Big four supermarkets 削減（する） 石油 and ディーゼル prices in time for the bank holiday 週末 as 卸売 costs 宙返り／暴落する

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Price 減少（する）: Britain's major supermarkets have once again 発表するd 削減（する）s

All four of Britain's big supermarkets have once again 発表するd 石油 prices 削減（する）s in time for the May bank holiday 週末.

Morrisons made the first move cutting the price of unleaded by 2p a litre and ディーゼル by 1p, taking 影響 from 3pm this afternoon.

Tesco will 削減（する） prices by 2p a litre from ディーゼル and unleaded which will also 攻撃する，衝突する this afternoon.

Sainsbury’s will 削減（する） its prices by 2p a litre from tomorrow, while Asda says that 運転者s filling up at any of its 217 forecourts 全国的な would 支払う／賃金 no more than 129.7p a litre for 石油 and 134.7p a litre for ディーゼル tomorrow.

These are the 最新の in a 一連の 削減s by supermarkets over the last few weeks as oil prices and 卸売 costs continue to 落ちる, bringing some welcome 救済 to hard-圧力（をかける）d drivers.?

示す Todd, 石油 director at Morrisons, said: ‘With a sunny bank holiday 週末 予報するd, we're 推定する／予想するing to see high numbers of 運転者s filling their 戦車／タンクs for family trips out. That's why we're passing on these 貯金 in time for the pre-bank holiday shop.’

によれば petrolprices.com, the 普通の／平均（する） price for a litre of unleaded is 現在／一般に 134.76p ? just two weeks ago it was 137.38p. At the same time, ディーゼル has fallen from 141.92p 負かす／撃墜する to 139.23p.?

Prices have 刻々と fallen from a year-high in February of 146.46p a litre. At the same time there has been a 減少（する） in the price of a バーレル／樽 of brent 天然のまま oil from its year high of $118 to $100 today.

The 普通の／平均（する） price of 石油 is 負かす／撃墜する 8 per cent, while oil is 負かす／撃墜する 15 per cent.

With most of the cost of 石油 made up of 税金, pump prices do not 落ちる or rise as はっきりと as oil, however, there have been （民事の）告訴s that the cost of filling up rises quickly when oil prices go up but slowly when they 落ちる.

This led to an 調査 by the OFT into the 産業. However, in January it said that 競争 is ‘working 井戸／弁護士席’ at the 石油 pump and price rises over the past １０年間 are 大部分は 予定 to 増加するs in 税金 and the cost of 天然のまま oil - and not because of sneaky retailers cashing in.

It says it 設立する ‘very 限られた／立憲的な’ 証拠 pump prices rise quickly when 卸売物価s go up but 落ちる more slowly when it 減少（する）s. As a result, it will not be 開始する，打ち上げるing a 十分な 調査 into the market.

The 監視者 failed to 器具／実施する a 手段 called for by モーターing organisations that would have seen 卸売 石油 prices published, so that 顧客s could easily see whether the price at the pump was 公正に／かなり rising and 落ちるing.

Paul Watters,? AA public 事件／事情／状勢s 長，率いる, said: ‘Today's supermarket price war comes on the 支援する of yesterday's 40-dollars-a-tonne 落ちる in 石油 卸売物価s across Europe - 同等（の）, with 付加価値税, to a 2.5p-a-litre 落ちる at the pump.

‘However, just as one swallow doesn't make a summer, two days of 物価 落ちるs doesn't signal the end of drivers' pump 悲惨.

‘If this 傾向 continues, that would be a good start to the summer season but no one should underestimate the market's ability to send prices 狙撃 up again, often just on pure 憶測.

‘However, in parts of London, 非，不，無-supermarket 石油 can be bought for as little as 129p a litre. Even so, the fact that 石油 this time three years ago was 121.42p puts 現在の 燃料 costs in stark contrast.’