You're hardly being ripped off, with such a dramatic fall in car usage many petrol stations would face financial ruin operating on thin wholesaler margins. You need volume to sustain those margins and the volume just isn't there at the moment is it?
Finding the right petrol station is surely no different in concept to finding the right tariff to charge your electric car, just as easy to be ripped off by your power company if you've not spent time getting the best deal isn't it?
Not really I can avoid overpaying it from the comfort of my mobile phone and I can fix the price for a year.
I don’t think you can do the same with petrol, it fluctuates weekly and you have to go to a specific location to get a good deal rather than the petrol being delivered to you free of charge.
If the average person fills up 25-30 times a year that’s a fair bit of messing around to avoid overpaying.
you could say it’s the same as getting charged loads by charging providers while out and about but if you could fill up at home for 30p a litre and out and about for 60-90p per litre I’m willing to bet petrol stations will be deserted.