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yes lets blame the wrong people again
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http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/04092008/389/paying-petrol-asda-reason.html
so just because ASDA don't have a petrol pump in certain areas and because other pumps wish to charge more now its asda's fault that some people pay more for petrol ? instead of saying what a good thing that asda do charge less now its their fault that where there is no asda petrol is dear.
why are so many peoples minds in this stupid country going down the shithole ? why do we have to always blame the ones that tr/do get it right ?
so just because ASDA don't have a petrol pump in certain areas and because other pumps wish to charge more now its asda's fault that some people pay more for petrol ? instead of saying what a good thing that asda do charge less now its their fault that where there is no asda petrol is dear.
why are so many peoples minds in this stupid country going down the shithole ? why do we have to always blame the ones that tr/do get it right ?
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As it happens, one of the supermarkets recently called on the fuel companies to impose a national pricing scheme, instead of the current localised one. I cannot remember right now which one it was, though.
That petrol stations that sit near Asda-run ones can still operate a business and make a profit after matching Asda's prices leads me to believe most of those stations that have no supermarket-run stations near them could do the same. They simply choose not to because they get away with it thanks to a captive customer base.
precisely
As for petrol stations having higher prices because there isnt adequate competition, its unethical certainly, but I definitely wouldnt want to try and legislate against it.
Something like 80% of France's power is derived from nuclear energy so they do not have the same reliance on gas that we do, so its not a completely fair comparison.
It's also worth pointing out that supermarkets make a significant part of their profit on payment-lag: they'll delay paying their suppliers by up to three months and then invest that money into high interest accounts. This is ethically dubious at the very least. But as long as we get cheap petrol, I guess that is OK...
Olly
Our energy supply market is actually a lot more open to competition, so although there are more stable prices in the rest of the EU, I think we actually get a better deal. That and as Teagan said, nuclear power is a lot more stable in price than gas and coal.
Frankly I'd like to see some one name one just one supermarket that is truly ethical and honest as we only just heard it has been realized that supermarkets are increasing prices above the supply price and making much more money basically taking advantage of the increase food supply hype and letting us assume its the suppliers that have ups the prices and bnot the supermarkets, i figured this ages ago but then you must have a costly and uneccesary study to even think its truly believable