The AA claims the failure to record a small decrease in charges means drivers are being “ripped off” with heavier costs. Between mid-March and mid-April petrol and diesel prices went up by around a penny a litre.
“Although much of that petrol price inertia can be explained by a stronger commodity fuel market, as usually happens heading into the US summer motoring season, the 3p-a-litre diesel price rip-off cannot.
“A collapse in fuel demand during the first lockdown gave the fuel trade its excuse for keeping prices artificially high, apparently to compensate for the lower sales.
“However, as Londoners are discovering, that price behaviour doesn’t work the other way.”
Fuel demand in the capital has started to dramatically increase as lockdown restrictions begin to ease.
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Fuel demand statistics from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy showed London’s fuel demand was now 83 percent of pre-pandemic labels.
This is higher than the UK average of 77p per litre and higher than during the lockdowns.
However, drivers in the capital have not been able to benefit from lower costs as demand increases.
Prices are still higher here than anywhere else in the UK with petrol drivers paying up to 128p per litre to top up.
This is six pence per litre more expensive than the UK’s lowest fuel prices in Northern Ireland.
Diesel prices are also higher in London with drivers paying up to 130.4p to top up their cars.
This is compared to just 124.5 pence per litre in Northern Ireland which also has the lowest diesel costs.