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Exactly how bad are fuel prices gonna get?

Anakah6
Anakah6 Posts: 13 Forumite
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Jumped up around 5p a litre in a week near me. Is that going to continue?
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  • Sandtree
    Sandtree Posts: 10,628 Forumite
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    Yup                          
  • Alanp
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    Don’t be surprised to see £2.00 per litre, or more
  • daveyjp
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    edited 6 March 2022 at 11:05AM
    Saw an increase in diesel from £1.58 to £1.68 within 3 hours yesterday.

    Unleaded went up from £1.52 to £1.58.
  • Car_54
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    “Exactly”? £2.74 per litre. Does anyone have a better guess?
  • Grey_Critic
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    edited 19 December 2025 at 9:30PM
    [Deleted User] said:
    “Exactly”? £2.74 per litre. Does anyone have a better guess?
    Well that equates to £12.46 per gallon - IF people did not have this fixation with metric they would have seen the way that prices have been rising - A litre of petrol/diesel @ £1.00 = £4.55 a gallon - easy to work out how much we are being ripped off.
  • Merlin139
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    I got Unleaded E10 yesterday for £1.42.9 yesterday at Sainsbury's in York but saw at an independent garage it was £1.63.7

    Even if it does get to £2 per litre we will still no doubt see people driving 800 meters to drop their children off at school rather than walking
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  • oldagetraveller1
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    edited 6 March 2022 at 12:50PM
    The Shell closest to me is now 166.9p/litre (unleaded E10) and Diesel 171.9p/litre. That's a rise of 8p/litre in less than a week.
    The way people are still "bombing" around, without any thought of economy, you'd think it was still 30p/litre cheaper!
    The cheapest E10 unleaded locally is 156.9p/litre.
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  • jimjames
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    edited 6 March 2022 at 5:46PM
    Local Texaco garage in town, not motorway services, was selling diesel at £1.76 yesterday. The differential between petrol and diesel seems to have jumped from around 3p to 12p this week as well. I can see other places catching up and exceeding that £1.76 level. Most non supermarket garages locally are already at least £1.65 for diesel, supermarkets £1.53

    From those levels surpassing £2 a litre isn't much of a stretch.
    Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
  • Thrugelmir
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    edited 19 December 2025 at 9:30PM
    Grey_Critic said:
    [Deleted User] said:
    “Exactly”? £2.74 per litre. Does anyone have a better guess?
     easy to work out how much we are being ripped off.
    Much of the money gets reinvested into Premier League football,  ;)
  • motorguy
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    I could see it hitting £2 a litre.  

    Where we are its around £1.50 a litre and at the lower end of the UK wide pricing range.  


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