LPG prices

You should see by how much the cost of diesel has shot up in the recent bad weather!

Dave B

Nothing compared to the cost of heating oil. Mid Nov 28sec oil was about 45p/l, now it's 56p/l if you are lucky. Boilerjuice (not known to be cheap) are quoting 70p/l for 1000l.

If diesel had gone up by a similar amount you'd be paying around =A31.50/l, not the =A31.25 ish it currently is in the main garages and supermarkets around here.

I'd expect diesel in NW Scotland to be above £1.50/l by now. It was £1.37/l in August and there's at least one outlet normally more expensive than that.

Can't comment on disiesel as I don't use it (wife does!), but LPG locally went from 73.9 to 79.9 almost overnight a week or so ago, having just prior to that gone up from 71.9! I have a bulk tank (LPG), mine has gone from 61 to 69 with the last delivery due to a "bulk propane rise" about a month or so ago, and I got a letter in today about another 0.55ppl duty rise (plus vat, of course!) effective midnight 31/12/10. That, with the VAT going up on

1st Jan will most likely make my LPG around 72ppl, basically an 18% rise in a month and a half and there's sod-all I can do about it other than buy a vehicle so small that it won't do what I need it to! My only compensation is that my LPG is roughly 10ppl cheaper than the competition, on average! Badger.

what are folks paying for their LPG? My local garage was 69.9p per litre last week and this morning was 74.9p per litre.

Non of this makes any sense, we are constantly told it's all down to supply and demand and that it's dependant on the wholesale price of oil yet that is no higher than it's already been this year a few times. If you look at the charts why didn't the price drop dramatically in July etc, when there was a

25% drop in the wholesale oil price, although it has risen recently it's nowhere near as high as it was in Dec 2007. Someone should be seriously questioning the oil companies about this situation which is certainly not helping an economic recovery.

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Bloody hell!

For a moment there, I thought you were talking in Aussie cents!

...which means we only pay about 63% of your price for LPG...

Flippin 'eck!

And we have a production surplus of propane in the UK

Just travelled from Exeter on M5 towards Bristol, stopped off at Junction 25 (Taunton) to visit Sainsbury's and found LPG priced at 60.9 pence per litre. Thats 5.9 pence less than I have been paying at my local Calor gas depo in Ivybridge, Devon. Bob

Think I will pop down there then LOL. In 19months when I first got my P38 Rangie LPG was 36p per litre, which was about a quarter the price of petrol at the time. Now it is about 60% the price of petrol.

Makes one wonder if there is pressure behind the scenes to keep the price of road fuel petrol/diesel "sensible" but fund the increase in base oil costs from other "minority" petroleum products such as LPG, kerosene, red diesel, fuel oil etc.

Remember the fuss the last time diesel/petrol got to the sort of prices and higher than we are currently seeing. Why isn't that happening this time? If anything the noise ought to be louder in these tight financial times.

It does make you wonder what it will take to get folk up off their arses and actually do something. This cannot continue for much longer.....can it? Not just the LPG but all fuel!