As fuel prices start to rocket once more the best prices they say are at supermarket pumps If you want to check the lowest prices near you go HERE Ive heard if everyone bought their petrol/deisel for only one day from the supermarkets and boycotted, shell, BPstations ect then this would make them alter their prices.

Whatever happened to the good old days... on my grandfather's farm near Cleobury Mortimer he had his own petrol pump & tank. People from the village used to fill up their cars from him. :)

Mind you, I don't know how he sourced the stuff as I never saw an oil derrick in the Bridgnorth area. Perhaps Shropshire's got an underground oilbed.. :)

As oil reserves fall and prices rise, some say that biofuels are the answer but it's not that simple

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7065061.stm

The answer is, and always has been, to withdraw from burning fossil fuels in the first place. Get away from the petrol combustion engine.

We could have done this years ago, but the oil lobby is more powerful than our governments it seems.

I think this is an urban myth, but many years ago I recall hearing of a welsh inventor who created a fuel consisting mainly of water with additives that would work in the internal combustion engine,the oil companies bought the idea and buried it!!!! :angry:

You could always use LPG which is still under £0.50 per litre, it costs around £600 to have your car converted but if youdrive 12,000 miles per year and your car does 45 mpg, you can save £600 or so per year on fuel so the conversion will pay for itself after 12 months.

I though this would be inevitable and believe that as a european country our fuel prices should be similar to european prices. Looks like the run up to xmas will involve some form of protest on behalf of road hauliers and the like. See Here

I don't get how the supermarkets can afford to sell it cheaper than the likes of shell and esso? I doubt economies of scale come into play - surely the oil companies are every bit as rich as the supermarkets? Or does it not work like that? If I buy petrol in Church Stretton it costs me £1.02 but if I buy it in Sainsburys, Meole Brace it costs me 96p.

Either someone is taking the mickey, or someone is selling at a loss. I wonder which?

I know that supermarket petrol stations make very little from selling fuel they do it to attract custom. If vehicle owners were to boycott the BIG companies they say that they would have to compete with the supermarkets and lower their prices at the pumps

That makes sense. The problem is, a huge number of people get petrol on expenses so they don't really care what the price is and therefore which petrol station they use. If companies had any common sense, they would be telling their employees where they had to buy fuel.

I went to fill up at Tesco this afternoon prices have jumped to 101.9p per litre of unleaded.

I'm sure Sainsburys was only 98p yesterday.

This is a pretty good site for prices all you do is register and it updates you on the cheapest petrol stations in your area Chris