Supermarkets are “taking advantage” of drivers by charging “far higher” fuel prices than they should be, a motoring services company has said.
The RAC accused the UK’s biggest fuel retailers of refusing to lower their pump prices despite a drop in wholesale costs. It said supermarkets’ profit margins are around 15p per litre for petrol and diesel.
This means customers are being charged an “unnecessarily high” average price of 161.0p per litre for petrol and 184.4p for diesel. This is only 2p per litre lower than the average for all UK forecourts – supermarkets normally charge around 3.5p per litre less than the UK average.
