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[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I'm getting the idea those on prepay meters will somehow be overlooked.

Wouldn't surprise me, pre-pay customers always seem to get punished cost-wise.

If they want people to use stuff overnight they'd probably be well served bringing in a 2-rate tariff. Pretty sure it'd be welcomed by many.

 

[Cool_Blue]

Not to defend those horrid vultures at all.

But I think everybody is rocking fat credit cos in a few months that will all be eaten up.

Bumped into a friend this afternoon, we got onto this, he said he still pays the old way…….he pays an actual bill when it comes, not by regular DD. So he only pays for what he’s used, unlike us, who have £500+ of our money sitting in British Gas’s bank account.

 

[peteblue]

I'm getting the idea those on prepay meters will somehow be overlooked.

I think it’s disgraceful how those put on prepay are treated…..these people should be looked after…..

 

[Lobster Johnson]

I think it’s disgraceful how those put on prepay are treated…..these people should be looked after…..

They wanna try pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and being less poor.

 

[peteblue]

They wanna try pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and being less poor.

No mate. They need proper assistance….

 

[Tramps_mate]

National Grid is poised to pay households to cut their power demand tomorrow to avert power cuts as it prepares to activate its winter emergency electricity plan for the first time.

Its electricity system operator has warned the market it may need to use its new "demand flexibility service", a contingency scheme aimed at reducing household consumption when supply is tight.

It raises the prospect of households being asked to turn off their televisions when England face Wales in their crucial final World Cup group game on Tuesday night.

Low temperatures and outages on France's nuclear power fleet are set to put pressure on power supplies, according to market experts Enappsys.

Under the DFS scheme, National Grid will pay households to cut power demand by, for example, stopping running the washing machine or dishwasher until the supply crunch has eased.

Households which have signed up to the programme in advance will get a message asking them to turn off appliances at a certain time in exchange for £3 per kilowatt-hour saved. If the £3 is fully passed on by the suppliers to customers, that implies payments of up to £20 for each day when requested by National Grid.

National Grid scrambles to secure enough power to keep lights on amid nuclear fleet outage

National Grid has narrowly avoided activating its emergency blackout plan for the first time this winter as low wind speeds and nuclear outages push supply closer to the danger zone.

www.telegraph.co.uk

20 quid a day to sit in the dark isnt bad tho I suppose.

We need to build nuclear power stations and quickly.

 

[peteblue]

We need to build nuclear power stations and quickly.

We needed to build nuclear power stations quickly some 25 years ago. Yet both Labour and Conservatives screwed this up and did sod all……

 

[Baines' left foot]

I get that part, but if they react at one forecourt to another local forecourt, it doesn't change the prices across the entire network due to what I said above.

Wholesale prices are dropping at the moment (diesel has dropped over 10p per litre to supplier), so there'll be a big drop across the network soon.

If they paid the top price when it was ordered, which was days before it actually arrived, they aren't going to drop the prices hugely as it'll be sold at a loss.*

Once they get a new shipment, the price will drop unless a local forecourt drops theirs, and they have to react. *Regardless of what the average is.

The biggest scam is that the supermarket fuel is cheaper because they use fewer detergents, even though it's the same raw fuel from Stanlow as Shell etc.

Over time, you get far less MPG, and it'll lower the engine life.

What’s Costco’s fuel like in comparison, do you know? I’ve had my van 3 months and I always fill the tank there when I can as it’s a good 13p or so cheaper than Shell. I get the premium diesel, for what it’s worth, although that’s the only diesel they sell.

 

[Goat]

What’s Costco’s fuel like in comparison, do you know? I’ve had my van 3 months and I always fill the tank there when I can as it’s a good 13p or so cheaper than Shell. I get the premium diesel, for what it’s worth, although that’s the only diesel they sell.

Went today actually, it was 1.45 a litre, for petrol.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Went today actually, it was 1.45 a litre, for petrol.

It was 1.73 I think for diesel on Friday. Crazy difference.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

What’s Costco’s fuel like in comparison, do you know? I’ve had my van 3 months and I always fill the tank there when I can as it’s a good 13p or so cheaper than Shell. I get the premium diesel, for what it’s worth, although that’s the only diesel they sell.

My car runs really well on Costco diesel. My mpg has gone up since I started using it exclusively.

 

[blulouie]

Went today actually, it was 1.45 a litre, for petrol.

Gone down since Friday.
Always way cheaper than the petrol stations.
Get good mpg with it too.

 

[PhilM]

What’s Costco’s fuel like in comparison, do you know? I’ve had my van 3 months and I always fill the tank there when I can as it’s a good 13p or so cheaper than Shell. I get the premium diesel, for what it’s worth, although that’s the only diesel they sell.

Costco’s fuel is good because they don’t look to make the same profits margins other forecourts do - it’s there to attract you to their site.

If what I was told was right, they buy standard petrol from the main forecourt suppliers (e.g. Shell), so it has the same number additives as they would.

Diesel is premium - e.g. again, Shells, BPs good stuff. This all means you get good MPG and your engine’s condition will benefit in the long term.

I know I’ve spoke to @COYBL25 in the past about how forecourt fuels and premium (VPower etc) can provide much better value for money.

£50 of the supermarket stuff means you get more actual fuel, but on average (depends on many factors) you’ll get less miles than £50 at Shell.

Costco falls into the latter category (good stuff), so if you can afford to fill it then you’re onto a winner.

 

[Nightman]

I have a two bed apartment. I WFH, have the TV on all day and the heating on for half the day, yet my day rate on my smart meter rarely goes over £3. When you consider the government are subsidising £2, my energy bills are significantly lower than before the energy crisis.
I paid £17 in last month.

But the stories I read are terrifying. What is going on?

 

[Baines' left foot]

Costco’s fuel is good because they don’t look to make the same profits margins other forecourts do - it’s there to attract you to their site.

If what I was told was right, they buy standard petrol from the main forecourt suppliers (e.g. Shell), so it has the same number additives as they would.

Diesel is premium - e.g. again, Shells, BPs good stuff. This all means you get good MPG and your engine’s condition will benefit in the long term.

I know I’ve spoke to @COYBL25 in the past about how forecourt fuels and premium (VPower etc) can provide much better value for money.

£50 of the supermarket stuff means you get more actual fuel, but on average (depends on many factors) you’ll get less miles than £50 at Shell.

Costco falls into the latter category (good stuff), so if you can afford to fill it then you’re onto a winner.

That’s good to know, thanks. Genuinely quite interesting.

I have noticed that £50 at Sainsbury’s gets me less MPG than other fuels. I’ll keep away from the supermarkets from now on I think.