‘Half my day’s pay goes to filling up my car now’: diesel crisis ripples across Britain
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/21/diesel-global-supply-shortage-record-prices-iran-war-energy-crisis-brent-crude
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‘Half my day’s pay goes to filling up my car now’: diesel crisis ripples across Britain
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/21/diesel-global-supply-shortage-record-prices-iran-war-energy-crisis-brent-crude
Posted by OGSyedIsEverywhere
21 Comments
Government should subsidise fuel to keep economy going.
If you driving that much as a handyman, get an electric through your company.
maybe these people should choose something else to travel with?
if you can’t, advocate against car dependency!
Even with fuel prices as they are, this person must live in a dodgy area and is having their fuel siphoned every day.
It’s sucks but I don’t get how his fuel costs have ‘doubled’ when the price of fuel hasn’t doubled.
We keep providing Ukraine long range missiles to target Russian oil refineries then complain that diesel is costing too much. D’oh!!
People are understandably focused on Putin and the plausibly deniable hybrid war he seems bent on with Europe, but the Saudi pipeline and refinery damage is arguably more worrying. Supply chains are absolutely constrained by the availability of diesel. Diesel shortages? *Everything* seizes up.
The crack spread keeps getting wider and wider. We’re in dangerous territory now. £3.50 a litre before Christmas is entirely plausible.
Invest in a horse at this rate, It may only be 1hp but the downsides is no seat belts head lights,
If you played Read dead 2 and lost a horse well…… it’s quite devastating when your horse breaks down for good,
I’m a self employed delivery driver in my car, I so about 50 miles a day of constant stop start driving, 160 odd stops a day. I make about £130 and use about £12 in fuel a day on current prices.
I call bullshit.
I changed to an EV two years ago. Feeling more and more like a real big brain move.
Punitively high gas and diesel prices are the only way we can ween people of carbon and save the planet from global warming /s.
The answer I’m afraid, is as plain as the nose on the end of my primate looking face. The UK needs to begin make long strides towards energy independence, and the N. Sea is the starting place w/ some land asside in Scotland for refining.
Drill baby drill, and largely ignore the hysterical wailings of the environmental left. Good luck!
Yep this is a good time for WFH to become the main way people work if their job permits it.
Or spent on getting the train to work, which is surely the bigger scandal as we try to move away from using fossil fuels from the Middle East.
Why won’t someone make a electric van with 500+ mile range, would switch in a heartbeat
But the likes of BP making record profits and our government won’t let up on fuel vat or taxes something needs to give, if it wasn’t taxed so high to begin with people wouldn’t be in this situation.
And it’s not like people can just hop on a train because even then people are paying some of the highest ticket prices in the world.
We as a country should allow WFH where possible. It’s stupid that I have to go into the office when I can do my whole job from home. I do most of the week, why not all of it?
How does a fuel thats cheaper to manufacture than petrol become so dear, i remember when diesel turbo cars were the go to for economy and cheap fuel
I’m sure, like always, Brits will blame this on immigrants somehow.
I’m no business genius, but if the cost of running my business comes out of my salary, then I need to increase my prices.
Russia sells cheap Diesel.
Shame the UK is refusing to do business with them and is instead funding foreign wars.
Oil barons buying their second yatchs and enjoying record profits. all hail the ruling class