petrol prices - i dont get it

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for the first time in my 35 years, it struck me as odd that petrol is priced as xxx.9p per litre on forecourts.

Why is it 104.9p and not 105p?

when i fill up with 62 litres why does it cost me £65.04 when its actually £65.038. How many fractions of a penny do the petrol companies get a day by rounding up the prices?

and more importantly why arent i writing about something more important :)
 
It's the same reason goods in the shop are £9.99 or whatever - it sounds cheaper!
 
Cos it looks cheaper on the pumps.
 
Only buy in multiples of 10 litres e.g. 60 litres. and the price is right.
 
badgerbaiter said:
LOL yeah, but i can actually pay £9.99, but i cant hand over 104.9p for my litre of o2 sensor destroying juice from tesco :)
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I was told years ago that it was illegal to offer for sale something you could not buy using legal tender , you cannot buy a single litre of petrol with coins of the realm but nobody seems to care :shrug:
 
I have thought about this in the past and I am sure it must be illegal to sell "products"
with an illegal amount, the half penny went by the wayside some years ago you don't see items in shops with a 991/2p price tag so how do garage's get away with it?
if I bought 1L of petrol I would expect to pay 103.9p but I can't. There has to be a weights and measures issue here somewhere Oh I forgot its controlled by the government of the day

edit must type faster
 
namllihs said:
Only buy in multiples of 10 litres e.g. 60 litres. and the price is right.
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Sure but the minimum you can buy is 2L and I might want to buy 2L or how many times when you fill up, can you get multiples of "10L" into the tank?

 
Oh don't you worry guys, there will be some exemption in the small print of this one due to the amount of tax the government creams in on fuel sales :bang:

However, I agree with Steve, where ever possible buy only in quatities of x10 litres, that way, you are paying for what you get, not what you don't and reducing those niggling [on a personal level] huge [on a headcount level] profits being made by everyone except the bloody motorist!
 
but if you buy £10 worth you dont lose any moneys worth...
 
sportysnaps said:
but if you buy £10 worth you dont lose any moneys worth...
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But thats not the point, Its sold by the Litre not have what we want you to have.
Beer is sold by the pint you dont ask for 10 quids worth of beer or 10 quids worth of bananas, they sold by weight or volume as is almost every other comsumable we buy
 
I could just break your legs so you can fit in a nice small car that doesn't cost you £65 to fill in the first place.. :p
 
sportysnaps said:
i've solved the problem now anyway as i drive a diesel (ops upset some more people...)
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i always swore i would never buy a diesel because i just cant stand that horrible rattly noise it makes when idling.. but although my v6 sounds nice at 6500rpm i cant help thinking that £60 to do 250 miles isnt worth it! So maybe I will get rattler one day.
 
Ive got a rattler that occasionally runs on chip fat :D

Sod em!
 
Slightly OT here, but...

Although we all now buy in Litres (a con to stop us realising how much a good old English gallon really costs methinks), does anyone refer to how many miles per litre their cars do?

For a car doing 30mpg for example, would you say 30mpg or 6.6mpl???

Assuming the maths is correct!
 
UK gallon is 4.54 litres
US gallon is 3.78 litres

I think prices are that way because of tax percentages.

We pay vat on the fuel tax, which is wrong really. We should only have to pay vat on the actual cost of the fuel not the tax.
 
WanderingMind said:
UK gallon is 4.54 litres
US gallon is 3.78 litres
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Your point being? We're in England and I referred to the English gallon

But you didn't answer the question, if I asked you what your car's fuel consumption was , bearing in mind you can only buy it in litres (in England), would you answer in miles or even kilometres per gallon/litre?

:shrug::shrug::shrug:
 
Sorry dave pressed enter before finnished typing lol

I would answer in mpg as that's the way the auto industry determines fuel consumption.
Having driven imports for the last 10years I always look at how many kilometres a cars covered lol
 
WanderingMind said:
Sorry dave pressed enter before finnished typing lol

I would answer in mpg as that's the way the auto industry determines fuel consumption.
Having driven imports for the last 10years I always look at how many kilometres a cars covered lol
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So it's mpg in a car that says km and with fuel you buy in litres!

Are you old enough to have been used to buying in gallons? Cos I find even youngster who've only known buying stuff in litres still refer to mpg

Seems a bit odd really

Bit like the temperature scales we use. In summer most people would say it's a hot 80 degrees - meaning in Fahrenheit, yet in the cold of winter we say it's minus 5 degrees but in Celcius

Weird ain't we :cuckoo:
 
DiddyDave said:
So it's mpg in a car that says km and with fuel you buy in litres!

Are you old enough to have been used to buying in gallons? Cos I find even youngster who've only known buying stuff in litres still refer to mpg

Seems a bit odd really

Bit like the temperature scales we use. In summer most people would say it's a hot 80 degrees - meaning in Fahrenheit, yet in the cold of winter we say it's minus 5 degrees but in Celcius

Weird ain't we :cuckoo:
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Yes clocks read kilometres (apart from speedo) and I still work out the mpg which is around 20ish on super and buy in litres which is 109.9p here.

I'm only 32 so don't remember buying in gallons, I can remember when putting three quid in my metro lasted all night though :lol:
 
WanderingMind said:
Yes clocks read kilometres (apart from speedo) and I still work out the mpg which is around 20ish on super and buy in litres which is 109.9p here.

I'm only 32 so don't remember buying in gallons, I can remember when putting three quid in my metro lasted all night though :lol:
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Well I remember as a kid my dad being furious that petrol had broken above 70p per gallon :eek:

Somehow km/ltr just doesn't sound as right as mpg does it :D
 
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