UK Fuel Prices
Weekly national average pump prices from DESNZ · Latest: 2026-09-28
UK Pump Prices — 52-Week History
Source: DESNZ Weekly Road Fuel Prices (CMA scheme, ~90% UK retail volume)
Latest Petrol
173.46p
£1.73/litre
Latest Diesel
197.58p
£1.98/litre
52-Week Petrol Range
131.46p — 173.46p
52-Week Diesel Range
140.72p — 197.58p
Price Breakdown
Petrol (173.46p/L)
Fuel duty: 52.95p
VAT (20%): 28.9p
Product cost: 91.6p
Diesel (197.58p/L)
Fuel duty: 52.95p
VAT (20%): 32.9p
Product cost: 111.7p
Brent Crude — 52-Week Trend
avg $78/bblSource: Yahoo Finance (BZ=F). Weekly close prices.
Brent in Historical Context — since 1987
EIA daily spot · 9,097 printsCurrent
$102.21
88th pctile vs 1987→now
All-time high
$143.95
3 Jul 2008
5-year avg
$85
rolling daily
Days >$100 in 2026
71
vs 133 in 2008 · 115 in 2022
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration — Europe Brent Spot Price FOB daily series (RBRTE). Live current-price card on this site uses Stooq front-month futures, which can diverge from EIA spot by $1–3 in normal markets and considerably more during volatility. EIA spot is the more authoritative reference for analytical work. eia.gov ↗
Brent 3-2-1 Crack Spread
Refining margin proxy$49.24/bbl
▲ $4.77 d/d+$28.95 vs yr ago
Brent
$113.96
/bbl
Gasoline*
$3.329
/gal · NYH
ULSD*
$4.999
/gal · NYH
The 3-2-1 crack is what a refiner earns turning 3 barrels of crude into 2 of gasoline and 1 of distillate. A wide crack means products are holding their value even as crude falls — so pump and diesel prices need not follow crude down. It is the bridge between the barrel and the bill.
Paper benchmark margin — products vs benchmark crude. A refiner's cash margin runs lower after sour-crude differentials and energy costs, so read this as a product-tightness gauge, not refiner profit. Why a record crack isn't record profit →
* Brent crude vs NY Harbor products as an Atlantic-Basin proxy — EIA publishes no free NWE/Rotterdam product spot, and light-product cracks arbitrage across the Atlantic (NY Harbor tracks NWE within a few $/bbl). Indicative of European refining economics, not a traded NWE quote.
US Energy Information Administration (EIA), daily spot prices · spot basis · latest 2026-09-29
Dow–Nasdaq Divergence
market-leadership · risk-off gauge−1.24pp
Normal· 7-session Dow − Nasdaq
Dow 7-sess
−2.20%
Nasdaq 7-sess
−0.96%
120-day peak
+5.45
2026-06-25
When the blue-chip Dow holds while the tech-heavy Nasdaq breaks, breadth is narrowing — a late-cycle warning, and a risk-off read that tends to pull on oil demand. A spread above +5.5pp is the rare trigger level.
A ≈5.5pp+ spread over 7 sessions occurred on ~1% of days since 1971; 66.9% of those were in a bear phase within three months, vs a 24.8% baseline (MarketWatch / Ned Davis Research). A warning indicator, not a forecast — and a Dow-vs-Nasdaq split can be sector rotation rather than a market top.
Source: FRED — Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) & Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQCOM), daily closes · latest 2026-09-30