Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes this is true,use your car to take you to Morrisons in Canterbury and you will get the best deal on fuel.
(1) First it is only£1 28.9litre, but it gets a lot better also you get your £5 voucher after so many Gallons and you use that off your shoping in the store.
(2) But this is the best part yet,if you spend £40 on your shop you get a big 6p off a litre of fuel which is on top of the saving you have already made.
(3) And last of all if you spend £40 in one transaction from 31st of October to the 24th of December each week. you can claim a £25 voucher to spend in the store up to the 31st of Decamber. now that is what I call good saving.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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At 28.9 a litre there would be a queue from Dover to Canterbury ;)
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well Martin that is what it is I filled up there myself and got my shoping there again got 6p of a litre making£1 22.9litre in Dover it is around 35.9 litre so I made a saving of some 13p alitre,+ my store Voucher. So if you need to fill up and shop,you now know where to go,
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Probably £1.28.9 Vic
Audere est facere.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thank you for that Martin and you are right £1,28.9,anyway on going around Canterbury all the fuel outlets it was £1.28.9 per litre,so you must again aske yourself why is it still £1.35.9 in Dover, so I say just go to Canterbury and fill up till it is the same in Dover.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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The amount of fuel used plus wear and tear to the car would hardly make it viable to make a special journey to Canterbury.
re (3) that offer has been available in Dover since the start.
Fuel has always been more expensive in Dover.
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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The Esso on Dover Road Walmer do cheaper fuel 2 days a week, there is also a offer on the back of car parking tickets for 3p a litre off there, so if you use your car park ticket on the cheap fuel days it is currently £1.28.9 a litre. I do agree Vic that the fuel prices in the Dover area are far higher than they should be.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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You also save on your shoping, so it is Canterbury for us.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Have just checked this as they send the AA Fuel Price Report to me and the average price at the pump for the South East is 136.1 per litre. Thats from the last report I have which is a month or so old. So if you secure petrol at anything below that level of 136 you are winning.
Guest 648- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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And we wonder why our shops are closing .
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I remember Vic saying some time ago he prefers to shop outside Dover.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Sorry that is not the case but we do have to be very carfull ,and to keep the car on the rd,I have to make saving where I can.I have to go to Canterbury anyway to the Hospital most weeks. We do shop in Dover aswell.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Supermarket petrol is cheaper partly because it does not contain some of the expensive additives found in major brand fuel. These additives improve economy, reduce emissions and, most importantly, help to keep your engine's fuel system clean. Use supermarket fuel by all means but, 1. Be aware of the difference in quality and 2. Use the occasional tankful of Shell Optimax or BP Ultimate to help prolong the life of your engine.
Particularly, if you have an older car with a good few miles on the clock, make sure you don't have supermarket petrol in the tank when you go for your MOT - you may fail the emissions test.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I got the following in an e-mail. It seems that there are those out there who think deeply about the cost of petrol. I would add, although not a driver myself, that emptying the boot of extraneous stuff helps too...
PETROL TIPS - info!! (MUST READ)
With Petrol expected to reach £2 per litre by end of 2011 these tips that I received from a friend might come in handy.
TIPS ON PUMPING PETROL
I don't know what you guys are paying for petrol..... I am paying up to £1.35
to £1.50 per litre.
My line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every Litre:
Here at the Shell Pipeline where I work, we deliver about 4 million litres in
a 24-hour period .. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and petrol, regular and premium grades.
We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 Litres.
Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold.
Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground.
The colder the ground the more dense the petrol, when it gets warmer
petrol expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening.... your litre
is not exactly a litre.
In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the petrol, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.
A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business.
But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.
When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode.
If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle,
and high.
You should be pumping on low mode, thereby minimizing the vapours that are created while you are pumping.
All hoses at the pump have a vapour return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapour.
Those vapours are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.
One of the most important tips is to
fill up when your Petrol tank is HALF FULL.
The reason for this is the more Petrol you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space.
Petrol evaporates faster than you can imagine.
Petrol storage tanks have an internal floating roof.
This roof serves as zero clearance between the Petrol and the atmosphere,
so it minimizes the evaporation.
Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every litre is actually the exact amount.
Another reminder, if there is a petrol truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy Petrol, DO NOT fill up; most likely the petrol is being stirred up as the Petrol is being delivered, and you might pick up some of
the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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some interesting tips there, fule will always be dearer in places like dover due to the extra haulage costs.
tankers delivering in canterbury will find many petrol stations close together, then they have dead running when they finish in dover.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Rather, Howard, is Dover not the very place to catch the unwary motorist; travelling to or fro Europe? Are you locals not merely caught-up in profiteering? [oops! Sorry. Legitimate business opportunity.]
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Probably Tom, but it's just a game of beggar-my-neighbour really.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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no tom people are wise enough to fill up in calais or dunkirk when coming here, people going to france make sure they have enough to get across the fill up in france.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I bow to your enhanced understanding of these matters Howard.
So kind of you also to give a chuckle to the reader with your equating of 'motorist' with 'wisdom'.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
While I would love to do away with the use of my car, enhancing my wisdom no end, I have found that one pays extra on the ferry if one has to take a groom to service the horses.
