Motorists have been warned that filling up with petrol this Christmas will set them back more money compared with last year.
It will cost drivers around £16 more to fill their vehicles with petrol than it did last year.
The price increase follows a petrol crisis which affected the whole country a few months ago and saw huge queues develop amid a huge demand for fuel.
Now motorists face more upheaval with this latest price increase, BirminghamLive reports.
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Back in September unleaded and diesel were affected, as queues stretched from pumps nationwide, with people clamouring to fill up amid a nationwide crisis.
The great Christmas getaway will take place today and tomorrow as Brits flock elsewhere in the country for Christmas Day itself.
Travel groups and traffic experts have warned of delays on busy stretches of motorway up and down the nation.
MP Craig Mackinlay, chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Fuel, said: “Efforts to work with the fuel industry so that pump prices are market driven, are not working.
“Nearly £2billion of falls in wholesale prices have not been passed on.
"This is bad for the economy, bad for inflation, bad for business and bad for jobs.”
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