fuel cost in France?

[landman]

Have been playing with the French Govt Prix Carburant website.

From Cherbourg to LM unleaded Carentan €1.479/litre [£1.28] - diesel Carentan €1.232/litre [£1.08]

From St. Malo to LM unleaded Cesson-Sévigné €1.512/litre [£1.32] - diesel Cesson-Sévigné €1.285/litre [£1.12]

From Caen to LM unleaded Alencon €1.514/litre [£1.32] - diesel Caen €1.299/litre [£1.14]

From Le Havre to LM unleaded Gonfreville-l'Orcher €1.510/litre [£1.32] - diesel Gonfreville-l'Orcher €1.270 [£1.11]

Will complete Dieppe, Boulogne, Calais & Dunkirk in a while

[termietermite]

That's today, though.  Tomorrow, the results will be different!

Last week on the way to the circuit on Friday, at Super U Changé, diesel was 1.32.  The next day it was 1 28, then it went up to 1.33 on the Sunday (I kid you not.)  Meanwhile, our local supermarket went down from 1.34 to 1.33.  Go figure.

The local radio station even announces the cheapest fuel available around various areas of the Sarthe every hour in its news bulletins.

[geoffd]

With only a 25 litre tank on the Frogeye I'm buggered anyway and have to fill up where I can

25 gallon tank on my Aston    Not sure a few pence here and there makes much difference tbh, but i'll just keep topping up as and when!  In theory home to LM is under a tankfull...

[wishy]

I topped up at Spa on Saturday and paid 1.44 a litre for diesel.The Dfh guys  were saying that all Total petrol stations have now stopped doing standard diesel....so if you're filling up on diesel, avoid Total petrol staionsas they only do their excellium diesel.

Andy

[Kpy]

I topped up at Spa on Saturday and paid 1.44 a litre for diesel.The Dfh guys  were saying that all Total petrol stations have now stopped doing standard diesel....so if you're filling up on diesel, avoid Total petrol staionsas they only do their excellium diesel.

Andy

Maybe in Holland, but certainly not the case in France.

[gt6]

Petrol was very expensive at Spa, ordinary 4* was mostly 1.68 but some were over 1.70 a litre, and with the euro and pound almost at parity now that make it very pricey. Filled tank up in Kent and only had to put 20 litre in at Dunkerke not bad for a trip of 530 miles.

[termietermite]

Unusual, because normally when we're at Spa (well, Malmedy, actually) in July we find the diesel cheaper there and top up before we set off for home.  Seems that you never can tell.  Where was this, Spa itself, Francorchamps,  the motorway, or one of the other towns?

[wishy]

Deb,

It was at the petrol station just up the road from the circuit.....so I guess you would possibly pay a premium as it is so close to the track.

Andy

[gt6]

Blimey wishy you answered before I got a chance, most of the other petrol stations were similar price usualy 1.68 but always more than the french prices, I think the french have a much stronger regulation on pump prices. LPG in belgium was 66 cents so take one of those and save a fortune. More importantly the beer in the racing hotel was affordable, I can drive carefully to save money on petrol but beer is a different matter.

[Kev_mk3]

thats helped me alot as doing some touring around france and no i know where to go thank you

[termietermite]

Deb,

It was at the petrol station just up the road from the circuit.....so I guess you would possibly pay a premium as it is so close to the track.

Andy

Thanks, chaps.

It turns out there'a Belgian site which does a similar thing:

http://www.carbu.be/card.php

And yes prices are a bit higher than here so that has changed.   

[knetter]

It all depends where you gas-up so to say. I payed 1.52 euro/liter for UL95 at a shell station in Hasselt. Around Spa, all stations marked up the prices, cause they get away with it. Diesel is 1.31 at the same pump I get my petrol. A little bit more then in France, but a lot less then in Holland!

And yes, Andy is right, Total in belgium, only sell the premium petrol and diesel, at least at all the stations I have been so far.

[Le Vieux]

It seems that the situation is pretty much what it's been in France for many a long year now:  Cheaper diesel, but more expensive petrol.  The cheap diesel becomes somewhat marginal if you top up at a motorway service station (I'm always amazed at those who go straight to the filling station on the exit road from The Tunnel.  Fuel is expensive there and you're within sight of Auchan at Coquelles where it's so much cheaper, even if it involves a bit of a detour to get there), so try and fill up at a hypermarket in Le Mans before returning and ditto at the ferry port if you run a diesel.

Bear in mind, too, that Monday 13th June is a Bank Holiday in France and supermarkets will be closed.

[termietermite]

Bear in mind, too, that Monday 13th June is a Bank Holiday in France and supermarkets will be closed.

Happily, the majority of pumps here now take UK plastic. 

If you want to stock up on booze, go to the big places like Auchan which are often open nowadays on public hols, at least until around 17.00.  (Well, Auchan LM usually is anyway.)