The price of diesel should be 16p cheaper, the RAC and AA have said, with the latter labeling the cost of fuel an 'ongoing scandal'
The discrepancy in forecourt prices occurs despite the wholesale price of diesel remaining cheaper than petrol for the entire month of April - at 104.88p per litre - and a gradual drop in diesel prices over the past six months. The wholesale price of petrol dropped 6p per litre in April to 111.25p.
In Northern Ireland, the forecourt price of a litre of diesel averages 147.7p - 13p less than on UK forecourts as a whole. The AA said:"This is an ongoing scandal that both the AA and RAC have been attacking for weeks. The fuel retailers say the added cost is needed to compensate for the poor return they get from supplying diesel under oil company contracts to businesses. The gap between pump price and wholesale is so big it renders that argument complete nonsense."
RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams added: “This just isn’t fair for the country’s 12 million diesel car drivers. We feel there should be an obligation on retailers to reflect wholesale price movements on their forecourts. Sadly, the only place this seems to happen is in Northern Ireland, where a litre of diesel is, incredibly, being sold for 12p less than the UK-wide average.
“Our data shows that the average retailer margin on a litre of diesel is a shocking 22p a litre compared to petrol, which is around 8p. The long-term averages for both fuels is 7p, which means retailers are making three times what they have in the past for diesel. This is hard for them to justify and equally hard for diesel drivers to swallow."
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