Optimax Petrol.

Advantages: Will make a marked improvement on your car.
Disadvantages: Won't happen overnight. More expensive.

...Optimax petrol is very good. It does make your car more responsive <great in traffic! >. To put my theory to the test, I ran my car on Optimax for 1 year the changed back to regular 95 RON petrol. My car became more sluggish and the MPG came down significantly. From 380 per tank (about 50 litres) to 280. So, the extra 3p per litre could justify this. Because Optimax is more refined <hence, the bigger octane rating> it burns much cleaner and hence, you get a better MPG. This opinion is obviously tying to my car; other people may <and probably will> get different results. The "Optimax" effect will not happen overnight. To really feel a difference you'll have to run it for at least 3000 miles. However, please don't be fooled that the higher octane rating the better it will be for your car! This is a fallacy. Most UK cars runs on 95...

KatiePuckrik 28.03.2003 (01.04.2003) · Read review
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Petrol - Less than 20p a litre

Advantages: Easy to Collect
Disadvantages: Extortion by another name

...It would be if it wasn't for government duty. People complain about the high level of duty but I've been driving since 1976 and its always like that. There's been a recent outcry about the huge profits that oil companies are making , but this is from industrial oil , not from petrol sales. Garages will make less than 3p a litre on the sale of petrol, I bet they have more mark up on a mars bar! The government arrogant stance on petrol revenue reminded me of the tories, they just told the country that they (the country) wouldnt understand the complicated issues , amd inplied it was the greedy oil companies who were causing the high prices , and it was impossible to put in a tax that responds to chamges in prices. So what's VAT Tony? Duty is also a percentage tax so that responds to changes in prices so again bunkum from the government...

mikeydred 16.02.2001 · Read review
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Cheaper petrol at Sainsburys

Advantages: Cheaper petrol
Disadvantages: You need to spend money at Sainsburys!

...Did you know that it is possible to get cheaper petrol at Sainsburys petrol stations by shopping at the store first? Depending on how much you spend in the supermarket, you receive a money off petrol voucher to use at a Sainsburys petrol station. If you spend £25 you get a voucher for 1p off per litre, £50 for 2p off per litre, £75 for 3p off per litre and 4p off per litre if you spend £100 or more. Since you can also use your reward card in the petrol station also where you will get 2 reward points for every £1 spent you can theoretically save nearly 5p per litre. Since Sainsburys petrol prices are generally pretty competitive anyway this can give you substantial savings....

Brassneck 31.07.2000 · Read review
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Site that helps find cheap petrol

Advantages: Helps find cheaper fuel, free service
Disadvantages: none

...I have found a website, this being www.petrolbusters.com. This site aims to list the petrol prices at the pumps in your locality. Its very easy to use, too. You type your postcode in first. Then you set a travel limit as to how far you are willing to travel. From this information the website finds the petrol prices in your area and compares them to the average price of petrol across. You would normally have to pay for this service but, since it supports the Dump the Pump campaign, you can get a one-day password at www.dumpthepump.co.uk for free. As far as I can tell the site is regularly updated so is pretty accurate and a good way to save yourself those crucial few pence on each litre of fuel. Why not give it a go....

Riles 03.10.2000 · Read review
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There are ways of getting cheaper petrol

Advantages: your getting a little bit off
Disadvantages: the price of petrol in the first place

...petrol prices have gone throw the roof in recent months and look set to rise even further. How ever I have noticed that several petrol stations are giving you money off vouchers as well as the usual naff glasses!!!! I have noticed 3 schemes in my area (west Yorkshire) scheme 1 - Sainsbury's petrol stations - You have to do your food shopping in store to get vouchers basically if you spend up to certain levels you get a voucher for so much off per litre The levels are Spend £25 to £49.99 you get 1p a litre off Spend £50 to £74.99 you get 2p a litre off Spend £75 to £99.99 you get 3p a litre off and spend £100 plus you get 4 p a litre off ok so its not great but it is something also you get reward points on petrol so you could always save them up and use them to get money off petrol. scheme 2 - Jet garages - you have to buy £15...

