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Cheapest Petrol in Brentford area

According to www.petrolprices.com, the cheapest petrol within 5 miles of TW 8 recently has been found at the following: petrol stationsTexaco Ham Cross Service Station Kingston-upon-Thames 112.9p 26-05-2008 Shell Oak Lane Twickenham 113.9p 26-05-2008 Sainsburys Alperton Wembley 113.9p 27-05-2008 Shell Kingstonian Kingston- upon-thames 113.9p 26-05-2008 Shell Teddington Teddington 113.9p 25-05-2008

David Giles ● 6269d10 Comments

The Pound to Dollar rate may have changed since I was last in thre UK. My rate was based on memory.Steve is right about the mining boom and all the work, its like the old style gold rush in parts of WA.

Neil Chippendale ● 6265d

Indeed the Australians are complaining bitterly about fuel prices. I just spent a month on business and covered Perth, Adl, Mel, Syd & Bne before heading to NZ.  I noted prices vary from state to state and change every couple of days but the average seemed to be around Au$ 1.51 a litre so its gone up quite a lot in the last week.  Not sure about Neil's  r/e of au$  2.40 to the GBP though as I paid 2.06 which made my trip considerably more expensive than last year when it was 2.39.  Consider I can buy my shirts at M&S for GBP 10 and the Sibel Pier in Sydney charges Au$ 13.95 just to wash and iron them!!  Neils average wages are indeed accurate but there is a massive exodus of young people from Perth to the North West  (mining area) where salaries for unskilled labour is reputedly as much as au$ 95,000.  Cleaners are being flown in from Sydney on a 10 day on 4 day off basis and making 4 times as much as they could in Syd.  Waiters and kitchen staff in WA are very scarce too as the youth are packing their bags and heading for the big bucks in the mines.

Steve Taylor ● 6265d

Current price is $1.58 a litre. It has risen sharply over the last two weeeks. The pound to the dollar is 2.40Average wage in NSW is about $58,000. Thats about 24-25 thousand pounds

Neil Chippendale ● 6266d

Neil,What's the average price of petrol down under. Any idea what the average wage is?

Keith Iddon ● 6267d

Foxnews are running a peice on oil speculators who are using the various oil markets such as London and Singapore to artifically raise the price of oil. The US government are investigating them.

Neil Chippendale ● 6268d

Oil is getting scarcer and more expensive to find and produce, global demand for oil is increasing rapidly and crude oil prices are increasing globally.Within the UK, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is the one who is really profiting from higher oil prices and he also must take part of the blame for higher fuel prices. Each time the price of crude oil increases, the oil companies have to increase the price of petrol, diesel, oil and other petroleum products. The Government then charges Fuel Excise Duty on top of the cost of the fuel then also charges VAT at 17.5%2007 fuel duty (as of 1 October 2007) in the United Kingdom is: 50.35 pence per litre for ultra-low sulphur unleaded petrol/diesel 53.65 pence per litre for conventional unleaded petrol 56.94 pence per litre for conventional diesel 30.35 pence per litre for bio-diesel and bio ethanol - low tax to encourage consumer conversion 16.49 pence per kg for gas other than natural gas (LPG) 13.70 pence per kg for natural gas used as road fuel. 9.69 pence per litre for rebated gas oil (red diesel) 9.29 pence per litre for rebated fuel oil In addition VAT is charged at 17.5%, so the Government takes 53.6 pence in Fuel Duty plus 20 pence in VAT per litre of unleaded petrol costing 115 pence a litre. The British Government's share of a 115 pence litre of petrol is 73.60 pence, leaving 41.40 pence per litre for the petrol retailer, the distributor, the refiner, the crude oil tanker companies, the oil production companies, the oil service companies, the oil exploration companies and the governments and people of the countries that actually produce the oil.Fuel duty is due to go up by 2 pence per litre in October 2008.

David Giles ● 6268d

Oil is getting scarcer and more expensive to find and produce, global demand for oil is increasing rapidly and crude oil prices are increasing globally.Within the UK, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is the one who is really profiting from higher oil prices and he also must take part of the blame for higher fuel prices. Each time the price of crude oil increases, the oil companies have to increase the price of petrol, diesel, oil and other petroleum products. The Government then charges Fuel Excise Duty on top of the cost of the fuel then also charges VAT at 17.5%2007 fuel duty (as of 1 October 2007) in the United Kingdom is: 50.35 pence per litre for ultra-low sulphur unleaded petrol/diesel 53.65 pence per litre for conventional unleaded petrol 56.94 pence per litre for conventional diesel 30.35 pence per litre for bio-diesel and bio ethanol - low tax to encourage consumer conversion 16.49 pence per kg for gas other than natural gas (LPG) 13.70 pence per kg for natural gas used as road fuel. 9.69 pence per litre for rebated gas oil (red diesel) 9.29 pence per litre for rebated fuel oil In addition VAT is charged at 17.5%, so the Government takes 53.6 pence in Fuel Duty plus 20 pence in VAT per litre of unleaded petrol costing 115 pence a litre. The British Government's share of a 115 pence litre of petrol is 73.60 pence, leaving 41.40 pence per litre for the petrol retailer, the distributor, the refiner, the crude oil tanker companies, the oil production companies, the oil service companies, the oil exploration companies and the governments and people of the countries that actually produce the oil.Fuel duty is due to go up by 2 pence per litre in October 2008.

David Giles ● 6268d

I do not disagree with that - but they are none of them really local and most of us do tend to fill up locally - I paid 115.9 in Tesco today, and I know what we are being told but somewhere I just feel that as per usual we are being ripped off. Again today we are being warned that domestic fuel prices are going to rise in spite of the regulators saying it wasn't necessary a couple of weeks ago, someone, somewhere, is making one hell of a lot of money out of this situation.

Vanessa Smith ● 6268d

VanessaI agree but it is useful to check out the www.petrolprices.com website before you need to fill up so if you pass by a cheaper petrol station you know in advance.Given the present high UK rates of tax on fuel and the high world price of oil, a difference of 4 or 5 pence a littre can make a difference.

David Giles ● 6268d

By the time you've driven to any one of them - you'll have spent what you hope to save!

Vanessa Smith ● 6268d