EEK !!! GAS BOTTLE PRICE HIKE !!!!! gone up on the 1st.

[spanish_lad]

just been to the petrol station to get a gas bottle (butano) and they are now up to €11.80 i was shocked! i asked the guy and he said that it went up on the first of january.

i thought they wern´t gonna go up?

[El Cid]

Just think yourself lucky that you are not living in the Ukraine!

Electricity prices are also going up around 4% but the increase is about 3 times more in the UK.

Energy price increases in Spain are probably much lower than most other EU countries.

Sid

[spanish_lad]

yer thats cool with me cid, i heard sumin about that, its been cut off and they are charging extra if it wants putting back on.


back to the bottles, its not the price its the fact that they say one thing and do something completly different does my head in

[country boy]

We had a couple of Hardware shops in YUK; when we came out here to live in 2000, we were already charging over £10 then for a refill for a 13 kilo Butane cylinder...
Anyone still in YUK?....how much is a "fill" now so we can compare?

[oliveview01]

We paid 11.85€ this afternoon at the local garage for the silver gas bottle. Think we had better start wearing more layers and save on the bills!

[Jade138]

When the gas guy came over to the house on Dec 23rd to deliver 3 bottles of propano, the bill was about 85 Euros!!!!! including tips it was
90 Euros

[Nikvin]

ouch.....
was told on sat they were going up 1 euro!!, got an extra one, bit had we known it was 1.60 increase would have grabbed 3 or 4 more still!!

[brenda]

We paid 11.20 for an orange bottle today from our local supplier. Rise of exactly €1.

[Paulg]

In Torre del Mar they have increased by the same amount,1€ to 11.20€,just under a 10% rise

[Faire d'Income]

We had a couple of Hardware shops in YUK; when we came out here to live in 2000, we were already charging over £10 then for a refill for a 13 kilo Butane cylinder...
Anyone still in YUK?....how much is a "fill" now so we can compare?

A Calor 15kg cylinder retails for £18.96 which if you took Repsol's price taking into account the different cylinder size equates to £9.76.

[spanish_lad]

We had a couple of Hardware shops in YUK; when we came out here to live in 2000, we were already charging over £10 then for a refill for a 13 kilo Butane cylinder...
Anyone still in YUK?....how much is a "fill" now so we can compare?

A Calor 15kg cylinder retails for £18.96 which if you took Repsol's price taking into account the different cylinder size equates to £9.76.

just bought one in my local garage and it was €11.20 this time, i thought they were supposed to be a "standard" rate ? like one price all over spain ?

[Faire d'Income]

I'm not sure of their pricing policy as they don't appear to have set retail rates but I paid €11.80 last week for a Repsol cylinder at a stockist in Colmenar. Supposedly, LPG prices are regulated by the Government in Spain but given that the BPAP price was north of $675.00 last week there is only one way prices are going.

[spanish_lad]

I'm not sure of their pricing policy as they don't appear to have set retail rates but I paid €11.80 last week for a Repsol cylinder at a stockist in Colmenar. Supposedly, LPG prices are regulated by the Government in Spain but given that the BPAP price was north of $675.00 last week there is only one way prices are going.

should of gotten into gas shares when i had the chance a couple of years ago

[Faire d'Income]

I wouldn't recommend it at the moment - it's non-stop giving customers the bad news at present and it's the oil companies who are making the money, not the LPG side.

[El Cid]

Accordind to Sur in English this week, the official price has gone up to 11.24 euros.

Sid

[Jade138]

.... Dec 23rd ... 3 bottles of propano, the bill was about 85 Euros!!!!! including tips it was 90 Euros

Today the bill for another 3 bottles was 94.44 Euros minus tips.

[El Cid]

Today the bill for another 3 bottles was 94.44 Euros minus tips.

I think you have been conned - twice!

Sid

[spanish_lad]

jeeeezus.. are you mad ?? why not go to a petrol station and collect them yourself?

it seems the spanish con-artists are right, english people really will just stump up and throw money at them without thinking !!!!

[Rockitt]

to Jade138: -

We get deliveries from Repsol and they charge €11.80 a bottle all in.

Just call into the Repsol shop, pay cash, they deliver the same day. All we do is leave the empty outside the front door and they bring the new one and replace it.

Generally the wife is around, if not, one of the neighbours takes it in until someone is home.

[chrisuk]

Be interesting to see if prices will drop once summer hits the EU in full swing, demand drops so it should drop.... but will it