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 Morrisons garage in Knowsley.

According to the latest data supplied by retailers, a driver in an average family car could save up to £3.41 by filling up at this forecourt, compared to the most expensive petrol station.

The Morrisons garage at Irlam Drive, Kirkby is charging motorists 138.7p per litre, which means it would cost £76.29 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.

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The average price for a litre of petrol across the Merseyside region this week is 141.1p.

Here are the cheapest places to top your car with petrol in Merseyside:
138.7p - Morrisons, Irlam Drive, Kirkby, Knowsley
139.9p - Sainsbury's, Great Homer Street, Everton West, Liverpool
139.9p - Sainsbury's, 112 East Prescot Road, Sandfield Park, Liverpool
139.9p - Sainsbury's, Rice Lane, Walton, Liverpool
139.9p - Esso, Town Lane, Kew, Sefton
140.9p - Sainsbury's, Pensby Road, Pensby and Thingwall, Wirral
140.9p - Sainsbury's, Upton By Pass, Greasby, Frankby and Irby, Wirral
140.9p - Sainsbury's, 342A Woodchurch Road, Oxton, Wirral
141.9p - Sainsbury's, 152 Kings Road , Bebington, Wirral
141.9p - Texaco, Whiston, Prescot South, Knowsley

The most expensive filling station in Merseyside is a Esso station at Greasby, Wirral. The cost of standard petrol at this station is 144.9p, meaning it would cost a total of £79.70 to fill up an average family car at this forecourt. For the owners of diesel cars, the cheapest place to fill up is the Sainsbury's garage at Liverpool. The cost of a litre of standard diesel at this forecourt was 143.9p, according to prices supplied by retailers.

Here are the cheapest places to fill up your car with standard diesel in Merseyside:
143.9p - Sainsbury's, 112 East Prescot Road, Sandfield Park, Liverpool
144.7p - Morrisons, Irlam Drive, Kirkby, Knowsley
144.9p - Sainsbury's, Rice Lane, Walton, Liverpool
145.9p - Sainsbury's, Pensby Road, Pensby and Thingwall, Wirral
145.9p - Sainsbury's, 342A Woodchurch Road, Oxton, Wirral
145.9p - Sainsbury's, Great Homer Street, Everton West, Liverpool
145.9p - Texaco, Kirkdale East, Liverpool
145.9p - Esso, Town Lane, Kew, Sefton
146.9p - Sainsbury's, Upton By Pass, Greasby, Frankby and Irby, Wirral
146.9p - Sainsbury's, 152 Kings Road , Bebington, Wirral

UK drivers are currently paying 145.3p per litre of petrol, while people who own diesel vehicles are forking out 150.3p on average. In Merseyside owners of petrol cars are currently being charged 3.5p less than the national average of 145.3p.

Diesel car drivers in Merseyside are paying 3.1p less than the national average. The cheapest place to buy petrol in the country is at a Sainsbury's garage in Belfast where a litre of standard petrol is 137.9p.

The most expensive petrol station in the country is a BP garage in West Northamptonshire where motorists are charged 173.9p a litre.

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