Price increases happen to everything we buy, but we tend to notice it more when it’s at the pump and maybe that’s because we visit them often. When we do, the price change is noticed in every drop that goes into the car and what we pay at the till.
But in some parts of the UK, prices are more expensive because of unique factors at play. We’re led to believe that rural areas get hit hardest – something about being less cost-efficient to transport it there and lack of competition, and while the figures do tend to bear that out, there are some discrepancies in certain towns and we wanted to look at this.
PetrolPrices has conducted an analysis of average fuel prices across thousands of places in the UK using the modal average, meaning recorded instances of real prices. When doing this we have also made sure that a location must have at least two petrol stations in the search for it to qualify, this is to ensure that remote, rural locations are not included. The tables below for Unleaded and Diesel illustrate those places which are most expensive in the UK based on real pricing this month so far.
Most expensive petrol by town from January 2018 to April 2018
*Average price calculated based on modal statistics
| Town | County | Pence per litre (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| WOOLACOMBE | DEVON | 139.9 |
| TIGHNABRUAICH | ARGYLL & BUTE | 135.6 |
| MARKFIELD | LEICESTERSHIRE | 134.7 |
| ACHARACLE | HIGHLAND | 134.6 |
| ISLE OF BENBECULA | EILEAN SIAR | 132.9 |
| GRETNA | DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY | 132.8 |
| LYMM | CHESHIRE | 132.6 |
| ISLE OF ARRAN | NORTH AYRSHIRE | 132.0 |
| LOCKERBIE | DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY | 131.9 |
| FRESHWATER | ISLE OF WIGHT | 131.9 |
Most expensive diesel by town from January 2018 to April 2018
*Average price calculated based on modal statistics
| Town | County | Pence per litre (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| MARKFIELD | LEICESTERSHIRE | 139.7 |
| ACHARACLE | HIGHLAND | 139.6 |
| TIGHNABRUAICH | ARGYLL & BUTE | 137.9 |
| WOOLACOMBE | DEVON | 136.6 |
| ISLE OF BENBECULA | EILEAN SIAR | 135.9 |
| FRESHWATER | ISLE OF WIGHT | 133.9 |
| ISLE OF UNST | SHETLAND ISLANDS | 133.7 |
| GRETNA | DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY | 132.9 |
| LYMM | CHESHIRE | 132.7 |
| WILLINGTON | DERBYSHIRE | 132.6 |
These averages are based on modal statistics from the recorded prices. The modal average defines the most frequent price to appear within the data range.
Who are the worst and why
Woolacombe in Devon is the most expensive place for Unleaded in the UK and 4th most expensive for Diesel. Woolacombe has very few service stations, no supermarket competition and is remote relative to the nearest town Barnstaple, which is 15 miles away. The two stations located there take advantage of this isolation, and this is one example of high prices due to being in a remote holiday location, such as Freshwater on the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man.
Markfield in Leicestershire has topped the poll for the most expensive place for Diesel in the UK for some time and is 3rd most expensive for Unleaded. The reason for this it has a junction of the M1 there connecting to the A50, so the four stations there have their prices artificially high to try to take advantage of drivers coming off or going onto the M1, where higher prices are expected at motorway services. Gretna, Lockerbie, Willington and Lymm are all similar in that they are all places which exist close to major roads, often where motorways intersect with A roads.
Motorway service station prices are very high because drivers are stuck in a captive market, stations push up their prices, their argument is the costs are higher, which is something the government wants to investigate with a official inquiry.
While being in a beautiful part of the UK, Acharacle is a remote place in the Highlands and regularly is in the top most expensive places for fuel. Tighnabruaich, Isle of Benbecula, Isle of Arran and Isle of Unst all fall in to the same category of fuel prices being high and in the top 10 due to the remoteness of their locations. That said locals in the Shetland and Orkney Islands do receive a subsidy which means that they can claim back a discount on fuel costs of up to 20% provided by the local council.
How to locate the cheapest fuel
We’ve listed the most expensive places to buy fuel, but if you live in those areas, there’s no escaping the fact that you’re paying higher prices, and travelling around the area to find the cheapest fuel is more important than ever, where competition is healthier, and therefore prices are lower.
As a general rule of thumb always look to see where the supermarkets are. ASDA and Morrisons are consistently in the top 100 cheapest locations in the UK. Sainsburys and Tesco also have low prices in the South as well. Where there are many petrol stations close together, this usually makes prices lower too. If you live an affluent area, drive to a less affluent area, generally, prices are a few pence a litre lower.
