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[Wittsend]

All the rubbers and seals in mine are new(ish) and rated to be used with E10.
Does that mean that NEW replacement components (eg: hoses, and pump diaphragms, etc) sold today, have to be fit for today's purpose, even though NOS may not be? ... if you see what I'm getting at.

Yes

And one should be very wary of what's being sold on eBay as people dump their old stocks.
Cheap isn't always best.


 

[linesrg]

I reckon electricity used for charging will be metered separately for home charging and a fuel tax and VAT levied to be collected by the supplier of the electricity as the oil companies do at present. Public charging points will have the same set up.

I'm not sure how the infrastructure would need to be changed to make that work. I have a Zoe and use a zappi charger. The latter does 'record' non solar PV charging but all the electrickery goes through the house 'Smart' import/ export meter.

Yes the Government will be looking to replace all that revenue they will be losing from diesel/ petrol sales but it isn't clear how at this time.

Regards

Richard

[linesrg]

I'm embarrassed to say...  in my area of Kansas we are paying $2.92 for regular, $2.98 for premium and $3.05 for diesel per gallon.

It really is about time our colleagues across the pond started paying the same levels of duty on fuel as in most places in Europe, call it a start on doing their bit to limit climate change!!!!

Regards

Richard

[Sheepman]

Filled my 2A up today with E5 super at Morrisons----- £140.9 per litre!!! 

[Larry S.]

Filled my 2A up today with E5 super at Morrisons----- £140.9 per litre!!! 

Am I reading this correctly - £140.9 per litre?!?! 

[BettyWhite]

Am I reading this correctly - £140.9 per litre?!?!

Yep!

You can find cheaper if you shop around and drive for miles, but locally around here in South West London it's £1.45 per litre.

Stay safe
BW

[Daisythelandy]

Filled up the other day with BP's finest 95 E5 at £1.30.9. This at a garage not far from Glasgow and in an area where a lot of  footballers live so Rangies, big BMWs, Massarati and Bentley Conti's etc, queuing up. Still the cheapest in our area beating even our local ASDA which only sells dreadful stuff.

Dave.

[oilstain]

^^^ Whilst people say harse things about Supermarket petrol, have tests been done, is it true

[Bradley66]

97 octane is currently £1.50 in the station nearest to me . Which means a full tank in my C-class is approaching £100.

[Larry S.]

Yep!

You can find cheaper if you shop around and drive for miles, but locally around here in South West London it's £1.45 per litre.

Stay safe
BW

£1.45 is a bit different than £140.9...   

[Genem]

Am I reading this correctly - £140.9 per litre?!?!

Nope, the decimal point is in the wrong place, £1.409 per litre.  Of itself a silly garage trick, trying not to admit the fuel is £1.41 a litre really !

A very large % is tax, 20% VAT ( Sales tax to US readers) on top of 58p/Litre in Fuel Duty, so of the price we pay more than half is tax, collected for the Govt my the forecourt operators.

Meanwhile the companies actually producing it are paying very little tax at all:

" Since 2008-09 UK oil and gas revenues have fallen from £10.6 billion (0.7 per cent of GDP) to £0.6 billion (0.03 per cent of GDP) in 2019-20. The fall in receipts has largely been driven by falling production and higher tax-deductible expenditure. The rate of petroleum revenue tax and the supplementary charge have also been cut substantially."      OBR Figures.

Note that the producing companies are able to claim rebates against tax paid in previous years for "losses" like decommissioning, while overall tax rates have been reduced.  In some previous years we have effectively been paying the oil Industry to take the stuff away. 

[w3526602]

In some previous years we have effectively been paying the oil Industry to take the stuff away.

Hi,

Following one of my mis-fueling incidents, I found I was paying something like £0.06 per litre fuel tax, for disposal.

Sometime later, I met a Chevy 6x6 truck (ex- Korean War, as seen in the MASH TV series) on the jetty, waiting for the Newhaven to France ferry. The driver told me that whenever possible, he ran on "misfuel" (free), as his truck was capable of running on both petrol and diesel. The exhaust stank.

602

[Noddy]

The refineries in this country all produce the basic fuels the difference between brands is in the additives which are added to the delivery tankers when they fill up. The oil companies have reciprocal agreements to supply basic fuel to one another. There are two refineries in Immingham which supply all the companies in the east midlands trading the fuel on the Rotterdam spot market.

Alec

[Alan Drover]

The E10 scam is operating here now. I went to refuel at the Texaco station I use because it's cheaper than the nearer to home Shell station and all the petrol pumps were for E10.  No super unleaded sold there. So it was back to the Shell station where I refuelled with V Power at the eye watering price of £1.499 per litre!!!!!! 99 octane petrol in an engine designed to run on 2 star. What a con.

[Peter Holden]

Chuck some paraffin in to dilute it

Peter