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New Sat 9 Jun 12 10:21 
 Oil price continues to fall - CGNorwich
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18368034

Not sure if this is good news or bad. The world economy continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate but filling up the car is getting cheaper.


www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18368034
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New Sat 9 Jun 12 10:48 
 Oil price continues to fall - Dog
Crikey! - and I bought 500 litres of the stuff 2 weeks ago: www.boilerjuice.com/heatingOilPrices.php
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New Sat 9 Jun 12 14:05 
 Oil price continues to fall - L'escargot
>> Crikey! - and I bought 500 litres of the stuff 2 weeks ago: www.boilerjuice.com/heatingOilPrices.php
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Double crikey! I bought 1000 litres 4 weeks ago.
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New Sat 9 Jun 12 14:13 
 Oil price continues to fall - Dog
I belong to a community energy club that places bulk orders with the cheapest supplier they can find.

I paid 61.58p per litre inc. VAT for 500 litres on 30th April.
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New Sat 9 Jun 12 15:12 
 Oil price continues to fall - four wheels good...
52.87p+vat for 1000 litres here on Thursday. Usual annual gamble, will it go down further or do I buy now? Works out at just over £555 which lasts us a year. I paid £583 last year in July.
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New Sat 9 Jun 12 16:22 
 Oil price continues to fall - Robin O'Reliant
Hell's teeth, you guy's have some seriously big petrol tanks. Mine only holds 50 litres.
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New Sat 9 Jun 12 17:23 
 Oil price continues to fall - Dog
>>52.87p+vat for 1000 litres here on Thursday<<

So much for 'community energy clubs' then.

:(
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New Sat 9 Jun 12 18:38 
 Oil price continues to fall - four wheels good...
Robin,

We do seem to have hi-jacked the thread a bit but I assume it shows how the general oil prices are going - not bought petrol for a couple of weeks now though.

Dog,

Prior to orderiing my oil I phone 5 or 6 different suppliers, then I go back to a supplier I have used for the last 16 years who have managed to undercut everyone else every year but two.

The average price this week was about 53.8p / litre but one came down to 52.9, this is not inc vat and for 1000 litres. My usual supplier was only able to reduce to 52.87, and must order on Monday at that price as they will have a tanker out my way, seems quite good though.

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New Sat 9 Jun 12 18:57 
 Oil price continues to fall - Shiny
Looks like I'm being ripped off. 79p/l for gasoil 4 weeks ago.
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New Sat 9 Jun 12 20:56 
 Oil price continues to fall - Dog
Its the first time I've used a 'community energy club', the idea is that if they order say 70,000 litres, they will get the best possible price, take a bit off for themselves, and then pass the savings on to you/me.

That's fine in practise but when the oil price is falling rapidly perhaps it isn't such a good idea :)
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New Sat 9 Jun 12 21:31 
 Oil price continues to fall - Zero
you need a "crystal ball club" in those circumstances.
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New Sat 9 Jun 12 19:05 
 Oil price continues to fall - CGNorwich
Some forecasters are predicting a further 10% reduction by year end but there again what do they know?

Should keep inflation in check a little



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New Sat 9 Jun 12 21:45 
 Oil price continues to fall - Slidingpillar
And as my cheerful brother pointed out on Wednesday, that means the government will impose their further increase in fuel duty...

Just in time for the oil price to go back to where it was!
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New Sat 9 Jun 12 21:55 
 Oil price continues to fall - Zero
Gee - Thank your brother for us.
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New Sun 10 Jun 12 14:29 
 Oil price continues to fall - Fullchat
Just filled up with a tad under 1000 litres @53p.

Made sure this time the top was replaced on the tank :-S
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New Sun 10 Jun 12 17:15 
 Oil price continues to fall - Zero
did you get the water out?
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New Sun 10 Jun 12 18:47 
 Oil price continues to fall - Fullchat
Most of it I think. Bought one of those oil syphon pumps from Screwfix and tied the pipe to a piece of cane so that I was able to target the pipe directly where I wanted and suck the water and debris direct from the bottom. I then filtered the liquid and poured the cleaned up stuff back in. Not as much water as I thought there might be but lots of dead crawlies.

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New Mon 11 Jun 12 19:53 
 Oil price continues to fall - Harleyman
52p/litre for 1500 litres of kerosene today. Tried four suppliers, dearest was 56.8.

Can't see the price dropping much further, and we're away in a couple of weeks so thought I'd better get the stuff bought before the next strike/civil war/banking crisis (delete as appropriate) gets the market gamblers hoarding again.
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