Diesel prices a hot subject

SINCE including the email concerning the excessive diesel prices on the Llangollen Canal, (Diesel profiteering) we have receive a huge amount of correspondence concerning its wide range of prices.

Most of it concerns low prices from various outlets, showing that the £1.04 for heating, etc charged on the Llangollen Canal is indeed excessive.

Garages

Many boaters are resorting to buying their diesel in containers, with many garages who sell red diesel doing so around the 90p mark or less.  The independent oil suppliers, usually found on industrial estates. sell it below 90p if you supply your own containers.

Of the emails we have received, that from Martin & Di of Nb Florence, sums them up, as he tells us that whilst moored up near a local garage forecourt, he obtained his red diesel which was inclusive of its costs and VAT at 89p a litre, that he could use for heating and power.

Why not boatyards

Martin asks if a garage can do that why can't the price at boatyards be similar?

They are at very few, and the excuse some boatyards use that they don't sell such huge quantities really will not hold, as those boatyards on the Staffs & Worcs also sell it at 89p a litre.

Addendum

Trevor Minshull tells us that when on the Llangollen in March this year he filled cans at the garage below Grindley Brook. Diesel then was 82.9p.