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One way of keeping driving costs down is to use a smartphone app to locate the cheapest fuel. At Which? The Fuelsmart app cost 69p to download and was good at showing the cheapest local stations. In contrast, Petrol Prices Pro was fairly good at giving the right prices — it got 27 out of 41 petrol and diesel prices correct. However, it only shows the five cheapest filling stations, so the nearest to your home may not be listed.

With the cheapest unleaded petrol costing The cheapest unleaded there is As a one-off, this may not sound like a massive saving. You could save even more cash by checking prices online rather than paying for an app.

But I travel a lot, and like the flexibility of being able to check prices wherever I am. So this year I managed to save money by checking pump prices before I set off.

What measures have you taken to save on motoring costs over Christmas? How do you find the lowest fuel prices? View Results. Petrol near me last time I checked last week was Its odd how the prices can fluctuate that much. Petrol Prices. You tailor it to your choice of fuel, and search by post code, so it will always show the nearest fuel stations to your chosen code. I use PetrolPrices.

On average, we save between 4p or 5p per litre at every fill up. We get the regular emails showing the lowest prices for our area and then pop in for a fillup when convenient. We never make a special trip just for fuel. Not using the car or combining journeys saves a lot more. We know you are a techno luddite so we do not need constant reminders.

Please limit your posts to sensible contributions rather than constantly attacking the technology. The fuel prices are all very similar near where I live. Hi Terfar, just a little reminder of our commenting guidelines — discussion and strong views are very welcome but please be kind to one another when having a healthy debate.

Exactly, wavechange. After all, buses run on fuel as well. My state pension is now below the poverty line. We live in a small village, ten miles from a small market town, and 16 miles from a somewhat larger town. Hospitals are either 16 or 25 miles away.

We cannot use public transport because my husband suffers a rare bladder disease and public transport do not have toilets. We run a ten-year old car and cannot afford to change it, we are in the less well off group of pensioners, with no cash to spare and savings now depleted. Every year I pay hundreds of pounds in fixed costs — road tax, insurance, MOT and maitenance, so if I use my car less then the cost per mile of using my car goes up, as I get nothing back from any of these.

I am effectively forced to maximise my use of the car to keep the cost per mile down, as I have already paid for these things up front. As a pensioner I cannot consider the option of cycling, living near several steep hills.

And waiting around for buses in this cold weather is hardly likely to encourage me to switch to that mode of transport. All it does is put yet more money in the pockets of the oil companies and the government. I we, and they, drove all the time within speed limits there would be more important matters for the Police to follow up! Why is the UK the only European country to charge more for diesel than petrol.?

Why, if Diesel costs less to produce, gives superior mpg, and fuels commerce and industry, does our Govmt discriminate against Diesel fuel? I think its this type of illogic that upsets and demotivates the Consumer. Facebook Twitter Reddit Email.

Patrick Steen Conversation Editor. I have not done any longer journeys recently and the average has dropped to 56 mpg over the past month. Facebook Twitter Reddit Email. Rob Hull Senior Researcher, Which? Comments Search Search for:. This week's spotlight poll Have you started your Christmas shopping?

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I would contact my service provider I would expect my service provider to contact me. Add a comment. Please don't email me Email me when someone replies to only this comment Email me when someone replies to my comments on this conversation Email me when new comments are added to this conversation. Jonny says:. Yes — stop moaning, drivers! Fat Sam, Glos says:. Yes, good old public transport, eh? Very amusing. Thank you to those who passed the Muppet Test. James says:. I take it you will now stop using the bus for environmental reasons and buy a car instead.

Hari says:. David says:. Diddydo says:. The fuel economy tests are a joke!!! We need these tests to be looked at again, because at the moment they are of no use to anyone.

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