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Britain's top supermarkets are continuing to cut the cost of fuel, with petrol no at its lowest price for three years while diesel is at a two-year low. The big four supermarkets have all cut diesel prices to 94.9p per litre while petrol prices can be found for 82.9p per litre at some forecourts.

 

Diesel cut to 94.9p per litre

Asda has cut the price of fuel by 3p per litre and is now offering petrol at 82.9p per litre at all 172 forecourts. The supermarket has also cut 3p off diesel, dropping the price down to 94.9p per litre

Unlike other leading supermarkets, Asda's fuel prices are national, meaning all customers benefit equally up and down the country – regardless of where you live.

  

Tesco petrol 82.9p per litre

Tesco petrol prices have dropped to 82.9p while diesel is down to 94.9p. But remember, Tesco prices are not nationwide and these prices can only be found at particular pumps.

Don’t forget! Drivers with a Tesco Clubcard receive one point for every £1 spent at a Tesco filling station. They’ll quickly add up and could save you a tidy sum over a year.

Morrisons diesel down to 94.9p per litre

Morrisons has cut the price of its petrol again at its 287 filling stations. The lowest price of petrol is now 82.9p and diesel is just 94.9p.

Do you fill up on fuel at Morrisons often? If so, take advantage of the Morrisons Miles scheme. You earn points for every litre of fuel you purchase and can redeem your savings when shopping in-store.

 

Petrol prices down to 82.9p per litre

Sainsbury's has cut petrol prices to bring the cost down to 82.9p per litre and diesel is now  94.9p per litre. However, Sainsbury's local price policy means that you may not benefit from the latest price cut.

Of course Sainsbury's customers can still take advantage of additional Nectar points when you fill up at their forecourt.

 

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Added: 30 April 2009 07:30
Out of date article, fuel now is approx 95.9p per litre.
Are the days of cheap petrol gone, it seems so.
The fuel is cheap, its the TAX thats on it that is SO expensive.
Mark, Stoke on Trent

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Added: 08 January 2009 12:53
The ASDA prices are not the same nationaly, I paid 83.9p for petrol at the Birchwood ASDA yesterday.
Andrew Simm, Warrington

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Added: 23 December 2008 22:59
In response to the posting by Maz.A contact at Shell,Stanlow told me that diesel is not cheap to refine, nor is it likely to be.The requirement to meet ever increasing demands from Europe,currently Euro IV emissions is costing heavily.Diesel carries the bulk of the cost,petrol is a by-product.Yes particulates are nasties,that is why we now are hearing of diesel particulate filters.They recycle the fumes and remove more of the soot.Another expensive "go wrong"to replace.Petrol is clean & cheap.
John Shepherd, UpHolland,Skelmersdalej

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Added: 22 December 2008 23:55
I am beginning to wonder whether the decrease in fuel at the pumps is because of a large reduction in fuel duty.One that the government will not admit to!!.How else could such a low profit product(as we are told)be reduced by such a large amount??.Yes the price of crude has fallen but surely not enough to bring about the pump prices we see at present.We were kidded into investing in diesel vehicles,look what happened.Will we rush out again and replace our ageing vehicles with petrol driven ones.
John Shepherd, UpHolland,Skelmersdale

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Added: 20 December 2008 13:33
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The cost of diesel. When I bought my first diesel car, I did so because i was informed it was cleaner for the for our air and it was cost effective what a lot or nonsense.Now we are told its worse than petrol. Its 12p more expensive and they do not do a lot more miles to the gallon than most other modern petrol driven cars. I have done my comparrisons and petrol engine is cheaper by far I wiil never believe the government again
tony adamson,

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Added: 17 December 2008 05:42
worse still is the fact that contrary to popular beleif deisel as a fuel is more harmful to the 'environment' in comparison to a more refined unleaded fuel, contrary to what co2 figures suggest, something to do with soot emitted from diesels and the re-absorbtion of co2 into the envoronment.
although i do agree that diesel is a cheaper fuel to produce and prices at the pump should reflect this, that said though more miles per gallon can be achieved by a diesel powered car so prices do seem fair
maz, Isle of Wight

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Added: 11 December 2008 19:48
Have you noticed how the price of diesel has increased so much over petrol while being a cheaper fuel to produce and how diesel engines do greater a mpg. It's all happened since the popularity of diesel engines increased in private cars probably outnumbering petrol engined cars. Again it's another rip off diesel has become more popular so hike up the fuel duty, look at other countries, nearly all cheaper than ion the rip off UK
Colin James Lee, Carnforth

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Added: 09 December 2008 18:50
YYYEEESSSS!!! at last! my 45 litre diesel fuel tank now costs £44.55 to fill!! the first time that has happened in ages! in july it cost £61...
tom, gateshead

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Added: 02 December 2008 22:05
spent 6k on changing my car from a 2.2 petrol to a more economacle 1.9 diesel, saving on tax BUT im no longer saving as im having to shell out an extras £15 to fill my tank up a week, ehats the point od telling people to go green when u see the now 17p price gap between diesel and pertol. i remember the days when diesel was cheaper and thats when they were app bad for the enviroment
P Blackburn, Norwich

