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Just to let people know that unleaded petrol is 95.9 @ Shell Whitemare pool in Gateshead.

Today @ Esso, London Road, Patcham, Brighton
Unleaded 98.9
Diesel 110.9
Cheapest I can see in this area, other local garages quite close to these values, but this is good.
Hope it helps

Trago Mills Newton Abbot 95.9 per litre unleaded

how can one tesco store be charging 97.9 for unleaded 20 miles away but my local tesco are still charging 103.9 but both other independent teaco's are charging 99.9 how does that work??? i know where ill be going in the future..... every little helps

It is nice to see petrol price drop below £1 mark for the first time for a year, But diesel drive are still being charged between 10 and 20 pence more a litre,

I agree with Bob. Round our way (Bournemouth area) you can find one Sainsbury's charging 111.9 for diesel and another, only 5 miles away, charging 107.9.

I know that fuel retail pricing is driven by local market forces etc, but when I go into Sainsbury, I pay the same for a can of beans in any one branch. Grrrrr.

Another point. We are all rejoicing over fuel coming below the £1 mark, but remember that the last major fuel protest marked a time when Diesel was going over 80p a litre.

We have been paying too much ever since then, and due to the need of the many to get around, the few have been made very, very rich indeed due to rocketing prices coupled with no drop in consumption. Double Grrrr.

Fuel prices are inexticably linked to the current global financial crisis and we will all still be paying, in one way or another, long after the fuel prices have gone down and levelled off.

This is ridiculous! strictly speaking the price of unleaded should be below the 79p mark. Forget the global economical crisis which i believe no motorist was responsible for, because this is a different thing all together. A few months back when unleaded was fetching almost 130p a litre, i remember those same prices were going up within the hr, small or big retailer..it didn't matter. Now come the price drop and the reverse doesn't hold true. And i believe its time to bring a uniform price guide along the country because its unbelivable at some petrol stations the price you would pay, even now! Greed is overtaking us people!

I'm sure many people are asking the same question, why is there such a difference between unleaded and diesel?
Before the recent rise in oil price unleaded and diesel were within 1p/ltr, now its 12p again I say why?

Isn't the large gap between petrol and diesel due to the fact that diesel requires more refinement and the world is currently short of oil refineries. My diesel car produces a good 65-70mpg over a run so even at 10-15p/l more its still vastly more economical to run than its petrol counterpart which would average mid to low 40's. Your diesel car should also be cheaper to tax (i'm in the B band) as well as insure. In short even with an 11p difference your still much better off with diesel if you do medium to high milage.

Shell near Morrisons in Derby are selling Unleaded at 95.9 per litre.

Best way to beat the high prices is to come to New Zealand and buy unleaded for .......................................

$1.72 (62p) a litre or Diesel for $1.31 (47p) a litre!

Those garages that sell at .96p are making a profit, why do the chain of the same company not charge the same at all in its control. Here in Market Harborough Sainsbury's say that they will remain compatative, which means they will charge as much as they can get away with charging. Currently BP charge 99.9p per ltr. When oil goes up petrol goes up straight away, but when oil comes down we are told petrol costs take time to filter through the system, just another excuse to rip us off.

Filled up at Waitrose, Portishead, yesterday @ 96.9. My local Tesco at Midsomer Norton is 103.9 (no competition but still the most expensive in the area, small Texaco in Chilcompton is 102.9!) Every little helps, I don't think!

CHEAPEST PETROL AT KP HILL SERVICE STATION (M9 8WQ) @ 95.9

From the BBC's website today...

"US light crude rose by more than $1.60 to nearly $70 a barrel, having earlier dropped to $66.20 a barrel - its lowest level since June 2007.
Oil prices hit an all-time high of $147 a barrel in July, but have since fallen back steadily."

Half price wholesale crude oil.....I don't see half price petrol at the pumps!

Its not the just the small sites where there is a huge difference!

