I happened to be near Singleton (Blackpool) on friday with my boss when he needed to fill up with petrol.

Drove into a Shell station and he picked up V-power and then put it down again to fill up with regular unleaded.

V-power was £1.33.9 litre!!!:eek::eek:

It was so funny seeing his face.

paid 1.079 today for tesco 99.....

I paid 102.9 for unleaded in Tesco Saturday, and I had a 5p of token, which as I was on fumes was really handy

V-Power is 1.189 here in NE London/Essex

Morrisons Barnsley, £102.9 unleaded, £112.9 diesel.

106.9 for tesco Super...handy considering they had no 95. Car runs like a bag of nails on anything but 98/99 anyway.

I happened to be near Singleton (Blackpool) on friday with my boss when he needed to fill up with petrol.

Drove into a Shell station and he picked up V-power and then put it down again to fill up with regular unleaded.

V-power was £1.33.9 litre!!!:eek::eek:

It was so funny seeing his face.

Sure it wasn't the Vpower Derv?

99.9p petrol at morrisons glasgow for petrol

Saw a small village pertrol station on the road between Kidderminster & Bromsgrove today selling unleaded for 99.9p, there was a queue to get onto the pumps.

Just filled up on 111.9/l diesel at Asda (unfortunately) in Coventry. It's 109.9 at the Morrison's and Esso just up the road from work in Redditch as well...

Good times

How can you say that 12p more than unleaded and still well over the price we were paying a year ago is good times :eek:

Localish garage to me this morning was 98.9 when i filled the Honda with Unleaded this morning.

Their Diesel was 110.9.

who cares what diesel costs? its a fuel thats past its sell by environmentally. We should increase tax on it to fund construction of 20+ nuclear powerstations so that we can retire all the old coal/diesel/gas ones, electrify all the railways, reintroduce trams/trolley buses and cut CO2 pollution massively.

who cares what diesel costs? its a fuel thats past its sell by environmentally. We should increase tax on it to fund construction of 20+ nuclear powerstations so that we can retire all the old coal/diesel/gas ones, electrify all the railways, reintroduce trams/trolley buses and cut CO2 pollution massively.

Apart from the derv being dead comment (which i think is a few years away) I do agree that we should build nuclear power,get railways electrified and get some trams going again.

who cares what diesel costs? its a fuel thats past its sell by environmentally. We should increase tax on it to fund construction of 20+ nuclear powerstations so that we can retire all the old coal/diesel/gas ones, electrify all the railways, reintroduce trams/trolley buses and cut CO2 pollution massively.

Build nuclear yes, diesel past it's environmental date...no, it's a lesser polluter (CO2) nowadays than petrol...

Build nuclear yes, diesel past it's environmental date...no, it's a lesser polluter (CO2) nowadays than petrol...

Don't mistake low CO2 emissions for clean burning diesel emissions are still far more toxic than petrol.

Dirty diesel..

Pure petrol

The way in which diesel burns in modern combustion engines may produce less CO2 but it produces a hell of a lot of other nasty gases as well as heavy particles which hang in the air and are a major contributor to smog in cities. NOx is a particular nasty by product from the combustion of diesel and is far worse for the environment than the equivelant amount of CO2. Just because the media concentrate on CO2 as the all encompassing evil does not make it the only one.

And whilst trams etc may be cleaner at the point of use compared to buses etc, they still at the end of the day cause pollution. There are two options. Reduce our energy consumption as a society massively and as quickly as possible or build nuclear power stations. Renewable sources such as wind and wave are all well and good but they simply cannot provide the levels of power required by our modern societies as developing nations like China and India come on line and expect to be able to use power as excessively as the west has since the start of the indurstrial revolution.

Interestingly, when the government recently stated that a greater portion of our energy now comes from renewable sources (and have therefore met part of their target for that area), they compared a period after a number of old coal fired power stations had been shut down, automatically shifting the balance towards the increase in renewable generation. Of course, we now import more energy and the comparison didn't take that into consideration! Statistics can show anything you want if you do it right. Whilst in some areas renewable power is fantastic, it still cannot provide anything like the energy required for our modern society.

Wow...what a digression!

Don't mistake low CO2 emissions for clean burning diesel emissions are still far more toxic than petrol.

Dirty diesel..

Pure petrol

And you're getting a diesel why?

FWIW derv has:

- Initially higher NOx but it is lower than petrol after a short while

- Lower CO than petrol

- Lower CO2 than petrol

- No MTBE emissions (Carcinogenic lovely this one)

- Lower particulate emissions with a DPF (also turbo charged petrol engines have quite high particulate levels too)

- Greater noise

- More visible soot (Without a DPF)

And you're getting a diesel why?

FWIW derv has:

- Initially higher NOx but it is lower than petrol after a short while

- Lower CO than petrol

- Lower CO2 than petrol

- No MTBE emissions (Carcinogenic lovely this one)

- Lower particulate emissions with a DPF (also turbo charged petrol engines have quite high particulate levels too)

- Greater noise

- More visible soot (Without a DPF)

Because I couldn't give a flying fcuk about my emissions.

Also doing 30k a year it makes financial sense and thats basically it, I'd much prefer a nice large petrol engine anyday.

Edited 17 October, 200817 yr by Blade404

I love the smell of diesel in the morning:rolleyes:

my local shell is selling fuel for,

unleaded - 99.9

diesel - 111.9

diesel v power 117.9

cant remember what unleaded v power was

after seeing many places down in cornwall being around 99.9p i was suprised to day to go out and see my local sainsburys at 104.9, shell at 104.9 and tesco at 103.9

my local shell is selling fuel for,

unleaded - 99.9

diesel - 111.9

diesel v power 117.9

cant remember what unleaded v power was

That's exactly to the penny my local Shell was selling fuel for today

vpower was most likely 106.9

Taxaco on the A31 had derv at 109.9 so I took a chance to fill the tank up.

It's still way overpriced, but better than the current 112.9 around home.