Moreover, if you haven’t already yet done so, use the PetrolPrices service – it will tell you exactly where to find the cheapest fuel in your area or nearby. You should also ensure that your car is working to the best of its abilities – tyre pressures can influence your MPG more than you realise. Around 90% of energy loss through rolling-resistance is down to the repeated changes in shape as the tyre rolls. Therefore, a correctly inflated tyre has a much lower rolling resistance. Remove anything that causes drag on the car and keep the windows closed and if possible air con down to a minimum.
Keeping fuel usage at a minimum is the best way of not giving the government nigh on 80% in tax, but what methods do you use to do that?
What do you think of these prices? Have you paid more than 137.0p per litre? Or is that the extreme that few of us never experience? Let us know in the comments below.
Do ‘quality’ fuels give slightly better mpg than supermarket fuel ⛽?
Super diesel has added chemicals in its mixture designed to shift soot deposits and other oily build-up from within the engine’s fuel system resulting in a Better, DPF life and EGR valve performance over the life of the engine.
Why Diesel?
Diesel fuel is cheaper to make, because of it’s less meticulous refining process when making it.
However, diesel fuel is currently more expensive due to the demand.
Diesel fuel also yields a higher energy density than gasoline. It is a better due to compression in the engine.
You get 14% more energy than gasoline by volume. Diesel engines, on average, are 20 to 30% more efficient than a gasoline engines.
Time we banned them all then!!
Petrol prices are a rip off every store + retailer has its own pricing scale which they up mostly up prices sometimes down depending on the turn over its all down to greed
I wonder where these RIP OFF Service Station owners buy their fuel?
Or do they get a Staff Discount?
I travel between Devon & Eastbourne quite regularly. Why is Eastbourne considerably cheaper than say Exeter. ???
Because Eastbourne is next to the Newhaven Oil Depot and Old Refinery.
I live in Newhaven and as far as I know there is no oil depot.
I’ve lived in the Newhaven area for over 30 years and there has never been an oil depot here !!!
Well we are next to Fawley refinery and our fuel is not cheap..
My Peugeot started misfiring badly. I took it to the local garage who look after my car. They asked what had changed. and had I started using Asda fuel. Yes I had and the car didn’t like it.
I switched to Shell’s super diesel and that cured it. It was livelier than ever and gave better mpg.
Cheap is not always better.
Garbage, I’ve had a BMW 320d for 7 years and 90% of the time fuel up at supermarkets and NEVER had a problem with my engine after 110k miles!
Last year I filled up at our local Tesco and no end of vehicles was breaking down, mine included, after just five miles it spluted & died, on restarting it popped & banged, eventually I got home and got my Son to look at our car, there was a load of water in the tank, he drained the lot until there was nothing and refilled with BP, on start up it still popped & banged & died, but minutes later it ran smooth again….F*** Tesco fuel I say. Never had any problems with other supermarket fuels.
Sorry, don’t believe a word of it, in 50 years of motoring, never noticed any difference in performance where ever I get my fuel. Trading standards check fuel at all sources. I go where it is cheapest. Locally that ussually means Asda
Ah, but do trading standards check up these days. I am not sure. If trading standards were actually checking up on things then a lot of the recent food scared couldn’t have happened.
Talking rubbish. It’s Environmental Health who monitor food safety/standards. Trading Standards check for weights and measures including petrol stations……
Tesco in Barnstaple recently had a problem with water accidentally getting into their fuel and causing engine failures. Never heard of it happening at an independent.
You don’t need to believe what my fuel gauge said – but I do.
Substandard fuel at the supermarket check the BS number (kite) always a lower number than your garage. Another fact. 👍🏻
You sure about that Steve? All fuel lorries get filled with exactly the same fuel regardless of what company it is for. The only difference is additives that some companies add which may or may not make a difference to how it performs
Yeovil ?
Not as my stupidity when I filled my VW Camper with PETROL instead of diesel!
I felt VERY guilty as I was taking some passengers to a Folk Festival! I had to get the AA in – and it cost a small fortune!!
You are lucky I was
In Spain and the attendant put diesel in my petrol car and the rac said it,was my error, human error they called it and left me stranded.after25 years of membership . I didn’t renew the next year.
