Petrol prices
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Diesel last week at Asda £1.77 per litre, today it's £1.86 per litre, robbing bastards.
Bill Walker
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Always puzzles me this, I paid $1.75 yesterday so ours is pretty much half your cost. Yet the UK has 50 odd million compared to our 25 million and we have no oil.
And were a lot further away.
Alan Harper's Tash
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It’ll all be to do with the level of fuel taxation and VAT.
When idiots that masquerade as scientists urged everybody to use diesel as it was better for the environment, they didn't think about processing the stuff. Refinerys were set up to make petrol and as there was little demand for diesel so there were few refinerys. It is still the same hence the higher cost. Supply and demand.
What I have noticed in Oz is that for petrol is just less than a pound a litre - thats because of low government tax.
You don't have a government that sees motorists as a cash cow. It doesn't matter which political party is in power, petrol = cash.
Bill Walker
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I always suspect governments love long traffic jams on Motorways, all that petrol being guzzled up to get 20 mile, all that tax revenue.
Keep roads shit.
One reason they give for high fuel duty is they want you out of your cars. The obvious reply is just make public transport, cheaper and more reliable but of course, as Covid and working from home shows, they lose a fortune in tax.
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Over the last decade petrol and diesel have been similarly priced give or take the historic average of 4p. It's only recently that the aunties shifted with diesal now soaring to inordinate levels. Difficult to find derv now for less than £1.86p and around a 25% increase on it's counterpart.
After performing some calculi I'm running at 25% more fuel efficency so no tangible advantage over it's petrol counterpart, slightly negating the advantage then of acquiring a diesel in the first instance. I only bought in because the petrol version of our car has serious misgivings in regard to it's wet belt operations and doesnt appear fit for purpose.
Just had some time this morning to read further on the price dilema, this recent article seems to offer some explanation to the problem. What do you think?
This is why diesel is more expensive than petrol
www.nationalworld.com
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