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Asda, here today 99.70p per litre

Asda has slashed unleaded fuel prices to below £1 a litre for three days - despite saying it would not be participating in Black Friday discounting.

The supermarket chain - which was among the founders of the US shopping event in the UK but chose to boycott bargains this year - said it would offer petrol at 99.7p a litre until Sunday night.

The 4p discount marked the first widely available unleaded price below £1 since 2009.

Diesel was also reduced, by 3p a litre, to 103.7p.

UK average pump prices on Thursday, according to Experian Catalist figures, were 107.7p for petrol with diesel at 109.9p.
Shoppers wrestle over a television as they compete to purchase retail items on "Black Friday" at an Asda superstore in Wembley
Video: Why Asda Said 'No' To Black Friday

Asda told Sky News on Thursday that its decision not to participate in Black Friday sales in-store or online was a "calculated risk" - partly as it wished to avoid the fights among shoppers for big-ticket goods witnessed last year.

It said it was choosing to offer discounted goods across the festive season having identified apathy for Black Friday among its customers.

The discount shopping day was proving to be less frenzied on shop floors for retailers choosing to participate this year - with experts predicting the bulk of the £1bn expected spend to be made online.

Asda boss, Andy Clarke, credited the Autumn Statement for its cut to pump prices.

He said: "The Chancellor's freeze on fuel duty is what our customers were hoping for.


From http://news.sky.com/story/1595598/asda-in-black-friday-u-turn-on-fuel

Years ago i remember the petrol shortage.
Me and my other half and our band were in the recording studio for two days solid, morning till night, and none of us knew about it!

We drove out one day to get food and wondered why there were lines of cars queing up for petrol!!

Crazy.

Wow, you're still paying about three times as much as I do, if my math is right

and you were saying about medical bills?

we pay in general the dallor price you pay, but in pounds, and some things are dearer still

what do you pay for an 800 grm loaf of bread,,,the nasty white cotton wool sliced stuff?

what do you pay per Lb for say beef steak?

Lord Foul wrote:and you were saying about medical bills?

we pay in general the dallor price you pay, but in pounds, and some things are dearer still

what do you pay for an 800 grm loaf of bread,,,the nasty white cotton wool sliced stuff?

what do you pay per Lb for say beef steak?

I'd say about a dollar or two for nasty white bread (which I don't buy, period) and steak would be $4 to $5 per pound.

The question is, are higher prices for food driving Brits to declare bankruptcy? Of course not. Huge medical bills, on the other hand, are the leading reason Americans declare bankruptcy http://www.cbsnews.com/news/insured-but-still-strapped-with-huge-medical-bills/

yup but the medical bills come as a lump and therein lies the bankruptcy problem

commodity prices just cause grinding poverty


you pay $1-2 for bread,,,we pay £1-2

you pay $4-5 for steak we pay £5 plus

what do you pay for a 3bed type home over there?
average here is about £250,000 with london and some other cities much much higher higher

Lord Foul wrote:yup but the medical bills come as a lump and therein lies the bankruptcy problem

commodity prices just cause grinding poverty


you pay $1-2  for bread,,,we pay £1-2

you pay $4-5 for steak we pay £5 plus

what do you pay for a 3bed  type home over there?
average here is about £250,000 with london and some other cities much much higher higher

Thought you'd be the type of person who'd say that when you know you're going to need fuel, food, etc., you can create a budget and live within your means. The only way to prepare for astronomical medical bills, on the other hand, is either to be rich or to save almost everything you earn and live in a house in a bad neighborhood with half a dozen roommates.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:yup but the medical bills come as a lump and therein lies the bankruptcy problem

commodity prices just cause grinding poverty


you pay $1-2  for bread,,,we pay £1-2

you pay $4-5 for steak we pay £5 plus

what do you pay for a 3bed  type home over there?
average here is about £250,000 with london and some other cities much much higher higher

Thought you'd be the type of person who'd say that when you know you're going to need fuel, food, etc., you can create a budget and live within your means. The only way to prepare for astronomical medical bills, on the other hand, is either to be rich or to save almost everything you earn and live in a house in a bad neighborhood with half a dozen roommates.

or insure?

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:yup but the medical bills come as a lump and therein lies the bankruptcy problem

commodity prices just cause grinding poverty


you pay $1-2  for bread,,,we pay £1-2

you pay $4-5 for steak we pay £5 plus

what do you pay for a 3bed  type home over there?
average here is about £250,000 with london and some other cities much much higher higher

Thought you'd be the type of person who'd say that when you know you're going to need fuel, food, etc., you can create a budget and live within your means. The only way to prepare for astronomical medical bills, on the other hand, is either to be rich or to save almost everything you earn and live in a house in a bad neighborhood with half a dozen roommates.

