Petrol stations are ‘overcharging drivers by £2.50 per tank’ as prices hit three-year high
Prices at petrol pumps soared by more than 9p in a month, but the cost of diesel and petrol rose just over 5p in the same period
PETROL stations are overcharging drivers around £2.50 per tank as prices hit a three-year high, a report has revealed.
The price at petrol pumps soared more than 9p from early May to mid-June, when the price of petrol and diesel only increased by around 5p during the same period.
The report from FairFuel UK suggested drivers are at a gamble, as different petrol stations just yards from each other bear staggeringly different prices.
In Birmingham two BP garage's just five miles of each other bear a 28p difference in the cost of petrol, the Daily Mail reported.
On May 4, the price of Diesel stood at 120.5p a litre and had only increased a quarter of a pence by June 15 to 120.8p a litre.
But during this period, the price at pumps rose from 126.8p a litre to 132.2p a litre.
Howard Cox from FairFuel said motorists were being "fleeced at the pumps".
Mr Cox told the newspaper: "In Germany and France pump prices can fluctuate daily, even hourly.
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"The cost of filling up in these countries accurately reflects oil and wholesale prices.
"Here in the UK motorists and businesses are exploited ruthlessly by greedy speculators and the fuel supply chain."
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has promised to investigate fuel prices at petrol stations.
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