Petrol now £12 a week more than last year: Find the cheapest where you live

DRIVERS in Yorkshire and Humberside are benefiting from the cheapest petrol prices in the country, according to the AA. Use our interactive map to find the lowest prices across Yorkshire. Just drag and zoom the map to see your town »
By The Newsroom
Published 14th Jan 2010, 15:38 BST
Updated 14th Jan 2010, 15:40 BST

The car insurance giant revealed that a two-car family is now paying an average of nearly 12.50 more a week for petrol than a year ago.

Average petrol prices are now at 111.80p a litre compared with 86.63p a litre this time last year.

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But drivers in Yorkshire and Humberside have been the least affected by the price increase with petrol at 110.7p a litre on average.

The worst hit drivers in the country are in East Anglia and London where petrol prices are 112.6p in both areas on average.

Diesel is now, on average, 113.65p a litre compared with 98.68p in mid-January last year. The AA said that in the middle of last month average petrol prices were 107.66p a litre, while diesel was 109.3p.

Since then there has been the return to a 17.5% VAT rate, plus an increase in oil prices and wholesale food costs, said the AA.

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It added that supermarket Asda was currently offering the cheapest petrol - at an average of 107.83p a litre.

AA president Edmund King said: "Higher fuel prices in 2010, caused by above-inflation duty increases and oil price volatility, will continue to destabilise the economic recovery and family budgets.

"With the general election coming, drivers will be listening carefully to what the political parties propose."

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