I’ve done a bit of driving back and forth across the country recently, and I’ve seen quite a few places go over the £1 per litre mark. Admittedly they were the more expensive places anyway such as motorway service areas.
Fortunately I’m not a heavy user of petrol, but it still frustrates me that something like 70% of the cost is government tax. Frankly it’s an outrageous amount to charge.
So I was quite pleased to see this article written by the Fools over at The Motley Fool. It’s well worth a read.
The most interesting bit for me was the bit about saving money buying petrol – the rest of the article is mostly common sense. I headed over to petrolprices.com and discovered that the best price for unleaded in my area is 94.9p. After registering it turns out the Esso garage I generally use is charging this price. That’s a good start!
The next interesting thing was the Pipeline Card which appears to be a loyalty card that intends to get it’s members discounts on fuel prices. It’ll be very interesting to see if that takes off.
There’s a couple of useful tips there, but I guess the best solution is to vote for whoever (if anyone!) says they’ll reduce fuel tax in the next election 🙂
