GARAGE FORECOURTS SHOULD NOT BE CHARGING MORE THAN £1.65P PER LITRE FOR PETROL OR HIGHER THAN £1.75P FOR DIESEL ACCORDING TO ONE CAMPAIGN GROUP

As fuel price protestors are set to take to the highways once more today, fair fuel price campaign group FairFuelUK has slammed Garage Forecourt operators for charging more than they should be for both Petrol and Diesel.

The group says that from 2016 up until the Covid lockdown years, the average wholesale price difference to pump prices was traditionally around 10p to 12p per litre.

However, since 2019, that yearly average has nearly doubled with recorded profits at about 18p to 21p per litre gained by some retailers.

Current retail margins, recorded for July 20th, have hit an astonishing 35p per litre for both fuel types.

That's up almost £20 profit per average family car. Calls have now been made to whomever takes over as Prime Minister to take action as a priority.

Howard Cox, FairFuelUK's Founder Says:

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"As oil prices have rocketed since 2020, the fuel supply chain has exploited drivers by doubling their profits through record pump pricing.

"They are directly responsible for making the cost of living crisis even worse. I call on The Government, once and for all to punish the opportunistic profiteering in the fuel supply chain.

"This simply cant go on. The CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) seem in total dereliction of their core duty in not punishing the fuel supply chain's lack of competition, exploiting global oil price instability, and blatant unchecked profiteering.

"It is clear, mine and MP Robert Halfon's call for a pump pricing regulator, we call PumpWatch, is way past overdue.

"The New Prime Minister must make this a priority, in order to reduce inflation and the cost-of-living crisis."

 

Police have issued warnings to motorists across the UK that they could be impacted by slow moving roadblocks planned on the nations roads and motorways as part of a nation wide protest which will include cities such as Birmingham, Cardiff, Liverpool, London and Manchester.

FairFuelUK is not involved with the current Fuel Price Protests but does support the protesters' objectives so long as they are lawful.

Motorists in many areas have witnessed slight drops in the cost of fuel over the past couple of weeks but prices on the whole are still dramatically higher than they were before the crisis in Ukraine unfolded.

One forecourt owner bucked the trend earlier this week by significantly reducing prices at the pumps to help hard stretched locals who are already dealing with a cost of living crisis.

The Limes Service Station on Manchester Road in Walkden cuts its price, much to the delight of eager motorists heading to the station looking to take advantage of the stations lower prices. 

The owner says he aims to maintain its lower prices for at least a week or longer if it can, but fluctuations in the market are unpredictable and so eventually prices could once more rise.