{"id":79111,"date":"2026-07-02T04:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/diesel-sees-biggest-monthly-fall-in-26-years-whats-happening-to-fuel-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T04:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:56:40","slug":"diesel-sees-biggest-monthly-fall-in-26-years-whats-happening-to-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/diesel-sees-biggest-monthly-fall-in-26-years-whats-happening-to-fuel-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel sees biggest monthly fall in 26 years. What&#8217;s happening to fuel prices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the RAC, the average price of petrol reached an Iran war peak of 159.53p a litre on 28 May, while diesel&#8217;s highest average price during the conflict was 191.54p a litre on 15 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then, prices have tumbled. Over the month of June, the RAC said the average price of diesel sank from 183.75p a litre to 167.14p a litre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The average price of petrol dropped from 159.37p a litre to 151.40p a litre over the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the RAC said prices are still much higher than before the conflict began when average petrol prices were 132p a litre and average diesel prices were 142p a litre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The RAC&#8217;s head of policy, Simon Williams, said: &#8220;As things stand, petrol should dip under 150p soon and diesel ought to get to below 160p, but we would need the price of oil to fall further to see a return to the pre-conflict prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c20zgjzz0e4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the RAC, the average price of petrol reached an Iran war peak of 159.53p a litre on 28 May, while diesel&#8217;s highest average price during the conflict was 191.54p a litre on 15 April. Since then, prices have tumbled. Over the month of June, the RAC said the average price of diesel sank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2888,6827,662,839,3915,7187,948,1008,645,380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79113,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79111\/revisions\/79113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}