I have always used Tesco for petrol and diesel for many years now and have never had any problems, you must have got a bad batch if there is such a thing
Very unfortunate, but if a line of people were all breaking down straight away then it was a specific contamination issue and not to do with the fact that it was a supermarket. If you then topped up with uncontaminated fuel from somewhere (anywhere) else and it suddenly ran smoothly, then that just goes to back that up.
The problems with supermarket fuel that some people have had is probably due to deliveries and the fuel not settling back down again in the tanks. There should be a waiting time after delivery until it is safe to fill up. I will not fill up if I see a delivery tanker at the site.
Dave next time you use a supermarket to get your fuel make a note of the BS number then check your garage BS number the super market will Always be of a lower grade. That is a fact my friend. It can ruin an engine over time. Another fact. ⚒
A tanker driver friend assures me the fuel delivered to Supermarkets is exactly the same as the main Shell Esso & BP sites. I use various sites to fill up including Different supermarkets & have never experienced any consumption or engine problems.
This talk about additives is just a marketing ploy to get you to buy more expensive fuel.
Supermarket fuel is exactly the same as any other fuel station fuel. All the tankers fill up at the same place . The main difference is whether additives are added to the fuel. These can make it more vehicle-friendly in terms of wear and tear and efficiency. Typically, it’s (standard) Shell fuel, or “premium” fuel in general that has these additives.
This is correct. As an Electrical engineer, I used to undertake regular inspection and testing at BP Corringham (which was the largest bulk terminal in Europe – 18 road bays, since then expanded further. As you can imagine, tankers in and out all day. As well as BP, there were ALL of the supermarket tankers, plus many independents (Jet, Q8 etc), all from the same bays, all with the self same fuel / additives. I actually asked the question myself to satisfy my curiosity, and it was confirmed – there is no difference in fuel / additive mix etc…… I always smile when people talk about rubbish supermarket fuel etc. Pump tank contamination (fuel station) can happen anywhere – but this has nothing to do with the tanker supplied fuel, but local storage issues.
Your ‘tanker driver’ friend is wrong. I know ,I am a tanker driver. There are less additives in super market fuel.
He is lying or you are ! The BS number is a lower grade in supermarket fuel fact. How many BP SHELL ESSO tankers do you see on a supermarket forecourt…………0 none Nader. 👍🏻
What utter tosh I drive an E class Mercedes and use Asda fuell all the time,never had a problem.it would be suicidal for any of the big supermarkets to use sub standard fuell. + I don’t think you are comparing like with like, supermarkets standard with super diesel.david suffolk
Couldn’t agree more – but economy has to enter the consideration if you are a high-miler.
However, every fourth tank with decent fuel (V-Tec Nitro, Excellium etc) seems to suit my vehicles and I make absolutely certain to use good stuff before MoTs are due!!
Yes, probably a coincidence that this happened to your car. Anyway, it’s French so by definition it is misbehaving!
Odd that French cars always do so well in Which? reliability surveys compared to the over-priced, fragile rubbish from the other side of the Rhine…
Shell sold their Stanlow refinery a few years ago . The fuel may be branded Shell but it will not be produced by Shell.
Supermarket fuel has to come up to the same standards as all the rest.
Tesco is my nearest station and I’ve been using there fuel for over 10 years with no problem.
Ian. Asda fuel is from EXACTLY the same refinery as every other local garage. Cheap is just as good.
When I stopped using supermarket diesel I got 9 mpg improved fuel economy – at this rate supermarket diesel needs to be a LOT cheaper to compete. Never used supermarket fuel since unless forced to and then only £10 worth
I always refuel at Sainsbury’s in Tamworth Staffordshire it was £1.09 for months now it’s creeping up to £1.12 at moment
This has long been a bugbear of mine. How can it be legal for the same retailer to charge different prices for exactly the same product just a few hundred yards away from each other? You don’t see major supermarkets charging differential pricing for e.g. Coca-Cola in nearby stores as a matter of course. Underhand is one word I’d use, but there are many more.
Mark of course it’s a free world. If you started a business would you be happy to be forced to price your product at a fixed level no matter what the cost was? And likewise you are free to buy where you chose. Unless you are advocating state control of our lives?!
Would you say the same if, say, prescription charges were different according to location?
Or does THAT form of ‘state control’ suit you?
Interesting that you seem happy for the big corporations to control us, though..
