General Discussion
Marine Garage
Loads of people I know had problems after filling up at Sainsburys, that's why I wont use them
Never had any problems with Sainsburys fuel and dont know anyone who has.
The reason I dont use Marine garage is that he always used to put prices up immediately before public and bank holiday weekends, then miracusley, the prices went down again afterwards.
Not quite Roberta. They adjust their prices so as to reflect the 'local' price but maintaining a cheaper product, but still not on the same scale as MG.
Also, fuel prices have increased dramatically over the past few months which is down to the oil producers and not the garages themselves..
MG has been 116.9 for a few weeks now but this weekend noticed Sainsburys increase to115.9 for the basic unleaded
roberta You need to visit a refinery the tankers all fill from the same tank all fuel has to comply with BS 228:2008 FUEL IS FUEL IS FUEL Sainsbury's increase is due to a increase in oil prices my prediction it will slowly creep back to £1.60 per litre. So where will you fill up Tesco or Morrisons both get fuel from the same place as Sainsburys, plus it will cost at todays fuel price in a average car 39p per mile to get it but hey it's your choice.
Totally agree with Carer and Leatash. The scare stories that do the rounds every now and again re supermarket fuel have little to no basis in fact to them.
Lets put you all straight here as you seem to know very little about the system. There is some truth in the fact that all the fuel comes from the same place but the point thats being missed is the additives that Sainsbury's and others add to the basic fuel. The octane rating used ie 95 for unleaded is the minimum and there is quite a difference in shall we say refined unleaded and unleaded plus additivies. The claim is that the additives help clean your engine, but in effect they also kind of water down the fuel to the minimum end of the scale allowed. You may also have noticed that since it went public about MG Sainsburys have removed their roadside pricing board.
People in this town just wont accept the damage that Sainsburys have caused to local retailing. So now you have no choice of local petrol supplies dont start moaning about the extortionate price they will be charging ready for the school holidays. Yes the fuel they retail at the pump does meet the minium standards, but it is crap and overtime will effect your engines performance.
Thank you Fred 
my mechanic told me not to use cheap fuel after my throttle sensor was clogged and filthy, I always used MG so it must have been who owned it before me
But there was no local choice of petrol stations for a long time before the arrival of Sainsbury. We just had MG and their rip-off prices.
Sainsbury won't put up prices now that MG are off - that makes no sense seeing as they've always charged less than MG anyway!
There did used to be, back in the day. But did the 'competition' they provided to MG lower prices for customers?
There used to be 3 petrol stations in Dawlish 2 and 4, Firbank, and Mariner Sainsburys certainly didn't put the first 2 out of buiseness.
Wrong Sainbury's did cause Firbank to stop selling fuel. Thats history now though. Just for info on price they are already 2p/litre dearer than Morrisons, and they wont stop there
So fill up at Morrisons a tank full say 60 litres you will save £1.20 and it will cost £3.90 to go and get it Sainsbury's know this and will take that into consideration when setting prices. There is off course the possobility that all the wonderfull things Mr Cameron has promised will be funded by a rise in fuel duty but hey what do i know.
Marine Garage closes end of the month although may stay a few days after if they still have fuel.
See it's now closed best of luck to all the Ex staff, The workshop at the rear go down side by the Post Office is still OPEN .
Noticed today that Sainsbury's Dawlish petrol prices are 3p a litre cheaper than they were when the school holidays started...