The only downside to using Tesco diesel is that I have found you get a lot less mpg. So the 2 cent saving can be lost from getting less miles per tank.

Having tried all the garages over a 5 year period, Esso definitely give the best mpg.

They should be closed permanently

I know a traveller, pretty decent guy but knows every trick in the book. He was only saying to me that he will put the scrubbed diesel into his old van but would never put a drop into his BMW. Idiots think theyre getting a great deal but if they have a newer engine theyll pay in the end.

@ Felix, that’s an interesting anecdotal story and I’m glad that you shared it. However, most of us do not have the luxury of knowing which garages we can trust, and those we cannot. It seems to me, that your traveller acquaintance, is selfishly having it both ways, due to having insider knowledge, that the rest of us are not privy to. The ordinary honest consumer is then left to pay over the odds, in order to compensate for his ” theft “. Again, I’m not directing my comment at you, but I find very little in his behaviour that I could describe as decent.

Laundering has not extended to petrol also, it’s being striped by up to 20% methanol/ethanol

Meant to say ‘has been’

Been saying that for years. Craziest system ever devised. Sell all diesel as undied fuel and have the legit people claim vat back. make the reimbursement instant via online system.Remove the incentive. Remove the crime.

That’s a bit unfair, you can’t say that about every independent retailer. A lot of the other garages don’t buy from their named suppliers, I’ve seen an esso garage get deliveries from texaco, statoil and many other companies.
I go to the one that has the same texaco suppliers all the time, the guards and customs get theirs there too so I know it’s good and I don’t buy it anywhere else

Sarah

It’s not unfair at all, what’s unfair is that people’s cars are bring destroyed by independent garages run by known criminals who pay no tax, have no insurance and operate above the law.

As for the rest of you post we are going to have to disagree here, Esso not receiving fuel from Texaco, Esso is fully owned and operated by ROC and do not operate a franchise model in this country, do if you are seeing a garage get fuel from Texaco your alarms bells should go seriously go off as it means that the station has been sold out of the Esso group to an independent who is refusing to take down the pole sign and trading dishonestly.

As for Statoil delivering? Statoil stopped trading here officially in 2007 and the remaining LPG based assets were sold to DCC in the last month.

As I said before, stay away from independents

I get my Diesel from a local independent garage because it’s the only one around. I asked the Garage owner why he didn’t have any brand name up. He said he saves money by buying fuel independently.

For all the red thumbers, I’m completely against bad oill coming outta Muff

Them Magdalenes are up to their laundering tricks again!

That’s a myth Declan

Even if they wanted to a legit branded site has controls imposed on them that monitor the purchases in and sales out

Any discrepancy over .4% would be realized immediately and the operator would be removed from the site

If farmers had tanks of green diesel – they would be targeted for theft constantly

Should he not have been telling you to put in good DIESEL instead of petrol ?

Matthew. Will you give at a rest. Thefts are taking place anyway.