Price of diesel

Hi all.
Can anyone advise why diesel is now 10p more per litre than petrol. Is this a tax change due to the clamp down on diesel cars?


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Diesel has much more of a demand in winter as it is also a component of heating fuel. Therefore diesel-petrol differential opens up in winter, and narrows is summer when heating oil demand is at it’s lowest.

As far as I know , there’s been that disparity in price for a fair few years now. You would imagine it would be cheaper due to drop in demand as people take fright and go for petrol vehicles...


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Thanks for the replies. Thinking about going petrol next time although prefer diesel. Think the agenda is against diesel and it won’t be changed.


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Ever since it became popular price jumped. I remember the old days when diesal was dirt cheap.

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Thanks for the replies. Thinking about going petrol next time although prefer diesel. Think the agenda science is against diesel and it won’t be changed.


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FTFY

By coincidence I noticed today that the price differential is more than I can remember it ever being. 8% difference at the filling station I passed today, that's significant!

Despite the agenda against diesel I still prefer the way a big engine diesel automatic drives compared to petrol, in this type of car it would still be my choice.

Anything that makes Diesel cars less attractive & leads to less of them being driven on our roads is a good thing in my opinion.

Surely there's never been such a big gap as there is right now. Saw one garage with 13p a litre difference at the weekend.

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Originally Posted by pinpull

As far as I know , there’s been that disparity in price for a fair few years now.


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Not as much as it is now. It used to be about 5-6p a litre more expensive. Now it’s over 10p more in most places.

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Originally Posted by trident-7

Anything that makes Diesel cars less attractive & leads to less of them being driven on our roads is a good thing in my opinion.

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If they meet EU emission regs it matters not what fuel they use?

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Anything that makes Diesel cars less attractive & leads to less of them being driven on our roads is a good thing in my opinion.

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This, diesel is a dirty fuel no matter how good the cats on the vehicle.

Or until they change their mind again. We were pushed into diesels years ago when we all drove petrols but once we got them realised how good to drive they were.


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