Diesel here, still 95.9P and holding at the local garage.

95RON at 93.9p and derv at 100.9p at a BP near me. 10p a litre higher than some garages around it and people are still using it.

96.9 here, it went up amazingly quickly in reaction toa small price rise and change in the £ to $ rate and I bet it won't come down as quickly now oil prices are back on their way down.

The supply of oil isn't the issue, it's the fact that all the oil companies won't increase refinery capacity to reduce the cost of fuel by increasing demand. Since supply is close to demand right now they can work full out and sell the lot at a high price. This == profits.

Last time oil was at the price it is now, fuel was around 70p a litre, a few years ago or however long it was. I could imagine a small increase on that could be justified, but not another 25%! The oil companys are running this town and there's not a lot we can do!

Last time oil was at the price it is now, fuel was around 70p a litre, a few years ago or however long it was. I could imagine a small increase on that could be justified, but not another 25%! The oil companys are running this town and there's not a lot we can do!

Fuel duty plus the vat on just the fuel duty = 60p nowadays

Last time oil was at the price it is now, fuel was around 70p a litre, a few years ago or however long it was. I could imagine a small increase on that could be justified, but not another 25%! The oil companys are running this town and there's not a lot we can do!

I think I would lay the high price firmly at Gordon Browns feet. We get screwed with duty and then VAT on top of the duty to boot. As OPEC said to him when he moaned about fuel prices "cut the duty".

Also if Americans weren't such a wasteful bunch of idiots driving gas guzzling monsters, the demand for oil would drop, and so would the price. They have gone from over $4 a US gallon, to $1.50 when the oil price dropped. That and the fact that oil is priced in dollars, makes me think, we should not be so friendly towards a nation that seems intent to bully the rest of the World, while making sure everything is fine for themselves.

95RON at 93.9p and derv at 100.9p at a BP near me. 10p a litre higher than some garages around it and people are still using it.

And a check on petrolprices.com shows a few supermarkets are playing the area game - e.g ,close to the M6, it's 99.9 for diesel - in town with Morrisons /Tesco & Sainsbury it's 96.9 (all posted on the same date ) .Even spotted a Texaco near a BP & Asda 5p a litre higher .

Simple solution is (if you can) buy a tankful on a trip past somewhere cheap -I get mine from Asda on way to work ,but it's not always possibel and that's what the sharks depend on .