Cheapest places for petrol and diesel in Merseyside this weekend

The cheapest place in Merseyside to fill up your car with petrol is at a Tesco garage in Sefton. According to the latest data supplied by retailers, a driver in an average family car could save up to £5 by filling up at this forecourt, compared to the most expensive petrol station.

The Tesco garage at Town Lane Kew, in Southport, is charging motorists 130.9p per litre, which means it would cost £75 to fill up an average 55 litre tank. This is based on a feed of live petrol prices which was set up by the government's Competition and Markets Authority last September.

The average price for a litre of petrol across the Merseyside region this week is 132.4p. Here are the cheapest places to top your car with petrol in Merseyside this weekend:

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130.9p - Tesco, Town Lane Kew , Southport, Sefton
130.9p - Sainsbury's, 152 Kings Road , Bebington, Wirral
130.9p - Esso, Town Lane, Kew, Sefton
130.9p - Tesco, Hawthorne Road , Litherland, Sefton
130.9p - Tesco, Bidston Link Road , Bidston And St James, Wirral
130.9p - Sainsbury's, Great Homer Street, Everton West, Liverpool
130.9p - Sainsbury's, Rice Lane, Walton, Liverpool
131.9p - Sainsbury's, 342A Woodchurch Road, Oxton, Wirral
131.9p - Sainsbury's, Pensby Road, Pensby And Thingwall, Wirral
131.9p - Texaco, Whiston, Prescot South, Knowsley

The most expensive filling station in Merseyside is a BP station at Liverpool Road, Sefton. The cost of standard petrol at this station is 135.9p.

For the owners of diesel cars, the cheapest place to fill up is the Texaco garage at St. Helens. The cost of a litre of standard diesel at this forecourt was 134.9p, according to prices supplied by retailers.

Here are the cheapest places to fill up your car with standard diesel in Merseyside this weekend:
134.9p - Texaco, Newton Le Willows, Newton-le-Willows West, St. Helens
135.9p - Tesco, Bidston Link Road , Bidston And St James, Wirral
135.9p - Sainsbury's, Great Homer Street, Everton West, Liverpool
135.9p - Sainsbury's, Rice Lane, Walton, Liverpool
135.9p - Tesco, Town Lane Kew , Southport, Sefton
135.9p - Sainsbury's, 152 Kings Road , Bebington, Wirral
135.9p - Texaco, Whiston, Prescot South, Knowsley
135.9p - Esso, Town Lane, Kew, Sefton
135.9p - Tesco, Hawthorne Road , Litherland, Sefton
136.9p - Sainsbury's, Upton By Pass, Greasby, Frankby And Irby, Wirral

UK drivers are currently paying 135.5p per litre of petrol, while people who own diesel vehicles are forking out 139.8p on average. In Merseyside owners of petrol cars are currently being charged 3.1p less than the national average of 135.5p.

Diesel car drivers in Merseyside are paying 2.7p less than the national average. The cheapest place to buy petrol in the country is at a BP garage in Rotherham where a litre of standard petrol is 130.7p. The most expensive petrol station in the country is a BP garage in Cumberland where motorists are charged 163.9p a litre.