Price of fuel

[Bill Dewison]

Lancashire UK, usually about 83p a litre for unleaded, although it does vary from station to station. Not sure if there is a Shell station around these parts though 😕

Cheers, Dewi

[Guy Burt-Davies]

Kent – 90.9 pence per litre of diesel and 86.9 pence per litre of unleaded – both prices seem to be fairly consistent across most petrol stations

[Jill Marie Welsh]

http://www.pennsylvaniagasprices.com/

Dunno if we have a Shell…it’ up to about $2.29 a gallon here tho dammit.
Seems like the price of everything else has followed suit.
Love….Jill

[Marekdlux]

Average price here in San Diego, California is $2.54 (a gallon) at last check. At Shell though it is probably more like $2.64, they are always more than average.
-Marek

[Marekdlux]

Here is a website I just found. You can find the price of gas anywhere in the U.S. and Canada. Hope if helps.
http://www.gasbuddy.com/
-Marek

[John Childs]

Watch the US gallons Shane. They’re a bit smaller than ours! 😀

[Marekdlux]

quote johnchilds:

Watch the US gallons Shane. They’re a bit smaller than ours! 😀

Yeah, but our trucks are BIGGER!!! and BETTER!!!
😳 oops…my “American” attitude just came out. 😀
-Marek

[L J.]

Nth Lincolnshire diesel 86 p per litre (Tesco). 20 miles away in Doncaster same Supermarket Tesco 83.5p per litre & we are nearer the oil refinery at Immingham.
My wife complained to Tesco last year & got a nicely wordered letter which, reading between the lines meant that there is not much competition in our town so they can price it as they like.
L J

Marek, quite agree mate, been to USA 5 times so far vehicles bigger & fuel a lot cheaper, last time we went your fuel only a quarter of our prices.

[Marekdlux]

It is a lot cheaper, but EVERYONE here complains about it. We are far below the world average. I always tell people how much it is in Wales. The gas seems to be on the news about every other week.
-Marek

[L J.]

Marek, did notice one thing about the American people though, the 1st year went over the pond, the price of gas was “x” amount, 2nd year price gone up & all locals we met were complaining, 3rd year price had gone DOWN to just below the 1st year.
Only happened here once so far, everyone complaining & marching & holding up lorries delivering fuel but still keeps going up in price.

Have a nice day,
L J

[Bill Dewison]

Sorry to go off topic here, but John, you’ve changed your user ID! 😮 Does that stand for Long John Interactive? 😉

Cheers, Dewi

[L J.]

Dewi, Yes well once Rob has finished messing about with it, it should read L J
You know what he’s like, cannot read properly, (my pm that is).
L J

[Shane Drew]

quote johnchilds:

Watch the US gallons Shane. They’re a bit smaller than ours! 😀

Thanks John, and everyone for replying. I am using a conversion program that converts everything to litres for me. They give the choice of US and UK Gallons.

Interesting prices quoted so far. We pay $1.05 a litre unleaded here, and $1.15 for diesel. I remember when diesel used to be cheaper, but the petrol stations tell us here it is because you lot in Europe are using more than your share!! 😛

Shane

[L J.]

Hi Shane, I was taught to convert imperial gallons to litres was to divide by 4point 6, sorry but 4.6 doesn’t look right. hope that helps & not confuses you.
L J

PS our government conned us all years ago by saying that “if you buy a diesel car it does more mpg & the fuel is cheaper than petrol” so a lot of us did & what happened next, they put the price up to more than petrol!
L J

[Peter Normington]

sacually 4.55 not being funny LJ just more acurate, didnt matter when I was a lad, and petrol was less than 5 bob a gallon (25p) but it does now!
Peter

[L J.]

Peter,when i was a lad, as they say, i used to buy 4 galls for a £ and get 4d change, as 5 Park Drive tipped used to be 5d for 5 your £1 went a long way.
L J

[Peter Normington]

So that would be 4s11d a gallon then?

[L J.]

Yup

God i hate reminiscing, it makes me feel older than i am
L J

[John Childs]

One number I cannot get out of my mind is 4.54609. How sad is that? My excuse is that I was involved in petrol retailing at the time of metrication and had to do the conversion many times a day.

I too can remember the 4s 11d gallon, but petrol was more expensive then than it is today. I have a photo from 1959 showing some garage staff standing around a petrol pump displaying that price and the foreman was then on £10 per week or, put another way, he could buy forty gallons with a weeks wages. I don’t know what average wage is today but I bet someone in the same job would be able to buy something more like seventy gallons with the reward from a weeks labour.

[Paul Goodwin]

Hi Shane

I filled up the van the other day with Esso Diesel. it was 89.9p per litre ( Aylesbury)

And the car was cheeper with unleaded petrol at 85.9 in buckingham
20 miles form aylesbury r

i thought Diesel was Supposed to be CHEAPER? the government promoted Diesel as a cheap fuel, as soon as there are a lot of diesel vehicles on the road, hey presto it costs more.

So is the same going to happen to LPG?
cheap as chips now but in the future?
👿

[L J.]

Hi Paul, Don’t forget what i told you on Wed about your pic, time it was changed, you are actually younger than your photo makes you look.
(in my opinion)
nice to have met you mate.
L J

[signworxs]

This post has frightened me to death. Just bought an american rv (motorhome to us europeans :lol1: ) with a 7400cc Chevy engine bout 8 to the gallon if im lucky but hoping gas stays cheap cos its being converted to lpg.

[Paul Goodwin]

quote :

Hi Paul, Don’t forget what i told you on Wed about your pic, time it was changed, you are actually younger than your photo makes you look.
(in my opinion)
nice to have met you mate.
L J

nice to have met you too LJ

new pic? don’t be daft, the pint gives me that mysterious anomisity look 🙂

quote :

This post has frightened me to death. Just bought an american rv (motorhome to us europeans ) with a 7400cc Chevy engine bout 8 to the gallon if im lucky but hoping gas stays cheap cos its being converted to lpg.

I though my 2.2 Legacy was bad at 19mpg around town but 8mpg 😕

[L J.]

Paul, be glad you don’t own & drive 48 ton artic, approx 5 mpg.
is it any wonder that haulage contractors complain about fuel costs
L J

[Paul Goodwin]

Yep true but they use red diesel :lol1:

ohh sorry the ones that lay red or black tarmacadom do 🙄

[L J.]

all i can say to that is, god help them if customs get them
L J

[Shane Drew]

Thanks for the replys everyone. I appreciate your time.

Shane