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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Alex Lawson Energy correspondent

Petrol price investigation: who owns the UK’s oil refineries?

Stanlow oil refinery in Ellesmere Port, England.
Stanlow oil refinery in Ellesmere Port, England. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

The UK’s competition watchdog has turned its guns on oil refiners, pointing to the fat margins they are making as part of an investigation into why fuel prices are so high.

The Competition and Markets Authority said it has “found cause for concern in the growing gap between the price of crude oil when it enters refineries, and the wholesale price when it leaves refineries as petrol or diesel”.

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