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Originally Posted by Russ
I can't believe the utter BS being spilled by the petrol forecourt companies.
When people say that petrol and other goods are more expensive on motorway services, they try to defend the extortionate prices by saying 'running costs are higher on motorways'.
When the government reduced petrol prices, some petrol stations didn't pass on the savings for a few days. they claimed it was to 'get rid of old stock'.
Now that there's a scare on, some forecourts are inflating their fuel prices and on the radio this morning one of the bigwigs from Total said the rise in prices was to 'cover the costs of the wages for the extra staff brought in to help during the demand'.
'Total' BS.
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The bit about using up stock is true, as they bought the stocks in at the higher price. But the rest is BS as you say.
I went to fill up at a motorway service station a while ago, but it was 11p a litre more than my local BP. So I only put £20 in, and the service station lost out...serves them right if they overprice.
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We will see more and more of this:
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In York, a woman suffered 40% burns on Thursday when petrol ignited as she was decanting it in her kitchen.
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