Have you noticed fuel prices going up

[Alb]

So if they can deliver 'tomorrow' am I right in thinking that would be from existing stock, so maybe a bit of profiteering going on ?? Or am I being a little simple in my thinking ?

Yes, this is 100% price gouging.

 

[Lovemyev]

There is always somebody just sitting in the wings, waiting to profiteer in the time of any major disruption or event.
You only have to look back at the C19 pandemic for example.
Even an MP in central government who was profiteering from the sale of dodgy PPE.
There is no room for shame, when it comes to making a lot of money vey quickly,

 

[Micropop]

Found a photo on my phone from exactly 6 years ago, where the prices from a gas station where visible. Here in Norway the price is up almost 70% from February 2020. Some of that is policy to encourage switch to electric, but still! Insane!

 

[T1 Terry]

Heating oil was moved to the excise tax bracket back in the '90s over here, a govt money grab, then kero and the LPG, the cleanest burning fuel of the lot of them ....
There was a big market for converting the old heating oil heater to a wood burner .... and sure enough, the price of firewood went crazy .....

We are using the MG4 mainly at the moment, even though the Prius does around 700km on 50 ltrs .... it's the principle of the thing. I hope it's all over before we head off in the motorhome, it does 2km/ltr on petrol or LPG, but LPG is getting hard to find and you can be sure they will jack the price up on that .....

I want to convert it to EV, but just getting it registered at the moment is taking up all my time and energy .....

T1 Terry

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Today in Franceland diesel was at 2.09 litre up from 1.75 euros last week. One station I passed had them queueing up 5 deep, so they must be expecting it to get worse. Didn't catch the petrol price but that is traditionally higher. Home supplied Electrons still at 13 cents for a thousand watts or free unless the clouds of smoke drifting from the burning ships and oil refineries to the SE block out the sun from the solar panels.

 

[Roldorf]

Diesel here €2.11 and now more expensive than petrol. Two weeks ago it was €1.50 and cheaper than petrol.

 

[Black estate]

Petrol was £1:29p ltr now £1:36

 

[salty]

Sorry but can't feel sorry for um. Even though we are all drivers at the end of the day. I know for a fact, that some ICE driver's, loved it, when EVs started paying VED and are loving the fact, EVs might soon be paying the 3p per mile, charge.
So what comes around goes around.
Karma, perhaps?

 

[Lovemyev]

I guess we are affected in some way, depending on how we charge our cars of course.
Energy firms are responding to the nervousness and instability in market and it is reflected in their decision to either increase the prices or shorten the term from 12 months, down to six months like Octopus .
Some even removing fixed price tariffs right now and some offering variable rate tariffs as an alternative.
Solar and battery storage is much less affected if any, depending on your consumption and the size of your storage battery etc.
But these initially high costly outlays, with long returns times attached.
Little advantages for people of a certain age .
I fear the longer the oil supplies are delayed, the more expensive fuel is going to become unfortunately.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

So the Straits of Hormuz are effectively blocked ? cutting off oil from the Middle East and also according to Sky News , fertilizers , helium , sulphuric acid to name a few. Governments around the world could see the tax coffers expand as the proportional tax rates on fuel flood into the pot , funded by Joe Bloggs. Oil producing countries unaffected by the blockage will see an extra revenue coming in from increased production and inevitable price rises in oil as well as the above mentioned products. Countries such as , wait for it, USA . Add that to the recent events in Venezuela and there seems to be a pattern emerging for a increased control of the oil industry , sending a message to OPEC, and letting Ukraine off the leash for a while with regards to the Russian hydrocarbon infrastructure. Drill, Drill Drill, as become Kill ,Kill, Kill.
Would anyone else be agreeable to a regime change ?

 

[MG Clive]

Sorry but can't feel sorry for um. Even though we are all drivers at the end of the day. I know for a fact, that some ICE driver's, loved it, when EVs started paying VED and are loving the fact, EVs might soon be paying the 3p per mile, charge.
So what comes around goes around.
Karma, perhaps?

Nailed it mate.

 

[siteguru]

Would anyone else be agreeable to a regime change ?

250 years ago they declared independence - a form of regime change. Maybe we should take it back?

 

[OriginalBigAl]

250 years ago they declared independence - a form of regime change. Maybe we should take it back?

Or perhaps incite the Indian Nations to revolt, we need to see if we have any spare Tomahawk missiles to lend/lease them !

 

[T1 Terry]

So the Straits of Hormuz are effectively blocked ? cutting off oil from the Middle East and also according to Sky News , fertilizers , helium , sulphuric acid to name a few. Governments around the world could see the tax coffers expand as the proportional tax rates on fuel flood into the pot , funded by Joe Bloggs. Oil producing countries unaffected by the blockage will see an extra revenue coming in from increased production and inevitable price rises in oil as well as the above mentioned products. Countries such as , wait for it, USA . Add that to the recent events in Venezuela and there seems to be a pattern emerging for a increased control of the oil industry , sending a message to OPEC, and letting Ukraine off the leash for a while with regards to the Russian hydrocarbon infrastructure. Drill, Drill Drill, as become Kill ,Kill, Kill.
Would anyone else be agreeable to a regime change ?

The problem for the US is, they don't and can't use there own oil, their refineries aren't set up for it. Canada will be the big winner, countries trust Canada, they will buy from the US as last resort, but Canada will have to run out of oil first for that to happen.
With no sulphuric acid, the US fledgling chip industry is shut down, they need ultra pure acid for cleaning between each burning, and now the US is running out of water, there goes their data centres .....
It won't be long before they are in a worse mess than Russia .... but even Russia has more friends than the US at the moment

Time to pull the chain and flush the gene pool over there I think

T1 Terry

 

[decrep]

Anyway, all the fuel stations around the next closest town, Murray Bridge,

T1 Terry

I used google to find a Murray Bridge fuel station, went round in circles for a while, and ended coming in from the wrong direction.
Haven't taken a lot of notice of prices here, but I think it's still under AU$2.00 for 91 petrol

 

[T1 Terry]

It's around 91 is $1.86.9 and diesel $1.95.9, but both 95 and 98 are well over $2 ltr.
In Adelaide, the price for 91 is over $2 already caused by panic buying .... Back in Lake Illawarra, the 7/11 is selling E10 for $2.17ltr yet they are still panic buying filling up anything and everything to stockpile fuel ..... so the house fires down that way will be quite spectacular ....

T1 Terry

 

[decrep]

It's a bit ironic that people buy unnecessary, hug gas guzzlers then panic when fuel prices rise.

 

[T1 Terry]

It's a bit ironic that people buy unnecessary, hug gas guzzlers then panic when fuel prices rise.

When the were panic buying toilet paper, they could have just stopped eating and soon enough, a single roll would lasts for weeks

T1 Terry

 

[GaryMG4]

When the were panic buying toilet paper, they could have just stopped eating and soon enough, a single roll would lasts for weeks

T1 Terry

Or use both sides and it will last twice as long

 

[T1 Terry]

Or use both sides and it will last twice as long

Or the Scottish method .... maybe not suitable to expand on that, but it involves a cigarette paper

T1 Terry