Are petrol stations subsidising diesel with unleaded ?

I've noticed around our way that the price of unleaded and diesel
has "leveled" off.

For example , we have a number of petrol stations selling at

U/L 100.9
Dl 101.9

And
U/L 99.9
Dl 99.9

Now, unless I am mistaken diesel has more tax on it (or has thois changed,
I've got bored trying to find the data).

So, are we U/L users subsidising oil burners ?

Discuss[1]

[1] Or argue, rant, rave, steal thread.

 

The Esso at the bottom of the road has both at 99.9

IIRC it was an Asda thing - if I could be arsed I could look up
the post on HUKD that announced it.

Will this do?

http://www.rboffers.com/news/general/679-asda-moves-petrol-and-diesel-to-999p-nationwide.html

 

Still feels like a subsidy ....

 

The demand for desiel has dropped off significantly so the price has dropped

 

Indeed.

God knows what's going on with LPG. 53.9 here, 48.9 in Marlow.

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You are mistaken.
They are taxed at the same price and are now the same price , unlike six months ago where diesel was 50% more expensive than unleaded when the tax and duty was removed

 

45p at my nearest seller (24 hour too - credit card in the slot type of
pump).

 

Ah, there seemed to be some attempt to explain that at wikipedia, but I lost
the will.

 

Bastard. Where's that?

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Potters, near Willey - A5 - http://tinyurl.com/potterslpg

The green arrow marks the spot!

 

Gah *miles* away. Ta anyway.

The local (Marlow) Asda has cheap LPG but not on the CC pumps.

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Not really - it's about 4 miles from where I am sitting.

 

except germany, belgium, hungary, guatemala, greece, and of course a whole
load of other places that qualify as "anywhere else".

 

EUR 1.35 for regular unleaded in France at the weekend.

Ouch.

 

Fingers crossed the exchange rate improves in the coming weeks,
although I doubt it will.

 

Not looking forward to the 300 quid fuel bill for the week?

 

CH & Austria are cheaper[1] than Italy or Germany, so bear this in mind
when hopping across borders.
http://www.theaa.com/onlinenews/allaboutcars/fuel/2009/june2009.pdf

[1] offset by having to pay for a vignette if you intend to use their
motorways, 4.8Euro for 10 days in Austria and a whopping 40CHF in CH, as
the annual one is the only option.

 

september.org:

it will be on the Abbey Zero card so it doesn't matter. That's not real
money is it?

Oh, for those who have not been to Italy before - many of their petrol
stations are unmanned and take cash. This can be a bit of a fucker if you
have used an ATM and it spewed out the cash in 50 Euro notes.

 

Obviously I'd like it better if rates were back around £1 : €1.40, but
it costs what it costs - no point in letting a shit economy mess up a
good holiday.

 

Do we actually need to use any swiss motorways? I know last time I
went from Italy to France via Switzerland I did buy a vignette and was
(AFAIK) riding on A roads.