Petrol prices around Stafford

[shoes]

Tried to fill up at Asda this morning for 128.9 but it kept refusing my card. Had to go round the corner to Esso who took my card no pronlem, but they wrre a penny more, which makes quite a difference on a £97 fillup

I make it 75p difference on £97 @£1.289, which in the scale of £97 ain't really that much difference!!

Makes all the difference when you have a jag to feed

 

[gilesjuk]

Indeed - for a number of months, when i was about your age, i cycled 9 miles each way to work 5 days a week. If i tried it now i would surely die.

Age doesn't come into it. There's people in their 70s doing 200 miles a week. If you don't use it you lose it.

Seeing my mother at the age of 70 deteriorating with dementia makes you realise you need to keep your body and mind active.

 

[shoes]

Indeed - for a number of months, when i was about your age, i cycled 9 miles each way to work 5 days a week. If i tried it now i would surely die.

Age doesn't come into it. There's people in their 70s doing 200 miles a week. If you don't use it you lose it.

Seeing my mother at the age of 70 deteriorating with dementia makes you realise you need to keep your body and mind active.

A very fair point, my grandad is still active well into his 80's. He isn't quite doing the tour de france, but he's showing no sign of slowing!

 

[Theorum]

Boycott! Boycott!

 

[Withnail]

Indeed - for a number of months, when i was about your age, i cycled 9 miles each way to work 5 days a week. If i tried it now i would surely die.

Age doesn't come into it. There're people in their 70s doing 200 miles a week. If you don't use it you lose it.

That's just it, i didn't use it as much as i did, so lost it proportionally.

Seeing my mother at the age of 70 deteriorating with dementia makes you realise you need to keep your body and mind active.

It's all in the mind, you know?

 

[jagman]

Tried to fill up at Asda this morning for 128.9 but it kept refusing my card. Had to go round the corner to Esso who took my card no pronlem, but they wrre a penny more, which makes quite a difference on a £97 fillup

I make it 75p difference on £97 @£1.289, which in the scale of £97 ain't really that much difference!!

Why thank you so much for your self satisfied opinion on how I should judge the spending of MY money.

 

[henryscat]

If 75p is such a difference get a more economical car!!!

 

[basil]

Tried to fill up at Asda this morning for 128.9 but it kept refusing my card. Had to go round the corner to Esso who took my card no pronlem, but they wrre a penny more, which makes quite a difference on a £97 fillup

I make it 75p difference on £97 @£1.289, which in the scale of £97 ain't really that much difference!!

Why thank you so much for your self satisfied opinion on how I should judge the spending of MY money.

I doubt any thanks were required,,,,,,,

 

[Gramaisc]

Free fuel in the future? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-15636544 - Or are they just taking the piss?

 

[John Marwood]

We must prepare for every eventuality

 

[mrtrouserpress]

Due to financial constraints, I've recently joined the ranks of public transport users after many years as a car user. Whereas formerly I zoomed along the A5 or A518 to Telford and back, I now have a scenic tour every morning and evening on the 481 through all the villages on the way. Still, I've got lots of reading and winding-down time; my erstwhile 40 minute journey is now around 2 hours. It's a saving of about £120 a month (taking into account the £45 for the monthly bus ticket). It's not too bad, I suppose - I once read an article in the paper about people who commute to London from the Isle of Wight each day. They'ld leave home about 4.30 am and get home about 10 pm!

 

[Gramaisc]

You might find 'The Commute' interesting - http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1119578

 

[United57]

I received this yesterday and also went on line to see if its true http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/automobiles/a/pumping_gas.htm

You can decide

PETROL TIPS - info!! (MUST READ)
With Petrol expected to reach £2 per litre by end of 2011 these tips that I received from a friend might come in handy.
TIPS ON PUMPING PETROL
I don't know what you guys are paying for petrol....I am paying up to £1.35 to £1.50 per litre. My line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every Litre:
Here at the Shell Pipeline where I work, we deliver about 4 million litres in a 24-hour period. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and petrol, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 Litres.
Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold.
Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the petrol, when it gets warmer petrol expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your litre is not exactly a litre. In the petroleum business the specific gravity and the temperature of the petrol,diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.
A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.
When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. You should be pumping on low mode, thereby minimizing the vapours thatare created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapour return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapour. Those vapours are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.
One of the most important tips is to fill up when your Petrol tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more Petrol you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Petrol evaporates faster than you can imagine. Petrol storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the Petrol and the atmosphere, so it minimises the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every litre is actually the exact amount.
Another reminder, if there is a petrol truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy Petrol, DO NOT fill up; most likely the petrol is being stirred up as the Petrol is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.
To have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Petrol buyers. It's really simple to do. I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would it take?

