All British drivers have been issued major 'sooner rather than later' message ahead of 10 week change
Owning and driving a car just gets more and more expensive, and it’s about to get worse.
If you thought the 10-week price drop to fuel was never-ending - I’ve got news for you.
As everything under the sun has increased in price, the drop to fuel provided a really good relief.
But all good things must come to an end.
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Now, drivers in the UK have been warned to fill up their tanks ahead of the end of the deal.
They were told to do it ‘sooner rather than later’, after the price of petrol fell just one week ago.
This meant that the price per litre of petrol dropped from 150.1p in April to 144.5p last week, according to the AA.
But it’s not petrol that was the only thing to drop, as diesel’s prices slumped too from 158.3p to 149.6p.
Drivers may have thought that this could be the moment where petrol would finally be the same price as it was before Covid, but dreams have been dashed.
Gone are the days where a litre of petrol cost next to nothing.
However, the AA has come out to say that the price isn’t going to go down anytime soon because of oil in the US.
According to reports, US oil has gone up $5 in two weeks (which is insane).
According to MetroUK, Luke Bosdet, the AA’s fuel price spokesperson, said: “The question is whether, after a significant fall in the UK’s average petrol price in June, the price will repeat last year’s sharp rise going further into the summer.
“It would be a blow for the impending summer getaway if the cost of road travel took off again.
“For now, filling up sooner rather than later will take advantage of current lower prices.”
But if you have to shop around for cheap petrol prices, a quick tip - don’t choose Asda.
That’s because an analysis was released dubbing it the most expensive supermarket to purchase petrol from.
The RAC said that it’s uncharacteristic of Asda to be this expensive as it used to cut prices before anyone else and ‘prided itself on selling the cheapest fuel’.
But thanks to a change in management to the Issa brothers and TDR Capital in 2021, they’ve slowly inched up the price of fuel.
RAC’s study found that by the end of May this year, a litre of petrol at Asda costs around 2.1p more than at Sainsbury’s, Tesco or Morrisons.
Previously, the RAC released a list of the cheapest places to buy fuel and Asda was second from the top.
In January, it said that the cheapest place to buy your petrol was supermarket chain Morrisons, where it cost an average of 136.9p a litre for petrol and 145.5p for diesel.
Asda was in second place, at an average of 137.2p per litre of petrol, followed by Sainsbury’s at 137.3p and Tesco on 137.4p.
How did Asda fall so far?
Britt Jones