BLOODY HELL !!! VEG OIL DEARER THAN DEISEL

Just been in Sainsburys £1.38 pl In 3l bottles Glad I bought some in Macro at 93p Pl

John

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Long tall ugly
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Last time I was in CostCo, about a month ago, the 20l tins of veg oil where =A315.99 or 79.9p/l. I'll be going this week sometime it will be interesting to see what they are now...

Last lot of dino diesel (14th May) was 121.9, previous lot 15 days earli= er was 118.9 (+3p). I also noticed that the differential between diesel and= unleaded was 11p. I'm sure it was only 9 or 10p not that long ago. B-(

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Dave Liquorice

Twas 18-ish on Saturday.

Steve

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Steve Taylor

Supposedly we're heading for a 3p rise in diesel prices in the next week and a half, so given time, veg oil will be economical again ;-)

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Ian Rawlings

Is that on top of the 3p last week? Some are forecasting $200/barrel by =

the end of the year.

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That's double what is was at the begining of the year so lets say =A32/l= or more in early 2009. Austin, sort your contract price out based on at lea= st that...

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Dave Liquorice

Looks like it;

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That's if the reports are accurate of course. And it was 5p/litre rise, not 3p/litre as I thought.

-------------------- The Petrol Retailers Association says that average prices could go up as much as 5 pence a litre by the weekend.

"I expect that motorists and diesel users in particular are going to pay more at the pumps in the coming weeks, possibly as soon as the bank holiday, from where they are now," said Ray Holloway, director of the Petrol Retailers Association.

"The simple reason is that the wholesale price of oil sent diesel up 3 pence last week and there's more to come."

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I'll be off to fill up the pinz this morning then! Long journey at the weekend.

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Ian Rawlings

On or around Mon, 19 May 2008 22:01:36 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice" enlightened us thusly:

jammy git. pump price is 131.9 here and the fuel card ain't a lot less.

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Austin Shackles

On or around Tue, 20 May 2008 00:25:32 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice" enlightened us thusly:

fat chance. They've allowed the increase I asked for but say that it's now fixed for a year or they'll re-tender it. This is apparently because the requested rise is above the RPI. Which is in itself a con, seeing as how the govt. fix it to make it look good.

Mind, if it goes too high I'll get onto them again. If they re-tender, I'll just up the rate on the tender anyway - and I know for a fact that they tried tendering for the "difficult" part of the route as a separate job, and got a silly price from the only person to actually send a tender in :-).

The increase I requested should see it OK up to about 1.50 per litre - I added on the increased fuel cost when it was about 1.25, having gone up from about 1.00, and then added the same again. If it goes over 1.50 then they can either pay more or find some other mug, innit.

Buggered if I know what they leave out of the RPI to make it as low as

3.summat % though - I can't think of anything that's not gone up in price, and road fuel and domestic fuel have gone up LOADS more than that. my diesel cost per week is now more than we pay for food for 3 of us.
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Austin Shackles

I still think you lot should emigrate (I'd enjoy the company) - I feckin near died paying the equivalent of 65p for diesel today (and add about

12 quid per 1000km mileage tax... but an odometer can always "fail to work"). 91 octane petrol is about 78p... which is causing extreme consternation amongst the masses too.
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EMB

FECKING HELL!

Been to Penrith this morning Morrisons was 124.9. I nearly drove into the back someone as I scrabbled on the floor looking for my jaw. B-)

The 121.9 was Tesco M6 J43. I dread to think what price the local garages are, one doesn't have a sign up with prices on, never has had and I don't pass the other one often.

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Dave Liquorice

On or around Tue, 20 May 2008 22:03:44 +1200, EMB enlightened us thusly:

yeah, I keep thinking about it. But it's not entirely as simple as it sounds - granting that I (for example) could sort a job and thus be allowed in, there's still the cost of actually getting there and all sorts of commitments here which I can't, for legal or moral reasons, walk out on.

However, if I end up having to quit with the school contract 'cos they won't pay enough, it might change...

