Asda has "at last" lowered the cost of fuel for drivers - and the RAC has called on other major supermarkets to do the same after months of eye-watering prices at the pumps.
According to data from the RAC, Asda has knocked an average of 4.5p off the cost of a litre of unleaded across its 320 stores over the last two days, and around 5.5p off diesel too. But the RAC has argued that the drop in prices "should have come much sooner", after repeatedly accusing supermarkets of failing to pass on wholesale savings down to customers.
The motoring company has previously urged motorists to shop around away from the major supermarkets for their fuel, saying that smaller independent forecourts can often be found "offering more competitive prices" than the larger retailers. Just last month, the RAC insisted that drivers were still being charged "unnecessarily high" costs for fuel at supermarkets as it called on them to lower their pump prices.
