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fernandopartridge

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  • Feb 10, 2023
  • #246
ovduk78 said:
I don't get the difference in prices at same sellers, eg diesel at Tescos in Stirling is 170.9 but in Dundee is 162.9. Why aren't they the same?
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It's market pricing at the end of the day, Tesco will price according to the local competition
 
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Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 10, 2023
  • #247
fernandopartridge said:
It's market pricing at the end of the day, Tesco will price according to the local competition
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It’s been 159 for diesel at sandpits lane garage for weeks cheaper than anywhere
 

Wyken Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 10, 2023
  • #248
BP and Shell announcing multi billion pound profits is nothing short of a disgrace

The government should be stepping in here...

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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 10, 2023
  • #249
skyblue1991 said:
BP and Shell announcing multi billion pound profits is nothing short of a disgrace

The government should be stepping in here...

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So should they be on the energy companies.
The gas price has been falling,in fact lower than before it all started as far as I recall.
Certainly lower than predicted £4000
and £6000 by Spring.
Its had long enough to work through now.
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 10, 2023
  • #250
wingy said:
So should they be on the energy companies.
The gas price has been falling,in fact lower than before it all started as far as I recall.
Certainly lower than predicted £4000
and £6000 by Spring.
Its had long enough to work through now.
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Really pisses me off when they say "the price has gone up so we've got to put prices up straight away" then when they come down it's "but we bought it a higher rate so we've got to wait until we've used that up to bring the price down"

It's the most transparent bit of complete bullshit ever.
 
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Ian1779

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 10, 2023
  • #251
Talking of domestic fuel, Ofgem currently shaping up to be even more fucking useless than the Tory government which is mightily fucking impressive.

Wholesale gas price has plummeted and these cunts are going to put up the cap.

And Keith says we still shouldn’t nationalise

Energy bills to rise by 20% in April despite wholesale gas prices falling by 70%
 
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Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 11, 2023
  • #252
Ian1779 said:
Talking of domestic fuel, Ofgem currently shaping up to be even more fucking useless than the Tory government which is mightily fucking impressive.

Wholesale gas price has plummeted and these cunts are going to put up the cap.

And Keith says we still shouldn’t nationalise

Energy bills to rise by 20% in April despite wholesale gas prices falling by 70%
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you can’t nationalise Shell
 

Ian1779

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 11, 2023
  • #253
Grendel said:
you can’t nationalise Shell
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I’m not talking about Shell now
 

Terry Gibson's perm

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 16, 2023
  • #254
Well done to Centrica they must have made some amazing improvements to have tripled profits
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Feb 16, 2023
  • #255
Terry Gibson's perm said:
Well done to Centrica they must have made some amazing improvements to have tripled profits
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Something is seriously wrong here. People are skipping meals to heat their house or not heating their house so they can eat and then you hear this. The government seriously needs to sort this out. The energy price cap is clearly weighted heavily in favour of these companies recording record profits.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Feb 16, 2023
  • #256
skybluetony176 said:
Something is seriously wrong here. People are skipping meals to heat their house or not heating their house so they can eat and then you hear this. The government seriously needs to sort this out. The energy price cap is clearly weighted heavily in favour of these companies recording record profits.
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British Gas made £10/customer/year profit. It’s the generation companies that are making bank. I honestly don’t see how the competition law that says generators can’t sell their stuff cheap works in consumers favour. The entire idea of marketising the retailers has never made sense to me. From what I can understand I could invent a free electricity source tomorrow and I’d be forced to sell it at the same rate as the most expensive electricity on the market.
 
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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 16, 2023
  • #257
They could certainly absorb the proposed increase by £500 next month.
They need to be told to do .
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Feb 16, 2023
  • #258
With their profits going right up it looks as if they have just whacked their prices up, blamed a war in Russia and it's been allowed.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 16, 2023
  • #259
wingy said:
They could certainly absorb the proposed increase by £500 next month.
They need to be told to do .
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Who? The retailers or the producers?
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 16, 2023
  • #260
Nick said:
With their profits going right up it looks as if they have just whacked their prices up, blamed a war in Russia and it's been allowed.
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Well it didn’t cost them any more to get out of the ground, just the market price went up because supply was constrained.
 
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wingy

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  • Feb 16, 2023
  • #261
The producers is it.
Can't believe the labour party, should be marching over this as grendel says its Boris' vanity project and this his toll.
Start at double now treble and more ,enough.
 
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wingy

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  • Feb 16, 2023
  • #262
Not forgetting Boris said after Brexit we all deserved a wage rise .well it seemed we were getting one but it's all been taken away ,how fortunate
 
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wingy

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  • Feb 19, 2023
  • #263
Its going to be nine months now since the last big hike. they were predicting 6k bills.
Its been below the initial jump from that point since september.thats long enough to factor it in.
Again today in the papers have an expert in telling us it needs more time to factor in ,bollux you've had your profits and fun at our expense now FO and leave us alone.
Come on whats up with you.get on the streets .
 
