Costco Fuel - Premium Diesel - £1.309 / Unleaded Petrol - £1.309 / Premium Unleaded Petrol - £1.369 at Costco Oldham

Even cheaper in Oldham as posted here! 🌞 (edited)

Is it going to be onsite or have they bought the jet station opposite

An additional 125 miles per tank? You are having a laugh. An additional 15 miles per tank at best, the gains don't add up to the additional costs or most people would be using it. Fuel is incredibly clean/pure these days, coming from the same few refineries, with the only difference being additive packs used for different customers. Shel V-power diesel used to be about 50% GTL synthetically derived, I don't think it's the case now.

Those additive packs don't make the fuel noticeably more calorific - Cetane boosters for diesel make the fuel a little more volatile for a marginally more complete burn and fewer particulates. We're talking gains of under 1% not in excess of 15%. On an absolutely filthy engine with partially blocked injectors, a fuel with decent detergents can do wonders to correct, that's not the same thing as routinely expecting an extra 125 miles per tank based on your fuel choice.

Went the other day to this store around Half 6 pm. Waited for around 5 mins. No problem at all (edited)

Agree..
Costco at Lakeside in Essex is absolute murder unless you go before 7am

Just checked 5 Costco fuel stations Ive used in the past, they all open at 6.00am Monday to Friday.
A bit later on Saturday & Sunday.
Thurrock, is open around 5.30am to 5.45am most days as the guy opens up as soon as he gets there.
Click on your local and the fuel station for times.

Yes

They've already done it twice haven't they with pretty much no effect

don't worry, when evryone else drive Electric vehicle, petrol will be cheap for you

I visited my folks on the east coast (north Norfolk) this week just gone and it was similarly ludicrous. The confusing thing is, about 4 years ago it used to be always cheaper out there than it was back home in the West Midlands.. not sure why it’s flipped this way) - presumably part of it is pure profiteering from
the holidaymakers hitting the area this time of year. (edited)

Yeah, spotted that too. They didn't get my custom!

Yep, just use your local instead of driving extra miles to Costco.
My local Sainsburys is 3p more than Costco, but saves a 30 mile round trip.

£1.29.9 which is £1.30 so not bad! Now £1.31 still much better than any other forecourts! 🌞 (edited)

Ditto. I've only been to 2 in this country but neither sell petrol. =\

Apparently... It's Esso supreme fuel at Costco. I've used both Shell V-Power diesel and Esso. Esso Synergy gets my vote even though its not a semi synthetic GTL (Gas To Liquid) derv like Shell... Just wish Cardiff would put a fuel station in! But I doubt it'll happen anytime in the next 5 years or so😔

It’s probably more complicated than it needs to be but basically, gas spot prices (basically a gas price that changes daily) have come down substantially but most suppliers buy their gas years ahead on the futures market - which hasn’t dropped as much due to uncertainty around long term supply.

Most/All the suppliers using spot daily pricing to buy gas are the ones that kept going bust as they ended up facing the immediate price increase of 20-30x what it used to be but hadn’t hedged any gas at lower rates for the future. Bit of a risky long-term strategy.

OFGEM then does calculations based on all this data but it’s based on the past 3 months, future gas rates are still 3-4x what they were in August 2021.

I was up in Yorkshire last week & couldn't believe how expensive petrol was compared to back in Manchester.

Also "funny" that fuel increases post Ukraine war have been used as reason to increase travel and food prices, now with diesel 60-70p cheaper per litre than the peak, you'd have thought things would be going the other way... :/

It’s 10p cheaper there than any supermarket…

Unleaded Petrol
133.9
Premium Diesel
134.9
Premium Unleaded Petrol
141.9