If you live in Wales no one registered there pays for any prescription same goes for no parking charges to park in Welsh hospitals.
Try comparing prices at your Tesco superstore and at your Tesco Local – prices can be substantially higher in the Local store, especially for things like fruit that you would buy by weight in the superstore but that are sold prepacked or as a price per fruit in the local store.
A lot of petrol stations aren’t owned by the brand being sold but are run by a franchisee. The franchisee will have a suggested price from Esso/Shell/Texaco etc but are free to charge whatever they like. The oil company expects a certain amount back for each litre sold, after that it’s money for the franchise…
If it’s really just a few hundred yards then just go to the cheaper place if you think it’s worth your while. Or use helpful sites like this and some planning if, again, you think the extra bit of effort is worth the money saved. If not, then you have already agreed to pay the higher price for the convenience and that is a fair bargain to make.
You could advocate for restrictive price controls but it is absolutely NOT worth losing important freedoms just to save a few pence on petrol in the now. The ability to deal freely with each other is foundational to our liberty and prosperity.
Same with beer, London prices vs other areas are significantly different.
How many of those complaining about rip off prices do something to save fuel and cash?
1 Drive smaller more economical cars.
2. Drive in a steadier and more balanced way without excessive acceleration and speed.
3. Read the road ahead. How often have we seen speeding cars joining thef longest lane at traffic lights.
That shoukd stir up the speeding trolls..
I drive a hybrid Volvo and get to 500 miles Per tank with no problem but still notice fuel prices it’s called been well informed.
Petrol prices in Wrecsam, N Wales, Sainsburys just of the A55 Glynwr Campus University.
£115.9 per litre
either that decimal point is misplaced or the list of 10 most expensive is false! yours wins by the proverbial country mile!!
Hi Mike, that’s all been fixed now.
I live in Tighnabruaich. I am not aware of any council fuel subsidy
We have now clarified that it was the Shetland and Orkney Islands, apologies for any confusion
I see drivers on the Oldham Road in Manchester fuelling up at 119.9 to the litre when Morrison’s half a mile away is but 114.7. Perhaps they don’t care. Rothley in Leicestershire is about 123/124 but he serves you and his main job is car servicing and restoration.
My father was in the garage business when it was 25p a GALLON not litre. But he wa put out of business by supermarkets who sold fuel cheaper than he could buy it in bulk.
Hahaha yeah just watch those who fill up at hilltop and break down a mile down the road. That fuel has to be at least 15 yrs old as no ones in that place. As for restoration you mean the rotting heaps that are dumped on the side. It only stays open as sells red on the pump no questions asked!
1.47 L FOR DIESEL AT WORKSOP SERVICES JUST OF THE A1
Ow!!!!
I find it hard to believe that the distribution costs to these areas are actually 20p PER LITRE more than other places in the UK. My suspicion is some profiteering is going on here.
Don’t think distribution has anything to do with it, where i live the cost is 119p, 6 miles up the road at the next town it’s always 7-8p more across all the garages there.
There may be profiteering, but it is mainly at the fuel company. Petrol stations broadly have their fuel price dictated by their supply contract and there is very little wiggle room. Sure they can increase the price as much as the market will bear, but where there is competition they generally try to absorb as much of the increase as possible when the price is rising in order to keep custom. When they lag as the price decreases, it is then mainly just to claw back the subsidy they gave to the customers when it was going up.
The Scottish islands will generally be expensive not solely due to distribution costs, but also economies of scale. A Benbecula forecourt will only do low volumes and the tanker will need to catch a ferry to get there, while one in a population centre is just up the road and doing high volume.
So why is Cheshire on this list considering you have Stanlow right on the doorstep! A main manufacturer of the stuff! Yet Eastbourne is one of the Cheapest and 1,000,000 miles away from a refinery it’s a con
Like many travellers, I am frequently on the motorways (my 240 mile each way commute!!). I find it incredibly annoying that the Motorway Fuel stations in the Services charge such ridiculous prices and yet they must be some of the easiest places for tankers to deliver fuel supplies to. The fact that the Services are usually very busy and the pumps are nearly always empty of cars suggests someone needs to get their “Marketing Act” together!! With “Pay at Pump” technology, there is no excuse to blame being open 24/7 as the cause of higher prices! (you often cannot enter the “shop” part anyway!!).