jo1l 23.07.2000 · Read review
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Scottish Petrol Prices

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...Scottish petrol prices currently are amongst the highest in United Kingdom at 85.9p per litre, where I live in Aberdeenshire. Which is a very rural area and a car is very important due the lack of bus services in the at the time you want to travel to and from work. It currently costs my wife over £30 a week just to travel to work in Aberdeen. The oil companies many of whom have there United Kingdom headquarters in Aberdeen which is also Europes Oil Capital, although the price per litre is high there is very little they can do to reduce the price as most of it is Tax, which we never see sent on the roads up here as the nearest motorway is the M8 near Glasgow some 125 miles away. Even dual carraigeways and bypasses are rare. In fact you could say that we are completely forgotten up here by Westmister and the sooner that Scotland gets...

Union 26.07.2000 · Read review
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another source of cheap petrol

Advantages: another cheap petrol source
Disadvantages: the price is still high

...my local Morrison's store are having a petrol sale! Yep if you want un leaded petrol at 79.9 pence a litre head on down to your local morrissons store. You do not have to buy any thing other than petrol ie you dont have to spend so much in the supermarket or a certain amount of petrol. They have also reduced their 4 star petrol as well - Its now 84.9 per litre. i'm not to sure if you have got Morrisons down south or if they are just a northern store but most towns in yorkshire have got a Morrisons....

jo1l 28.07.2000 · Read review
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Petrol prices

Advantages: THERE ARE NO ADVATAGES OF HAVIN HIGH PRICED PETROL!!!
Disadvantages: we will have no money left to but things that we really need

...i am only 13 years old so obviously i am not aliegible to drive yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 but still i have noticed the prices of petrol!!!!!!!!!!! i think that it is absolutly disgusting! i mean if they continue to rise like this then how much am i going to have to pay just to drive around and het to work!!!!!!!!! my parents and grandparents are always complaining about it!!!!!!! i think more should be done to protest about the price of petrol!!!!! if nothing is done about it now then nothing ever will!!!!!!!!!!...

kay2k 06.08.2000 · Read review
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Boycott petrol, buy LPG

Advantages: Clean, cheap
Disadvantages: Expensive conversion, not available everywhere yet

...I had my 1967 Land Rover converted to run on LPG a year ago. Since then, the £850 conversion has paid for itself. The differential between LPG and petrol is getting wider; when I had the conversion done, LPG was 36p a litre, and Unleaded was 69.9p. Now I pay 38p a litre for LPG and have seen Unleaded for as much as 86.9p. The gap has widened by an astonishing 15p! It's not cheap to convert cars, and there is the problem of where to put the extra tank, but it is definitely worth considering, provided there is somewhere near you where you can fill up. This is going to get easier soon as more and more forecourts get LPG pumps. BP is committed to installing them in hundreds of stations. There is also the advantage that as LPG (which is just Propane) burns more cleanly than petrol it means your oil lasts longer without changing...

madwolf 28.07.2000 · Read review
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Most expensive part of running a car is petrol

Advantages: The prices are comming down, protest about the prices in the correct way, not by driving slow, as you still use the fuel.
Disadvantages: Still a little more expensive than equator countries, but look at the state of ecconomy.

...I have been driving for a good few years (since November 1996 in fact) and everyone moans about the price that we pay for our fuel. In fact, I travel abroad quite often and I compare prices, and when you compare our priced petrol to somewhere like France, then you realise there is not much difference on price. At the moment, (taking into considderation of exchange rate being less than 10 francs to the pound) you will notice that we vertually pay the same price of petrol to our French counterparts to say that a year ago, there was a good 15p per litre difference for unleaded petrol. The petrol prices are still low at 75.8p for unleaded petrol (in Nottingham) in places which I do not mind paying, and this price can also be found in parts of London. You will find that places like Spain where there price of fuel is half our price, just...

christopherbrown 14.02.2001 · Read review
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