A dirty, sneaky, bit trick has shown up on some petrol as well as diesel forecourts. It’s the £8 gallon as well as it’s one of the motoring rip-offs of the year – not least because, extremely deliberately, the eye-wateringly high cost isn’t clearly displayed to unsuspecting customers. Come to believe of it, from the illuminated roadside indications to the forecourts, forecourt shops as well as pumps themselves, there are zero references to the historically important truth that the £8 (£8.04 to be precise) gallon has already been dumped upon us.
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Instead, as well as only when a motorist gets up close as well as personal with a pump, there are tiny, sometimes poorly lit mentions of “176.9p per litre” – the greatest cost I saw last week. however why not quote the cost per gallon, too? It would be easy, fair as well as transparent for fuel retailers, yet they select to location the burden on clients like you as well as me to a) keep in mind there are 4.546 litres in a gallon, then b) work out that 176.9p x 4.546l = £8.04 per gallon – which is something the oil industry, government as well as fuel retailers don’t want motorists understanding or believing about.
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Thus their collective like of litres. It’s a mind-games thing, in that a cost of ‘just’ 100p-plus per litre has a tendency not to offend. consumers aren’t put off by a 1L product costing only pennies. however a gallon of the exact same liquid costing £8 or more looks, seems as well as is a different story – one that mustn’t be swept under the carpet.