Saw $5.50 gallon today in Ga stupid people panic and allow gouging. 5 stations out of gas by 8pm tonight just near me.

 

Hi BMB, yes we will be lucky. cheapest ive saw recently is 125.9 a litre here. 5 pound 67 a gallon.I have actually worked it out that if i gave up work, i would be better off. sad isnt it, but I like to work, so thats out of the window lol.

 

Hi again Johnpoach,

Fuel prices seem to be dropping a bit here (knock on wood); a U.S. gallon is going for around $3.29 or so for midgrade here in Detroit late last week. My mother (still driving at 81, God bless her heart) found gas in Ohio for $2.99/gal for 87 octane early last week.

Hope you're seeing comparable drops in your petrol cost over there?

 

BMB,

Our prices are dropping slowly. Here in Durham the cheapest I have found is £4.81 ($8.35) a gallonfor unleaded petrol and £5.26 ($9.13) for diesel.

The supermarkets started a "price war" last week and some knocked 3 pence a litre off unleaded. Unfortunately, if they keep this up the smaller, independent retailers will be forced out of business and we shall then be totally reliant on the supermarkets. In rural areas this will be disastrous for the consumers who may have to travel 20 ormore miles to get to a supermarket.

One example of the inconvenience of this type of monopolywas pointed out to me recently. A gentleman in Inverness had a 4.0 litre Grand Cherokee. He had it converted to run on LPG which retails at about half the cost of petrol. The petrol tank was replaced by a 35 litre tank and a 70 litre LPG tank was added. In Inverness there was one independent who sold LPG. Because of loss of petrol salesto the large supermarkets the independent was forced to close. None of the supermarkets sold LPG. The next nearest LPG station was 40 miles away. He was using most of his LPG to go to the supplier and back home.

It is not a good idea to let the big boys gain a monopoly.

Bill.

 

Down here in Orlando there is some stations for less than $3.00 a gallon.

 

Yegads, BillofDurham, still over $8/gallon for petrol? I really don't know how all of you afford to drive and get to work! $4.20/gallon was killing me big time earlier this summer.

I agree with your assessment about the big boys gaining the monopolistic advantage. We see that here with the big box stores (WalMart,Meijer, Home Depot, Lowe's) that are similar to your Tesco and others, that are putting the smaller retailers out of business.


A good example of this is Tech's post on the appliance repair he and I chatted about today; he could buy the part locally for $30 and drive 20 miles to get it, or order it online, sit back, and have it delivered for $10. The smaller guy charging $30 is out a sale obviously, and will eventually (I am guessing here) go out of business also, but in these economic times, we all do what we have to do.

 

2.89$ @ shell .

 

Overhere in southern California, it cost like $3.50 for 91.It was $4.50 a couple weeks ago.

 

"Breaking news from the UK" as they are fond of saying on newscasts.

Two of the bigger supermarket chains are reducing unleaded petrol to 99.9 pence per litre, £4.53, $7.85 per gallon. BP has also announced that "some of its outlets" will follow suit. The analysts (people who know very little but make wild guesses and pass them off as facts) predict more cuts will follow.

If they keep this up we should be able to start driving for other than absolutely necessary journeys.

 

Just filled up with 93 Octane for first time in a while at 3.05 Gallon

 

Not before time i say. hi blue hope your ok sirr. lol. put it down to three pound a gallon i may go on holiday. my butt haha?