As someone who uses my car rarely I have not really noticed a rise in fuel costs. This article, however, suggests that drivers are now paying around £18.84 a month more for fuel. Petrol now costs 17p a litre more than it did this last year with the average price at £1.04p a litre. This means that a driver with an average 50 litre fuel tank pays £8.79 more every time they fill up with petrol. Diesel is up too, having soared to an average price of £110.3p a litre compared with 91.1p a year ago. The huge rises have been blamed on the weak dollar and unrest in oil producing countries. The situation however, is likely to get worse, if Alistair Darling goes ahead with his plans to add an extra 2p per litre to fuel duty. Business groups and the motoring lobby are currently calling for the government to scrap the planned rise in the light of rising prices.