My local Tesco's ( Ashford, Kent) is selling unleaded at 103.9 yet the Shell nearest my office (In Bucks) is selling at just 97.9 - a difference of 6p

I hope Tesco's customers don't think they need to shop around as they have a 5p discount voucher. Keep up the good work Petrol Prices!

re the 0.9 thing mentioned above, is it because we buy at the pumps in lites, taking 0.9 and times by 4.54 (litre to gallon caluclation) and we get 4.08 pence, ie. 97.9p p/l = £4.45 (approx) for a gallon. 109.9 = £4.99 gallon

Why is diesel still more expensive. I keep getting told it is cheaper to produce but at nearly all the garages diesel is more expensive than Super Unleaded which I understand is for High performance gas guzzlers. Where is the logic with that if the government wants more green fuel efficient cars. Give us a break.

watch it rise now as they have announced a milloion and half outcut as from asap

the greedy gets they should be shot the lot of them

I started driving diesel cars over 35 odd years ago, then diesel fuel was a little over half the price of petrol, We were persuaded to turn to diesel by politicians and producers as it was supposed to produce less CO2?? (but more airbourne particles) and that it was cheaper to produce?? Now on average it is 12p more than petrol. I dare say LPG will eventually go the same way.....more profit for the Fuel Companies and more tax for the Government. Unfortunately we all subject to "What the market will stand" prices.... which is the polite way of describing Corporate Greed!!!

was going to post from the bbc news but see that post #37 already has the news that the greedy ####**** are reducing output to artificially increase the cost of oil. just when pump prices are dropping and they go and stuff us again

Sainsburys in doncaster Unleaded 94.9p Diesel 106.9p

And it keeps getting lower!

Just to let peeps know that Morrisons in Reading is 94.9p for unleaded.

YOU STILL HAVEN'T GOT THE MESSAGE HAVE YOU?

It's time to end our addiction to oil and here's how we can do it:

A Twelve-Step Plan to End Oil Addiction (courtesy of The Oil Drum)

1. Stop deluding ourselves. The era of cheap, readily-available oil has ended. Prices may fluctuate, but the underlying trend is up, up, up. We have to get used to using less.

2. Demand that politicians take the issue seriously. Make it an election issue. Don't take 'we've got everything under control' as an answer.

3. Stop building new roads. They're a monumental waste of money, time and effort. They encourage, rather than ease congestion and besides, the growth in car travel that's used to justify them isn't going to happen anyway.

4. Divert that money and effort into measures that address the challenges of oil depletion and climate change.

5. Make a major investment in public transport. It needs to be better, faster, more comfortable, more regular and more predictable. It needs to cater for everyone, not just peak-hour commuters though they need a better service as well.

6. Make a major investment in broadband internet to allow more people to work from home and change tax and business practices that discourage working from home. The more car trips we can avoid, the better.

7. Electrify transport where possible. We should be electrifying commuter rail where it is not already electric and using light rail (trams) in the cities. On the other end of the scale, electric bikes and scooters can make a big difference in our cities. And electric cars show promise, though there's a lot of questions to be answered yet.

8. Don't use cars unless there's no alternative. Take the bus. Take the train. Switch to a scooter. Walk or cycle - both your wallet and your doctor will thank you.

9. Deal with other aspects of our oil dependence. Agriculture, for example, is highly dependent on oil. We're going to need to change the way we grow and distribute food. Let's get to work on that now, not wait until supermarket shelves start to empty.

10. Stockpile or manufacture vital products currently imported from overseas. When oil runs short, will that still be possible? Let's take stock now and work out what we may need to start stockpiling or making (again) in the UK.

11. Think local. Ending our oil addiction isn't just up to central government, though it can play its part. Communities can work together to make themselves more resilient. Join or start a Transition Towns group in your local area.

12. Accept reality. The age of cheap oil is over. It's not coming back. As individuals and as a nation, we have to adapt.

What an eye opener this website is - Tesco, for all their boasts are more expensive in my area for both fuels (101.9 unleaded and 112.9 diesel) than any other station, including independents. And yet the the next closest Tesco (7 miles away) is at 97.9 unleaded and 109.9 diesel. I wonder how much money they spend [a] convincing us they are leading the way in price reductions and [b] working out the "local" prices they can get away with charging at every location in the country.

Can I suggest we start reporting peakoil's posts in these blogs.

The more we report him, the sooner he will be banned.

All fine and well unleaded/diesel prices dropping,but what about LPG?prices have remained exactly the same and are not being cut,some places have actually increased the price.As LPG is a by product of oil how is it that these cuts are not being passed on ?????So much for the government trying to encourage more people to go green!!!

@37 - "watch it rise now as they have announced a milloion and half outcut as from asap

the greedy gets they should be shot the lot of them "

Demand has dropped off (which is why prices have fallen) so storage is likely to be near-full. So they're bound to cut output; no point producing crude if there's nowhere to store it!

