MOTORISTS in Dorset are being left frustrated as fuel prices continue to creep up.

Some forecourts in the county were advertising a litre of petrol for 112.9p yesterday, with diesel as high as 118.9p.

This comes following hopes at the start of the year that prices might dip below the £1 mark after the cost dropped to as low as 103.9p in January at some supermarkets, with one service station in Birmingham briefly selling a litre of petrol for 99.7p.

AA spokesman Luke Bosdet told the Daily Echo the situation was ‘irritating’ for the county’s drivers and came after an increase in wholesale prices.

“The rise has been rapid and a lot of motorists are complaining about the speed at which the prices are going up,” he said.

He added that it would help if there was greater transparency for consumers so they could understand the link between oil barrel prices and the cost passed onto them at the petrol pumps.

He said the only silver lining is that the prices are increasing as the weather becomes warmer, with cars typically burning fuel more efficiently in the spring and summer months.

However, this was no consolation to John Tye, chairman of the Bournemouth Taxi Association, who said the price hikes are having a ‘major impact’ on motorists and leaving his taxi driver colleagues ‘frustrated’.

“We never know what is going to happen from one week to the next,” he added. “They seem to go up and down like a yo-yo.”