All Analysis articles – Page 5
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ANALYSIS: Temporary respite?
Just hours before the news broke about the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the new Prime Minister Liz Truss outlined to the House of Commons how her government intended to help consumers and businesses cope with the unprecedented surge in energy prices.
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MONEY TALK: Could the lights go out on some forecourt businesses?
Before HRH Queen Elizabeth II passed away, there was only one story in the media that dominated everything else: the increased cost of gas and electricity predicted for the coming autumn and winter.
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PIPELINE: A tale of two fuels
Gasoline prices in the European wholesale market have collapsed in recent months relative to crude futures, but diesel margins remain unprecedentedly high, creating a dilemma for refiners heading into winter.
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EDITOR’S COMMENT: End of an era
The nation’s emotions were all over the place in the week leading up to this printed edition, with the very sad news of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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PITSTOP: Spar Winsford, Cheshire
Mystery motorist on a mission visits the Shell-branded Spar Winsford site in Cheshire
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MONEY TALK: Fuel cards and bunkering review long overdue
It has been a long, long wait, but at last, someone else in this industry has gone public with a call for a review of how fuel cards and bunkering/agency payment systems affect independent fuel retailers
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SERVICE CENTRE: EV Chargers lagging behind space-age technology in the cars
Jac Roper has a cautionary tale about charging electric vehicles and news of changes at Nisa and Co-op
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LEGAL DOCTOR: What is legal aid and how does it work?
Since Clement Atlee’s government in 1954, legal aid has been available to those involved in legal proceedings and who do not have the funds to cover the costs.
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SERVICE CENTRE: A company this size should be more organised
It started with the measly sum of six quid. Chris and Marion Clarke traded as Marion’s Shop & Filling Station, on Rousay, the largest island in the Orkney Islands of Scotland.
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ANALYSIS: Retailers silence the critics
The government’s competition watchdog has cleared retailers of profiteering after a review of the road fuel market, but has still ordered an in-depth investigation after it found “cause for concern in the growing gap between the price of crude oil when it enters refineries, and the wholesale price when it leaves refineries as petrol or diesel”.
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COMMENT: Yet another fuel market study - probably not the last!
So yet another investigation into the road fuel market is upon us and those veterans of the fuel retailing industry will probably shrug with frustration – they’ve seen it all before.
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COMMENT: Oil prices - who profits?
As I had to write the PRA’s response to the ‘short and focused’ Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation into the retail fuel market, I thought it would be a good time to reveal some facts.
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MONEY TALK: A shortage of diesel could make prices jump even higher
Back in March, when I wrote that pump prices of £2 a litre could be expected very soon, even a few close friends and colleagues told me that I was a pessimist and/or alarmist.
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PIPELINE: Margins in focus as retail prices soar
Spreads between different grades of gasoline have widened sharply in the past month with the value of octane soaring.
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SHOP TALK: The joy of soft drinks in the sun
Call me old-fashioned, but I can remember when soft drinks were all about the taste and refreshment but nowadays they seem to be all about the packaging and the fact that you can recycle the cans and bottles.
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SERVICE CENTRE: It’s not what you know, it’s who you know
This story clearly demonstrates that it’s not what you know but who you know. Steve Smyth of Harwood Bros Motors (Wootton) Ltd with a forecourt shop and Lushington Garage at Ryde on the Isle of Wight, wrote to say that he was a new retailer with PayPoint.
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COMMENT: There’s a lot to do to meet CCC targets
The Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) Monitoring Framework report was released last week, tracking the Government’s progress in meeting carbon budgets and climate targets.
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COMMENT: Fuel retailers are being unfairly blamed for sky-rocketing fuel prices
Retailers are being unfairly blamed for fuel prices skyrocketing and while there are reports of individual sites increasing prices excessively, this is absolutely the exception and not the rule.
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MONEY TALK: Switch it off, or turn it down.
It seems that no sooner had the government boldly declared that there would be no windfall tax on energy suppliers, they decided that there would be something called an ’energy profits levy’ on energy suppliers, intended to raise £15bn for the Treasury.