Ridiculous Differences In LPG Prices

[A S R]

I’ve been out and about for two weeks now in my motorhome and I like being off grid as much as possible. I have two refillable bottles on board and like to keep them topped up so I use various LPG stations dotted about but I can’t for the life of me work out how the price varies so much?
I first filled them up at Birmingham Autogas in Cradley Heath…. £0.75 a litre. Nice. I then filled up before I came back off Skye two days ago at Harbourside Garage, Broadford……£1.41! Really? I had a look at Lochbroom Garage Services in Ullapool today….. £1.41 again. How can the last two be nearly double the first one? Is it profiteering because of the lack of choice up here in Scotland?

 

[pagey]

Right first time

 

[DavidG58]

From both of those examples you would spend far more in fuel driving to a cheaper one than you could possibly save

I just pay what they ask and am grateful they are there , more closing than opening

A cylinder costs me about £20 to refill at 99p / litre, I think that’s OK and even £30 would be so much cheaper than Calor

 

[Pausim]

Probably costs twice the price to get it delivered in the Highlands than in Birmingham. The nearest refinery might be a 4 or 5 hour drive away. I would just be glad that someone bothers to stock it at all. If you don’t like the price don’t buy it.

 

[sweetie]

Yesterday I fitted gaslow bottle to our new to us bailey and paid £1.09 ltr at a filling station 3 miles away so i could check everything was OK, yes i could have paid 30p less at flogas but that,s 20 miles away and would have cost more in diesel than i would have saved. So swings and roundabouts.

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[Spriddler]

Probably costs twice the price to get it delivered in the Highlands than in Birmingham. The nearest refinery might be a 4 or 5 hour drive away.

In my experience most sellers and delivery firms show prices on their website but with a note that they exclude the Highlands and Islands.

 

[Basildog]

I can absolutely see why a small retailer would have to charge a realistic price for LPG now , we don’t see many leisure customers for months in the winter , then our staff are constantly interrupted by phone calls ( we are actually just about to add an announcement to our phone system regarding LPG as the calls are now beyond a joke ) .
Leisure market LPG is small volume sales and extremely time consuming, increasing the price for smaller volume sales might be something we need to do .
On another note I was working over the weekend just gone , after a call I agreed to serve them with LPG only for the owner to jump out of his Motorhome with a lit cigarette
Asked nicely if he could move away from the pump / tank , answered that he was just going to open his locker

 

[Riverbankannie]

I think the majority of us are happy to pay any extra price to keep yours, and other services available.

 

[olley]

€85-€1.10 is what I have paid so far in France and Spain.

 

[sgl5gjr]

79.9p in Morrisons yesterday.....a wee VW was filling up on the other pump

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[A S R]

I can absolutely see why a small retailer would have to charge a realistic price for LPG now , we don’t see many leisure customers for months in the winter , then our staff are constantly interrupted by phone calls ( we are actually just about to add an announcement to our phone system regarding LPG as the calls are now beyond a joke ) .
Leisure market LPG is small volume sales and extremely time consuming, increasing the price for smaller volume sales might be something we need to do .
On another note I was working over the weekend just gone , after a call I agreed to serve them with LPG only for the owner to jump out of his Motorhome with a lit cigarette
Asked nicely if he could move away from the pump / tank , answered that he was just going to open his locker

They walk among us!

 

[A S R]

I think the majority of us are happy to pay any extra price to keep yours, and other services available.

Absolutely. It was the huge differences in price I was wondering about. I’m happy to pay whatever it costs at the time but presumably the one man band in Cradley Heath is still making a profit on the £0.75? I work in the road transit industry and know all about transportation costs as it’s part of my job description.

 

[Al n Val]

On another note I was working over the weekend just gone , after a call I agreed to serve them with LPG only for the owner to jump out of his Motorhome with a lit cigarette
Asked nicely if he could move away from the pump / tank , answered that he was just going to open his locker

I wouldn't have served him tbh.......... idiot