Erm... diesel prices...

[Chupacabra]

What is going on at the forecourts???  The price of unleaded has plummetted to around 84p per litre in some supermarkets, yet diesel seems to still be stuck at 90p.  Harldy seems fair and negates a bit of the advantage of owning a diesel car, namely the fuel economy.

I've had my moan, now carry on 

[Bluefox]

I've noticed that as well. Think they're just jealous of our fuel economy whiie they had to pay 98p/l not so long ago

[Mantamad]

This bugs me to.

Many years ago, diesel was always 1 - 2 p per litre cheaper than petrol. Then I bought my first diesel car (pug 106 - horrible in every way - but it was French!) and diesel then became a minimum of 1p dearer per litre. After a while, I sold the French disaster and went back to petrol.

Soon after diesel dropped back to the same price as petrol.

Move on to more recent times - well past 3 years anyway, and I bought a Discovery TD5, since then diesel has steadily become more expensive than petrol, now I have the Golf TDI as well, so its set to become even more expensive.

No doubt if I sell them both and go back to petrol, diesel prices will drop rapidly, but no plans to do that.

So blame me if you want, I am the jinx on diesel prices

[Chupacabra]

Manta, go back to petrol! 

apparently... the reason is because the type of crude (I think it's sweet crude, though I'd hate to be the dude who tasted it to know that!)that is used to produce diesel is also used for heating oil and as the demand is bound to go up in winter, so does the price.  This explains why the price of diesel, though not going up at the moment, aren't coming down either, at least not at the same rate as unleaded.  But the difference in price is not great enough to negate any savings we make at the pumps and I doubt it ever will

So there you go.