If you make the same motorway journey regularly, it makes sense to find a good value fuel station near a motorway junction. Going up the M6 use the Shell station where the A580 East Lancs road crosses the M6 (junction 23 I think). Always good value. Further north on M74/A74 stop at the Lesmahagow junction and fill up at Tesco’s which is 100m from the junction.
I drive an E class (220d) and almost always buy supermarket fuel. Never ever had a problem, and my overall average MPG never drops below 56. On a run I regularly manage around 62/63 MPG.
during a trip yesterday fuel was seen at £1.41 ltr
I drive a 6.5 chevy pickup truck and buy the cheapest fuel i can, althought i get 25mpg going up and down the M4 at a steady 65mph, the only problem i have had with cheap fuel was when tesco added biofuel to the diesel mix which took a lot of vehicles off the road in our area, I dont use tesco fuels anymore and i belive that the company did inform local customers that a fuel supply problem was to problem, although now i fill up at Morrisons which is the cheapest i have found so far most fuels come out of the same storage tank except biofuels which most modern diesel engines dont like, apart from my old transit van which will run on most things including olive oil and cooking oil.
I agree Supermarket fuel same as others. One important thing is if your car make states you can either use basic or Super you must use Super. You may pay a little more but you do get more MPG. I ran my 2004 RS6 for one year on 94 octane then a year on 98 octane. The year using 98 gave more MPG and the cost was about the same over the 12/14000 miles I drove. All fuel was either Sainsbury or Tesco. Auto Express had suggested this and they were correct. I did 175000 in the RS6 before changing to an RS4 and that had a worse consuption than the RS6. I now run a 4.0 V8 S6 and get 29-31 mpg on Super
I have been filling up my supermini, one of the cheaper brands, for 15 years on supermarket petrol and still going strong and for the 3 months Nov to Jan 18 I filled up exclusively at Asda as there was one around the corner from where I was working.
I always check PetrolPrices website before filling up my two MGs, the price differences are as much as 6/8p per litre between Camborne and Penzance, quite a saving when you need to put 50 litres in at a time!
Sainsbury’s Bridgend branch is 112.9 and has been for a while, whereas Cardiff (Major city) 20 miles away is at least 5p more expensive.
Tamworth services just off the M42 yesterday was over 140.0p, I was going via Walsall that afternoon and with a little help from petrolprices.com I paid 113.9p!
I’m amazed at petrol price differences in neighbouring regions and wonder about the reason(s). I fill up in York at supermarkets, currently approx 114p for diesel. 30 miles away in Beverley the cost is consistently 10-11p more expensive (at the cheapest supermarket outlets). This cannot be attributed to cost of transport. So is it just blatant profiteering?
Another factor is how often a petrol station gets its tanks refuelled. If a station only gets refilled twice a week then prices will not change as much and seem to stay higher. Busy stations that fill up daily are able to change prices daily and can respond to price decreases faster, so the advice is always look for busy stations and use them.
Tried Super diesel over four tank-fills. I compared this with the usual standard diesel- there is no difference in consumption over the distance covered with identical driving conditions. Does the motor benefit in using this oil or does the environmental impact improve? We should be told otherwise the conclusion is one of being taken for th”ride” by the oil companies.
We usually holiday in Devon ( from Leeds) and as you state if you are in a limited fuel supply area expect to be staggered.
Try and plan a visit to one of the larger towns where there are the large supermarket stations and ‘always fill up’, when they are close by.
The fuel stations in Markfield, Leics. are dropping the ball here! If they dropped their costs rather than try to match motorway prices, then people would obviously stop there BEFORE and/or AFTER their motorway use. If they’re close enough then I bet some drivers would even leave the motorway to buy their cheap fuel – especially at the nearest station.
SOUTHPORT! We consistently pay on average 5p a litre more compared to places just 5 miles away.
TBH I never let my car get to the point where I have to fill up at the next service station. Thus I would cheerfully boycott the one in Woolacombe just as I do the motorway rip-off merchants. You don’t have to be a victim.
Not sure what it’s like these days, but I certainly remember a decade ago there being a nigh-on 100% BP stranglehold in the Scottish Highlands (though they laughed at my Nectar card, since they were all franchises and probably being screwed over themselves) so no competition to speak of.
Lets take Markfield as an example. That’s at least 20p per litre more than other local stations just a few miles away. It would be cheaper to drive those extra few miles and back again to fill up than pay those prices, and probably take no more than an extra 10 minutes. This, and other similar places, are where the Government and local Councils need to put up large signs warning motorists that these prices are a rip off.
