With various conflicts and instabilities across the globe, fuel prices are on the rise.
How is this looking where you are?
Near me, 10th March 2026
Petrol:
Highest: 143.9p per litre (Esso)
Lowest: 137.9p per litre (Shell)
Diesel:
Highest: 161.9p per litre (Esso)
Lowest: 150.9p per litre (Tesco)
Let’s find out who has the cheapest & priciest fuel in the country.
Just use this instead:
I’m driving to Ireland next week, not thrilled
With inflation plugged into the 2003 price then £1,37 is right but then in 2012 is was about £1.37 a litre so inflation puts that at £1.99.
Overall we’re still in a better place than we could be!
Apparently, it got this high in the early stages of the ‘3-day special military operation’ in 2022. I’d forgotten.
Well of course it did… Russia produces oil, had sanctions so people couldn’t buy that oil so the other markets had a bit of a squeeze.
The real fear is if this is long term or not. Geopolitics is a messy business that can’t really be summed up in a few sentences (and cause ANOTHER thread drift) but as ever, we all just have to get used to having even less money than we should have!
Our office south of Dublin reports 2 Euro a litre for Diesel today !
Diesel hit 2 quid in places.
Indeed. First lock down in 2020 I saw unleaded at less than £1. Then, June 2022 there was diesel over £2. Crazy ranges.
I actually managed to fill up the diesel tank today, at only 145.9p per litre. 10p per litre cheaper than anywhere else I had seen!
