Start of season diesel price update.

Having a yacht, I buy 20 litre cans of white fuel at the garage currently £1-60/litre or less. I have 8 -20 L cans which I keep in the shed at home. The boat has a 45 litre tank & I carry a further 2 cans with 18 litres each. That allows me to fill up whenever the supermarket does a 5P/L off offer, or the local garage is cheaper. With a range of circa 6 miles per 2.1 litres that is certainly better than having a MOBO. ;)

That computes at 56 P per mile. I suppose owners must give some consideration to cost per mile when running.That is just as important as the initial cost.
 
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Daydream believer said:
Having a yacht, I buy 20 litre cans of white fuel at the garage currently £1-60/litre or less. I have 8 cans which I keep in the shed at home. The boat has a 45 litre tank & I carry a further 2 cans with 18 litres each. That allows me to fill up whenever the supermarket does a 5P/L off offer, or the local garage is cheaper. Certainly better than having a MOBO.
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I’ve been doing similar but for a mobo tanking 40 litres when I go down and top the tanks.
not filling the tanks spreads the cost and I carry less weight
the road full tax costs has been comparable to marinas and in cases cheaper than 60/40 splits
 
Daydream believer said:
Having a yacht, I buy 20 litre cans of white fuel at the garage currently £1-60/litre or less. I have 8 -20 L cans which I keep in the shed at home. The boat has a 45 litre tank & I carry a further 2 cans with 18 litres each. That allows me to fill up whenever the supermarket does a 5P/L off offer, or the local garage is cheaper. With a range of circa 6 miles per 2.1 litres that is certainly better than having a MOBO. ;)

That computes at 56 P per mile. I suppose owners must give some consideration to cost per mile when running.That is just as important as the initial cost.
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Am I missing something here, why mess about at the supermarket with cans when it's cheaper at pretty much any marina given the 60/40 split?
 
Nigbb said:
Am I missing something here, why mess about at the supermarket with cans when it's cheaper at pretty much any marina given the 60/40 split?
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Not according to #26 it is not. Then there is the hassle of getting to the fuel berth for 4-5 litres at a time to keep full up. Plus the fuel is clean & white so not hassle in foreign ports- Although that should not be an issue now with tanked fuel. But it might be with spare fuel carried in cans. I stopped running red quite a few years ago when the Belgians started playing up.
On top of that I do not have heating. So how can I legally claim 60/40 when buying.
 
I know this thread is about red diesel prices but as a comparator we were pleasantly surprised to find forecourt prices for diesel at less than £1.50 ppl in N. Ireland when we arrived for a family get together yesterday. Brother-in-law reckons that the little country petrol station down the road it is £1.44 for both petrol and diesel! Not just a lot cheaper than mainland U.K. but virtually no price difference between petrol and diesel.
 
Greg2 said:
I know this thread is about red diesel prices but as a comparator we were pleasantly surprised to find forecourt prices for diesel at less than £1.50 ppl in N. Ireland when we arrived for a family get together yesterday. Brother-in-law reckons that the little country petrol station down the road it is £1.44 for both petrol and diesel! Not just a lot cheaper than mainland U.K. but virtually no price difference between petrol and diesel.
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£1.46 for petrol and diesel in Wantage Oxfordshire today, has been for a while.
 
Current Guernsey red riesel price : Tanker 350 litres or more £0.825ppl, Boatworks St Peter Port £0.98ppl.

Currently the weather is not conducive though.
 
Greg2 said:
I know this thread is about red diesel prices but as a comparator we were pleasantly surprised to find forecourt prices for diesel at less than £1.50 ppl in N. Ireland when we arrived for a family get together yesterday. Brother-in-law reckons that the little country petrol station down the road it is £1.44 for both petrol and diesel! Not just a lot cheaper than mainland U.K. but virtually no price difference between petrol and diesel.
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Fuel card price this week is 116.28+VAT (139.54 inc VAT) and we don’t even use much.

It’s the supermarkets that are taking the pee with diesel prices at the moment.
 
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