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Petrol prices fall from record highs for first time in months

Petrol prices fall from record highs for first time in months

Falling wholesale costs could lead to savings of £10 off a tank within a fortnight, the AA said
Motorists can expect reductions of about £1.50 a tank after fuel prices dropped from record highs seen in recent months.

According to the AA motoring group, average pump prices for petrol have fallen since the start of the month, when prices were 191.53p a litre for petrol and 199.07p a litre for diesel.

They are now down to 188.76p for petrol and 196.96p for diesel, a dip attributable to an overall drop in the price of oil.

Falling wholesale costs could lead to savings of £10 off a tank within a fortnight, according to the AA’s fuel price spokesperson, Luke Bosdet. “Wholesale petrol’s trajectory, if sustained, would lead to savings of a tenner off a tank from the record highs, providing the fuel trade is prepared to pass them on,” he said.

Bosdet warned, however, that it’s not all good news: “The problem is that, in many places, the price cuts are quite simply not happening despite more than six weeks of falling costs.”

Question marks have been raised about fuel pricing, specifically about the margins made by refineries.

This concern prompted the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, last month to commission the UK’s competition watchdog to undertake a review of the fuel sector.

That Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) review found “cause for concern in the growing gap between the price of crude oil when it enters refineries, and the wholesale price when it leaves refineries as petrol or diesel”. An in-depth investigation is now set to take place.

Wholesale petrol prices peaked at above £1 a litre at the start of June, but dropped to below 80p a litre for much of last week.

The huge price increase in recent months has been driven by the war in Ukraine, the fallout of which led the Russian company Gazprom to tell its European customers on Monday it could not guarantee gas supplies.

An independent energy analyst has warned that, despite the latest drop, prices are likely to remain high as the war shows no sign of abating.

“It’s difficult to see how crude does anything but go up, while the war rages, and that’s not good news in the medium term for petrol prices,” said David Cox.

This landscape has not been helped by news on Monday that efforts – led by US president Joe Biden – to get Saudi Arabia to increase its oil supply have proven futile. Oil prices have since risen.
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