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I guess it’s luck of the draw if you happen to need to fill up at a particularly expensive time. And no benefit from the gov’t unit price cap I guess
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Nope. If you have a sufficiently large tank you can time it to some degree and fill it up in summer when it's normally cheaper, but if you are about to run out and need it urgently you will pay a 10-15p litre premium too.
Its just something that you need to get into the habit of checking reasonably regularly or you can get devices that go in the tank and let you know how much is left remotely.
danb
It's quite variable and always has been. When we first moved in Oct 2021 it was around 60-70p litre. After Ukraine war started it went up to 1.50 briefly and was around £1 for quite a while. Currently around 90p
During COVID when it was massively over produced it dropped to 20p...
https://www.boilerjuice.com/heating-oil-prices/