Unleaded at Morrisons, St Albans was 94.9 on Saturday 25 October.

I would expect prices to rise again soon due to the OPEC announcement.

to quote above

"However, not all stations are able to cut their prices as quickly because they bought fuel at a higher price."

didnt stop them putting the price up on fuel they bought at a cheaper rate - just to comply with market trend

swings and roundabouts, swings and roundabouts

this peak oil guy does get in everywhere!!

In most countries electricity is produced using fossil fuel so still very pollutant. no more than china and india where the biggest increase in the car is. The manufacture of batteries suitable for transport is hugely harmful to the environment.

As for public transport. Commuters are fine but asking people to use it all hours of the day and night, in my area public buses don't run late into the night as its a safety issue, and passengers won't use them as they fear for their lives. And for distance journeys it is time consuming and expensive.

A journey for me from cardiff to london during peak times would be 2 1/2 hours on the train at a cost of £120 - £140. Or by coach at £45 plus tube connections although cheaper this route takes 5 hours. So when i already own a car so tax and insurance is payed, the journey would be 2 1/2 hours and £50 plus £6 for the bridge. People will not be willing to give up the car so easily.

does peak oil read the question or does he just copy and paste?, the latter of the two i think!

Please peak oil, read the question before you spout that cr@p or just do us all a favour and quietly paste it where people actually care about what you have to say, not on here!!

If the price goes down too far, oil production will slow. Then demand will outstrip supply and the price will go back up. If the price goes up too high this will worsen the recession. Demand will go down and the price comes down again. Saw-toothing. see-sawing, call it what you like. Plenty of people have predicted it would happen. Although no-one knows exactly how it will pan out and how long the down slope will take.
That's Peak Oil folks, it's happening right now in a civilization close to you.

I'm sick off all this Green B######T and PEAK OIL c##p!
Cars now run cleaner than ever, why should I be forced to use the bus!
Why are we having carbon footprint rammed down our necks now??? When these idiots are building nuclear power stations because they sold all the gas th Russia!!! How bad is nuclear waste for the planet???
I am sick of been told what to do in this hole of a country. I want to upgrade my car to something newer, but I am not willing to pay the extra road tax for a simlar size engine to what i have now, because of this thieving b#####d GOVERNMENT, so i'l stick with my old oil burner out of protest! As long as man kind lives there will be pollution! What makes the idiots think the climate will stay the same for ever is beyond me. The plannet was coming out of an ice age way before man kind was around.

CARBON FOOTPRINT + GREEN + SAVE THE ENVIROMENT = RIP OFF!

So there you go, well done Green piece and Mr Brown for the country we live in today, and the empty wallet i get to look at every friday. MAKES ME SICK!!!

re:68

because, its based around a number of factors that are all taken into consideration, namely:

The price of oil today is based on the price of crude oil available on the Futures market. This is the price that retailers pay for their oil about 6 weeks in advance, so you will probably see this price reflected in the petrol price in this period of time.

Also, Currency fluctuations are also taken into account, and I am sorry to say, Sterling is not fairing well against the Dollar at the moment. Check any travel agent, you will see what I mean. The Pound has not been this weak against the dollar in a long time (as you know, the price of a barrel of oil is valued in $ not £)

Retrospectively, the price has reduced on average 23p per litre around the country - bearing in mind just because the price of oil changes, this does not reduce the amount of tax we pay as a nation per litre of petrol / diesel (about 70p per litre in tax / VAT), so the physical retail price (about 45p in every litre in July) has pretty much halved already.

It is because of this that OPEC have been waving their rags and dish-dashes in the air in distress and reduce supply in an attempt to increase the price of oil.

factory tanker

re: 72.

read post 69.

Its all very interesting hearing what price varios stations are charging up & down the country. The point that everyone seems to have missed is that all supermarkets are interested in is making money. They will only reduce the price of fuel if they think it is in theyre interests to do so!

This could be a local price war, or a lever to get more people into theyre stores. The best way to keep prices as low as possible is to vote with your feet (wheels) and encourage every driver to only buy from the cheapest stations in there area.

Interestingly the supermarkets are often not the cheapest, but many people like sheep blindly head for their local Tescos in the misguided beleif that the fuel, bread, and beer is bound to be cheaper than their local shops. "stack em high"