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Added: 30 November 2008 13:10
Is it me or have you all noticed that if you are a respocible person and switch to a diesel car for economy or if you go for a night out and you are the driver YOU get clobbard with expensive Diesel that does not drop in price the same amount as petrol eventhough it is cheaper to make ! and soft drinks cost more than alcoholic drinks BUT the soft drinks do not attract TAX in the same way. IT is totally iresponcible of pubs and breweries to put temptation the drivers way because of this expence.
John, Leicester

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Added: 28 November 2008 19:20
There is clearly price fixing - Diesel should be around 90p per litre when Oil is around $50 - there seems to be no government intervention? what is going on? people have massive bills and credit problems - even loosing there homes - but nothing is said about this racket!!! - wholesale diesel prices (for lorries) is around 30p less!!! - so why not to the public?

There needs to be an government inquiry NOW!!! not next week NOW every hour they are raking it in!!!!
John Marsden, Maidstone

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Added: 28 November 2008 19:16
There is clearly price fixing - Diesel should be around 90p per litre when Oil is around $50 - there seems to be no government intervention? what is going on? people have massive bills and credit problems - even loosing there homes - but nothing is said about this racket!!! - wholesale diesel prices (for lorries) is around 30p less!!! - so why not to the public?

There needs to be an government inquiry NOW!!! not next week NOW every hour they are raking it in!!!!
John Marsden, Maidstone

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Added: 25 November 2008 17:25
WHEN OIL WAS $50 A BARREL 3 YEARS AGO WE WERE BEING CHARGED AROUND 90P PER LITRE FOR DIESEL. SOMEONE IS TAKING THE P*** OUT OF US ALL FOR CHARGING, ON AVERAGE, 106P PER LITRE. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT THIS BLATANT PROFITEERING- QUICKLY!!!
TOM SHIEL, GATESHEAD

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Added: 24 November 2008 22:13
Isn't it amazing that the supermarkets are now all offering diesel at the same price of 105.9 per litre. Yet they continually deny they are part of a price-fixing cartel. Humbug!
Murray Phillips, Dundee

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Added: 24 November 2008 19:10
Petrol prices may be dropping but why is Diesel up to 20p per litre dearer than Petrol, is there more tax on it or is it dearer to produce??? As most of the goods in our shops today are delivered by road I would have thought having lower Diesel costs would bring the cost of goods down and therefore help out the working family.
Andy, Chelmsford

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Added: 24 November 2008 18:54
I still don't understand why Diesel prices are over 15% higher than petrol.

I see petrol prices coming down but almost no effect on Diesel.

Can someone please tell me why this is?
Rob, Haslemere

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Added: 24 November 2008 18:06
Fuel prices are still dropping which is great news. Fuel isn't exactly "cheap" or "value" or any other words to that effect. Truth is fuel is still dearer than last year and previous years, yet oil is at a record low. When will we get the TRUE savings passed on.

And all this "spend £50 save 5p off fuel" is just another con. I mean food is so expensive in some places now that it simply isn't worth spending the £50. For me if i spent £50 a week in store, i would only save about £1 at the pump.
Rik, Leyland, Lancs

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Added: 19 November 2008 18:11
How wonderful fuel is still coming down, the only problem is, Unemployment is going up, I just got made redundant so cheaper fuel prices is sore consolation.
When will the supermarkets start cutting food prices? - I'm sick of having to live on ASDA Smartprice everything because decent stuff is now unaffordable. If fuel is coming down, so it costs less to deliver the food, so prices should come down - but they are still going up - Supermarket Greed - they get it back one way or the other!
Steve, Staffs

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Added: 12 November 2008 10:10
I think that they are still ROBBING US BLIND with the proces they charge, and what makes it worse is that they refuse to accept it saying its the petrol supplyers and taxes, well if thats true then why do they all have profit margins pushing towards billions? they could half the price on petrol and not notice a thing.
Sam, Harlow

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Added: 27 October 2008 12:26
What really annoys me is how Tesco can justify a price difference of around 5p/litre at times between the Buckingham site, and the Milton Keynes site when they are only 15 miles apart. I've stopped buying my petrol at Tesco and got myself an ASDA credit card, so now pay Asda price less 2p per litre, a better deal than 1 point per pound at Tesco!
Keith Nuttall, Buckingham

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Added: 26 October 2008 14:48
Steve of Stoke. OPEC meeting failed to stabilise barrel of oil price and indeed it fell further after the news. So the latest cut in production will not 'fuel' an increase in your petrol/diesel prices. The continuing strength of the dollar might however.