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wingy

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  • Feb 19, 2023
  • #264
Gov't must be getting a kickback
 

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2023
  • #265
wingy said:
Gov't must be getting a kickback
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Most of the price of fuel is tax. You have the fuel tax and then the VAT which taxes the tax.

Fuel is cheap still if you consider that the oil has to be found, removed from the ground, transported to a refinery, refined then transported to a petrol station. You can pay more than that for water and that falls from the sky.
 
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CCFCSteve

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2023
  • #266
Astute said:
Most of the price of fuel is tax. You have the fuel tax and then the VAT which taxes the tax.

Fuel is cheap still if you consider that the oil has to be found, removed from the ground, transported to a refinery, refined then transported to a petrol station. You can pay more than that for water and that falls from the sky.
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Agree with that but by all accounts the petrol stations are making more than double usual profit per litre since pandemic
 
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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2023
  • #267
CCFCSteve said:
Agree with that but by all accounts the petrol stations are making more than double usual profit per litre since pandemic
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What he misunderstands is I'm on about gas ans electric.
It's gone up over 3times , should be going down but is going up again and it's hopeless to people who are on a fixed income.
 
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CCFCSteve

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2023
  • #268
wingy said:
What he misunderstands is I'm on about gas ans electric.
It's gone up over 3times , should be going down but is going up again and it's hopeless to people who are on a fixed income.
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Yeah, I try to keep petrol/diesel and home energy separate. Either way both should be coming down ! Im sure it will improve soon Wingy
 

Flying Fokker

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 20, 2023
  • #269

Energy bills forecast to drop by more than £800 from July

Britons currently face average bills of £2,500 a year for the average household, under the Government's Energy Price Guarantee, with the cap increasing in April, when average bills will go up to £3,000 a year.
www.express.co.uk
 
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thekidfromstrettoncamp

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 28, 2023
  • #270
Why is unleaded petrol in Coventry and Bedworth Tesco's 141.9 but Rugby 147.9 just don't get it."Every little helps" they are a joke.
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 28, 2023
  • #271
thekidfromstrettoncamp said:
Why is unleaded petrol in Coventry and Bedworth Tesco's 141.9 but Rugby 147.9 just don't get it."Every little helps" they are a joke.
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Rugby has always been expensive compared to Coventry and other Warwickshire towns for as long as I can remember.
 
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thekidfromstrettoncamp

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  • Feb 28, 2023
  • #272
skybluetony176 said:
Rugby has always been expensive compared to Coventry and other Warwickshire towns for as long as I can remember.
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While I agree with you.(born there) Why do Tesco rip off Rugby people? Yet try to say they are helping them can't stand the company.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 28, 2023
  • #273
skybluetony176 said:
Rugby has always been expensive compared to Coventry and other Warwickshire towns for as long as I can remember.
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So many A demographic residents I guess
 
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Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • Feb 28, 2023
  • #274
Grendel said:
So many A demographic residents I guess
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At work, they classified it as deprived and northern. I feel vaguely insulted by my own employer!
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 28, 2023
  • #275
thekidfromstrettoncamp said:
Why is unleaded petrol in Coventry and Bedworth Tesco's 141.9 but Rugby 147.9 just don't get it."Every little helps" they are a joke.
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It's market pricing at the end of the day
 
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 4, 2023
  • #276
So turns out the supermarkets were just creaming more profits for themselves all along…

Drivers paid higher fuel prices after supermarkets increased margins - watchdog

The Competition and Markets Authority has said a new fuel finder scheme should be set up so consumers can see what petrol stations are charging in real time. It also said the scheme should be administered by a new fuel monitoring body.
news.sky.com
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 4, 2023
  • #277
What? A profit driven system was driven by profits!? I’m shocked I tells ya. We knew this cos Costco and Mr Jones Independent Petrol Station were massively undercutting them.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 4, 2023
  • #278
Some irony from a government that takes the biggest piece of the pie in taxes.
 

JAM See

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 4, 2023
  • #279
SBT said:
So turns out the supermarkets were just creaming more profits for themselves all along…

Drivers paid higher fuel prices after supermarkets increased margins - watchdog

The Competition and Markets Authority has said a new fuel finder scheme should be set up so consumers can see what petrol stations are charging in real time. It also said the scheme should be administered by a new fuel monitoring body.
news.sky.com
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But, but, but...Those profits are paid as dividends which go into your pensions.

Rinse and repeat.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 4, 2023
  • #280
I remember a time not so long ago when the supermarkets were being criticised by the CMA for selling fuel at next-to-no margin whatsoever, and forcing independents out of business. They really can't win, can they?
 
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