This is asked out of idle curiosity and because a quick Google didn't provide an answer. With all the news about petrol, what has happened to the price of domestic heating oil? I would presume that as it only has 5% tax on it, it has gone up a lot more sharply than petrol? In my archive Dave Liquorice quotes a price of 15-20p per litre in May 2002.
Oil delivered last week was 27.70p per litre, but that was in the Isle of Man and our heating oil, petrol etc. tends to be more expensive than in the UK.
Ash
On 20th April I paid 20.65+VAT pence per unit (presumably per litre) in Suffolk
Anna
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The closest I've got to an online price is:
Longer term trends might be deduceable from:
Well I suspect it will have risen in the last few weeks but this is the "slack" time of year for heating oil so prices are normally suppressed during the summer...
It will be interesting what happens in the autumn, when demand starts to rise as people stock up for the winter and the summer tank fulls start to run low.
12th Nov 2003 18.5p/l + VAT 5th Mar 2004 17.5p/l + VATFor 2000l ordinary 28sec heating oil from Shell Direct.
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