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Author Why is the price of Diesel sooo high still?
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I was filling up this morning at my local Shell.

Prices are 95.9 for petrol, 102.9 for super and 108.9 for diesel.

Same story everywhere else though, why are diesel drivers still paying 10-12p more a litre? When petrol was 95p a litre before, diesel was 97/8p?

Is there a reason behind it or is Gorden Brown gay?
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Your gay, give up and get on with your life/stop being deano
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Mainly to annoy you, and then for you to annoy us by talking about it.
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quote:
Originally posted by Neo
Your gay, give up and get on with your life/stop being deano


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I'm just curious.
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Diesel has ALWAYS been more expensive.. Its the same everywhere else in the EU too.
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I paid 107.9 last night which is the best I've seen it for a while.

Treated myself to a whisper and a twix to celebrate

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Kyle

I'm simply curious as to why diesel is more expensive.
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I better add there are some exceptions on small islands like Corssica where Diesel oil is the main fuel import so you pay a premium for petroleum.
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quote:
Originally posted by DaveyLC
Diesel has ALWAYS been more expensive.. Its the same everywhere else in the EU too.


What he's getting at is that when petrol was 102p, diesel was 109p

Now petrol is 95p, and diesel is still 109p

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Surely with paying more on Diesel, the money you saving getting more out of a tank, you spend extra on filling up?
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Kyle, when I passed, 2 years ago, diesel was 92.9 and petrol 90.9.

Now we are nearly at those prices again with petrol, why is diesel sofa king expensive?
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Found this

"....diesel isn’t actually as cheap to produce as some people think, at least not the modern “clean” variant anyway. Although diesel requires less crude oil per litre than petrol does to produce, newly established standards for lower sulphur diesel require a more complex refining process."
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Makes a bit more sence. I wonder if it's the demand for diesel.
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quote:
Originally posted by DaveyLC
Diesel has ALWAYS been more expensive.. Its the same everywhere else in the EU too.


No it hasn't, until a couple of years ago it was much cheaper
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Something to do with Diesel being a bi-product of petrol or some shite!
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Would probably be a mix of what Ellis said (source of that quote ellis?) and the hugely increased demand recently for diesel (basic supply/demand economics)
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There is also more tax on diesel, any other reasons are just trying to distract you from that.
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quote:
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There is also more tax on diesel, any other reasons are just trying to distract you from that.


sounds about right tbh
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Plus, North Sea oil if that's what mainly used here contains much more of the short chain molecules that give methane up to somewhere around pentane IIRC and there isn't much left for refining into diesel, so it has to be imported from the Middle East etc as their oil is a lot 'thicker'
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Meh, think my diesel will be up for sale before the end of 2009
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Sick of paying this government lots of money.

Offer of a cheap company car is there next year so i'll be taking that instead.
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[Edited on 06-11-2008 by Neo]
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Denzil is not the way forward

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