MAJOR supermarkets are engaging in a price war at the petrol pumps this week but it’s not good news for everyone. Drivers in most parts of the UK are missing out on benefiting from supermarke…
“Say, for instance, a supermarket lures you into their store with a voucher offering £6 off a £60 shopping bill.
“To find out that that supermarket clawed back all that saving, and perhaps £1 on top of that, at the pump, compared to a superstore in a neighbouring town, will quite rightly lead to a howl of protest. “The retailers only get away with it because the fuel price transparency that the Competition and Markets Authority recommended to the Government in October doesn’t yet exist, except in Northern Ireland.”
Average UK petrol prices continued to fall this week, reaching 148.6p a litre on Wednesday, while diesel was down to 170.7p.The last timeSince then, it rose to a record ofDiesel now averages 170.7p a litre, having been 153.05p when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began and then setting a record of 199.07p on July 1.Unleaded and diesel prices are still up by at least 20p a litre compared to January last year.to find cheap diesel and unleaded - but there are ways to find the best prices.
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