petrol
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The BBC's Business Editor Simon Jack explains the rising prices in the UK - and how oil prices around the world affect the cost of petrol and diesel at the pump.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
This could include supermarkets, high street shops, restaurants, pharmacies, petrol stations and garden centres.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
In real terms, this is an extra 42.5p per litre of petrol and 59p per litre of diesel.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
There is variation between different stations in the West too - sometimes as much as 11p per litre for petrol - even if you discount motorway service stations that typically charge a premium.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Gulping in long, sweet lungfuls of it, cold damp December air, smelling of petrol and coal smoke and freedom.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
There was Mrs. Spankham with a superb model of Westminster Abbey—its petrolling had been the greatest stroke in convincing the voters of the pure motives of the feminists.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
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