Has anyone heard that Petrol is going up on 2nd October?

Question

Has anyone heard that Petrol is going up on 2nd October?

Answer 1

typical and just when i've bought a petrol guzzler :(

Answer 2

Petrol has gone up on 1st October to £1 a litre - has been public knowledge for a couple of weeks - due to something that was said in the last budget.

Answer 3

Yes.  It goes up automatically twice a year.  I've already filled up to avoid the queues.

Answer 4

yes one pound a litre

Answer 5

I heard it was going up to £1 a letre on the ITN news last week.

Answer 6

yeah, heard it on the news a couple of days ago.  as if it isnt already expensive enough to live in UK!  wouldnt live anywhere else tho lol

Answer 7

i haven't heard this

Answer 8

yes i heard its going up to over £1 a gallon in next few days didnt know it was 2nd october.

Answer 9

because the price of a barrel has reached $60 and the accumulator, introduced by Gordon Broon, means the price at the pumps has to go up too. Its 2.35p, but don't ask how to collect your change. Some one sent me this link last Friday.

Answer 10

yeah its going up to £1.25 a litre thats 6 quid a gallon...

thankfully my old diesel runs on veggie oil and i dont care...

Answer 11

No I havnt heard that one but the legal age to buy cigarettes is going up to 18 on the 1st oct

Answer 12

Yes announced in the mini budget last summer. Naturally you wont blame the government because joe public has no memory. We go back onto the Labour's petrol esculator.

The rest of Europe has more sense.

Soon be cheaper to take a return trip to France and fill up jerry cans plus fuel tank, in EuroCity.

Answer 13

Is it the budget?

A fellow Mancunian

Answer 14

How can it get more bloody expensive! I saw a station selling it at 99.9p a litre the other day! joke.

Answer 15

Yup - going UP on Monday.

The duty is 52p per litre - other EU countries charge 25p !

Answer 16

yep-to just under £6/gallon,now compare that to beer at £2.50/pint-thats £20/gallon.next question. ......

Answer 17

petrol is going up by 2p  a ltr on tuesday

Answer 18

Yes

apparently £1 per litre

Answer 19

I am a cyclist and i dont care.

Answer 20

Yes, it was announced in the last budget, some months ago, which most people have forgotton.

Yet another rip-off tax increase, like we don't pay enough already.