyzer373]

The price down hear is £189:9 per ltr for diesel petrol is £167.9

Yeah about same here, I’m hoping diesel prices will lower soon, it’s ridiculous.

 

[THL4KEL]

It was not mentioned in the Autumn budget but it was detailed in it, that diesel is going up 23 percent next March.

 

[Part Timer]

The Supermarkets / retailers are making circa 20p a litre where they were making circa 5p. Why this isn't looked at is beyond me. Diesel in Sunderland is 1p a litre more expensive than Gloucester and 2p a litre more expensive than Wembley, London.

 

[THL4KEL]

I dont know why anyone is buying poor quality fuel at supermarkets anymore..... They should not be charging the same as BP/Shell...

 

[Part Timer]

I dont know why anyone is buying poor quality fuel at supermarkets anymore..... They should not be charging the same as BP/Shell...

Must have driven 500k miles on poor quality supermarket fuels with no problems whatsoever

 

[Iron Giant]

I dont know why anyone is buying poor quality fuel at supermarkets anymore..... They should not be charging the same as BP/Shell...

I filled the van at Sainsburys this morning it was £1.75 a litre, last week I paid £1.80 at the BP on Dean road a few weeks ago it was £1.98

 

[THL4KEL]

Must have driven 500k miles on poor quality supermarket fuels with no problems whatsoever

You will have a cleaner engine using BP/Shell... Supermarket fuels have no additives.

 

[THL4KEL]

I filled the van at Sainsburys this morning it was £1.75 a litre, last week I paid £1.80 at the BP on Dean road a few weeks ago it was £1.98

Go Jet in Chilton

 

[Iron Giant]

Go Jet in Chilton

I am driving that far ? I have found before it's been the same price, I'll check online before I fill up next, only put £50 in Mels car last week at the BP as I wasn't paying to fill her tank there

 

[ched999uk]

I dont know why anyone is buying poor quality fuel at supermarkets anymore..... They should not be charging the same as BP/Shell...

All UK fuel must meet EU standards - this includes additives for all sorts.
Not sure if you remember 'Formula Shell' back in the 90's? Shell realised that the gov taxed unleaded at less than leaded. They could sell a lead free petrol at the same or higher price and pocket the difference. Shell formulated an unleaded with 'a lead substitute' it still passed the then BS4040 spec! Unfortunately this resulted in burnt valves on some Rover and Vauxhall engines!

Don't just assume that supermarket fuel is any worse than the major brands. I would put money on the supermarkets buying fuel from whoever will sell it to them cheapest irrespective of who actually manufactures it.

Best thing to do is vary where you get fuel from and not run low. That way you protect the engine and fuel system as best you can.

 

[Part Timer]

You will have a cleaner engine using BP/Shell... Supermarket fuels have no additives.

The only difference between supermarket fuels and BP / Shell is the latter have premium fuels which are considerably more expensive. The basic fuels are coming from the same refinery tanks.

 

[Pjj]

I dont know why anyone is buying poor quality fuel at supermarkets anymore..... They should not be charging the same as BP/Shell...

Tesco and sainsburys are the same price as texaco hear

 

[Clean zero]

Its around £1.85 a litre here put in £100 a week that does the heater as well

 

[THL4KEL]

Im just gonna stick with Jet by me for now who are owned by Conocophillips ...

Im not an fuel specialist but when I worked in the oil/gas industry with specialists before window cleaning I was told there was a major difference between the major brands product and what supermarkets sell.

 

[Hyzer373]

It was not mentioned in the Autumn budget but it was detailed in it, that diesel is going up 23 percent next March.

Up by 23%!!! ? something has to be sorted with this, it’s getting seriously bad

 

[THL4KEL]

Up by 23%!!! ? something has to be sorted with this, it’s getting seriously bad

Just have to put prices up again.

 

[Pjj]

Years ago I had injector problems in my Vito , the garage who sorted it said you have been running it on supermarket fuel , I said yes how do you know he said the injectors were all gummed up as there was no additives in there fuels he said he saw it all the time , I used to fill up at Asda , since then I only use supermarkets fuel on odd occasions and have never had a problem since .

 

[ched999uk]

I used to test fuels and lubricants for the MoD. Basically we wrote the spec and put it out to tender. The oil companies would blend the fuel and lubricants to pass the tests. To put it simply, the additives are the expensive bit, so they blend it to just pass the test within the test spec. They are masters of blending and putting too much additives in effects their profits.
Most fuel companies have premium fuels with higher octane and cetane plus some extra additives but they charge more.