The RAC Expects a Record UK Diesel Price by the Weekend

The RAC, the UK motoring organisation, says it expects the average UK diesel price to hit a new record high over the weekend. That is an expectation rather than a settled number, and it describes a national average: the figure on any given forecourt may sit above or below it, and how pump prices actually move over the next two days will decide whether the record arrives at all. Fuel prices are one of the few economic statistics most people meet in person, which is why records at the pump land differently from records in a spreadsheet.