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    Drivers still pay too much for fuel, warns watchdog
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    Drivers still pay too much for fuel, warns watchdog

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    1. Independent_Tour_988 on

      I don’t understand this obsession. Is there some shortage of competition?

    2. MarvZealous on

      I drove past a BP garage that was £1.32 a litre which seems to be the average around here in places like Tesco and Sainsbury etc.

      But literally 15 minutes away the Shell garage was charging £1.48 a litre.

      I swear they just make these prices up.

    3. Longjumping-Yak-6378 on

      Hah just fuel? We are paying too much for everything compared to our slave wages that offer no route out of poverty for most people at this point.

    4. wisperingdeth on

      I think by this point we’re getting robbed from left right and centre so an extra few pence a litre has kind of been forgotten about, and they’re getting away with it because they can.

    5. ParrotofDoom on

      I’m wondering at what point the headline might be “drivers not paying enough for fuel”. Compared to public transport, the cost of driving has dropped significantly. The government has been steadily lowering the subsidies for public transport for decades, while increasing the subsidies (yes, drivers are subsidised) for motoring over the same period. And there’s a vocal majority of councillors who refuse to enable more active travel, because “everyone needs a car”. Of course they need a car, you’ve built fuck all else but car infrastructure for the last century.

    6. manufan1992 on

      I know this varies regionally and even within regions but paying £1.46 per litre really stings. I remember the uproar when the price passed £1 a litre. 

      There’s no uproar anymore. We’re downtrodden and apathetic. 

    7. samsaBEAR on

      I’ve started filling up at BP because of this, it’s only a tiny bit more expensive but the rewards program is a lot better and it’s slightly more convenient for me to go to.

      There used to be such a large gap between supermarket and garage prices but when Tesco is £1.44 and BP is £1.48, realistically what is 4p a litre actually going to add

    8. pajamakitten on

      Which is another reason to get better public transport and improve cycling infrastructure. We need to drop our dependency on fossil fuels immediately and keeping prices high might not be the bad news this article hints at. It is bad in the short term, no doubt, however it could be a place to instigate real change in society.

    9. EdzyFPS on

      No shit sherlock. The same can be applied to almost everything else you can currently purchase.

    10. haphazard_chore on

      Remember how we were rioting and blockading the refineries back in 1999 because the price hit 72p? People in Bristol were siphoning each other others cars outside my house on bath road.

    12. PixelF on

      Everyone, *everyone* said when they were cutting fuel duty that all it would accomplish would be higher margins for supermarkets and garages, with only a minute saving to drivers and a huge loss to the treasury. Now the CMA says the margins for supermarkets and garages are higher than they were a few years ago. No shit.

      Fuck the Tories. A huge loss in tax revenue, no benefit to drivers, no benefit to the state, no benefit to the Conservative party’s polling. Just another thing wrecked for no good reason at tremendous cost as a hail mary for their jobs. Don’t get me started on HS2 which Sunak unilaterally cancelled just to end up reducing rail capacity from what it is now after billions has been invested. I’m glad hundreds of the are unemployed

    13. Important_Ruin on

      I still remember fuel being 1.50 p/l in the mid 2010s .

      Would be helpful if the tax burden was reduced on fuel, but it never will, as makes the treasury obscene amounts of easy income.