Energy prices.

[Onoff]

One for anyone with access to plenty of manure. The ex Gurkha lads I work with said these were common place in Nepal when they were kids. They had buffalo and Mum would stoke the thing with a couple of shovel fulls of dung. The resultant gas was used for cooking the evening meal and powering the lights they did their homework by:

Nepal Biogas Plant -- Construction Manual

 

[Onoff]

Boiler Juice down to £1.24 for my area down from £1.71.

 

[prepman]

Boiler Juice down to £1.24 for my area down from £1.71.

Home fuels direct for Kent.....https://homefuelsdirect.co.uk/home/heating-oil-prices

 

[Norsk]

I did a quote at a very affluent and very pleasent customers house.

We discussed energy prices and he remarked his power bill was 20,000 kroner a month! Thats close to £2000!

Massive old mansion with very little insulation.

 

[Johnnybravo]

I did a quote at a very affluent and very pleasent customers house.

We discussed energy prices and he remarked his power bill was 20,000 kroner a month! Thats close to £2000!

Massive old mansion with very little insulation.

Obviously got money to burn…

 

[Norsk]

Obviously got money to burn…

Sells high technology monitoring equipment to the oil industry

 

[prepman]

There must have been an increased demand (from the Migforum?)

 

[qwakers]

My diesel price on the fuel card next week is dropping nearly 30p/l. So pump prices should follow in a couple of weeks.

 

[Johnnybravo]

My diesel price on the fuel card next week is dropping nearly 30p/l. So pump prices should follow in a couple of weeks.

Amazing how it goes up immediately but it’s weeks after a price drop that it will supposedly go down…Funny that…

 

[bricol]

Amazing how it goes up immediately but it’s weeks after a price drop that it will supposedly go down…Funny that…

Again, while it affects me badly too, why is it a surprise a business takes advantage of any and all opportunities to maximise profit?

With local smaller sellers - might take a week or several to empty the storage tanks. Even when I worked for THF, you might only get one delivery a week on a motorway service area in quieter periods of the year.

 

[Johnnybravo]

W

Again, while it affects me badly too, why is it a surprise a business takes advantage of any and all opportunities to maximise profit?

With local smaller sellers - might take a week or several to empty the storage tanks. Even when I worked for THF, you might only get one delivery a week on a motorway service area in quieter periods of the year.

Well, the petrol stations have had a bumper year this year haven’t they? The no shortage shortage saw my local petrol station selling a months fuel a week. Delivery every second week ment a two week holiday per month and still double turnover. Wish I could screw my customers over like that and still have a business… PROFITEERING at its best….

 

[knighty]

My diesel price on the fuel card next week is dropping nearly 30p/l. So pump prices should follow in a couple of weeks.

what are prices like with a fuel card?


I've always got places phoning up or sending me letters wanting me to sign up... when I looked years ago they were only really brought the motorway services price down to the pice asda etc. charge so wasn't worth it for me.... most drivers only use a tank of fuel a day so can fill up locally cheap in the morning, if they need more they can top up near their destination

 

[ukracer]

Again, while it affects me badly too, why is it a surprise a business takes advantage of any and all opportunities to maximise profit?

With local smaller sellers - might take a week or several to empty the storage tanks. Even when I worked for THF, you might only get one delivery a week on a motorway service area in quieter periods of the year.

Because the logic is the tanks would be full with cheaper fuel. So price should remain low until they get the new supply.
Then put the price up but it all goes up overnight.
The reverse is rarely true.

 

[Farside]

Because the logic is the tanks would be full with cheaper fuel. So price should remain low until they get the new supply.
Then put the price up but it all goes up overnight.
The reverse is rarely true.

The stuff that's already in the tank has to be sold at a price that will pay for the new stuff coming in.
Petrol stations aren't charities, and there's so little margin on a litre of petrol they don't take any chances of being caught with their pants down.
As far as the falling prices go - supply chain economics.
It takes a while for cheaper stock to get down the line to the forecourt. Of course there are some greedy sods in the chain but there always are.

 

[bricol]

W

Well, the petrol stations have had a bumper year this year haven’t they? The no shortage shortage saw my local petrol station selling a months fuel a week. Delivery every second week ment a two week holiday per month and still double turnover. Wish I could screw my customers over like that and still have a business… PROFITEERING at its best….

Simple business - charge what the market will support.

If the market panic buys and drives the price up . . . not exactly their fault was it?

If the market goes elsewhere and buys it cheaper . . .

Or, like me, the market simply doesn't use the car(s)

Its a business - in business to make a profit. I would expect nothing less than them to make use of every opportunity to squeeze the profit from 2p a litre to 2.5p a litre . . .

I can only assume you are still charging the prices you charged when your business started?

 

[ajlelectronics]

The other point to remember is that there is no competion now. Asda who usually started a price war have been bought out by rival fuel station operators.

 

[Seadog]

HAve they? No wonder my cheap petrol has disappeared

 

[Johnnybravo]

Simple business - charge what the market will support.

If the market panic buys and drives the price up . . . not exactly their fault was it?

If the market goes elsewhere and buys it cheaper . . .

Or, like me, the market simply doesn't use the car(s)

Its a business - in business to make a profit. I would expect nothing less than them to make use of every opportunity to squeeze the profit from 2p a litre to 2.5p a litre . . .

I can only assume you are still charging the prices you charged when your business started?

Actually I am. I have absorbed the costs up to now,but I cannot carry on much longer. I don’t have the luxury of my raw materials going down in price so I can cash in, like you obviously can and do…..

 

[qwakers]

what are prices like with a fuel card?


I've always got places phoning up or sending me letters wanting me to sign up... when I looked years ago they were only really brought the motorway services price down to the pice asda etc. charge so wasn't worth it for me.... most drivers only use a tank of fuel a day so can fill up locally cheap in the morning, if they need more they can top up near their destination

i have a fuel card predominantly because i cant get my lorry in to the supermarket stations. i have a bp card through ukfuels and well..

next weeks price...

​ ​ ​ ​

​ ​ ​ YOUR WEEKLY FUEL PRICE Account No: xxxxxxxx Hello, Your new diesel fuel price for the week commencing 21st March 2022 is:​

​ ​ ​ ​ BP​ ​ ​ 138.81​

thats plus vat of course.

its usually a couple of pence a litre cheaper than the supermarkets. sometimes a couple of pence more. but always cheaper than anywhere with hgv pumps.

 

[fizzy]

Worn out still not fully recovered but damned if I am paying for heating oil.
Should last me 2 weeks.