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Wales Online
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Rhodri Harrison

Are we being ripped off in the UK with the cost of fuel?

There's a lot of suspicion about at the moment about the pricing of fuel and exactly why it is that some of us are now having to fork out over £100 to fill up our cars. Fuel prices have rocketed in recent months and recently saw some filling stations charging more than £2-a-litre.

Russia's war on Ukraine has been mostly blamed for a rise in demand for oil which in turn has pushed up the price of a barrel. That in turn translates into higher prices at the pumps, although some countries have higher prices than others. The cost of filling an average family car has reached a staggering £100.27 for petrol and £103.43 for diesel as the fuel cost crisis rages on.

While this is a global issue, it hasn't stopped some people from questioning just why prices do keep on rising, and one customer's complaining prompted a Welsh filling station to set out exactly how much it ends up with of the money customers spend filling up their tanks, dividing public opinion in Wales.

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