Has AApetrolBusters gone?

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 19:03:32 GMT, Bill Woods wrote:


They sent an email to everyone who had a log-in (I got one, anyway), saying
that the site was being closed down.  Don't remember why.  Lack of use?

AA cutbacks following their sale to a venture capital company. The big oil
companies probably didn't like it either.

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On Mon 07 Mar 2005 19:41:00, PeterE wrote:


I bet the big oil companies hated it!  

I found it was (within limits) remarkably detailed and surprisingly
accurate.

Pity it's gone.

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:41:00 -0000, "PeterE"


ISTR reading that the AA don't do the car inspections anymore either.



andyt

wrote:


IIRC, they closed down three or four months ago.


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Anyway, Sainsburys had the cheapest diesel in Cheltenham today.  81.9p
per litre.  Tesco were selling it at 83.9p and other filling stations
at anything between 83.9p and 87.9p.

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Walt Davidson wrote:

I managed to get some petrol from Total for 77.9p a litre on the A322
going north out of Guildford. A couple of miles further at Brookwood,
the Total there was selling at 80.9p!

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Toby Briggs wrote:

On Fridays, the London Evening Standard has a colour supplement on Cars and
Motoring.  There is always a little corner reporting on the cheapest petrol
stations, usually 3 or 4, within the metropolis in that week.  I remember it
was on the front page last time I looked.  It was pandemonium during the
petrol shortage and long queues at filling stations some ?6-7 years ago.
Not sure the survey report is still a regular feature.

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I wonder if it would be possible to run it like a Wiki - open
contributions from locals who note the price at particular stations and
post it when they get round to it.

Enough people doing it would make it effective.

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Why not start a newsgroup for petrol prices and get people to just post
prices in their area

Because it would be cumbersome and hard to find the data you want easily
on a regular basis.

It'd also dissolve in a mess of arguments about supermarket petrol vs
bigco petrol and so on.

Just a simple Wiki structure would do fine - or even a voting system
where you could show a graph of prices people have submitted across the
past three or four days for any site.

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"Guy King" guy.king@zetnet.co.uk wrote in message

Many, many moons ago there was a site mentioned on uk.transport that did
this - it predated the AA one by a long way.

<Google>

7 years ago - and it's still there:
http://www.yrl.co.uk/tony/fuel2/fuel2.htm

Grant wrote:


Oh no it isn't...

"Helen Page" helen@celosia.co.uk wrote in message

It's behind you....

http://www.yrl.co.uk/tony/fuel2/fuel2.html

Excellent link - thanks !

Daytona

Try www.cheap-petrol.co.uk    -  Idea looks ok,  just needs help (more
contributions) to get it going.

Mind The Gap

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:49:00 +0000, Toby Briggs


Remember people - going out of your way by perhaps only a few miles
negates the cheaper cost of the fuel. You're perhaps better off just
getting it from somewhere when you're passing anyway.


andyt

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:11:35 +0000 (UTC), Andy Turner


It reminds me of the days of the petrol shortage about 25 years ago.
When people heard of a filling station that had petrol available, they
were driving around for an hour or so to make room in their tank just
so that they could top it up!  (A bit like the mentality of people in
this newsgroup nowadays, come to think of it.)

Remember the days when petrol companies used to advertise on TV?  "Put
a tiger in your tank", "The Esso sign means happy motoring"... and the
supposed magic ingredients in Shell petrol, etc, etc.
:-)

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