Petrol is more expensive on Fridays
If you’ve ever had a suspicion that your tank filling is more expensive as the weekend approaches, then you weren’t just being paranoid. According to our friends at petrolprices.com, filling stations are playing a very crafty trick of jacking the prices up a notch on Fridays … because that is the day most of us fill up. It allows them to post cheaper prices during the week, then adjust prices a notch just as we all roll on to the forecourt. Yes, it appears petrol is more expensive on Fridays.
This is quite a difficult, if not impossible one to prove, so we’d be interested to hear your observations on this - the big thing is that most of us don’t actually notice how much juice we’re putting in the tank let alone whether it’s 120.1 or 120.3 a litre. Is petrol more expensive on Fridays? Let us know.
Before you fill up by the way, pay a visit to petrolprices.com, which is a terrific little site allowing you to check for the cheapest petrol in your area. There’s no great surprise that the cheapest filling stations tend to be those attached to the supermarkets - the three cheapest filling stations in our area of south London are all Sainsbury’s outlets. The big supermarkets of course use fuel as a loss leader, while the independents struggle to survive … exactly what they do to little local grocers. You save your money and you make your choice.
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