Have you noticed fuel prices going up

[GaryMG4]

Back to the original question, diesel is £1.45 but out of stock and petrol now £1.38 up from £1.28 at local supermarket.
Additionally the local (heating) oil club price went from 61p last week to 120p this week!

 

[EvTek23]

Went past a garage in Marlow, Bucks this afternoon, the petrol was 149.9 pence/ L, while diesel was 169.9 pence/L.
I can't believe that deliveries have increased that much already to to passed on to the customer, so it can only be a healthy dose of profiteering!

 

[securespark]

Petrol is up in a lot of places round here.

Before they even ran out of existing stocks.

Cheeky buggers.

 

[jamakr4]

German gas prices are different (it's per liter). Diesel usually is way cheaper than e10..

 

[siteguru]

FYI petrol/diesel in the UK is also sold per litre.

 

[jamakr4]

FYI petrol/diesel in the UK is also sold per litre.

Don't you guys have miles and what not? I am a little confused with your units

 

[MG Clive]

Don't you guys have miles and what not? I am a little confused with your units

Yes our cars and road signs and maps etc, all use miles, but we buy our fuel in litres, but measure our fuel efficiency in Miles per Gallon, we're a weird bunch.

 

[salty]

Yes our cars and road signs and maps etc, all use miles, but we buy our fuel in litres, but measure our fuel efficiency in Miles per Gallon, we're a weird bunch.

Yep, but we like it.

 

[mystreet]

Don't you guys have miles and what not? I am a little confused with your units

Makes it look better saying £1.30 a litre, then £6.50ish a gallon.

But why fo we have £135.7 per litre instead of a round number

 

[siteguru]

I remember when petrol was less than £1 per gallon.

 

[jamakr4]

Yes our cars and road signs and maps etc, all use miles, but we buy our fuel in litres, but measure our fuel efficiency in Miles per Gallon, we're a weird bunch.

Don't your cars calculate in miles per gallon? How does that make sense when you buy your gas in liters?
That is so confusing.. But maybe I am just to German..

 

[MG Clive]

I remember when petrol was less than £1 per gallon.

Yes indeed, we used to get 50p worth of petrol in a gallon can for our motorbikes, and I seem to remember it used to just about fill the can.

 

[GaryMG4]

I remember when petrol was less than £1 per gallon.

when I started it was 33p a gallon.

 

[siteguru]

Don't your cars calculate in miles per gallon? How does that make sense when you buy your gas in liters?
That is so confusing.. But maybe I am just to German..

It was in the 1980s that the UK started changing to price in pence per litre. Apparently this came about because the pumps could only display pricing up to 99.9p, so once fuel cost exceeded that they changed to litres. (There are 4.54609 litres per gallon, so £1 per gallon became 22p per litre). It was also a requirement of an EU directive that member states use metric weights and measures, so this also drove the change.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

I'll give you confusing..... we are putting in a new kitchen and thought we would have an epoxy resin worktop. Trying to price up and get a per metre coverage against thickness, some manufacturers give you kg per metre but sell it in litres, some ounces per sq ft and sell it in pounds and or gallons not mentioning whether its an English gallon or an American gallon, they are not the same! Then after converting and working out a volume/ weight amount ..... they won't ship to France.

 

[jamakr4]

I'll give you confusing..... we are putting in a new kitchen and thought we would have an epoxy resin worktop. Trying to price up and get a per metre coverage against thickness, some manufacturers give you kg per metre but sell it in litres, some ounces per sq ft and sell it in pounds and or gallons not mentioning whether its an English gallon or an American gallon, they are not the same! Then after converting and working out a volume/ weight amount ..... they won't ship to France.

There is a difference between an Englisch gallon and an American gallon? Thank god I live in Germany where we have the metric system everywhere

 

[siteguru]

The UK (Imperial) gallon is 4.546 litres, whereas the US gallon is 3.785 litres.

 

[EvTek23]

It's no less confusing with weight either,
the US Ton being 2000lbs, the imperial Ton (or long Ton) at 2240 lbs, and the metric ton 1000kg, (2204.6lbs)

 

[decrep]

I'm not a fan of l/100km, km/l makes more sense to me.

And convention can play havoc with common sense."Like buying in liters and using MPG"

Surfing is the same here, all measurements are imperial, board dimensions, wave heights.
I suspect the American influence. Where as sailboarding is all imperial. If I build a new surfboard it's imperial, if I build a new windsurfer it's metric.

 

[decrep]

That is so confusing.. But maybe I am just to German..

I'm not sure you are too German, you're just German, used to order an logic. Unfortunately the rest of the World doesn't always work like that, different units with the same name depending where you are.
It's easy to blame the Americans but you can sympathies, after chucking the greedy Brits out, they just did their own thing, changed the spelling, changed the units, changed the money, (they got that right, went metric). So if you deal with American firms make sure you know what units they are using.