It seems the cost of diesel is dropping in France. I arrived here in St Antoine de Breuil ten days ago and the local Leclercq was at €1.99. It’s dropped since I’ve been here from that to €1.84 and now €1.77. That’s about £1.50 ish/ltr. I’ve heard that Tesco and Asda are having a price war on fuel and it’s dropped about 7p/ltr. Still some way to go yet.

just over a month ago i filled up at a super u and paid 1.95 euro which at the time converted to around £1.84..

i'm actually still running on french diesel at the moment..  ... - .- -.




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€1.77 actually works out to £1.58/ltr at €1.12 to the £ which was the rate I got from Tesco.
Much better than us it seems. I think Venezuela have the cheapest fuel but an unbearable and oppressive government.
Hang on a minute!!!

Yoy got raped on the exchange rate though and using i1.12 is not really the case

The better way to put that across would have been to say there’s a better exchange rate from xxxxxxxxx and that would work out to £x.xx/ltr.
Then we’d all have been less “raped”.

Dealt with FX all my working life .
Hung onto my usd and euro business accounts for ten years as my rate was bank plus 0.003 .

Last year I used Wise to credit mt French account fantastic X rate. Recommend. App based . You can get a card with it ( still on my to do list) . Dumped my FX bizniz accounts.


Give it a whirl Good luck. Bill Filters are in fact so good that in certain circumstances, when the ambient air is already polluted, a diesel car will tend to extract more particles from the air than it emits. Emissions Analytics worked with........etc etc

He who dies with the most toys wins...

1.77 is very good - still in the mid 1.80's near me but does seem to be progressively reducing (from over 2 EUR). So much so that I'm actually holding off filling the car up until it really needs it

Hovering at around 1.77 near me (Mont Blanc area) at the local supermarket. This site is quite useful for comparisons:

https://plein-moins-cher.fr/en/carte-carbu...5-e10.html 2021 P400 Silicon Silver AB
Gone 2011 Bournville TDV8 VSE
Gone 2008 Black Canadian HSE LUX

Sorry just noticed you meant diesel 1.87 at the Careffour for diesel so 1.77 is a great price  2021 P400 Silicon Silver AB
Gone 2011 Bournville TDV8 VSE
Gone 2008 Black Canadian HSE LUX

Just been back and it’s €1.84 again. 🙄

stan wrote:

just over a month ago i filled up at a super u and paid 1.95 euro which at the time converted to around £1.84..

i'm actually still running on french diesel at the moment..

Philip , agreed

just shows how sharp wise is. The cross rate is 1.19, so 1.1975 as a rate is excellent.


Ps

O and the French have it in mind to bring petrol down to 1.50 in the autumn by squeezing the petrol companies ( they might own one) & throwing more money at it.

Just like electricity around 0.15./0.16per kWh. Filters are in fact so good that in certain circumstances, when the ambient air is already polluted, a diesel car will tend to extract more particles from the air than it emits. Emissions Analytics worked with........etc etc

He who dies with the most toys wins...

Fingers crossed Bill! When you run a supercharged FF that will help a lot 😂

I agree about Wise - they give good exchange rates. I've been using them for many years now, since the days they started as TransferWise. I have accounts in £££ and €€€ and a debit card with them - use the card abroad in foreign currency!
My preferred fuel prices site is the French Government site https://www.prix-carburants.gouv.fr/. It's generally accurate and up-to-date, but - if you don't speaka da lingo - I'm afraid it's in Frainschese. Pretty self-evident, though.
 It's "bébéchoon", ackcherly, with accents. 'Steve' to my chums.
20 years ownership of Solihull products, ALL GONE NOW, sniff!
Current motor: Suzuki S-Cross 4WD auto, 1.4 petrol. Oh so reliable! 7 years now and no problems. Oh, all right then, a leaking shocker replaced under guarantee.
Previous:
TD6 HSE L322 Auto FF
2.5 TDi 4-door Classic
Disco II
And my 1st Rangie: in 1995, a 2-door VM 2.5 diesel Classic
Not to mention the Lada Niva before those. (I said not to mention it!)

Thanks for that - not sure why I didn't know that site existed before