Today the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the UK’s consumer and competition authority, announced they will be launching a review of petrol and diesel prices at UK forecourts. The main concern that has triggered this investigation is the price of fuel at the pump and how much it has increased over the years. According to… more »

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out our recent survey. We’ve had over 13,000 of you tell us all about the features you think would be useful as a motorist, what you find most frustrating as a motorist, and how you think we can… more »

Fuel price rage is a common condition experienced by many motorists. There is currently no cure and it is becoming increasingly difficult to control. It all starts when you get into your car, head to the petrol station and start filling up with fuel. The symptoms start to show when you look up at the… more »

Last week motorists across the country were seen queueing up for fuel, forecourts were running dry and stations hiked their prices up. We wanted to find out exactly how much stations had increased their prices. Displayed on the map are the towns with the largest price increases for unleaded and diesel between Monday 26th March… more »

Today we officially launch a new web app for PetrolPrices.com; a service that integrates with Twitter and Open MapQuest called Petrol Tweets that was inspired by the #uksnow Map. Petrol Tweets collects tweets with the hash-tag #ukpetrol or #petrol and adds it to our page allow. You can comment on petrol in your area using… more »

As petrol prices continue to soar, now reaching £1.50 a litre for unleaded in some parts of the country, talks of strike action by the union Unite has caused panic buying across the country in the past few days. Talks between Unite and seven fuel companies are set to start next week and strikes over… more »

The four leading UK supermarkets: Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys and Morrisons have all recently slashed their fuel prices by around 3p per litre in response to the recent 10% drop in crude oil prices. This drop came after the International Energy Agency decided to release 60 million barrels of crude oil from the emergency reserves. As… more »

Garages across the UK are set to hike the price of filling up a tank of fuel, already at record highs, by a further £2.00 per tank tomorrow. These New Year price rises as a result of the hike in VAT from 17.5% to 20% combined with a planned duty rise will see an extra… more »

It’s hard to believe that average fuel prices today are around 30p more per litre than they were just five years ago. Prices at the pump are still pretty painful for most of us – even if you find the cheapest in your local area. So to help you make your car journeys even more… more »

In July 2008 we saw petrol hit a massive 119.7p. Back then, one British Pound would buy you two US Dollars. Today we expect the average price of one litre of Unleaded to have hit £1.20 (if you round it to two decimal places it’s actually already happened but to be precise it was 119.96p… more »