The 'most expensive petrol station in the UK' - where fuel costs over £2 a litre

Drivers think they've found 'the most expensive petrol station in the UK', and they're not happy about it. The petrol station has been advertising unleaded petrol at £1.90-a-litre, and diesel at £2.07-a-litre.

Motorists have hit out at the petrol station on social media. The petrol station in question is in Scotland.

The price at the Highlands garage equates to £9.43 a gallon and was spotted over the Easter weekend. The Cluanie Inn - on the A887, the main Skye to Inverness road - is also advertising unleaded petrol at £1.90-a-litre.

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According to the RAC the average UK price for unleaded petrol on April 13 was £1.62-a-litre while diesel was £1.76.This is slightly down on record highs seen in March, where average pump prices hit 167.3p per litre for petrol and 179.9p for diesel, and comes after Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced 5p-a-litre cut to fuel duty.

Motorists took to social media to vent their astonishment at The Cluanie Inn prices. "Gold flakes in that fuel," wrote one.

"At least Dick Turpin wore a mask," said another, while a driver added: "At that price they don't need to be open all day! Few cars in that's them made a profit."

"I would push my car to next garage," said a fellow motorist. Another joked: "Might fill up the lorry there tomorrow."

Fuel prices first started rising due to high global demand as the UK began to come out of the coronavirus crisis. But the war in Ukraine has pushed up prices even higher, largely down to sanctions of the imports of Russian-sourced oil.

Changes in prices at the pump are linked to the price of crude oil and the dollar exchange rate. Russia is one of the world's largest oil