A UK motoring organisation has blamed the big four supermarkets for high prices at the pumps. According to the RAC, prices should be 14p-a-litre lower than they are currently set. The group added that despite the average price of petrol and diesel falling by 6p-a-litre in November, the reductions on the forecourts should have been at least twice that.
RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said: “It’s bordering on a scandal that drivers are being overcharged so much because the big four supermarkets, which dominate UK fuel retailing, are flatly refusing to reduce their prices by bigger amounts. Their prices are dropping like a feather when they should be falling like a stone."
Data from RAC Fuel Watch shows that unleaded came down from 165.96p to 159.88p while diesel dropped from 190.31p to 183.87p, saving motorists more than £3 a tank. It now costs £87.93 to fill up 55-litre family-sized petrol car and £101.13 for a similar diesel vehicle.
