Supermarkets are being urged to drop their fuel prices by 5p "immediately" as motorists struggle amid the current cost of living crisis.
The RAC said a lack of competitiveness has led to high prices which do not reflect the wholesale savings that supermarkets are making. Supermarkets are currently enjoying margins of around 15p a litre on both petrol and diesel while hard-pressed drivers have to fork out for petrol at an unnecessarily high average price of 160.96p and 184.41p for diesel
While supermarket stations have typically sold petrol and diesel at lower prices due to the large volumes they sell, they aren't passing on recent savings with petrol having dropped by 13p to 117p and diesel by 22p to 136p.
