{"id":5165,"date":"2024-07-26T06:44:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T06:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/drivers-still-pay-too-much-for-fuel-warns-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T06:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T06:44:45","slug":"drivers-still-pay-too-much-for-fuel-warns-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/drivers-still-pay-too-much-for-fuel-warns-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers still pay too much for fuel, warns watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Drivers are still paying too much for fuel, the UK&#8217;s competition watchdog has warned, with high prices costing motorists \u00a31.6bn last year alone.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said that weakened competition in the fuel sector is impacting drivers&#8217; wallets.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It found that supermarkets&#8217; profit margins &#8211; which is the difference between the price they buy fuel at and what they charge motorists &#8211; had doubled since 2019.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cWhen it comes to road fuel, the simple answer is that drivers are still paying too much,&#8221; CMA chief executive, Sarah Cardell told the BBC&#8217;s Today programme.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0kr2kdv181o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers are still paying too much for fuel, the UK&#8217;s competition watchdog has warned, with high prices costing motorists \u00a31.6bn last year alone. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said that weakened competition in the fuel sector is impacting drivers&#8217; wallets. It found that supermarkets&#8217; profit margins &#8211; which is the difference between the price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1768,918,819,346,2618],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-drivers","tag-fuel","tag-pay","tag-warns","tag-watchdog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5167,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions\/5167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}