The argument that petrol places are high in remote areas with poor or long transport to refineries does not work for motorway service stations.
There are on motorways by definition!
We are being ripped off and have been for years. This needs to be tackled.
You have not mentioned Barra and Stornaway where it is usually 15 – 20p ltr more expensive. On Orkney the local council sets the price and, like the above, motorists have no choice were to fill up. On Barra the only filling station is in Castlebay. Places like Durness, on the north coast of Scotland, the filling station is part of the village shop and post office and only opens Mon-Fri and until 12 on a Saturday. Do not run dry on. Sunday!
Hi, I fear you have missed out a filling station/location on your “expensive place” list. As I wrote before, the Shell Station at the Abington Service Station just OFF the A74(M) – actually on the A702 currently has Unleaded at 139.9p & Diesel at 141.9p.
A great welcome to Scotland – NOT
Hi there, this list was taken from an average, so if Abington has a lot more stations that lower the price, or if it falls under a different town then it will not appear. Thanks for letting us know, and if we do one again we’ll look into that one!
Recently had to stop at Taunton motorway services for unleaded and it was138.9p a litre. Put in just enough to get me 2 miles down the road to the Taunton junction where there’s a Sainsburys and paid 108.9p per litre.
What hasn’t, as far as I have seen, been mentioned is a reference to the Scottish Islands’ discount which also covers some remote parts of the Highlands. We pay 5p less tax on petrol and diesel than the rest of the UK.
On the subject mentioned re why are ‘remote’ garage prices disproportionately high, this is not due to delivery mileage, rather it is because these garages do/can not buy in bulk and have relatively lower turnover, so need to have higher prices to make a living. If I was to do the North 500, I would fill up at a supermarket in Inverness, top up at Wick (100mi) and again at Ullapool (200 miles). Most of the small filling stations in the Highlands have gone to the wall in the 40 years I’ve been up here.
Why have petrol prices jumped up this week (Oldham). 3 to 4p per litre unleaded?
Tankers fill up at the nearest depot ie Shell an fill up at any other depot and vice versa so there is no real justification in these large price differentials
It seems to me, poor quality fuel causes poor quality English too! I have no idea how that works. John K seems to think he is the perfect driver. I’ll bet he’s the one always holding me up off the lights. I’m 57, covered a million miles or so, never had a fuel problem
I once asked a manager at Tesco why their petrol is 7p cheaper per litre 10 miles away. His answer
“Because people will pay for it”
If you are in the locations of very high fuel prices, it’s worth waiting until you need the fuel and driving the 15 – 20 miles or so and fill up!
There will be comments that say that driving a few miles will COST money and I would agree BUT, if you can afford to “Fill up”, then in the long run, it would be cheaper. You won’t be giving your hard earned cast to the greedy fuel stations that take advantage of motorist (also the motorway service areas!!!)!!!
Keele services M6. ALWAYS expensive.
Diesel 139.6 today approx
On the Cars MisFire its down to the care of fuel storage by the station and how busy the sight is. Fuel goes off very quickly these and can be badly effected by water ingress.
If you read down I think thats why David BMW is fine, but Ians Peugeot has had problems.
Pick the cheapest by all means, but also pick a busy sight
All Unleaded fuels carry a RON (Research Octane Number) rating, this is a legal minimum standard, as is the minimum quality of all fuel, unless it states it has additives added, to help clean injectors, or Cteane added to diesel to improve combustion, etc, they are the same where every you buy the fuel, supermarkets and other petrol stations, suffer from time to time with water contamination of fuel, watch 5th gear fuel test on you tube, unless a high performance car, not much difference between supermarkets and other well known fuel makes.
Moto services kinross..over 140p per litre for diesel
If distribution costs are the reason why don’t the supermarkets charge viable amounts for food and not just fuel
Once paid £1.50 litre for petrol on Orkney when prices were through the roof. This was 10p a litre more than the mainland.
York is quite cheap in comparison to many other places, which is surprising tbh.
I remember one of the most expensive petrol stations around the Cheshire area used to be the Shell petrol station just off the M56. OK…you could say this is a captive motorway audience…..but it was right next to Shell Stanlow refinery!! They could have happily pumped it over the fence from the refinery! Transport costs are a negligible part of the overall cost as there are oil terminals all over the country. Unless you get to remote locations, it is all about the local supply and demand as highlighted in this article.
