Your awareness of petrol prices?

I fill up twice a week. Don’t look at the price, I have to fill it up either way, so what’s the point.

Same here. We are rural and need a car. I am aware of how much petrol is and am trying to use the car less often.

I was in a different part of the country last week, we covered a lot of miles, so filled up a fair bit. The prices of petrol were all over the place. When we saw a low one we filled up. Some were ridiculously high, others the same as normal before Iran. We always check the price locally, there is an app.

My car has two tanks so roughly 130 litres. I topped up under a quarter a couple of days ago and it was $100. Would cost me over $400 to fill the tanks now.

I fill up maybe once every six weeks. I don't really notice too much, it seems to cost roughly about the same each time.

I fill up once a week and I am running a small firm of builders we use £1200 a week in our diggers etc which is now gone up as well
skip firm has just put a 10% increase on costs as a fuel surcharge
also had merchants emailing this week re prices going up
heating oil is the real shocker at the moment which has nearly trebled

Pretty low drama here in Surrey. It’s about £10 more to fill up. No queues. No conversations about it. Driving is still massively cheaper than public transport for me.

I have same car but in Seat version

i was on a trip south and was getting 64mpg, even with roof rack and bike on top 😂

they really are good on fuel 14.5 miles to the liter is pretty good

It’s gone up by 15p per litre at the one by me but if you go on the website or app petrol prices you can see the cheapest nearby

I’m not sure what work the person does, but unfortunately it’s not often as simple as putting your prices straight up to reflect an increased cost to you when you’re self employed.

If you’ve already got an agreed price for the work you can’t change it because costs to you have gone up - the customer would have every right to cancel.

Or if you have published rates in line with competitors then regular customers could go somewhere else if you change them regularly or to more than the competition.

My husband is self employed and prices work months in advance. He’s just been told some materials are going up 12-15% he could try and pass that on but he’d risk losing the work / starting on the wrong foot with a new customer.

He certainly hasn’t factored in the rising cost of petrol on top at all.

That doesn’t mean he doesn’t notice it going up, but like everyone whose wages haven’t gone up, he has to absorb these costs out of his money.

Very common that posters on MN comment on the cost of living, and how much the weekly shop has gone up in the supermarket, yet in this post so many posters saying they pay no attention to fuel prices and it costs what it costs. But around here supermarket petrol is £1.39 and just up the road it's £1.52. Do people really just fill up at the higher price regardless? I make a mental note of the prices as I drive by even though I only fill up once a month, these days I'm not throwing money away that I don't need to.

In 2012 it was £1.39 a litre.

Hardly a catastrophe at £1.50 in 2026.

I don't pay ANY attention to petrol prices because I'm epileptic and forbidden by law from driving.

It's just another thing privileged people complain about.

I just let it wash over me now. When I was early in my career and doing significant amounts of travel there were lorry strikes and protests that the cost of fuel was in the region of 65p per litre and the horrifying expense of this was going to bring the country to a standstill. And yet here we are. In 20 years we will remember that fuel used to be only £1.50 per litre and will marvel at how cheap that seems.

I try and fill up at the cheapest near to me - use an app to work it out
Have to travel for work and get 45p a mile - has been same rate for years
I do not have an alternative - live in a rural area and can’t use public transport due to my disabilities

My car has very good fuel consumption and so it doesn’t affect me loads. It’s a VW Up and honestly, it practically runs on fumes. It has a tiny tank so doesn’t cost a lot to fill up and a tank lasts ages. I don’t drive enormous amounts day to day but we do some occasional long drives and it really lasts -
you don’t really have to factor in petrol costs as a big deal.

We have an EV (mine for doing short journeys to school and my work 3.5 miles away) and a diesel (DH) as he travels a round trip of about 350 miles for work about once a month (during normal weeks he gets the train to the city centre or WFH). So we have noticed the price rises but DH gets his money back on expenses and we otherwise use my car.

Don't really take much notice, neither does my OH.

We will go to a cheaper filling station of course (usually our local supermarket) but if the tanks need filling, they need filling so filled they get.
It will raise a comment from one (or both) of us if the MoHo takes over £100 to fill but there is not much we can do except grin & bare it.

Very.

My ford fiesta is £15 a tank more than it was a month ago.

The red diesel prices and heating oil I’m seeing on the farm are huge as well. Hello inflation my old friend.

I just fill up when I need to. I know roughly how much a tank holds, but I never look at the prices.
When I was self-employed, I did keep receipts, but I couldn't change my fees dependent on petrol prices. I just used the receipts to total up the amount to put in my end of year accounts.

Yes, I can tell you exactly how much every garage charges for petrol between my home and the city 50 miles away.

I know which petrol stations are usually the cheapest and I make sure I fill up when one of them is on my route.

It costs me about €60 for a tank of fuel and as we live very rurally, I drive everywhere.

I pump my bike tyres up on a Monday morning.

Since we fill 2 cars 2-3 times a week yes when out we top up at what we see cheapest anywhere between 46-72 up our end for unleaded

My car only has a 50l tank but the difference between the cheapest local garage and the most expensive works out to over £10 a tankful.

I've noticed the rapid increase in prices recently and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. The difference in price between the cheapest local petrol stations and the most expensive is 19p a litre which is a 15% difference in price and that's hard to justify. Fuel Map UK is handy for keeping track of prices.