| Title: | Cars in the UK |
| Notice: | Please read new conference charter 1.70 |
| Moderator: | COMICS::SHELLEY ELD |
| Created: | Sun Mar 06 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2584 |
| Total number of notes: | 63384 |
Now that the UK has been conditioned to petrol being supplied in metric
units i.e by the litre, has anybody else noticed how the overnight
fluctuations in price has increased when translated back into gallons?
We were all used to seeing petrol go up by 5 - 15 pence per gallon at
budget time and possible fluctuations of perhaps 5 pence per gallon at
other times. Now that we're metricated, 2 - 5 pence per litre seems to
be the norm in manufacturer price fluctuations - this equates to 10 -
25 pence per gallon. It would seem that the sort of fluctuations that
we came to expect in the price of a gallon are now being applied to the
much smaller unit of a litre.
Recently, Basingstoke Tesco went up overnight by 3 pence per litre (15
pence per gallon). This represents the sort of increase normally
associated with budget time.
I'm not sure - but I think that someone's taking advantage of somebody
else and it ain't me doing the taking ...................
Paul
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2539.1 | Think this was mentioned before somewhere in here... | GTJAIL::MARTIN | Out to Lunch | Fri Aug 09 1996 19:38 | 3 |
Also (allegedly) the Weights and Measures allow (say) a 5% error in the
metering of fuel. Modern pumps are about 99.999% accurate, so they
often (allegedly) set pumps to under-deliver by 4.999%.
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