{"id":31,"date":"2006-05-05T10:55:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T10:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2006\/05\/05\/ever-increasing-petrol-prices\/"},"modified":"2010-11-11T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T13:02:07","slug":"ever-increasing-petrol-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2006\/05\/05\/ever-increasing-petrol-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever increasing petrol prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 \u00c2\u00a31 per litre mark. Admittedly they were the more expensive places anyway such as motorway service areas.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

So I was quite pleased to see this article<\/a> written by the Fools over at The Motley Fool<\/a>. It’s well worth a read.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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!<\/p>\n

The next interesting thing was the Pipeline Card<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

\"Save<\/a><\/p>\n

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 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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