All Diesel articles – Page 12
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Diesel’s price advantage is being eroded
Diesel’s undercutting of petrol may be short-lived if recent trends continue. Plummeting prices in July sent diesel below petrol for the first time in 14 years, and by mid-August the price differential had stabilised at around 3ppl, but a flurry of petrol price cuts in the week before Forecourt Trader ...
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Car makers promote cleaner diesels
Europe’s car industry has launched a campaign insisting the latest diesel technology is clean and acceptable for use in cars, as tighter emissions standards have been introduced. From September 1 all new vehicles will need to comply with Euro-6, the new European vehicle emissions legislation. The European Automobile ...
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Supermarket price cuts reduce diesel petrol gap
Three of the big four supermarkets have reduced their fuel prices by identical amounts this morning (Thursday, August 27), with cuts that further narrow the gap between diesel and unleaded petrol after petrol price cuts at the weekend. Morrisons was first to announce the cut of 2ppl on unleaded petrol ...
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NewsAsda cuts diesel to 108.7ppl
Asda has announced a new round of price cuts on fuel with 2ppl off diesel and up to 1ppl off unleaded petrol from Saturday August 8, and this was swiftly matched by Sainsbury’s. Asda’s new national price cap on diesel will be 108.7ppl, its lowest price since early 2010. Unleaded ...
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NewsRAC reports 5ppl drop in diesel prices for July
The average price of diesel at the pumps fell 5ppl last month, according to RAC Fuel Watch data. The motoring organisation’s latest report shows that at the start of the month diesel was 120.63ppl, but by the end it had dropped almost 5p to 115.74ppl. On Wednesday July 29, the ...
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NewsHMRC introduces roadside testing of diesel
HMRC has started the roll-out of new road-side fuel testing equipment across the UK to tackle the trade in illicit diesel. It will be used to check fuel both at the roadside and on dealers’ forecourts. Treasury minister Damian Hinds visited Belfast and Newry as HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) ...
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NewsAverage diesel pump price falls below unleaded
The average price of diesel at the pumps has fallen below the average price of unleaded petrol for the first time in more than 14 years. According to Experian Catalist, which monitors dealers’ prices across the UK on a daily basis, the average price of diesel on July 28 fell ...
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Sainsbury’s announces another 2ppl cut in diesel prices
Sainsbury’s has announced that from tomorrow - July 28 - it will be cutting the price of diesel by up to 2ppl across its 300 forecourts. This is the third time in less than three weeks that the company has dropped the price of diesel, among a slew of similar ...
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NewsAverage diesel price set to drop below unleaded
Average diesel prices are likely to fall below unleaded petrol for the first time in 14 years, following a round of price cutting by supermarkets sparked by Morrisons. It announced that it was cutting its diesel by 2ppl from Monday July 20, and that in most of its sites ...
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Supermarkets cut 2ppl off diesel
Another round of supermarket fuel price cuts was announced this week. Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s all cut the price of diesel by 2p a litre, the day after the Chancellor’s Summer Budget revealed there would be no increases in fuel duty as some had feared. The supermarket announcements follow last ...
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RAC calls for "fairer" diesel pricing
The RAC is calling on fuel retailers to pass on savings on diesel after the wholesale price of diesel remained cheaper than petrol for all of June. In the RAC’s Fuel Watch report for June it described the price of diesel as the “elephant in the room” with wholesale prices ...
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Defence of diesel over air quality
Central government and local authorities should think hard and look at the facts before making major policy changes in the name of achieving ‘green’ environmental improvements, according to the specialist motoring publisher Glass’s. It said that knee jerk reactions to studies showing the negative impact of diesel emissions on urban ...
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Couple arrested over 500 litres of diesel in car
Thames Valley Police officers have arrested two people on suspicion of theft after they discovered with a huge quantity of fuel in the vehicle the suspects were travelling in. The officers stopped a car on the M40 near Beaconsfield on Tuesday 5 May. The vehicle was carrying 500 litres ...
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NewsPRA describes RAC diesel accusation as nonsense
The PRA has reacted furiously and accused the RAC of an alarming lack of research after it claimed retailers are profiteering on diesel and taking high margins because much of the diesel sold is to business users who are less price sensitive. RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said: “It’s hard ...
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Electric car secondhand values catching up diesels
Forecasts of secondhand values for electric vehicles (EVs) are moving closer to traditional diesel cars as the used car market becomes more accustomed to the technology they contain, according to the self-styled “trade bible” Glass’s. In some cases, residual value (RV) forecasts are already broadly similar to their diesel equivalent, ...
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NewsCar makers challenge ’demonisation of diesel’
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has launched a campaign to challenge what it describes as increasing demonisation of diesel and raise consumer awareness about the latest low-emission car technology. A Diesel Facts guide will be available online and in leaflet form via car makers and dealers. The ...
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Summit meeting highlights cleaner diesel
The contribution that commercial vehicles can make to improving air quality is the focus of a summit meeting being held today (February 11). The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) is hosting transport policy makers, vehicle manufacturers and other stakeholders from across the UK at a special event in ...
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FairFuelUK accuses retailers of profiteering on diesel
FairFuelUK is calling for an inquiry into pump prices and is accusing retailers of profiteering on diesel. Campaigners Quentin Willson and Howard Cox are meeting with MPs this week to press for an inquiry and say that diesel prices have not come down as much as petrol, after the price ...
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NewsCCTV image released after £500 diesel theft
Police have released a CCTV image of a man they want to trace in connection with a substantial diesel theft at Louth in Lincolnshire. Around £500 worth of fuel was used to fill up an HGV at the Shell garage on Bolingbroke Road on December 10. The driver left without ...
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Diesel consumption hits record level
Monthly diesel demand by cars and commercial vehicles in the UK has pushed above 2.5bn litres for the first time, reflecting a growth in road traffic driven by light goods vehicles. However, petrol consumption by UK drivers continues to struggle to recover despite falling pump prices, up only 19m litres ...