A storage in Fife was accused of getting Scotland's costliest gasoline - after the worth of diesel soared to just about £2 for a litre.
At Shell's Bawbee filling station within the seaside city of Leven, diesel reached £1.99.9 on the finish of final week, whereas the unleaded worth was £1.76.9.
On the time UK common per litre for diesel was £1.69.93 and £1.58.2 for unleaded.
The storage has since dropped the worth again to £1.77 for a litre of diesel, after some locals raised issues.
One buyer mentioned: "It's dangerous sufficient that the prices of gasoline is rising so quickly.
"However I simply couldn't consider that a storage was promoting gasoline at £2 a litre.
"With our gasoline payments rising by a lot there has received to be some degree of purpose to this worrying state of affairs.
"I drive round Scotland with work, and I've by no means seen costs coming near that degree."
It comes as figures from information agency Experian Catalist present the typical price of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts on Sunday was 163.5p, whereas diesel was 173.4p.
A Bawbee station employees member mentioned: "The costs are altering on a regular basis. It relies on the worth of a barrel of oil. It's simply going up and down just like the rate of interest."
A month in the past, pump costs had been 148.0p per litre for petrol and 151.6p per litre for diesel.
RAC gasoline spokesman Simon Williams mentioned: "Whereas there'll virtually actually be extra rises this week, drivers ought to quickly get some respite from pump costs leaping by a number of pence a litre day-after-day, as oil and wholesale costs seem to have settled.
"The value hikes seen over the weekend are nonetheless a results of the oil worth rise which started firstly of the month and peaked early final week.
"Because the oil worth has now fallen again, we must always hopefully attain the height and begin to see costs going the opposite method to mirror the massive drop in wholesale prices seen on the finish of final week, topic to no additional spikes within the barrel worth this week."
A Shell spokesperson mentioned: "Shell is barely in a position to management costs on the websites we personal.
"Of our UK community, round one half is owned by unbiased sellers, who set their very own costs. Shell is prevented by legislation from telling vendor teams what to cost their prospects for gasoline."
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