Pump prices head towards record highs

19th April 2006

ALDERSHOT, UK (Petrolprices.com) According to the latest figures from fuel price monitoring website PetrolPrices.com, pump prices have risen sharply over the past month, with the average rice of unleaded rising from 90.5p to 94.6p a litre. The price looks set to reach an all time high by the weekend, breaching 95p a litre.

Today prices across the UK range from 88.9p to 103.9p, with details of the cheapest in every town published on PetrolPrices.com

Current Unleaded Prices across the UK

City            | Low    | High   | Average
----------------|--------|--------|---------
Birmingham      | 88.9p  | 99.9p  | 94.5p
Cardiff         | 91.1p  | 99.0p  | 94.9p
Glasgow         | 89.9p  | 99.1p  | 93.3p
London          | 88.9p  | 99.9p  | 94.2p
Manchester      | 89.9p  | 100.0p | 94.0p
Reading         | 91.9p  | 97.9p  | 94.6p

Over 85,000 new users have signed up to the free website over the last 3 weeks (400,000 since November 05) as frustrated motorists realise they can make savings of up to £7.60 on a 50 litre tank by shopping around with information from Petrolprices.com

Kay Joyce, spokesperson for the website, commented "Petrol is a grudge purchase, and with prices at record highs people are concerned more than ever about their energy bills. We have been inundated with users to the site who sign up to our e-mail alert service to get sent the cheapest petrol stations every day"

Notes for Editors

Petrolprices.com is the UK’s only comprehensive and free fuel price website for consumers, where they can find the cheapest petrol stations near any town or postcode of their choice. Prices are updated daily and displayed conveniently using Google Maps technology.

At the time of writing the difference between the highest price (104.9p) and the lowest price (83.9p) for unleaded petrol in the UK was 21p.

Petrolprices.com was launched in November 2005 by Fubra Limited, the same company that launched the largest UK house price website www.ourproperty.co.uk in January of this year.

For more information contact:

Brendan McLoughlin
Managing Director

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W: www.PetrolPrices.com
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