A Tesco in Toton and an Asda in Hyson Green are among six new places added to a list of the cheapest petrol stations in Nottinghamshire. Motorists have been searching for the cheapest place to fill up after being hit by the largest monthly spike in pump prices on record in March despite a cut in fuel duty.
Recovery firm RAC said the average cost of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts rose by 11.6p to end the month at 163.3p, while diesel prices rose even more sharply, up 22.1p per litre to 177.3p. That is the previous biggest monthly increases in average fuel prices in records dating back to 2000 were October last year for petrol (7.4p per litre) and May 2008 for diesel (8.4p per litre).
The RAC said the rise in pump prices was driven by surging wholesale costs caused by the war in Ukraine and drivers would have been hit by even higher prices without the cut in fuel duty. RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said: "Without question, these figures show in the starkest possible terms just how much fuel prices are contributing to the cost-of-living crisis which will be affecting households up and down the country. Drivers might well be feeling aggrieved that the Chancellor’s ‘historic’ fuel duty cut announced in the spring statement just two weeks ago has done nothing to protect them from price increases.
