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Petrol Prices

Here's a nice project for anyone and there might be hundreds if not thousands of legitimate answers.

Petrol prices: don't you just love them?

Here in lesser Oxfordshire I can pay a varying amount for a litre of unleaded petrol but wherever I buy, the price tends towards one Pound per litre: ie nearer rather than further away.

Imagine my surprise, then, when I was driving through central London last Monday and I mean deep central and I found a petrol station selling unleaded petrol at 86.9 per per litre. I filled the tank and almost saved the cost of the congestion charge by doing so ... big car, big tank, you see.

Imgine my greater surprise, though, when I was leaving Portsmouth yesterday evening and just before I got onto the M275 I stopped for petrol and found unleaded petrol per litre to be 84.9 pence per litre.

Now, they strike me as being very low prices: why so low in those two places? Is it the same where you are? How can you explain the varying price of petrol?

By the way, the low price of petrol might explain why there were two youngish ladies in the queue in front of me shivering half to death in their scanty Saturday night out clothing waiting to pay! The price in outer Portsmouth is that good!!

Duncan Williamson

posted by Duncan Williamson @ 4:55 PM