Three Cheers for ASDA, TESCO, etc.

D1CKL

D1CKL

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Mar 16, 2009
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It's about time someone did something about the price of fuel and ASDA and TESCO have started a price war up here in Bonnie Scotland. £1:32.7 per Litre. All the other garages around are spitting feathers, but, have not dropped their prices to anywhere near that. The cheapest alternative is still at £1:37.7 per Litre.
 
The thing that irks me is that when petrol prices go up, the price of everything else goes up, but, when the price of petrol goes down I don't see everyone rushing to drop the price of everything else.
Just as an aside Ginja, when I first started driving petrol was 4 shillings and seven pence a gallon.
 
D1CKL said:
The thing that irks me is that when petrol prices go up, the price of everything else goes up, but, when the price of petrol goes down I don't see everyone rushing to drop the price of everything else.
Just as an aside Ginja, when I first started driving petrol was 4 shillings and seven pence a gallon.
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That sound about the same that I was paying when I started driving back in 76
 
cougarbob said:
Old Farts Syndrome.....I was sure we were still using old money other than the pennies back then & petrol was about 25p a gallon


Just looked it up petrol was 76p a gallon :giggle:
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NOW THAT'S OFS :LOL:

I remember my first ever gallon, for the bike was 48p plus a shot of redex @1p :beer: and iirc that was back in............................................... errrrrrrrmmmmmmm, let me think..................nineteeeeeeeen.............seventeeeeeeeeeee........................two...ish.......o_O
 
Yep petrol starting to come down thank goodness, funny thing was, it came down quicker in Clay cross, (small town) than in chesterfield were the supermarkets were more expensive than other garages
 
It's now 133.9 in chesterfield, morrisons, chesterfield. At Tesco's in Clay cross its even cheaper but the petrol station is so badly laid out, its a real pain to use. Morrison's in sheffield is usually pretty cheap also. Iv just been in hospital so haven't been able to take advantage of the cheaper prices yet, which is frustrating!!
 
Sub-standard? On what evidence are you basing that statement mate? I've been predominantly using petrol and diesel from Asda and Tesco for our two cars for the past 3 years, since I moved back to the UK. In that time we've put around 20,000 miles on the Cougar and 70,000 on the Fiesta, both seem to be fine.
 
All fuel sold in the UK has to meet a certain BS Standard, so, how can you assume that supermarket fuel is sub-standard. As relliott says, I have been using supermarket fuel for years and never had any problems.
 
I reckon its like beer, you can have a good pint one week but a duff one the next week all depends on how its been stored, after all petrol don't stay great for ages in the tanks under the forcourt so its gonna go naff at some point. If anything super market fuel is gonna be fresher than the stuff from an independent garage that doesn't see as much trade
 
as i do about 50,000 per year i keep a keen on eye on economy etc using the bora as i trundle up and down the country.

I have to say, I find Morrisons fuel lousy for economy in relation to branded fuels.

In the Bora, I average 46 to the gallon per tank.

On a 250 miles run to south london I always get 50-55 to the gallon.

Using Morrisons fuel (on two occasions), i only get 46 on that run.

This isn't using the trip computer - its on the basis of what it costs me to refuel etc etc.
 
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