Fuel Prices

[Monkeybusiness]

Relevant to this thread - the firm running the big ground compaction hammer in the ‘Today’s Job’ thread reckon their fuel bill will go up by £1.2million a year with the change to white and the inflated fuel prices(!!!!!).

I filled a tracked chipper at the pump yesterday and it cost £80 - it would normally be £25ish on red…

 

[GazCro]

Relevant to this thread - the firm running the big ground compaction hammer in the ‘Today’s Job’ thread reckon their fuel bill will go up by £1.2million a year with the change to white and the inflated fuel prices(!!!!!).

I filled a tracked chipper at the pump yesterday and it cost £80 - it would normally be £25ish on red…

Current red prices there isn't as much in it as normal, whether that stays the case will be interesting to see.

 

[Quattromike]

Am I hearing the price of oil coming back a bit, can anyone confirm or refute this?

 

[Lancs Lad]

How high is it?

Just shy of 18" @JD450A

 

[Lancs Lad]

eh:

FarmWatcherUK@FarmWatcherUK
2 hours ago
Three Village pubs targeted within two hours by thieves on the hunt for cooking oil Reports were made to police on Friday morning about the same van which was seen in the villages farmwatcher.co.uk/alerts/three-v… #ruralcrime @NYorksPolice

 

[LKSF]

Current red prices there isn't as much in it as normal, whether that stays the case will be interesting to see.

30p per litre difference atm.
Red has gone from £1 to £1.30, white is £1.60 - ish.

 

[Jimbo69]

eh:

FarmWatcherUK@FarmWatcherUK
2 hours ago
Three Village pubs targeted within two hours by thieves on the hunt for cooking oil Reports were made to police on Friday morning about the same van which was seen in the villages farmwatcher.co.uk/alerts/three-v… #ruralcrime @NYorksPolice

We’ve had the same around here. There was some of them caught the other week by the police, I’m not sure what the outcome was though.

 

[Lancs Lad]

We’ve had the same around here. There was some of them caught the other week by the police, I’m not sure what the outcome was though.

What's the score with the oil?

 

[doobin]

What's the score with the oil?

Bio diesel.

 

[Routy56]

Bio diesel.

About 20 years ago I’d run my very old Disco on blended clean veggie oil. Had a free source of clean used oil. Disco had a mechanical fuel injection pump and was bullet proof. It actually ran smoother and smelt great

 

[LKSF]

Not really bio diesel, more like instead of diesel! Some engines run on it fine, I have a 2.7 Terrano which is said to use it with no problem. I'm guessing some or many plant engines will, but don't have any experience of that. I once ran a petrol car with a 50/50 mix of petrol and paint thinners as it was fine with it. The thinners was less than £1 a litre.

 

[V8Druid]

Not really bio diesel, more like instead of diesel! Some engines run on it fine, I have a 2.7 Terrano which is said to use it with no problem. I'm guessing some or many plant engines will, but don't have any experience of that. I once ran a petrol car with a 50/50 mix of petrol and paint thinners as it was fine with it. The thinners was less than £1 a litre.

I can imagine what it did to rubber lines though

 

[DaveDCB]

Let’s hope with all the extra road fuel tax they will fix the roads… oh they won’t.

 

[6feetdown]

Let’s hope with all the extra road fuel tax they will fix the roads… oh they won’t.

Nope they are making stupid wide pavements and reducing the width of the roads with us

 

[V8Druid]

Nope they are making stupid wide pavements and reducing the width of the roads with us

same in Aber too ... and a lot of the streets are either pedestrian only or 20MPH .... ...... remind me again - who pays road tax to use the bloody things ????

 

[6feetdown]

same in Aber too ... and a lot of the streets are either pedestrian only or 20MPH .... ...... remind me again - who pays road tax to use the bloody things ????

All Wales residential areas majority of roads will become 20mph zones

 

[V8Druid]

All Wales residential areas majority of roads will become 20mph zones

think someone on here said a few months ago that Aber was one of the pilot places they were trialling it .... between all the speed humps, 20 zones and chicanes, it's becoming a no go zone ...... that and all the bloody parking restrictions

 

[Gecko]

I once ran a petrol car with a 50/50 mix of petrol and paint thinners

I used to think "petrol" was a tightly controlled fraction (or 'slice') of crude oil - it's not.
It's a blend of assorted hydrocarbons selected and balanced for various characteristics that include burn rate and emissions as the most obvious. The "petrol" sold here in south east asia smells highly of toluene (a common paint thinner). For modern engines with both knock sensors and O2 sensors, the ECU is constantly re-tuning the engine to make the best of the fuel and should cope fine with a fairly wide range of blends. Much more so than fixed tune carby engines (remember those!).

I can imagine what it did to rubber lines though

In a previous life I was involved in compliance testing of a new (rubber) fuel line that involved things like:
heating test fuel to 80C and running it through the lines for weeks. Another was to immerse a section of line (ends unprotected so all layers exposed) in a blend of solvents more aggressive than would be expected in service. At the end of the tests, the lines were chopped up and closely inspected for any degradation. Any flaw would have resulted in the product line being rejected.
Having seen older fuel lines going hard and brittle (or swelling), modern lines can cope with anything you'd be prepared to put through them!

 

[redphilip21]

Although there are many gasoline stations (not the popular ones) are offering temptingly low prices, everyone must careful,. There are few reports saying that some are diluting their gas products with water to increase volume, which allows them to drag the prices down.

 

[Gecko]

diluting their gas products with water

water doesn't mix with 'gas'

'Gas' is an unusual term for a skippy - where are you from?