Total Garage Thingwall may be charging 129 @ litre, when others charging 115 WHY?

I paid 114 at Tesco last night for diesel. That is a rip off if it's true.

Think they can charge wot they lile

APOLOGIES FOR THIS. on checking price reads 112.9 Sorry

10 yrs since the fuel strike and it was 86p per litre then,
Why are we not protesting now??????

will be no more protests because the GREENS have taken over and you have got to be priced off the road for the good of the planet. Your carbon foot print is been watched by big brother.

Jeezzz that's scary!!!!!!

There's a petrol station near my mate's house, it's 125.9 a litre, and down the road, it's 110.9, and there were people in the expensive one. I'm surprised they get any custom.

I don't see the issue - simple law of business, supply and demand. They are free to charge what they want, and if they make an acceptable profit at x-amount, they will continue to charge that much.

Maybe the expensive petrol stations simply don't want to be dealing with peasents, maybe they attract a higher class of people who just don't give a damn about prices, personally id probably avoid a petrol station charging 10p a litre higher than the norm for a particular area, but thats just personal preference.

Down by my dads, (Herefordshire countryside) the petrol is always 15p per litre higher than around here, sometimes even more, we don't realise how lucky we have it in all honest, we have some of the cheapest fuel prices in the country within Merseyside. And at the end of the day, its only fuel, and its only money.

Anyone using a petrol station charging 15p higher per litre than one less than a mile down the road is either family or wants to show everyone he has more 15p's than everyone else.
The south/London is expensive on most things though, although some have fuel a few p more than us, so there's not much difference.

Most people are like me, haven't got a clue what petrol costs, i just pull in and buy it whenever i need it, at whatever station I'm passing at the time, i should be more vigilant and on the ball because i run a van that only does about 3 lamp posts to the gallon, on saying that I'd probably waste more diesel looking or going for cheaper.

Average
Petrol Prices 1983-2010
4 star up to 1988 and unleaded thereafter,
Price Price
Year per Litre per Gallon
1983 36.7 1.670
1984 38.7 1.759
1985 42.8 1.946
1986 38.2 1.737
1987 37.8 1.719
1988 34.7 1.578
1989 38.4 1.746
1990 40.2 1.828
1991 39.5 1.796
1992 40.3 1.832
1993 45.9 1.832
1994 48.9 2.223
1995 50.9 2.314
1996 52.9 2.405
1997 57.9 2.632
1998 60.9 2.769
1999 61.9 2.814
2000 76.9 3.496
2001 77.9 3.541
2002 69.9 3.178
2003 77.9 3.541
2004 77.9 3.541
2005 79.9 3.632
2006 88.9 4.041
2007 87.9 3.996
2008 103.9 4.723
2009 89.9 4.087
2010 111.9 5.087
march 2010 price of 111.9 per litre, 72.9p or 65.1 per cent goes to the goverment 52.2p fuel duty and 16.7p tax

I bet I'm not the only one that can remember the outcry when petrol reached the heady heights of £1 a GALLON

I remember there was a news item on Granada Reports about where in the area you could still get fuel for less than a pound a gallon, Bob Greaves I think it was.

£5 a gallon - wish you hadn't posted that Joe, I was blissful in my ignorance

I do remember, i think it would have been around 1979, There was a fuel shortage and rationing at the pumps for a period of time. I remember going to Scotland in my Princess, i had enough to get there and about halfway back, the plan was get some in Scotland. I couldn't get any, on the way back in desperation i pulled off the M6 on a road leading me towards Kirby Longsdale and came across a petrol station in the middle of nowhere, i asked how much i could have and he looked at me as if i had two heads, he had plenty and was glad of the sale, Filled up and it cost me £16, relieved.

Back in 1960 a kind uncle who was in the army stationed in Malaya (as it was then) left ME (age 18 and just passed driving test) the use of his Vauxhall Velox for around a year or so. Finding the 4/6 for a gallon of petrol was often difficult because for the first few months I was still at school and then at college (Carlett Park) - grandma "helped". So a £ bought me 4 gallons

Velox as I remember it had a column change, 3 forward gears and one reverse and bench seats. Happy days

4/6 a gallon in 1960 equates to £3.63 at today's purchasing power - the actual higher cost being due largely to TAX and some oil price.

Useful site http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/

Snod

The van i had about 5 years ago had column change gears (Mitsubishi), i liked them, in fact the first few days of this van i tried to change gear via the indicator arm.

Can't understand people going to the dearer ones as petrol is set up with an ISO standard,so even cheap petrol has to come to that standard,besides that it's refined at Ellesmere Port by Shell and all the other companies buy that,what's in a name,the companies must be good at advertising or the mugs are braindead.

i worked in a garage in 78/79, the petrol was about 70pence a gallon.weve just got a toyota estima diesle, i hate filling it up. try to keep it on the halfway & above mark. been puttin that new shll stuff in.

Your not, But we aint gonna do it again are we?

I can only assume there'd be protests if the price of alcohol was doubled. People have their priorities confused.

Ah yes i well remember when petrol went past a quid a gallon, lot's of petrol pumps could'nt handle it in the days before digital read outs as they only went up to 99p. From what i remember they halved the price at the pump and then doubled it when you paid !!.
I can also remember driving with a friend down the A5 we turned by Newbridge to head towards Wrexham, we needed petrol but when we saw the price at the petrol station my friend said "one pound twenty a gallon im not paying that the robbing Baxxards" !.