Mfg Thurrock (msa), RM16 3BG. A motorway service area, where you have no choice.
What it is charging
Unleaded: 185.9p a litre, 14.2p over the national average, filed Friday 23 October
Unleaded within 5 miles
Costco Wholesale Thurrock: 164.9p a litre, 0.7 miles away. 21.0p a litre cheaper: saves £11.55 a tank, and costs about 26p of fuel to get there and back. Worth the trip.
Rainham Extra - Petrol Filling Station: 167.9p a litre, 4.0 miles away. 18.0p a litre cheaper: saves £9.90 a tank, and costs about £1.52 of fuel to get there and back. Worth the trip.
Mfg Morrisons Grays: 168.9p a litre, 2.2 miles away. 17.0p a litre cheaper: saves £9.35 a tank, and costs about 84p of fuel to get there and back. Worth the trip.
Sainsburys Chafford Hundred: 169.9p a litre, 1.0 miles away. 16.0p a litre cheaper: saves £8.80 a tank, and costs about 38p of fuel to get there and back. Worth the trip.
Mfg Aveley: 169.9p a litre, 1.0 miles away. 16.0p a litre cheaper: saves £8.80 a tank, and costs about 38p of fuel to get there and back. Worth the trip.
Mfg Chafford: 169.9p a litre, 2.2 miles away. 16.0p a litre cheaper: saves £8.80 a tank, and costs about 84p of fuel to get there and back. Worth the trip.
On a 55-litre tank at 40mpg. The distance is straight-line rather than by road, so a real trip is longer than the one costed here.