is petrol cheaper or dearer in Europe?

More like £1.74 I think!
Wish it were 1.74p 😂😂😂😂😂

Cheapest diesel in my area yesterday was £199.7

This thread is doing ny head in! Dirt cheap or wickedly expensive. Which one is it?!

It's usually a bit dearer in France I find, but I'm just buying wherever is convenient, not necessarily checking.

Diesel is About 260 cents a litre here - about £1. 38 Unleaded petrol is 230 cents a litre , a bit cheaper, about £1.21. It used to be under $2 a litre always until Donald’s shenanigans.

Some snippy comments here in the absence of kindly pointing out an inadvertent error.
It’s a wonder anyone starts a thread !!
I think it’s shot up in price per litre but don’t know it compares with , say, France or Spain.

South Wales

Unleaded £1.79
Diesel £1.99

I said a joke, I was indirectly poking fun at my own confusion while actually kindly answering the question despite splitting my comments.

I wasn't being snippy. Just so you know, Tilly

NotSpaghetti

Cheapest diesel in my area yesterday was £199.7

Now that IS expensive 😂😂😂😂

Ha ha. My daughter says diesel at the supermarket near her house is £199.6!
....bargain!

MawsRosie

NotSpaghetti

Cheapest diesel in my area yesterday was £199.7

Now that IS expensive 😂😂😂😂

That was my point!

We used to be encouraged to drive on diesel in the late 80’s but it’s all change now isn’t it?
My car is petrol engine and it’s £1.74 Litre here (for today anyway!)
Your diesel is steep NSpaghetti

Cheaper in Lanzarote 1.64 euros a litre.

I paid £1.95 last night to fill up with Diesel

No need to ask.

RAC publish a comparison list.

www.rac.co.uk/drive/travel/advice/european-fuel-prices-petrol-and-diesel-prices-in-europe/

Either way, it’s not going to make sense to pop over to mainland Europe to fill up!

I'll be driving on the M6 later today and dread to think what the service stations charge.

£2.03 at the local garage for diesel 🙀

Under Gordon Brown in 2001 diesel cars were encouraged and fuel duty on diesel lowered.
The government then made a U turn as their research showed diesel let off more harmful emissions than petrol.

However, the refining process for diesel is a lot kinder to the environment than that of petrol.
Diesel cars overall consume less fuel and last longer than petrol models.
None of this is taken in to account.

175.4p for petrol and 200.6p for diesel.

8p per litre off if you shop and fill up with fuel at Tesco!

Nothing else we buy is charged at a portion of a penny. Why is that? If it's psychological marketing then it doesn't work, the consumer is not stupid.

Graphite

No need to ask.

RAC publish a comparison list.

www.rac.co.uk/drive/travel/advice/european-fuel-prices-petrol-and-diesel-prices-in-europe/

Yes.

We're nowhere near the most expensive, unless you have to use a motorway service station.

Nothing else we buy is charged at a portion of a penny.

Yes it is. Domestic energy and standing charges.

Wholesale gas, electricity, and oil are traded on wholesale markets down to multiple decimal places per unit.

The same is applied when selling the energy to customers.

Ah, thanks.

It is still strange though.