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Post by dixinormus on Jun 11, 2022 21:51:09 GMT
MJ is like asking people to buy bread by the acre, or sausages by the mile! 😂. Alas nobody has been educated sufficiently, or as I suspect, they just don’t care 😳.
Perhaps the best way to bring about climate change is to keep petrol north of 2 quid a litre, and we’ll all drive less. And Yes I realise that low-paid workers won’t be able to afford to go to work anymore and that parts of our economy will collapse. I am starting to think that the Powers That Be are quite sanguine about this inevitable side effect ☹️.
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Post by WDB on Jun 12, 2022 7:08:38 GMT
MJ is like asking people to buy bread by the acre, or sausages by the mile! 😂. It quite clearly isn’t. And I’m not even suggesting we sell energy by the megajoule, just that we take the trouble to understand the essential relationship between the quantities, so that we are better equipped to use less of them. People are quite comfortable with being told the energy content of foods (albeit in units that are useful only if you want to know how much water you can boil if you burn your chips instead of eating them.) Road (and domestic) fuels are a much simpler matter. |
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Post by bpg on Jun 14, 2022 6:45:30 GMT
Can someone give an update on E5 prices please. Car doesn't run very well on E10, need the E5 price. Thanks.
When we were over at Easter it was about £1.80/litre for Esso 99RON. I know prices vary from area to area, just looking for a rough idea.
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Post by WDB on Jun 14, 2022 8:46:27 GMT
Are 99RON and E10 the same thing? I confess I don’t take much notice; the Aygo and the lawnmower don’t seem to mind what they get — not that they get much of anything.
The stations I passed on Saturday seemed to have their main petrol price — 95, presumably — in the low £1.80s, with diesel about 10p higher.
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Post by bpg on Jun 14, 2022 9:14:55 GMT
E10 and 95RON are your everyday unleaded. Anything 97RON and above is usually E5 (or less if you're lucky). I think it's labelled super-duper makes your whites whiter than white or some such like in the UK.
I'll have the roofbox on. I could use E10 but the economy will suffer and at sub-30 mpg on a good day I'll pay the extra and keep the engine happy.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 14, 2022 14:20:55 GMT
E5 (or say Shell V-Power) is likely to be close to £2.00ppl but if you find a Tesco forecourt, you may find their 99RON Momentum fuel at between that and the E10 price.
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Post by bpg on Jun 14, 2022 14:39:23 GMT
I expect I'll be burning about another 300 litres. Just want to know roughly what to budget. Last time E5 ESSO Supreme was roughly the same price as diesel.
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Post by dixinormus on Aug 14, 2022 5:44:08 GMT
Petrol and diesel pump prices seem to have quietly come down a fair amount over the past few weeks in these parts - around 15p/litre. Are we over the worst I wonder?
Traffic levels are still noticeably down. Maybe that’s due to the Covid-inspired changes in work and travel behaviour though…
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Post by WDB on Aug 24, 2022 17:31:56 GMT
Hard to speculate meaningfully on cause. But yes, my diesel from Sainsbury's in Oxford was 176.9p today, down 23p from the peak in July.
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Post by bpg on Aug 24, 2022 18:03:02 GMT
Can't speculate at all, price for diesel here is now around the 2€ mark which I would expect to see as winter fuel deliveries start to increase.
Maybe everyone in the UK has rushed out, bought heat pumps and no one needs heating oil.
Super-duper 98 RON is 1.759 a litre been that for a week or so.
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Post by dixinormus on Aug 25, 2022 3:32:41 GMT
Umm… so if petrol prices are falling, shouldn’t the pressure be off LPG prices as well?
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Post by dixinormus on Sept 13, 2022 4:40:53 GMT
Fuel prices seem to be returning to pre-crisis levels in this part of the world. No announcements or explanation evident. But the roads still seem quiet - maybe the high prices a few months ago have scared off a lot of customers?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2022 7:55:32 GMT
Wholesale gas prices have come right down too, although only about halfway back towards normal at best. Word is they'll drop further, but won't reach previous "normal" levels. OK, fine, they need to stay up a bit to encourage people away from fossil fuels. Really puts me in a bid about what to do with my ancient gas boiler though, my house really isn't suitable for upgrade to heat pump, because it has sold wood parquet floors and concrete beneath that. Would be wildly expensive to install underfloor heating. And I'm only planning on being here another 8 years. I think maybe it's the right time now to get a boiler replacement, should pay for itself within that time in efficiency savings, then it's the next owner's problem to deal with.
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Post by bpg on Sept 13, 2022 8:29:32 GMT
Petrol and diesel prices on the rise again here.
Diesel was 2.20 this morning as I was leaving for the office, Super+ 98RON petrol 2.23 per litre.
It did drop about six weeks ago, I don't see Germany making a big push for the move from fossil fuels until all the main car manufacturers have products in place. I'm guessing the high fuel price now is part of the 65 billion € or whatever it was subsidy for gas users this winter.
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Post by WDB on Sept 13, 2022 8:29:51 GMT
You don’t have to have underfloor heating with a heat pump; radiators will do. Ideally they’ll be larger, to compensate for the lower water temperature a heat pump can produce. But if, like us, you tend to keep the temperature moderate in the winter (I know people who expect to wear T-shirts in January) you may be fine with the one you have.
That said, I’m going to replace our 1993 boiler with a new condensing one, partly to reduce consumption and partly because servicing the old one is getting difficult. The heat pump can come later, and may be as a partner for the boiler rather than a complete replacement.
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