Fuelling up before heading to Europe

On Monday, at short notice, we headed for the Channel Tunnel from Northumberland to attend the funeral of a French friend down the coast in Wimereux, France. Rather than our Cali, we took our petrol Q3.
At Tesco in Cheriton (CT19 4QJ) at the Channel Tunnel junction 20 towards Folkstone, petrol was at £1.47.9 and diesel at £1.70.9
At Auchan supermarket, Boulogne petrol was at the equivalent of £1.63 (apologies, did'nt note the diesel price) The French government has lifted their fuel subsidy resulting in fuel in France being considerably more expensive.
We filled up on the way out and at the same station today on our return home. En route north we noted that the thieves at BP stations were charging 24 pence a litre more than the Tesco price.

Paid 1.48 UKP in Belgium at the weekend for diesel

how else are the big oil giants going to increase the profit 2023 vs 2022 which was all time record ?

Regrettably doesn't cover Belgium or Holland but always worth a check here: https://www.fuelflash.eu/en/

Calimili said:

how else are the big oil giants going to increase the profit 2023 vs 2022 which was all time record ?

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Another all time record

Fuel Refinery Workers are still having strikes which may lead to supply issues plus the Pension Strikes are ongoing so best to leave UK with a full tank for the foreseeable future.

Omitted to mention that we topped up on Tyneside at Costco en route home, cheaper again than Tesco at £1.38.9.
Shame on you BP, Shell and others, have a word with yourselves.

Sad said:

Another all time record

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To be fair, they did go through a rather rough patch during the pandemic. But I would certainly like to see them pumping some of those record profits into cleaner energy. Not keeping my hopes up.

This maybe useful, I have just put France but covers Spain as well and possibly other counties.

https://www.viamichelin.es/web/Estaciones-servicio?address=france

Diesel prices in France have been jumping all over the place in the same supermarkets. Over five weeks they have gone from 1.73€ to 1.98€ back to 1.76€

Not too sure what the under lying cause is.

I've been living in Luxembourg since July. The fuel prices here used to be known for being a lot cheaper than anywhere else and would attract "fuel tourists". When we got here it was around €2 for both petrol and diesel, at the moment both are around €1.52

The price is capped by the government meaning that every fuel station is exactly the same price. Coming from the UK it is weird to see lots of "proper" fuel stations and no supermarket ones. It is a bonus not to have to think is it 20p cheaper down the road? It's nice as well that the motorway prices are the same!

Diesel has just gone cheaper than petrol for the first time since arrived, why is it so much more in UK?

Anyway, it still costs a f~@king fortune to fill up the Cali!!

kernnowkarmann said:

I've been living in Luxembourg since July. The fuel prices here used to be known for being a lot cheaper than anywhere else and would attract "fuel tourists". When we got here it was around €2 for both petrol and diesel, at the moment both are around €1.52

The price is capped by the government meaning that every fuel station is exactly the same price. Coming from the UK it is weird to see lots of "proper" fuel stations and no supermarket ones. It is a bonus not to have to think is it 20p cheaper down the road? It's nice as well that the motorway prices are the same!

Diesel has just gone cheaper than petrol for the first time since arrived, why is it so much more in UK?

Anyway, it still costs a f~@king fortune to fill up the Cali!!

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Hijack: I think service station prices are criminal in the uk. The station is there for the public’s benefit, operators are there because we give them license as a country to provide that service on publicly owned land.

I don’t know whether it is rents that cause the rip off or pure profiteering but it’s immoral.