Tag: finally
Drivers now saving £10.30 a tank on average as petrol prices FINALLY fall
DRIVERS are now saving £10.30 a tank on average as petrol prices FINALLY fall.
But greedy firms should drop them by at least another 15p to give a fair deal to hard-up motorists, the AA said today.
Meanwhile, thousands of drivers are being forced into debt or forced to borrow cash from friends and family as they face huge squeezes on their income, they warn.
Petrol has fallen by around 19p per litre in the last month after a record high in July of 191p per litre.
But the average price should drop to around 160p if savings are properly passed on, according to the latest AA Fuel Price report.
And millions of Brits face an unfair postcode lottery as prices wildly differ across the country and even within regions.
READ MORE MOTORS NEWS
Of the big supermarkets and pumps, only Asda is below 170p-per-litre, and is passing on the biggest price drops.
The drop so far is nowhere near the record fall in 2008/9 which saw a £18.60 saving for Brits filling up their cars – a fall of 34p-a-litre.
Van drivers have seen the cost of filling up fall by around 12.5p a litre – around £12.26 a tank.
There are hopes that as the US motoring season comes to an end, retailers will face extra pressure to cut costs again.
Most read in The Sun
Luke Bosdet, the AA’s fuel price spokesman said: “This is a glass half full and half empty situation for UK drivers.
“Fuel is still 37.6p a litre more expensive than a year ago (135.29p).
“In previous pump price crashes, drivers could reckon on the supermarkets racing to pass on the savings, trying to steal a march on their rivals.
“Now it’s hit and miss whether you live and drive in an area where at least one fuel retailer is prepared to bring down prices as fast as the fall in wholesale costs.”
Fairfuel Founder Howard Cox said prices should be up to 20p per litre cheaper in some places – calling on ministers to slash fuel duty again to help.
Hitting out at the profiteering firms, he blasted: “Pump profits are now at their highest, billions of extra VAT are flowing into Number 11 and the Competition and Markets Authority isn’t protecting consumers.
Read More on The Sun
“Yet again, we are seeing an inept political administration clueless as to how to solve the cost-of-living crisis.
“Cut fuel duty by 25p and create PumpWatch to finally secure honest and transparent pricing at the pumps.”
Windows 10 will finally make switching to Chrome much easier
Sci-fi MMO Dual Universe finally blasts out of beta in September
Ambitious single-server sandbox MMO Dual Universe is setting course onto Steam on September 27th, after spending eight years in development hypersleep. For the past two years, the interstellar RPG has been in beta. There’s a two-week free trial planned for people who’ve played the game before, and Steam players will be able to have a go for free too, just on a different server. Get a glimpse of what’s been happening in the two-year-long beta in the trailer below.
Sidescrolling lost-world adventure Little Orpheus finally lands on PC in September
Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture devs The Chinese Room are bringing their postponed cosmonaut adventure Little Orpheus to PC on September 13th. The game had originally been due to launch on March 1st but was delayed. Little Orpheus stars a Soviet Russian character, and the devs wanted to review its content before release out of sensitivity to the conflict in Ukraine. Check out the trailer below.
Using a USB headset for Google Meet calls is finally getting simpler
Diablo 3 Season 27 release date finally gets announced
Blizzard finally gave us the Diablo 3 Season 27 release date in a lengthy new blog post, outlining everything to expect in the RPG’s upcoming content update. Diablo 3 Season 27 begins August 26 at 5 p.m. PDT/8 p.m. EDT and August 27 at 1 a.m. BST. Light’s Calling is the new seasonal theme. It centers around angelic trials the Nephalem can undergo, which in practical terms means you can earn Angelic Crucibles, a new consumable that lets you infuse legendary weapons with a random new class-specific power. Whichever new power you get, expect it to “lean into the expertise of each class,” Blizzard said in the season overview.
RELATED LINKS: Diablo 3 builds, Diablo 3 Necromancer skills, Best games like Diablo
Minecraft map has finally been completely mined, after five years
The Minecraft map is massive, so big it can be hard to wrap your head (and pick and shovel) around. For most players, they’ll start a new world long before they see the entirety of the old one, picking it clean of diamonds, redstone, and other valuables then moving onto fresh ground. One player, though, the YouTuber Minthical, takes a considerably more thorough approach.
RELATED LINKS: Minecraft console commands, Minecraft skins, Minecraft mods
Ripple Price Analysis: After 2 Months of Sideways, Will XRP Finally Breakout?
Dropbox to Finally Release macOS App With a Fix for Online-Only Files
When Apple released macOS 12.3 Monterey earlier this year, some depreciated kernel extensions killed select features of apps like Dropbox and OneDrive. For example, Dropbox users cannot open online-only files in its dedicated app. That’s a problem, but a fix is finally on the way.