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Forget weather maps. Every morning on breakfast TV there should be a petrol prices forecast: it is likely to be just as variable as our weather. Using petrolprices.com, I took a tour round the UK to see who’s paying what. I keyed in a few familiar postcodes, which took me north, south, east, and west, and a few places in between. One thing is certain, isobars joining up those places with equal pressure on the pocket would look like the work of a one-year-old let loose with a crayon. For example, using the lowest available pump price as a guide, motorists as far apart as Swansea, Norwich, Carlisle and Wolverhampton can all get unleaded from 98.9 pence-per-litre. Motorists in Richmond (Yorkshire) are being charged at least 99.5 pence, and in Exeter, 99.9 pence. Margate, Aberystwyth, Keswick and Worthing are all over the ton – the lowest price in any of those places is 101.9 pence. But spare a thought for Cornish drivers: the prices in Bude range from 102.9 to 105 pence-per-litre. The lowest price I came across in England – 97.9 pence – is to be found in SW1A 2AA, which is the postcode for 10 Downing Street. In Scotland, the lowest price I found – 97.8 pence – was in EH99 1SP, which, as you might have guessed, is the postcode for the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood. So, don’t bother to petition MPs to regulate fuel prices; just get them to fill up for you.
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