The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands)
Drivers paying 10% of salary at the pumps
Aberdeen is one of the most expensive places in Scotland to refuel your car, according to latest research, with residents forking out a whopping 10.7% of their average hourly salary at the pumps.
Researchers at Admiral Car Insurance pinpointed the most expensive places to refuel your car across Scotland.
The analysis looked at how much the average motorist is set to spend on petrol over the next 12 months, with figures broken down by the most expensive compared to local annual salaries.
Based on motorists travelling the UK average of 7,490 miles per year, researchers multiplied the local cost of refuelling with petrol (as at April 19 2022) and compared it
to the local median salary in each of Scotland’s regions.
The city of Aberdeen ranked as the seventh most unaffordable place to refuel in Scotland, currently costing locals 10.7% of their average hourly salary.
Petrol in the city is an average of 161.1 per litre with an estimated annual cost of £1,106.
Dumfries and Galloway is hardest hit with petrol costing people 11.8% of their average hourly salary, the highest of any region in Scotland.
The Scottish Borders, Moray, and Argyll and Bute all ranked as the second equal most unaffordable places to get petrol right now, costing locals 11.2% of their hourly wage.
East Renfrewshire ranked as the cheapest place to refuel vehicles at a cost of approximately 7.3% of average hourly earnings.
Surprisingly, the City of Edinburgh and the City of Glasgow ranked as the fifth cheapest places in Scotland to refuel with both cities costing 9.4% of an hourly average salary of those regions.
Scots have been hit with the largest monthly spike in pump prices on record in March, despite a cut in fuel duty of 5p per litre, implemented by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on March 23.
The RAC says the average cost of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts rose by 11.6p to end the month at 163.3p. The previous biggest monthly increases in average fuel prices on record – going back to 2000 – were an 8.4p per litre for diesel price rise in May 2008.
UK fuel prices per location sourced from All Star Card. Average yearly mileage (7,490 miles) sourced from RAC data.