What Gas Costs
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An independent guide to the price at the pumpData release · 30 September 2026

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Fuel policy timeline

Verified policy events alongside historical fuel prices, with direct tax effects and source links.

See verified policy dates on local price charts. Household examples show direct duty effects, not a prediction of actual savings. The event library starts with the UK’s 2022 duty cut, Australia’s 2022 temporary excise reduction and Canada’s 2025 federal fuel-charge removal.

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United Kingdom: gasoline timeline

GBP per litre, with policy event dates2021-10-04 to 2026-09-28. Dashed lines mark verified policy events; they do not establish causation. A data table follows.0.000.521.031.552.0712021-10-042026-09-28DESNZ weekly road fuel prices · GBP/L
1. UK fuel duty reduced by 5p per litre (2022-03-23)
Chart data and publishers (261 observations)
DatePump, GBP/LPublisher
2021-10-041.361DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
2021-10-111.372DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
2021-10-181.395DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
2021-10-251.418DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
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2021-11-221.469DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
2021-11-291.475DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
2021-12-061.469DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
2021-12-131.462DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
2021-12-201.452DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
2021-12-271.449DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
2022-01-031.450DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
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2022-01-311.457DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
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2023-01-021.509DESNZ weekly road fuel prices
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2022-03-23

UK fuel duty reduced by 5p per litre

Effective from 6pm. Direct duty change only; VAT effects excluded. The first weekly price after the change is not its legal effective date.

Direct duty effect: -0.050 GBP/L; -3.000 GBP per 60 L fill-up, or -156.000 GBP for 52 such fill-ups. Assumes full pass-through and unchanged other costs.

HM Treasury

Event coverage is selective. Source tax-rate snapshots are not automatically treated as legal changes. Upcoming recorded tax dates · All regional tax records