{"id":535975,"date":"2026-04-17T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535975\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:59:08","slug":"uk-petrol-and-diesel-prices-fall-after-weeks-of-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535975\/","title":{"rendered":"UK petrol and diesel prices fall after weeks of rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Filling a car with diesel remains about \u00a326 higher than in late February, while a tank of petrol costs nearly \u00a314 more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The RAC believes further falls can be expected, because costs on wholesale markets have remained below their recent peaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re hopeful there will be further reductions amounting to several pence a litre in the coming days,&#8221; said Simon Williams, head of policy at the RAC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After record price rises, drivers will be relieved to finally see prices going the other way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rises over the past six weeks took the average cost of diesel from 142p a litre up to nearly 192p, and the cost of petrol from 133p to more than 158p.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But fuel prices remain below the levels reached in summer 2022 following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, when petrol reached 191.5p a litre and diesel hit 199p.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filling a car with diesel remains about \u00a326 higher than in late February, while a tank of petrol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-535975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}