Ultimately OPEC only control ~50% of world production, so they are treading a tightrope at the minute. If oil stabilises at $70/barrel (today $64) they will be happy with production levels officially set. At this price you'll see 89.9p soon.
evafaster, Newcastle Upon Tyne

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Added: 24 October 2008 20:47
Looks like we are not going to have lower prices for much longer, now that OPEC have decided to cut oil production right back to force prices back up again. Petrol back up to £1.20 a litre within a few weeks, so make the most of 95p per litre, because it wont last long.
Don't forget as well, good old Gordy has postponed his fuel tax hikes for the last few budgets, so he might see this as being the time to slap on 2 - 4p per litre tax rises.
Its rubbish that we are held to ransom on fuel prices
Steve, Stoke On Trent

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Added: 24 October 2008 20:25
Tesco petrol @ 89p? Where?
Every Tesco station I,ve seen in the last couple of days is charging 102/103p and as a lorry driver I've passsed many in various parts of the country!!
dave, dunstable

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Added: 24 October 2008 13:27
I feel that the supermarkets have done a good job for the public but it's a pity the Government have not done the same.
Why do they persist on having fuel tax and VAT. If one of the parties promised to reduce taxation on fuel then I would vote for them and I am sure a lot of other people would.
Not one of the parties in all their rhetoric and pontification ever say they will cut fuel duty, is that because it is such a prolific revenue collector?
Esmond Johnson, blackpool

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Added: 24 October 2008 12:24
Why is deisel still costing so much more than petrol. Is that where the fuel profit for retailers and oil companies is?
Fred Brown, Grantham

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Added: 21 October 2008 07:22
We were told that the prices had to go up straight away because the country can only store 2.5 days worth of fuel. the price of oil is well below the $100 price for at least the last 2 weeks but we are still paying very high prices. The Supermarkets should be able to offer us fuel at at least 80p, so no the super markets have not done enough
Peter, Haverhill

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Added: 20 October 2008 22:47
All good, but the islands are still the worst done by with regards to fuel costs. Prices have always been higher than the national average in such areas, and probably wont come down a signifcant amount following such news.
Stuart, Western Isles

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Added: 20 October 2008 13:06
tesco still at £1.03 locally - why should we have to spend £50 in store to get fair price?
heather, new milton

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Added: 17 October 2008 20:27
oil by the barrel has dropped by half but fuel is still to high.
cheaper fuel cheaper products people spend more the world sorts itself out
i hate labour , grimsby

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Added: 17 October 2008 17:29
It's great news but it would be nice if the price of diesel was as cheep as petrol.
I run a 2.5 tds vauxhall frontera for my caravan and it would be good to be able to afford more fuel to take my family further away on holidays.
But any reduction in price has got to be good news.
Rob Garwell, Scunthorpe

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Added: 17 October 2008 13:49
I think it's easy to target the supermarkets when in fact the majority of the cost of petrol is charged by the government in taxation.

The price of petrol does follow the price of oil on the open market but it takes 4-6 weeks for price rises and reductions to filter through. If you watch the wholesale price as it rises when OPEC reduces production, you will see that the pump price takes about four weeks to move up.
Derek, Paisley

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Added: 14 October 2008 09:12
Some time ago I noticed that the price of diesel at my local Tesco's was higher than at Tesco stores 20 miles away in Perth; I contacted Tesco about this and got a lot of nonsense about the extra costs of delivery. Really? Another 20 miles meant 1 or 2 pence extra a litre? The bottom line is that because there is no competition locally Tesco believe they can charge higher prices for petrol as well as for many groceries instore. Live in a rural area and you WILL be ripped off by them.
David Smith, Blairgowrie, Perthshire

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Added: 23 September 2008 14:18
The price of fuel bears very little if any relation to the cost of getting the fuel to the filling station. The discrepancies are purely down to local competition, ie if there are no local competitors you'll be ripped off.

Equally price of oil can drive fuel prices up, but it tends to be on a 'ratchet system', whereby as the price of oil drops, this will not be relected in the price a the pumps, certainly not as quickly, and not proportionately.
david, Oxfordd

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Added: 23 September 2008 11:36
I totally disagree with Asda's comments that fuel prices across the country should be fixed. If you live in a region where the cost of getting fuel transported to you is more expensive then you should pay the price for it, and not expect the rest of us to subsidise you! Its the only way to go forward as it reflects the true price/cost of fuel. If people don't like it they should move somewhere more central.
Dan Wilson, Leeds

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Added: 22 September 2008 15:04
hi, We are paying £121.9 ppl for diesel @ Tescos when the national average price is £119.20. Approx.4 weeks ago a barrel of crude oil sold on the market for $148,it has now dropped to $97, a reduction of $51. This has not been reflected at the garage/supermarket pumps.Why not, these oil companies should be brought to heel and better regulated. The general public is being ripped off through greed.
marcus cresswell, carrickfergus co. antrim n. ireland

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Added: 22 September 2008 13:18
We are the only country in europe where diesel is dearer than petrol.We were all told to buy diesel cars as they are cheaper to run but you must do at least 20,000 miles per year to break even.There is no reason why we should pay this much difference between petrol and diesel
kenneth upfold, wrotham heath. kent

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Added: 22 September 2008 11:48
There is no justification for the massive difference between Petrol and Diesel prices, diesel used to be a by product of the refining process, any difference between the two prices is sheer robbery !!
Gavin Roberts, Swansea