THAT depends on your "means"

what part of nationalistic SOCIALIST cant you comprehend?

Lord Foul wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Thought you'd be the type of person who'd say that when you know you're going to need fuel, food, etc., you can create a budget and live within your means. The only way to prepare for astronomical medical bills, on the other hand, is either to be rich or to save almost everything you earn and live in a house in a bad neighborhood with half a dozen roommates.

or insure?

Medical insurance is a whole different facet of the overall pharma fraud. They can no longer exclude for prior condition, or agg. limits, but they can still drive prices through the roof.

Insurance companies aren't in business for you.

Lord Foul wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Thought you'd be the type of person who'd say that when you know you're going to need fuel, food, etc., you can create a budget and live within your means. The only way to prepare for astronomical medical bills, on the other hand, is either to be rich or to save almost everything you earn and live in a house in a bad neighborhood with half a dozen roommates.

THAT depends on your "means"

what part of nationalistic SOCIALIST cant you comprehend?

Socialized medicine is the only answer.  The two most fundamental things that can be provided a citizen are national defense and the best of health.  

We already have a socialized defense...the US military is the largest socialist organization in the world: ownership in the people, for the people, paid for by the people.

Health?  So far it's been left to the market, which intrudes profit motive in between need and good delivery of service. Because it is a critical service, producers realize they are unfettered in the costs they charge. That is the basis of pharma fraud.

Lord Foul wrote:yup but the medical bills come as a lump and therein lies the bankruptcy problem

commodity prices just cause grinding poverty


you pay $1-2  for bread,,,we pay £1-2

you pay $4-5 for steak we pay £5 plus

what do you pay for a 3bed  type home over there?
average here is about £250,000 with london and some other cities much much higher higher

What??!!!!

£250,000 in London for a three bed??? Are you crazy???? Double that and then double it again!!!!
You'd get a studio flat for 250,000
I live in the green belt area and an average 3 bed is about 400,000

eddie wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:yup but the medical bills come as a lump and therein lies the bankruptcy problem

commodity prices just cause grinding poverty


you pay $1-2  for bread,,,we pay £1-2

you pay $4-5 for steak we pay £5 plus

what do you pay for a 3bed  type home over there?
average here is about £250,000 with london and some other cities much much higher higher

What??!!!!

£250,000 in London for a three bed??? Are you crazy???? Double that and then double it again!!!!
You'd get a studio flat for 250,000
I live in the green belt area and an average 3 bed is about 400,000

read it again slowly eddie

£250,000 with london and some other cities much much higher

I never look at the price of petrol, I just fill the tank up at the most convenient petrol station at the time. I don't drive that much though tbh.

Lord Foul wrote:

eddie wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:yup but the medical bills come as a lump and therein lies the bankruptcy problem

commodity prices just cause grinding poverty


you pay $1-2  for bread,,,we pay £1-2

you pay $4-5 for steak we pay £5 plus

what do you pay for a 3bed  type home over there?
average here is about £250,000 with london and some other cities much much higher higher

What??!!!!

£250,000 in London for a three bed??? Are you crazy???? Double that and then double it again!!!!
You'd get a studio flat for 250,000
I live in the green belt area and an average 3 bed is about 400,000

read it again slowly eddie

£250,000 with london and some other cities much much higher

Yes I know
My point was, that you wouldn't get a three bed house in London for £250,000

eddie wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:



read it again slowly eddie

£250,000 with london and some other cities much much higher

Yes I know
My point was,  that you wouldn't get a three bed house in London for £250,000

Perhaps a comma before "with" might have made it clearer.

£1.07 for diesel at Morrisons today. Still a lot cheaper than it was this time last year.

How long will that last though.

Raggamuffin wrote:

eddie wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:



read it again slowly eddie

£250,000 with london and some other cities much much higher

Yes I know
My point was,  that you wouldn't get a three bed house in London for £250,000

Perhaps a comma before "with" might have made it clearer.  

Ah right. Yes that comma makes every slight bit of difference!! He should've been clearer tut tut Victor

ohhh you ARE "picky" aint you


right thats it, mocking my grammar....

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Lord Foul wrote:ohhh you ARE "picky" aint you


right thats it, mocking my grammar....

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Oh come back you big grump