So I have been enjoying filling my car with fuel of late. Every time I'm on the forecourt I am

[Rich]

greeted with an unsubstantial yet pleasing drop in the fuel price.

Now yesterday evening, I put in a full tank only to see the price had increased by a penny to 107.9.

I see that Brent Crude is currently over 60USD but Citi and Goldman predict it will fall as low as 20/30USD this year.

So have they just got it dramatically wrong and prices are now going to slowly rise, or is it merely a blip and we'll soon see fuel at less than 100.0?

[Snin]

dirty feckers rich..they grabbed the headlines showing it going down then creep it back up

[Pokster]

the Saudi's seem hell bent on keeping production levels up which will keep prices down as there isn't much demand... this could be to help feck up Russia who need oil far higher to make any money out of it.

You also have the exchange rate to consider... now you think a falling exchange rate is a bad thing (see your Greek comments), but every nation seems to be trying to get it's exchange rate down so cheapening exports and helping their manufacturing industry .. (also, a falling exchange rate make sa markd difference on inflation, something a lot of nations are trying to get up).

So basically, you need to fill your car up any way, so get on with it and stop being a pussy

[barrybueno]

split second thought that's cheap. One second later I thought, f**k off that's still a massive rip off. Sad that all the things in life that are necessary to live are f**king extortionate and all the electrical crap is cheap.

I'm gonna go down the pub soon and buy a 4 pound 5p pint of Stella. :-(

[Snin]

please ?

[Pokster]

[Snin]

[barrybueno]

Or invites some Arsenal players round

[barrybueno]

****ish ****stain government puts their 99 percent tax on it :****er:

[Classic Jorge]

Do you have a favourite ISA, rich? What tablets do you find most effective for descaling a kettle?

Are you not in your twenties, are there not bigger, better, funner things you could be doing?

Go out and do them, you'll regret wasting your time thinking about petrol prices when you're old and married.

[Classic Jorge]

Also "could be to help feck up Russia" :nono: :strood: :sherlock:

[Pokster]

[Pokster]

[Classic Jorge]

I spent most of my 20s trying to remember where I parked my motorbike

[Billy Goat Sverige]

later worried about fuel going up by 1p :-|

First world problems.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

:shakehead:

[Snin]

[Monty91]

of anything?

I ask because I can't quite see why it's worse for a newspaper to give favourable coverage to an advertiser than to be biased in anything it covers?

[Rich]

I would want to slow production and force the price up. Why is that not what's happening? Is it to squeeze Russia?

[barrybueno]

Then again it probably helps pass the time. I reckon he wimbs while listening to some Eastern European banging on about **** in his surgery.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You’re going to pay it anyway so get on with it. Perhaps a person that fills his or her car a lot may want to know.

I was accosted before Xmas on my way to work on a garage forecourt by this bloke asking me the price per litre, and when I located it and read it out to me he ranted and told me it was cheaper in a place about 1.5 miles away. I was on my way to work so not one singular f**k did I give about fuel prices.

In the end he was chatting to me about extortion monies paid to Republican and other paramilitary organisations during the troubles.

He was a complete nutter, stood there with a packet of rashers in his hands.

[Rich]

interviews was what he thought of the oil price at the moment. This is what made me start thinking.

[Classic Jorge]

The only prices you should be keeping an eye on at that age are around weights and measures

[Snin]

and would happily see us get a new co. on board for an advert then visit it and slag the **** out of it..cnuts. All the restaurants would give me extra cash in hand for a good review..id just tell them it made no differrence but wink and accept it. then hope they didnt give it a bad one :-) the best i manged ONCE was to get them to remove a review ..they wouldnt change it but as a one off they removed it from a guide. Metro and that lot all took money for reviews..everyone knows what papers are real and wot are bollox plus in general why believe any writer anyway ? everyone has his own hang ups / directions / prefernces

[Luis Anaconda]

[Monty91]

full of coarse, brash, unduly confident ****ers.

[Classic Jorge]

[Snin]

:cloud9: ..calling up the black 5 series delivery man by 4 pm pop out the Marquis of Granby to jump in his car round the block :cloud9: them were the daze

[Classic Jorge]

Of course it does but it shouldn't be the case that the story is completely absent, much like the HSBC affair was in the Telly.

[Classic Jorge]

I miss being an advertising ****er

[Snin]

they were a fecking nightmare..at least the i-d ones on first floor were a bit more rock and roll

[Classic Jorge]

Like a gentle rapist, imo

[Snin]

get to know all the 'names' ..easy life..i should have actually done some work and id probably run some big agency..as f**k knows how those dumb cnuts did :-) but I was worse :-) did f**k all really now looking back except get bolloxed

[Monty91]

judgments based on the agenda of their pay-masters.

I fail to see how not covering a story - because it reflects negatively on a key advertiser - is any worse than this.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Classic Jorge]

Proprietors meddling has always been frowned upon though, even if it happens

[Pokster]

lack of construction, slowing economy, less required for heating. So price drops, OPEC have decided not to lower production, so price drops... bugger all RUSSIA can do about it but it is costing them big time as it costs about $80 a barrel for them to make money

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They need the States to be dependent on them for energy again.

[Pokster]

it's non profitable oil rigs are closing but the fracking costs are only about $20 a barrel.

The Saudi's are basically doing this to clobber the members of OPEC that 'cheat' and produce more than they should which forces the Saudi's to lower production, they have said enough is enough and that is why they won't cut.... hence the price drop

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

already gone into Chapter wossname?

[Rich]

at which point Shale Gas production can be ramped up again.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Pokster]

but just been mothballed until required.

The US will be happy to have cheap oil as their economy is one of the ones doing better than most.

This $40-50 is costing the Saudi's too but they have big foreign currency reserves that means they can last longer than most members of OPEC

[Snin]

:fact:

[redgunamo]