How much is enough?

[Bper]

I just got back from a trip over the Karcher hose when cleaning the car no traffic on the drive and zero petrol cost 2 meters covered flat. Not bad.😂

[Haliotis]

2 hours ago, Bper said:

I just got back from a trip over the Karcher hose when cleaning the car no traffic on the drive and zero petrol cost 2 meters covered flat. Not bad.😂

The Karcher hose is a quick way to A&E - you should have gone to Direct Hoses!

[Roy124]

12 hours ago, Haliotis said:

The Karcher hose is a quick way to A&E - you should have gone to Direct Hoses!

Probably cheaper too.

Once, in an email stream with Karcher, I got the message, I'm going now and won't be back.  It wasn't me, I think she had just thrown her toys out the cot and walked out.

[Haliotis]

58 minutes ago, Roy124 said:

Probably cheaper too.

Once, in an email stream with Karcher, I got the message, I'm going now and won't be back.  It wasn't me, I think she had just thrown her toys out the cot and walked out.

Eh! Whatever you’re on, Roy, it must be export strength!😟

[Bper]

This morning Morrisons up again from 148.9p to 149.9p. It was only two days ago that they raised it. I don't know if anyone is seeing their petrol prices rising every few days.

[Bper]

Morrisons now 150.9p the second rise in two days. Anyone else seeing these rises?😡

[Roy124]

Shell Grantham 142.9

Shell Louth 139.9

I am going there tomorrow,  will get an extra 0.5ltr for 'free'.

The actual saving is peanuts its the rip off principle.  Shame we can't get a local area boycott system.

If your local supermarket is cheaper at another of its stores simply stop using it for a week. 

Never happen unless you could get JSO to do it for you.

[Bper]

13 minutes ago, Roy124 said:

Shell Grantham 142.9

Shell Louth 139.9

I am going there tomorrow,  will get an extra 0.5ltr for 'free'.

The actual saving is peanuts its the rip off principle.  Shame we can't get a local area boycott system.

If your local supermarket is cheaper at another of its stores simply stop using it for a week. 

Never happen unless you could get JSO to do it for you.

Big difference from your prices, Morrisons seem to be putting their prices up every few days. The thing is there isn't another Morrisons local the next one is 17 miles away .🙁

[Cyker]

It does seem to be a bit of a coincidence Morrisons sold their fuel franchises to MFG and now all the prices are going up...

 

[Roy124]

Find out the other Morrisons price and use the local press if yours is well out of line

[Haliotis]

Do many drivers look for the cheapest station and travel distances without considering the extra cost compared to a slightly dearer local station?    I have four “local” stations near me - the two nearest, less than two miles and in opposite directions to each other - are Tesco and a Morrisons Daily (Esso).   I always opt for Tesco, because there is a car park with Blue Badge bays and I can do a small shop at same time.  I never check other station prices unless I am going to pass them in the course of my journey.

[Roy124]

I get regular updates from Petrol Map. Still learning but recently found how to get prices on a route rather than round a specific post code.

As can be deduced from my post above, a 3p/ltr saving for 20ltr of fuel would equate to a 20 mile saving.  A penny difference and much less than 20ltr is simply neither here nor there. 

I have two 'distant' cheap Shell stations I use.  60 miles from home, one en route, the other 50 yards off.

[Haliotis]

Since I top up my fuel when the gauge shows around half full, unless I am going to travel on a long journey, I rarely use any other station than my local Tesco.

[Roy124]

For cheapest fuel I ought to use Gulf a couple of miles away, but only if I am going that way.  Going the other way it should be Apple Green or Green Apple.

For some reason my preferred fuel, Shell, is only in towns and none on the A1 for miles in either direction. 

[Haliotis]

Years ago my preferred fuel was Clevecol, later called Cleveland Discol.  With the newer cars, which the manufacturers say no additives are needed, and the fuel pumps displaying DIN specifications, I simply use premium fuel and don’t bother which station From where I buy it - but usually either Tesco or Sainsbury’s, mainly because they are the most convenient to my travel habits and I have club cards for both (SWMBO collects the points).