 

[phildo]

Due to financial constraints, I've recently joined the ranks of public transport users after many years as a car user. Whereas formerly I zoomed along the A5 or A518 to Telford and back, I now have a scenic tour every morning and evening on the 481 through all the villages on the way. Still, I've got lots of reading and winding-down time; my erstwhile 40 minute journey is now around 2 hours. It's a saving of about £120 a month (taking into account the £45 for the monthly bus ticket). It's not too bad, I suppose - I once read an article in the paper about people who commute to London from the Isle of Wight each day. They'ld leave home about 4.30 am and get home about 10 pm!

You must have a very thirsty car to be making that much saving. The fuel bill in a reasonable car (eg. focus diesel) would be about £96 per month (still £51 more than the bus but much better than the existing car)

 

[henryscat]

The cost of the car isn't just fuel- if you're doing high mileage then servicing is more often, tyres, and other wear and tear. Also if you have to pay for parking that's a saving too.

 

[henryscat]

Fuel wise:
Stafford to Telford = 23 miles via A5. Assuming: 20 round trips a month, 50mpg average and £6.19 gallon of diesel, I get about £114 in fuel, so £120 sounds not unreasonable.

 

[phildo]

The cost of the car isn't just fuel- if you're doing high mileage then servicing is more often, tyres, and other wear and tear. Also if you have to pay for parking that's a saving too.

My wife changed job in Sept. from a job 37 miles away to one 2 miles away, I've got the spreadsheet I did and the saving was £135 per month on fuel alone and £164 all in, so a £165 saving on a much shorter commute seems high either way.

 

[phildo]

Fuel wise:
Stafford to Telford = 23 miles via A5. Assuming: 20 round trips a month, 50mpg average and £6.19 gallon of diesel, I get about £114 in fuel, so £120 sounds not unreasonable.

The £120 is the saving after deducting the cost of the £45 bus pass, giving £165 as the fuel cost.

 

[phildo]

Due to financial constraints, I've recently joined the ranks of public transport users after many years as a car user. Whereas formerly I zoomed along the A5 or A518 to Telford and back, I now have a scenic tour every morning and evening on the 481 through all the villages on the way. Still, I've got lots of reading and winding-down time; my erstwhile 40 minute journey is now around 2 hours. It's a saving of about £120 a month (taking into account the £45 for the monthly bus ticket). It's not too bad, I suppose - I once read an article in the paper about people who commute to London from the Isle of Wight each day. They'ld leave home about 4.30 am and get home about 10 pm!

and welcome to the forum Mrtrouserpress.......... don't let my picking at your numbers put you off! I was just trying to see if a more economical car was an option to keep you off public transport!

 

[staffordjas]

I received this yesterday and also went on line to see if its true http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/automobiles/a/pumping_gas.htm

You can decide

PETROL TIPS - info!! (MUST READ)
With Petrol expected to reach £2 per litre by end of 2011 these tips that I received from a friend might come in handy.
TIPS ON PUMPING PETROL
I don't know what you guys are paying for petrol....I am paying up to £1.35 to £1.50 per litre. My line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every Litre:
Here at the Shell Pipeline where I work, we deliver about 4 million litres in a 24-hour period. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and petrol, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 Litres.
Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold.
Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the petrol, when it gets warmer petrol expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your litre is not exactly a litre. In the petroleum business the specific gravity and the temperature of the petrol,diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.
A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.
When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. You should be pumping on low mode, thereby minimizing the vapours thatare created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapour return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapour. Those vapours are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.
One of the most important tips is to fill up when your Petrol tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more Petrol you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Petrol evaporates faster than you can imagine. Petrol storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the Petrol and the atmosphere, so it minimises the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every litre is actually the exact amount.
Another reminder, if there is a petrol truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy Petrol, DO NOT fill up; most likely the petrol is being stirred up as the Petrol is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.
To have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Petrol buyers. It's really simple to do. I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would it take?

Maybe that's got something to do with the reason it's always working out that we have done less miles per gallon the odd few times we have filled up at Tesco and Asda , rather than the Sandon Road/Gaol Road garages :/ Always thought they must have fixed the pumps to deliver slightly less !