A DRIVING expert has revealed that filling your car up at the supermarket will save you thousands of pounds.
The car buff told the RAC that buying petrol and diesel from a supermarket was one of the simplest ways to save money in the long term.
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Filling up at a supermarket forecourt over the course of a year could save drivers thousands of pounds, he said.
The expert said that many drivers were under the false impression that supermarket fuel was somehow inferior to what was sold by branded service stations on the road network.
He said that all modern engines were designed to work with supermarket fuel. He said so called higher quality fuel might be more expensive but provided limited benefits.
The expert said that fuel efficiency was also influenced by driver behaviour, vehicle load, tyre pressures and traffic and weather conditions.
Supermarkets sell cut price fuel to encourage drivers to shop at their stores after filling up their cars.
Big name supermarkets also undercut each other , which drives the price of fuel down.
Petrol rocketed by nearly 7p a litre in August and diesel by 8p as the wholesale cost of oil rose.
The RAC’s Fuel Watch tracker shows the rises have been eclipsed only three times since 2000 — the last time immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine last year.
The RAC, which has an app listing best prices area by area, said: “August was a big shock to drivers.
“But it could have been far worse.
“All we can hope is that this move by many big retailers back to fairer forecourt pricing remains in place when wholesale costs go down again.
“Only time will tell.”