For those that continually moan about the price of fuel, STOP blaming the garages, their profits are minimal on a ‘EU LITRE OF FUEL’. Let’s not forget here in the UK we used to buy fuel in ‘IMPERIAL GALLONS’. It was our “caring” government that announced that we were joining the ‘common market’, which literally overnight meant the UK went from GALLONS TO LITRES, and we still complain that the price is on average, £1.20 per LITRE, THAT EQUATES TO APPROXIMATELY £5.50 per GALLON.
At the time of the change over, 31/12/1994, the average price of a UK GALLON of fuel was around the same as what the price of a LITRE of fuel is NOW, that equates to an approx increase of 450% and that was after a 70% rise in the cost of fuel after we were plummeted into the ‘common market and DECIMALISATION’, when the UK saw 140 PENNIES REMOVED FROM THE VALUE OF OUR GREAT BRITISH POUND, TO ADOPT THE EUROPEAN POUND, WHICH ONLY HAD 100 PENCE. If the cost of fuel, at the pumps continues to rise, which it certainly will, and gets to the ‘MAGIC £1. 50 per LITRE, which it inevitably will, it has already been as high as £1.40 per LITRE, this will result in a price of approx £7.00 PER GALLON.
That means with the CURRENT MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE IN THE UK BEING £7.83, as of 1st April 2018, the average UK worker will be spending 90% of their hourly earnings JUST ON FUEL.
When previous CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENTS stated that ‘NO WORKING CLASS PERSON WOULD EVER EARN ENOUGH TO BE RICH AND MOVE OUT OF THE WORKING CLASS’ they were certainly NOT JOKING.
Currently, the ‘working class citizens’ HAVE TO GO TO WORK, TO EARN THE MONEY, TO PUT THE FUEL INTO THEIR CARS, TO ENABLE THEM TO GET TO WORK, THEY HAVE TO GO TO WORK TO EARN THE MONEY TO PUT THE FUEL INTO THEIR CARS, TO ENABLE THEM TO GET TO WORK……AND SO THE NEVER ENDING PERPETUAL CIRCLE CONTINUES, AND THE RICH STAY RICH AND THE POOR STAY POOR.
This has NOT CHANGED in HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND IT WILL NOT CHANGE OVER THE NEXT HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
As long as the “RICH MAN” can SUPPRESS THE WORKING CLASS CITIZENS, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A ‘THEM AND US CLASS SOCIETY’.
Using FUEL as an subject, the working class citizens all PAY FOR THEIR FUEL, as a cost of living expense, the ‘RICH MAN’ pays for the fuel, BUT, then claims this ‘EXPENSE BACK AGAINST THE TAX HE SHOULD PAY ON HIS OR HER EARNINGS.
This is why the working class citizens drive mostly much older lower value vehicles, Ford’s to Vauxhalls, while the ‘RICH MAN’ is driving round in their BRAND NEW £100,000 to £1.5 MILLION VEHICLES, Bentleys to Maclarens and Koenigseggs.
Finally the ‘icing on the cake’ is when a B rated tv presenter pays an £86,000 fine, which is approx 75% of ONE WEEKS INCOME.
Surely this goes to show just how ‘SUPPRESSED’ the average UK CITIZENS REALLY ARE.
So LABOUR are a bunch of innocents are they?
Paul makes a long rambling set of comments almost all of which have barely any relevance to the subject ostensibly under discussion. Yes, there were 240 d to £1 and there are 100 p to £1; similarly there are very nearly 4.546 litres to one imperial gallon but so what? Incidentally, there never has been any such currency as a ‘European Pound’.
Paul appears to think that his use of upper case lettering gives his arguments more weight especially when he delves into poorly understood politics.
Mate, take the tablets – or get stronger ones.
I always use Morrison’s as it is my nearest petrol station just 1/4 mile from home. If I am on holiday I use any Supermarket I can find as it is usually cheaper than local garages.
Just filled up at Sainsbury got 6pence ltr. off after weekly shop = to £1.15 hybrid car careful driving it will last to next shop in a month feel very lucky I’m in a low cost area and so sorry for poor buggers that are being ripped off at every turn after seventy five years I dispair that hard working people are treated in this way just because of the area they live.
Moto Southwaite Northbound Diesel 141.9 on 20/4.