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Austin Shackles

I'm so glad I've bought my P38 on LPG..with the price at the local farm of 46 per litre, i'm nearly getting the same cost-per-mile that I got with my 2006 Volvo V50 diesel. I know that LPG won't stay low for ever, but I read somewhere that the government are committed to keeping the cost low for another year or 2....although knowing this p1ss poor excuse of a government they'll soon change their mind when the masses start taking advantage of LPG...

Paul

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Pacman

ISTR you needing $40K and a job or something like that, and even then they restrict immigration to something like a few thousand a year, don't seem to mind sending their bar staff out though ;-)

A chap I know managed to get around it by having a dead-cert job that pays well with the backing of some top names in Motorsport, he's an illustrator working exclusively in the motorsport sector, doing illustrations for the V8 supercars series, he used to do F1 and knows most of the top team managers in the current crowd and some who are now in Oz, got a personal letter of support from Tom Walkinshaw and a few others to avoid the $40K requirement. Mind you he's still not made it through the beaurocracy, they keep telling him "next month", despite shortcutting like crazy, it's still taking him more than a year and he's got close family with aussie citizenship living there already. It's not like the old days when all you had to do was steal an apple.

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Ian Rawlings

Fuel prices in Wales are astronomical for some reason, when I was over there a few weeks back the prices were monstrous.

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Ian Rawlings

I paid 10ppl more at Warwick services than I do at home. That said I only wet the bottom of the tank. Robbing barstewards.

Lee D

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Lee_D

Was in WingYips (Croydon) and bought 100l for 90p pl. Only problem is getting it into the fuel tank !

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James

A year from when they agreed the recent rise? I was sort of assuming tha= t would have been a variation on the current contract. With a new tender/contract process for the next school year from September.

And so will everyone else *and* with a larger margin for fuel increases =

than last time. People won't make that mistake again, will they... B-)

I don't think the effects of increased energy costs have really trickled= through to the household shopping basket yet. Food is more or less the same, there have been some increases in gas and lecky but nothing like that for oil/petrol/diesel. Mortgages have risen a bit due to the credit= crunch but again not by much. So in yer average household shopping baske= t road fuel is only a relatively small part.

Trouble is if you heat by oil not gas...

On average I fill up about every 8 days at =A375 a time. The overall groceries bill for 4 is probably about the same by the time the =A35 eve= ry other day in the local Co-op, the weekly Tesco run and monthly Costco ar= e all taken into account.

Haven't been to Costco yet this month, I need to look to see what we really *need*. Even though the saving on the beer more or less pays for =

the fuel to make the 100 mile round trip. The last cheque I'm owed lande= d on the mat this morning and I have an empty diary. B-(

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Dave Liquorice

On or around Thu, 22 May 2008 12:08:57 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice" enlightened us thusly:

A year from the new rate. The contracts are only re-tendered when someone gives one up, or there's a major change in the route. PCV contracts are, I think, for either 3 or 5 years, but the non-PCV ones are open-ended.

This is true :-) I included a leeway in mine for fuel prices, but only the "normal" sort of increase by previous estimate, i.e. by now I'd expect it to be up about 5% from what it was last september, not 30% and still climbing.

gas is up quite a bit already and looking to be 40% by the end of the year, compared with last year. They had a big thing on WatO about it this lunchtime. one of the Scottish MPs is agitating for the VAT windfall that the govmint get from the hike in oil prices to be used to offset soem of the duty.

yeah, the domestic oil is also up by 30%+ and set to go higher. Thing is, now is cheap domestic oil time, traditionally. Wait and see what happens in about October :-(

I reckon we need to check our tank and get it topped up, before it gets even more pricey.

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Austin Shackles

I topped my tank up in March, 49.5p/litre.. There's been a theft from an oil tank around here, with someone stealing 100-200 litres or so, sadly I hadn't taken enough notice of the levels in mine to really tell if I've been a victim or not.

Must get a shotgun and a stool, and sit out at nights..

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Ian Rawlings

48.85 8th Apr but if I'd ordered the next day it would have been nearer 51p/l.

I've seen reasonable media reports of oil theft but AFAIK there has been none up here. I do keep a regular check on the level to feed the spread sheet which projects when I'll next need oil. Currently says middle of November, that's probably about right.

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Dave Liquorice

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