Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons drivers warned to fill up ‘as soon as you can’

A 10-week streak of falling fuel prices is coming to an end, motorists have been warned. Asda, Morrisons, Tesco, Texaco, BP, Shell, Esso and Sainsbury’s drivers at Britain’s biggest yards have been warned to fill up “as soon as possible”.

The AA reported that the average price of a liter of unleaded petrol in the UK stopped falling from 150.1p on April 24 to 144.5p at the end of last week. The AA revealed that the average cost of a liter of petrol at UK pumps fell from 150.1p on April 24 to 144.5p at the end of last week, but has fallen since then.

The average cost of a liter of diesel also fell from 158.3p on April 24 to 149.6p, but this decline stopped last Thursday. Motor groups had previously hoped petrol prices would fall below a pre-pandemic record high of 142.5 a liter on April 12, 2012, for only the second time since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

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The AA said this was unlikely to happen in the near future due to the recent rise in the price of a barrel of oil from US$80 in early June to more than US$85 in the past two weeks. Luke Bosdet, the AA’s fuel price spokesman, said: “The question is whether, after a significant fall in the average UK petrol price in June, the price will repeat last year’s sharp rise further into the summer.

“It would be a blow to the impending summer getaway if the cost of road travel became high again. For now, filling sooner rather than later will take advantage of current lower prices.” The warning comes as the cost of living crisis continues for motorists up and down the country.