Shell Optimax unleaded

Advantages: Higher performance, cleans fuel system as you drive
Disadvantages: None if you dont mind paying a little extra

...In the UK we currently already pay extorniate prices for our petrol so why would i recommend paying even more for what some believe to be nothing more than just advertising hype? Well, i can only speak from my own experiences in regards to Shells Optimax unleaded but for me paying the extra 4p a litre more is a small price for a far superior product. 'What is Shell Optimax?' Shell Optimax is a higher octane fuel available in both diesel and unleaded, standard unleaded petrol has an octane (RON) rating of 95 whereas Optimax is rated at 98 RON, basically what this translates into for you and me is that Optimax burns alot faster, cleaner and also offers a far superior performance to 'most' cars especially noticable when pulling away from lights or round-abouts whilst also offering a better mid-speed accelaration improvement. 'So...

Rabid 01.04.2004 (12.04.2004) · Read review
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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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If unleaded can be 50p per litre in Ireland....

Advantages: n/a
Disadvantages: n/a

...What has gone wrong? Ten years ago, Irish people flocked in their tens of thousands each week across the border to Northern Ireland and across the sea to Holyhead to shop for absolutely everything, because food, beer, TVs and practically everything else was about 30% cheaper. Petrol was no exception, with huge queues at filling stations just inside the Northern Irish border. Now, unbelievably, the opposite is in evidence. Unleaded petrol is currently 50p (sterling) per litre here in the Republic, while diesel (which I believe is more expensive than petrol in the UK) is a mere 44 pence sterling. As a result, all but the most die-hard unionists are now crossing the border to fill up their tanks and do their weekly shopping, resulting in millions of pounds in lost revenue to the British Exchequer. So what went wrong? Basically...

ildamiano 05.02.2001 · 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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Cheap Petrol at Esso

Advantages: Cheaper petrol
Disadvantages: Still not cheap petrol!

...Esso are currently running a promotion giving away tokens worth 2 pence of the price of a litre of petrol for every litre that you buy. I realise that this is just a ploy by Esso to capitalise on the current climate and get more people through the door, but to be honest, I don't really care who supplies my petrol, it is the price that is the important thing, and this saves me £1 on each tank of petrol, which isn't going to buy me that Lear Jet, but I would rather the money was in my pocket. So if you fancy saving yourself a wee bit of cash, take a trip to Esso!...

ric1 23.07.2000 · 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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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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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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Just how much tax do we pay on petrol

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: loads

...You'd be suprised to know that two thirds of the cost of petrol is tax going straight to our government. That means that id you fill up your car with unleaded at you local filling station and it costs you £30 then you are only buying about £10 worth of petrol. The problem will only get worse in the future because when the price per litre goes over 99.9p then all the petrol stations will have to change their signs resulting on the costs being passed onto us. But is boycotting the pumps the answer?? I'm my oppinion it not really an answer but it will help to show the government that we, as consumers, really mean business. True if we dont fill up on the 1st of August (which i wont) then we'll have to fill up on the 2nd (or 3rd) because we all need car juice. I think the answer to this problem lies in repeated boycots e.g the first...

northernalex 15.07.2000 · Read review
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