{"id":4706,"date":"2018-11-23T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T15:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/fuel-prices-cut-by-asda-morrisons-and-sainsburys\/"},"modified":"2018-11-23T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T15:14:48","slug":"fuel-prices-cut-by-asda-morrisons-and-sainsburys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/fuel-prices-cut-by-asda-morrisons-and-sainsburys\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices cut by Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Petrol pump\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/62E4\/production\/_104461352_n7mv4mg3.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury&#8217;s have cut the price of petrol and diesel, as wholesale fuel prices continue to fall.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts were led by Asda, which cut the price of petrol by 1p a litre and diesel by 2p a litre. Morrisons and Sainsbury&#8217;s then matched that move.<\/p>\n<p>It means that Asda is charging \u00a31.19 a litre for petrol and \u00a31.30 a litre for diesel.<\/p>\n<p>Supermarkets have been criticised by motoring groups for not cutting fuel prices faster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While this is obviously good news, it&#8217;s disappointing that it has not come sooner as the wholesale price of petrol has been falling for weeks,&#8221; said RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Asda fuel buyer Dave Tyrer said: &#8220;Further decreases in the wholesale market mean we are able to reduce our prices again, with Asda&#8217;s unleaded price dropped by up to 9p per litre since the end of October.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Average fuel prices hit a four-year high in mid October, when the average price of petrol at the pump hit more than \u00a31.31 a litre.<\/p>\n<p>Since then prices have been falling &#8211; the most recent average price for petrol was \u00a31.27 a litre and for diesel \u00a31.36 a litre.<\/p>\n<p>There could be further cuts ahead, as crude oil prices, which help to determine the price of fuel, have been falling. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, the price of Brent Crude dropped below $60 a barrel for the first time since October 2017, trading as low as $59.44 a barrel.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46315040\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright PA Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury&#8217;s have cut the price of petrol and diesel, as wholesale fuel prices continue to fall. The cuts were led by Asda, which cut the price of petrol by 1p a litre and diesel by 2p a litre. Morrisons and Sainsbury&#8217;s then matched that move. It means that Asda &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}