The G7 has promised more diesel. Why is it still £2 a litre?
The G7 has promised a fuel-stock release, with diesel brought forward. Fuel Finder UK checks what the announcement means for drivers and what prices show so far.
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The G7 has promised a fuel-stock release, with diesel brought forward. Fuel Finder UK checks what the announcement means for drivers and what prices show so far.
Fuel Finder compared petrol and diesel at the same UK forecourts. See the MPG advantage diesel needs to break even on fuel, and how it changed in a month.
At 245 £2-plus forecourts, no qualifying sub-£2 diesel option was reported within five miles. Fuel Finder measures how local choices differ.
Fuel Finder analysed more than 1.3 million nearby fuel-price queries. National attention rose with prices, but local behaviour told a different story.
Fuel Finder data shows UK diesel averaging 200.02p, with one in three reporting forecourts at £2 or more and major local differences.
Fuel Finder analysed more than 100,000 price rises across roughly 8,000 comparable forecourts, revealing how quickly the repricing spread and where it differed.
I followed the same 3,084 forecourts over 200 days to see how prices rose, fell and rose again. Two videos put those changes alongside Brent crude and the pound.
June brought the fastest fuel price falls on record. July took all of it back and more. 98.3% of UK forecourts raised petrol in the last fortnight, and duty rises …
When fuel prices rise, they do not rise everywhere at once. Tracking the first price increase at 7,254 UK forecourts shows a 13-day gap between the quickest brand and the …