At the weekend, I was on the South Coast and, on entering the small town of Emsworth, I noticed a Total filling-station that was displaying the price of unleaded petrol at 102.9 pence per litre.
On leaving the town, about a mile further on, another Total filling-station was selling the same fuel at 92.9 pence per litre!
You don't have to ask which one had the queues.
There are difficulties when the price of a litre goes over 99.9 pence.
Today's Daily Telegraph reports: "Thousands of petrol pumps will need to be changed if, as feared, prices reach £1 a litre. More than two thirds of Britain's pumps are unable to show a petrol price above 99.99p per litre."
However, there are ways round it and, when we last had high fuel prices, a petrol station in the Scottish Highlands displayed this notice:
"IMPORTANT"
The pumps at this station
are set to compute the
total cash sale at half the
advertised price.
Customers must pay
DOUBLE
the Cash Amount
shown on the pumps.
What about the receipt for expenses though? I suppose they give two.
P.S. My local Sainsbury's was today selling unleaded petrol at 91.9 pence per litre. So I filled up!
06/09/05 @ 11:52