Diesel has smashed through the £2-a-litre mark at several Isle of Wight filling stations as fuel prices continue to climb – with motorists seeing noticeable increases from one day to the next and even between morning and afternoon.
According to figures published by findcheapfuel.com, diesel has reached 209.9p per litre at Ashey Road Garage near Ryde, while Sandford Garage near Godshill is listed at 204.9p and Broadway in Freshwater at 202.0p.
Whitwell Garage, Harwoods and Leslies Northwood are all listed at 199.9p per litre for diesel – just a fraction below the £2 mark.
Petrol prices are also climbing sharply….
Ashey Road Garage is listed as the most expensive on the Isle of Wight for petrol at 185.9p per litre, followed by Leslies Northwood at 180.9p. Broadway in Freshwater, Whitwell Garage, Harwoods and Sandford Garage are each listed at 179.9p per litre.
The latest increases represent a significant change from earlier this year.
When Island Echo reported on rising prices in March, the cheapest unleaded petrol on the Isle of Wight was 139.7p per litre at Asda, with Morrisons in Lake and Newport at 140.9p and Tesco at 141.9p.
At the same time, the cheapest diesel was 157.7p at Asda, with Sainsbury’s and Tesco charging 157.9p.
Even the Island’s most expensive diesel identified in that March article – 187.9p at the Gulf garage on Lushington Hill in Wootton – was 22p per litre below the 209.9p now being listed at Ashey Road Garage. For a 50-litre fill, that difference alone equates to £11.
In March 2022, Island Echo reported diesel reaching 201.5p per litre at one Isle of Wight forecourt as pump prices soared. Just months later, in June 2022, petrol was being sold for between around 184p and 202p per litre, while diesel ranged from approximately 193p to 209p.
Today’s highest listed diesel price of 209.9p therefore puts the cost of the fuel back around levels experienced during the dramatic price surge of 2022.
There could be further pain ahead for motorists, with Sky News reporting that prices could continue to rise towards winter. The Strait of Hormuz remains restricted, while the Bab el Mandeb Strait – an important alternative route for oil exports through the Red Sea – is now also under threat amid escalating conflict involving Houthi forces in Yemen, raising fears of further pressure on global fuel prices.
Looks like it’s back to getting an EV if they keep
putting fuel prices up.
Maybe that’s their selling technique.
Don’t forget the extra cost in electric which is going up October then January then April so you’re no better off..
Good point, the B’stards have all the angles
covered.
Soon we will all be cycling everywhere.
Worse still is the pipeline from Saudi has been hit and that carried 4% of world oil supply, so an even more serious issue than that reported.
They will get us to buy electric cars, one way or another.
Then we will have power cuts as there won’t be enough electricity supplied to charge all the vehicles.
Perhaps the aim of HMG is that only the wealthy along with those who don’t tax, insure or work, will be able to afford to be driving in the not too distant future. Thus freeing up the roads from the mases to cruise along as we wobble on some electric scooter exposed to the elements.
HMG don’t set the price of oil…that’s the producers, and given that Trump and Putin are responsible for the current wars in spite of the consumers price hike they like the increases because it’s makes them richer, which is why both nations are in bed with the Saudis.
Labour levy 60% on a litre of fuel.
So they are responsible for the huge cost suffered by 40 million motorist’s.
The idiot Trump’s unnecessary, unlawful war on Iran may yet have a positive outcome.
If it gets people out of cars and onto buses, bicycles or their own feet it’ll be a tiny improvement in our lives.
Not enough to justify the thousands of dead innocents in Iran and beyond, but something at least.
Thanks Donald Trump.
The other day petrol was 2p / litre cheaper at Westridge garage
Here is the issue. The treasury rakes in about 24 billion every year from fuel duty on petrol and diesel sales. If ALL vehicles were electric, the government will find a way of taxation from owners of these ‘EV’cars to replace the lost revenue. With trump and the volatile situation in the middle east, the price of a barrel of brent crude seems out of control at present, and world leaders are struggling to find a good solution. Trump has made this mess and now he has no viable solution to resolve it. Regardless of what climate change activists believe or wish for, the price of a barrel of oil is a major factor for controlling economies worldwide.
Greedy shits, nothing but greed, knowing we have no choice