CelticRambler wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 5:06 pm
On the first leg of my commute at the weekend ... 2.02€/l and ... 1.999/€
Well - our government's 18ct/l rebate kicked in on the 1st of April and whaddyaknow, it's damnably hard to find a filling station selling fuel at 18ct less than they were last week. I passed one major supermarket outlet this evening still selling bog-standard diesel at 1.93/l
Funnily enough, the current Bad Boy of the energy sector - Total - is the only chain showing a significant price drop (I think they answered the government's invitation to "top-up" the rebate out of the goodness of their hearts ...
) and their price was advertised at 1.785/l at several stations.
Only there was a catch: they didn't have any diesel to sell.
Between (not) walking and dancing yesterday, I called in to one station (not Total) to get a fill: no diesel at all. No problem, I thought, I have all day tomorrow to get some. Well, it took me nearly all day to find somewhere that hadn't run out, and wasn't still charging rip-off prices. Eventually got my fill at 1.83, from a Total tank, a price I begrudgingly paid because it means I won't have to stop for fuel when I head home next Friday.