A year on from petrol hitting £2 a litre at some pumps across the North East prices have dropped up to 70p in some areas but prices have stopped falling in recent weeks.
The cost of refuelling shot up to extraordinary heights last year with the cost of refilling hitting its peak in July, but prices have come back down.
In May the average price of a litre of diesel came down by a whopping 12p to 146.99p, while petrol dropped by 3.19p to 167.19p, but prices appear to have stagnated around the 140p mark.
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A litre of unleaded will, on average, set you back 144.36p while diesel will cost 145.16p, according to the RAC’s Fuel Watch.
Here is a list of all the cheapest fuel prices in County Durham, Darlington and Teesside (as of July 28), according to price comparison website PetrolPrices:
Durham
- Sainsbury’s Durham Arnison – unleaded: 136.9p, diesel: 140.9p
- Tesco Durham Extra – unleaded: 139.9p, diesel: 131.9p
- ESSO Alma Place, Dragonville – unleaded: 139.9p, diesel: 143.9p
- BP Meadowfield – unleaded: 140.9p, diesel: 143.9p
- SHELL Durham Carrville – unleaded: 141.9p, diesel: 143.9p
Darlington
- ASDA Darlington Automat – unleaded: 139.7p, diesel: 143.7p
- Morrisons Morton Park – unleaded: 140.7p, diesel: 143.7p
- Sainsbury’s Darlington – unleaded: 140.9p, diesel: 143.9p
- SHELL Haughton Road – unleaded: 140.9p, diesel: 144.9p
- Morrisons Darlington North Road – unleaded: 140.9p, diesel: 143.9p
Bishop Auckland
- Morrisons Bishop Auckland – unleaded: 133.7p, diesel: 134.7p
- JET Etherly Moor – unleaded: 133.9p, diesel: 134.9p
- Sainsbury’s Bishop Auckland – unleaded: 133.9p, diesel: 134.9p
- ASDA Bishop Auckland Automat – unleaded: 134.7p, diesel: 135.7p
- Bicester Road Services – unleaded: 134.8p, diesel: 136.8p
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Middlesbrough
- Morrisons Middlesbrough – unleaded: 137.7p, diesel: 141.7p
- ASDA Middlesbrough – unleaded: 137.7p, diesel: 141.7p
- TESCO Billingham – unleaded: 137.9p, diesel: 139.9p
- TESCO Eston Cleveland – unleaded: 137.9p, diesel: 140.9p
- ASDA Stockton Automat – unleaded: 138.7p, diesel: 139.7p
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