[Bper]

4 hours ago, Haliotis said:

Years ago my preferred fuel was Clevecol, later called Cleveland Discol.  With the newer cars, which the manufacturers say no additives are needed, and the fuel pumps displaying DIN specifications, I simply use premium fuel and don’t bother which station From where I buy it - but usually either Tesco or Sainsbury’s, mainly because they are the most convenient to my travel habits and I have club cards for both (SWMBO collects the points).

Cleveland Discol was an alcohol based automobile fuel belonging to the Petroleum Storage and Finance Corporation based in the North East of England. It was a popular brand of British petrol between the 1930s and 1960s and was marketed as a 'superior petrol' due to its potent blend of distilled alcohol (ethanol) and refined petrol. As well as Cleveland Discol, the other related brand was Cleveland Benzole Mixture - a blend of a coal-tar product and petrol.

Just before the outbreak of WW11, the Anglo-American Oil Company Ltd (Esso from 1951) took a major shareholding in Cleveland and by 1958 the takeover by Esso Petroleum Co Ltd was fully complete. The brand name Cleveland was kept by Esso and Cleveland continued to trade under its name through its network of garages until the early 1970s. At this point Esso dissolved the name completely and all former Cleveland garage forecourt decor was replaced by the Esso trademark/identity.😀

 

 

[Haliotis]

Cleveland Discol was advertised as having an alcohol content which had the effect of cooling the engine - claiming that the engine ran smoothly as if on a cool summer’s evening.  It was first introduced to me by a one-man garage/taxi business on Henver Road in Newquay, Cornwall, in 1955 whilst we were on holiday there.  I then used it until changing to Esso - and that would have been around 1958.

[dannyboy413]

4 hours ago, Bper said:

 It was a popular brand of British petrol between the 1930s and 1960s and was marketed as a 'superior petrol' due to its potent blend of distilled alcohol (ethanol) and refined petrol.

 

 

Ethanol!?! Who in their right mind would put ethanol in their car? Oh, hang on a mo ................ 😉

[Bper]

6 minutes ago, dannyboy413 said:

Ethanol!?! Who in their right mind would put ethanol in their car? Oh, hang on a mo ................ 😉

Isn't that what's in Poitín😂

[dannyboy413]

3 minutes ago, Bper said:

Isn't that what's in Poitín😂

Not sure. I have only ever had Poitin once, (was given a bottle many moons ago). That tasted like petrol! 😊

[Haliotis]

We once hd a budgie that seemed to love the taste of lighter fuel.  One day, flying around the room, he suddenly fell to the carpet.  Worried daughter asked, “is he dead, Dad?”  I said, “Nah, love, he’ just run out of fuel!” 😜

[Roy124]

Peterborough today,  Morrisons 135.9 and Shell 1.379.

Saving over Louth Shell yesterday 2p/ltr but over Grantham Shell at 1.429 saved my £1.16 so definitely into rip off category against Bob's Morrisons at 150.9

A 15p/ltr markup.  What are they giving extra apart from the urine?

[Bper]

4 hours ago, Haliotis said:

We once hd a budgie that seemed to love the taste of lighter fuel.  One day, flying around the room, he suddenly fell to the carpet.  Worried daughter asked, “is he dead, Dad?”  I said, “Nah, love, he’ just run out of fuel!” 😜

Two Irish blokes are standing on the edge of a cliff, one has a budgie on each shoulder. The other has a parrot on one shoulder. The first jumps off the cliff and halfway down the budgies fly off, he hits the ground with a thud and is barely alive as he rolls around groaning upon the rocks. The second man jumps off the cliff and half way down the parrot flies off, the man reaches into his jacket and pulls out a shotgun and shoots the parrot just before he lands upon the rocks.
As they both lie there in pain the first man comments “I don’t think much of this Budgie jumping” The other replies “I don’t think much of this free fall parrot shooting either”.😂

[Bper]

Morrisons prices up again today from 150.9p to 151.9p😡

[Roy124]

Bob, what about the opposition prices as that is stupid.  Have you tried Petrolprices.com?

Get on to one of your local newspapers, get them to run a survey story.  Shame Morrisons. 

One Lincolnshire online media ran a story with prices across the county.  They are not level but not too wild either.