Found a great cheap fuel finder site

robben_2

Re the earlier point about driving out of your way to save a few pence a litre, I wouldn’t if it meant making a proper detour just for that.

But if it’s on a route I’m doing anyway, or only a short hop off it, then yes, definitely. That’s why I quite like this one, it doesn’t just show the cheapest headline price, it also shows the detour and total cost so you can judge whether it’s actually worth bothering with: https://petrolsavings.com/routes

That makes more sense to me than just chasing the absolute lowest pence per litre with no context.

I’ve got a long commute 3 days a week, so it does add up, but I’m not driving halfway across the county to save pennies. It’s more useful for those “I’m going that way anyway, may as well fill up there instead” situations.

rdr

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81953089#Comment_81953089

Love the concept, althoughthe execution in this case is not particularly good, i just tried it for a journey between Essex and Manchester and it approximated the journey with a straight line which is significantly different from any actual sensible route rendering the results mark largely useless.

I think I might have a go at doing this using Google LM or some such AI

robben_2

I sent them an email about it, and they replied back with the following:

Thank you very much for your email and for taking the time to get in touch with your feedback.

We’re really pleased to hear that you’re finding Petrol Savings useful. It’s always great to hear from people who are using the site, and we genuinely appreciate you highlighting this point about the routes section.

I’m pleased to let you know that road routing is now live on the site. You should now be able to find the cheapest petrol stations along a particular route.

Thanks again for your email, for using the site, and for helping us improve it. Feedback like yours is really valuable to us.

Best regards,

PetrolSavings

Iceweasel

There is also a site (and an app) that covers many European countries and the UK.

Fuel Flash

I've just passed through 9 countries in the past week and found it very accurate and up to the minute.

carguru1972

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81923999#Comment_81923999

At the moment with fuel prices still rising (in my town at least), I can drive another 3 mins away from my house to save 6-10p per litre. I personally use the car owl as their cheapest fuel finder I prefer their user interface, however I have found that with the government data we're now reliant with fuel stations updating their fuel prices on the gov portal. Not all fuel stations seem to be adhering to the protocol of updating their prices 30 mins after changing them.

4hp

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81973259#Comment_81973259

As someone who also works with the fuel-finder data, some stations are not great at updating, a lot are though. I think its more that individual websites only update prices on their own schedule too, + the underlying gov.uk api is quite flakey. Overall its a really good scheme though

4hp

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81923999#Comment_81923999

I know I do! On principle as much as anything. You can, if sufficiently a nerd, which again I am, do the break even calculation if you want to justify it, but even if not, voting with your wallet is a good way of communicating with BP/Shell et al that they dont have a monopoly . Def worth it on both accounts for me to drive a bit further

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81987462#Comment_81987462

Early job I had in the last century was for a Very Big Oil Company with nationwide chain of petrol stations. I looked after their petrol price database, which had the forecourt prices that were being offered by their competitors, the prices were phoned in every other day by the staff at their stations who had to go and check on the competition. No doubt their competitors were doing the same thing.

4hp

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81987763#Comment_81987763

Interesting. And I assume still are! I presume they have also all built their own competitor tracking tools using this now.

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81988366#Comment_81988366

I'm sure they are, although probably not using IMS/DL1 on an IBM 360 mainframe (although…….)