by Dawn Robinson-Walsh | Oct 30, 2023 | Consumer
From the RAC: The RAC is today urging the UK’s biggest fuel retailers to cut the price of petrol by at least 5p a litre to 150p to reflect their far lower wholesale costs. As it stands, the Government’s 5p duty cut brought in shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...
by Dawn Robinson-Walsh | Aug 16, 2023 | Bude, Consumer
It is becoming a perennial question. Why is petrol/diesel so expensive in Bude? Today, at Morrisons, the price of petrol and diesel was the same at 155.9 per litre. (Morrisons More points are currently at 10 per litre for what it’s worth). The price at the Shell...
by Dawn Robinson-Walsh | May 16, 2023 | Consumer, Travel
The average price of petrol has fallen below 145p a litre for the first time in 18 months, new fuel price data from the RAC reveals, though not, of course, in Bude. Having been in the Midlands las week, these sorts of lower prices were reflected there, where there is...
by Dawn Robinson-Walsh | Dec 22, 2022 | Consumer, Travel
This Christmas is set to be the most expensive ever on the roads with petrol and diesel both at record highs for the festive period. Petrol is currently being sold for an average of 152.96p a litre which is 7p more than it was on 22 December 2021 (145.66p). Diesel,...
by Dawn Robinson-Walsh | Nov 22, 2022 | Consumer
Amid the worst cost-of-living crisis in four decades drivers are being denied cheaper fuel by the UK’s biggest retailers refusing to lower their forecourt prices to reflect far lower wholesale costs. Some areas also charge more than others. We all know, for example,...
