Lowering Petrol Prices

Submitted by mcavill on Sat, 2005-09-17 16:32. :: On the Road

I can't help but feel the press were being a bit stupid, running the stories last week about the fact that there is no fuel shortage.

That sort of thing just gets into peoples heads, and of course they go out and queue to fill their car, making it a self fulfilling story - anyway - finally a bit of good news: petrol prices are coming down a few pence. Shell dropping prices, and an article about the general price fall.

A litre of unleaded on Asda's 158 forecourts dropped to 89.9p, while diesel fell to a maximum price of 92.9p per litre.

Even though many think the enormous chunk of tax the government adds onto fuel prices makes the UK very expensive, a look at the prices in many contries in Europe shows that we don't have the most expensive prices, granted we're in the top quarter or so, but at least we're not up at the Netherlands price....yet :)

Petrol Prices in Europe

UK Pence
Unleaded Diesel
Austria 75 69.85
Belgium 95.16 78.38
Czech Republic 71.75 71.75
Denmark 92.21 80.94
Finland 89.59 69.22
France 85.22 73.87
Germany 90.01 77.54
Greece 65.76 64.85
Netherlands 100.87 77.11
Hungary 83.99 79.79
Ireland 74.22 74.01
Italy 87.26 79.44
Luxembourg 76.55 63.79
Estonia 59.81 62.05
Norway 94.99 88.83
Latvia 59.56 59.46
Lithuania 62.25 61.23
Poland 79.68 72.18
Slovakia 69.05 73.28
Slovenia 67.79 66.18
Portugal 85.85 69.22
Spain 72.25 66.47
Sweden 89.47 82.11
Switzerland 72.14 77.1
United States of America 37.9 38.47

Data from the aa's fuel cost reports for august 2005.