Oil Price Rising

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The main refinery in Scotland is at Grangemouth, near Falkirk. I imagine most fuel for Scottish filling stations will start its journey there.

The other issue with the prices in remote areas is the lack of sales volume. A city, suburban or highway based filling station can afford to keep its margins thin because of the high passing traffic and sales of other products as well as fuel. Rural filling stations just don't get that volume, so have to keep their margin relatively higher.

Going back to the original point, don't forget that oil-prices impact a whole lot of things apart from the cost of fuel in your tank. Heating oil, cost of distribution of food and every other consumer product, aviation fuel, bus fuel, train fuel, pesticides, fertiliser, plastics, etc, etc. Expect inflation to climb if these price rises continue.

Just to add fuel to the fire (lol!), the pound has been falling against the dollar recently, meaning that oil is even more expensive to obtain for British-based refineries.

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