Petrol the new toilet roll

[Jimmy Choo]

I zoned out at the pump for a few moments and overshot my target price by £15

target price? Isn't that "full"?

Clearly Gavster has given all of his cash to Ukrainians and forgot to keep any to fill up his car.

[Gavster]

I zoned out at the pump for a few moments and overshot my target price by £15

target price? Isn't that "full"?

Yeah there was fuel everywhere, it was a right mess

[Gavster]

I zoned out at the pump for a few moments and overshot my target price by £15

target price? Isn't that "full"?

Clearly Gavster has given all of his cash to Ukrainians and forgot to keep any to fill up his car.

There's a managed cash flow situation happening right now, that's for sure. Nothing to do with Ukraine though, business growing pains.

[Jimmy Choo]

target price? Isn't that "full"?

Clearly Gavster has given all of his cash to Ukrainians and forgot to keep any to fill up his car.

There's a managed cash flow situation happening right now, that's for sure. Nothing to do with Ukraine though, business growing pains.

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story!

[duncs500]

For the last few days the local BP has 196.9p for diesel and 195.9 for petrol, the Shell 3mins down the road has it in the 180s like most have had. Yet there was still a number of people on the forecourt when I drove past earlier. Fuel cards so they don't GAF?

[Beany]

For the last few days the local BP has 196.9p for diesel and 195.9 for petrol, the Shell 3mins down the road has it in the 180s like most have had. Yet there was still a number of people on the forecourt when I drove past earlier. Fuel cards so they don't GAF?

Have to drive for/to work so they don't lose thier income, more likely.

[nuttinnew]

BP garage on the A1, Tyne and Wear.

[duncs500]

For the last few days the local BP has 196.9p for diesel and 195.9 for petrol, the Shell 3mins down the road has it in the 180s like most have had. Yet there was still a number of people on the forecourt when I drove past earlier. Fuel cards so they don't GAF?

Have to drive for/to work so they don't lose thier income, more likely.

What I'm asking, is why they're not filling up at another place down the road that's 10p/L cheaper?

[Beany]

Oh, that's probably just stupidity.

Edit: to be more clear, some people think that the price at petrol stations is basically the same everywhere, not realising that some places are just price gouging cunts. So they don't look around.

[duncs500]

Oh, that's probably just stupidity.

Edit: to be more clear, some people think that the price at petrol stations is basically the same everywhere, not realising that some places are just price gouging cunts. So they don't look around.

Surely everyone knows that?

Honestly, both roads are on the way into town with little other destinations in between, so most would drive past both and both of them have prominently displayed pricing signs. To be fair, they are both usually broadly the same price, so maybe people get to the BP first and just figure that's just the price now, then kick themselves when they go past the Shell after filling up.

[Beany]

Oh, that's probably just stupidity.

Edit: to be more clear, some people think that the price at petrol stations is basically the same everywhere, not realising that some places are just price gouging cunts. So they don't look around.

Surely everyone knows that?

Honestly, both roads are on the way into town with little other destinations in between, so most would drive past both and both of them have prominently displayed pricing signs. To be fair, they are both usually broadly the same price, so maybe people get to the BP first and just figure that's just the price now, then kick themselves when they go past the Shell after filling up.

You'd be surprised how many people don't realise how big the difference can be.

There was a slightly hairy FB post by the beeb yesterday about a station in Sheffield at 202p/litre for diesel, and plenty of people in the comments seemed surprised because thier local station was still at 180-190, not realising that some stations are literally just price gouging twats.

It's like they've never driven on a motorway before, where the price mysteriously rises by 10p/litre every time you're 20 miles from a major town

[dinny_g]

For the last few days the local BP has 196.9p for diesel and 195.9 for petrol, the Shell 3mins down the road has it in the 180s like most have had. Yet there was still a number of people on the forecourt when I drove past earlier. Fuel cards so they don't GAF?

Better quality of food in the BP? Picking up something got dinner etc - our local one is a M&S...

[duncs500]

Could be. There are also a lot of people round here with a lot of money, so maybe it's simply not a concern.

[jamcg]

There’s also a massive lack of shopping around for fuel. If people have always used the bp they’ll continue to use the bp

[dinny_g]

I’ll admit, I use one and a half tanks per month so the saving between the most expensive and the cheapest station is £9

So I don’t shop around. Need petrol, there’s a station, buy petrol. I don’t really give it much thought

[Jobbo]

Since the price of fuel has gone up so fast, I have found that my preferred Asda filling station right on a junction of the M5 is either out of fuel, has long queues for the pay-at-pumps due to nobody manning the kiosk or simply isn't cheapest. After a few failures to fill up there I've stopped bothering to check it now.

Which means I've run the gauntlet of finding alternative filling stations. As the cost of a tank has gone up over £100 I avoid all pay-at-pumps on the basis that they cut off at £99.99; I could do the payment again to finish filling but I really can't be arsed. And places that historically were cheaper are no longer the cheapest; it depends on how much they randomly decide to increase the price that day. Petrolprices.com can't be updated quickly enough to be properly useful either. So now that it matters to me more that I save a few pence per litre, I have stopped looking at the cost. Probably spending about £600 a month on diesel currently

[Rich B]

Simple case of can't be arsed. Don't concern yourself with it.

[Gavster]

£2.49 for diesel in Chelsea today

[IanF]

Since the price of fuel has gone up so fast, I have found that my preferred Asda filling station right on a junction of the M5 is either out of fuel, has long queues for the pay-at-pumps due to nobody manning the kiosk or simply isn't cheapest. After a few failures to fill up there I've stopped bothering to check it now.

Which means I've run the gauntlet of finding alternative filling stations. As the cost of a tank has gone up over £100 I avoid all pay-at-pumps on the basis that they cut off at £99.99; I could do the payment again to finish filling but I really can't be arsed. And places that historically were cheaper are no longer the cheapest; it depends on how much they randomly decide to increase the price that day. Petrolprices.com can't be updated quickly enough to be properly useful either. So now that it matters to me more that I save a few pence per litre, I have stopped looking at the cost. Probably spending about £600 a month on diesel currently

Shell has £150 app limit.. I imagine others will have too

[Simon]

Is that a new thing? When I filled up with the app a couple of weeks ago (pay at pump) it was £100.