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So I have been enjoying filling my car with fuel of late. Every time I'm on the forecourt I am
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?
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indeed the oil f**kers are creeping back up whilst oil hasnt gone down..con men
dirty feckers rich..they grabbed the headlines showing it going down then creep it back up
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Actually it is at $58.91 as we speak... but there are too many factors to make a prediction
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
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My fill up has gone from 85 quid to around 68. I was looking at the price while filling up and for a
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. :-(
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I would recommend Rich buys an extra load of it and stores it in open cheap bottles around his house
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Keep them near his boiler or just by his cooker
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Venezuela 20 p a gallon

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And he starts smoking
Or invites some Arsenal players round
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Like the uber legend Clarkson said, fuel is f**king dirt cheap until the c**tish
****ish ****stain government puts their 99 percent tax on it :****er:
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Jesus f**king christ, it's like a young Nicos
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.
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Dont encourage him!
Also "could be to help feck up Russia" :nono: :strood: :sherlock:
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He needs it kept simple j
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Surely a lad in his 20s earning decent bunch shouldn't even be thinking about this stuff
I spent most of my 20s trying to remember where I parked my motorbike
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Posted the other day about buying a flat as an investment in Deptford, couple of days
later worried about fuel going up by 1p :-|
First world problems.
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Would you actually know the price of petrol in a garage?
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he owns a jag so I guess he knows the petrol station very well

GPM not mpg imo
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Back to yesterday's discussion, do you object to a newspaper ever not being neutral in its coverage
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?
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So the Saudis want to keep the price low to help their own people out? If I were the oil companies
I would want to slow production and force the price up. Why is that not what's happening? Is it to squeeze Russia?
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Awimbing in your twenties is such a crime
Then again it probably helps pass the time. I reckon he wimbs while listening to some Eastern European banging on about **** in his surgery.
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It’s just one of those things that I don’t really see the point in knowing.
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.
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My friend has just got a job a Cheyne Capital and one of the questions asked in one of the 8
interviews was what he thought of the oil price at the moment. This is what made me start thinking.
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Of course not, what sort of arch deviancy would it be if I did?
The only prices you should be keeping an eye on at that age are around weights and measures
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when I worked at Timeout the editorial would not even speak to us advertising sales types
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
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Quite right too - them were the days Snin
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That's because Time Out writers are likely to be reasonably erudite and the advertising department
full of coarse, brash, unduly confident ****ers.
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If I needed to know the price I wouldn't own a Jag
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10 am start time..but always late..2 hour alcohol lunches..meetings in afternoon on charlotte st..
: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
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The twain should theoretically never meet
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.
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I was there last year, still full of advertising wankers
I miss being an advertising ****er
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the writers were either yogurt weaving Owen Jones types of female hampstead rich greens
they were a fecking nightmare..at least the i-d ones on first floor were a bit more rock and roll
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Are they supposed to be Asset Management "good guys"?
Like a gentle rapist, imo
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it was perfect life for 20 something living in london imo free entry to nay club or bar
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
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Newspapers have always been partisan. This means they have always made editorial
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.
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You're really not trying very hard then
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They've been partisan based on their ideals and principles
Proprietors meddling has always been frowned upon though, even if it happens
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Well the problem is nobody wants oil in any large amounts at the moment
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
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The Saudis are doing it to bankrupt the US shale industry, surely?
They need the States to be dependent on them for energy again.
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Well that won't work..... isn't the US now non dependent??
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
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Nah, fracking's under p[ressure at 50 bucks a barrell, I'm sure - haven't a couple of producers
already gone into Chapter wossname?