This article was originally published in 2013 – we have updated this to reflect the current situation in 2023.
In 2013, we wrote that diesel prices had reached an average of 146.38p a litre, but as of today in March 2023, fuel prices have seen much more in the way of price rises and fluctuation over the past 10 years. Back then, 146.38p per litre was not the all-time high we’d seen on fuel prices but could we ever have dreamed that prices would reach highs of 179p per litre (2022).
In 2013, we wrote that supermarkets had cut the price of fuel and there were reports that then Chancellor George Osborne would announce in the Budget that he was scrapping autumn’s planned fuel duty rise. This did happen but unfortunately in the intervening time we have seen taxation on fuel rise to far higher proportions than anyone could have imagined. In 2021, it was reported that UK prices of petrol were at their highest level since 2013 and in 2022 went even higher.
- In 2013, regionally the cheapest petrol was in northern England and in Yorkshire and Humberside, with both areas averaging 139.3p a litre.
- Northern Ireland was the most expensive at 141.1p – substantially more expensive than the next dearest, in south-east England, at 140.5p.
- In 2023, we are seeing the average price of unleaded at 147.62 per litre and diesel at 166.86p per litre.
