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martin2603

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Having just checked with one of our fuel suppliers. BP to be exact ´. We find that the price of ADBLUE is now £1.55 plus VAT per litre on a par with petrol. It was not ago that we were buying it at 70/80p per litre. Now for a non oil based product which has a water and urea content I can’t help but think the term profiteering comes to mind. Very glad my MH doesn’t use it!!
 
martin2603 said:
Having just checked with one of our fuel suppliers. BP to be exact ´. We find that the price of ADBLUE is now £1.55 plus VAT per litre on a par with petrol. It was not ago that we were buying it at 70/80p per litre. Now for a non oil based product which has a water and urea content I can’t help but think the term profiteering comes to mind. Very glad my MH doesn’t use it!!
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Think it’s because It’s a very energy intensive process to manufacture the core urea.

Used to manage a chemical plant that used 150-200 tonne of urea a day. I gather the cost has increased significantly recently.
 
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I had to fill up with Ad Blue again today. First time i have used a petrol pump filler thing to fill. Cepsa.
€10.62 for 13.5 ltrs.
I paid €18,50 for 5 ltrs in France a week ago.
Something wrong with my truck i think as it should not use that much in 800 miles, needs checking.

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bobnick said:
I had to fill up with Ad Blue again today. First time i have used a petrol pump filler thing to fill. Cepsa.
€10.62 for 13.5 ltrs.
I paid €18,50 for 5 ltrs in France a week ago.
Something wrong with my truck i think as it should not use that much in 800 miles, needs checking.
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Chricky that’s an awful lot to be using.

I know it’s not like for like but my GLC does about 15000 mile to a 27 litre tank. It’s designed to last between services.

Mind you the reliability of the system is shite.
 
BikerGraham said:
Chricky that’s an awful lot to be using.

I know it’s not like for like but my GLC does about 15000 mile to a 27 litre tank. It’s designed to last between services.

Mind you the reliability of the system is shite.
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Agree. My VW Caddy barely touches the stuff.
AND it's another job on the warranty list to get sorted.
 
martin2603 said:
Having just checked with one of our fuel suppliers. BP to be exact ´. We find that the price of ADBLUE is now £1.55 plus VAT per litre on a par with petrol. It was not ago that we were buying it at 70/80p per litre. Now for a non oil based product which has a water and urea content I can’t help but think the term profiteering comes to mind. Very glad my MH doesn’t use it!!
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It is a chemical based product from the petrochemical industry and not a non oil based product; due to demand exceeding supply the raw feedstocks have shot up in price
 
Crude oil is on a par with it's price back in the 2011-2014 period. The is pure profiteering using world event to scare us into just paying more and thinking there's a good reason behind it – which there is not.
 
heliart said:
Crude oil is on a par with it's price back in the 2011-2014 period. The is pure profiteering using world event to scare us into just paying more and thinking there's a good reason behind it – which there is not.
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No it is not pure profiteering - it is an extremely competitive market and very much demand led; which currently exceeds supply on all fronts. Simply put, the traders and purchasers have to pay much more than double what they paid 6 months ago. As an indication, heavy fuel oil ship bunkers (which is a residue product left over when all the goodness extracted from the crude) currently sells at over $1200 a tonne, which is an horrific price compared with about $450 last year. Bunker traders are lucky to make for than about 5% on the deals on a good day. Yes oil companies are making record profits, after some very, very lean years indeed.
 
The Wino said:
Look back all the way through the pandemic. When diesel was nearing £1 a litre!!
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For how long.... It certainly wasn't that price for the whole of the pandemic, maybe towards the end of the first lockdown for a few months.
 
RedFrame said:
For how long.... It certainly wasn't that price for the whole of the pandemic, maybe towards the end of the first lockdown for a few months.
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Is it not more the case that the prices were acceptable (still expensive) until the media created all the false panic last year with the alleged shortage. Which led to the shortage. Increasing the cost to £1.50 or so.

Once it had settled at this price then it never came back down.

Through in the energy crisis since and we are now where we are.
 
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For how long.... It certainly wasn't that price for the whole of the pandemic, maybe towards the end of the first lockdown for a few months.
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https://www.ft.com/content/5abf032a-bca1-444c-8aaf-d637e01460cc
Gives an idea of their performance in the pandemic strangely no-one seemed concerned about the losses. I could see no reason why there shouldn't be regulation of oil company profits with extra taxes in good years and subsidies in lean ones but surprisingly that wasn't the case.
 
martin2603 said:
Having just checked with one of our fuel suppliers. BP to be exact ´. We find that the price of ADBLUE is now £1.55 plus VAT per litre on a par with petrol. It was not ago that we were buying it at 70/80p per litre. Now for a non oil based product which has a water and urea content I can’t help but think the term profiteering comes to mind. Very glad my MH doesn’t use it!!
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2 x large Italian manufacturers cut production due to the cost if gas used in manufacture.
The Wino said:
Look back all the way through the pandemic. When diesel was nearing £1 a litre!!
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And they were still making a profit
 
Update on adblue price in France.
Just paid 0.88 per litre from a proper pump at E Leclerc Drive at Nantes.
Looks like it might be one of the cheaper items than Spain or UK??
 
When touring France last month we found AdBlu, in Intermarché supermarket, at €5.90 for five litres. I bought 15 litres.
 
I picked up some from Home Bargains recently at £1 a litre. Got some stock at home in the garage.

However, found some in France last week at one if those unmanned garages - 50p a litre!!!
 
I was in Home bargains yesterday and picked up 2 x 5 litre at £5.62 each

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France last week……65c a litre……local station in uk from pump £1.97 a litre….!
 
As a HGV driver. I'd recommend finding your nearest truckstop, the nearest to us is whitwood truckstop, their adblue price is £1.19ltr at the pump not in bottles.
Much cheaper than the BP around the corner
 
Ad Blue another major rip off.
Private buyers can dump their diesels (spose that's what they are after) but van, truck, farmers have no option (or very little).
Can't see a conbined Harvester or any of the other big farm equipment running on leccy.

Although most of the Royal Mail vans i see now are leccy.
 
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