It can be worth looking around to find the cheapest garages
The cheapest place in Cambridgeshire to fill up your car with petrol is at a Tesco garage in Huntingdonshire. According to the latest data supplied by retailers, a driver in an average family car could save up to £8 by filling up at this forecourt, compared to the most expensive petrol station.The Tesco garage at Neil Way, Huntingdonshire is charging motorists 128.9p per litre, which means it would cost £71 to fill up an average 55 litre tank. This is based on a feed of live petrol prices which was set up by the government’s Competition and Markets Authority last September. The average price for a litre of petrol across the Cambridgeshire region this week is 134.7p.
The most expensive filling station in Cambridgeshire is an ASDA station on Ness Road in Burwell. The cost of standard petrol at this station is 142.9p, meaning it would cost a total of £79 to fill up an average family car at this forecourt.
For the owners of diesel cars, the cheapest place to fill up is the Tesco garage on Hostmoor Avenue in March. The cost of a litre of standard diesel at this forecourt was 139.9p, according to prices supplied by retailers.
It comes as new figures suggest diesel prices have surged to a 16-month high since the start of the Middle East conflict. The RAC said the average price of a litre of the fuel at UK forecourts has gone up by 5p since Saturday to 147p. It has not been this expensive since mid-August 2024. Average petrol prices have risen by 3p per litre since Saturday to 136p.
Disruption to tanker traffic in the Middle East has sparked a rise in oil prices, which have a significant effect on wholesale fuel prices. The price of Brent crude oil has risen by about 21 percent over the past week, exceeding 88 US dollars (£66) a barrel on Friday.
RAC head of policy Simon Williams said: “While wholesale costs for any retailer buying in new stock will have gone up, it normally takes two weeks for price changes to work their way through to the forecourt. Brent crude jumped to 85 US dollars (£64) on Thursday, something we haven’t seen since July 2024.
“If the price of a barrel stays at this level, or increases, then further forecourt rises will be inevitable. While the rate of increase has been fast, we’re fortunately a long way from the record prices of 2022 when the average price of petrol hit 191.5p and diesel 199p.”