BP Rangers Service Station fuel prices
154 Mersea Road, COLCHESTER, CO2 8PU
E10 (Unleaded) price history at this station
Every price change recorded here since we began watching this forecourt on 10 Aug.
The shaded bands are periods with no recorded price. The line stops rather than crossing them, because we did not observe what the price did. 10 Aug–16 Aug, 26 Aug–27 Aug cannot be recovered — no collection ran and no raw feed was archived. 17 Sept–23 Sept, 17 Sept–23 Sept is archived but has not been replayed into the history yet.
How 172.9p compares
Same fuel, same day — E10 (Unleaded).
- This station172.9p
- UK average174.1p
- East of England174.6p
- Colchester176.3p
Filling a 50 litre tank here costs £86.45 — £0.60 less than the same tank at the UK average.
↑ This is a 30-day high for this station.
Where your money goes
For E10 at 172.9p/litre here, using the government's published fuel duty rate and VAT for the week ending 21 Sept 2026.
- Wholesale & retail margin
- 91.0p (53%)
- Fuel duty
- 53.0p (31%)
- VAT
- 28.9p (17%)
Duty is a flat government rate, the same at every station. “Wholesale & retail margin” is everything else — what the fuel itself, transport and the retailer's margin actually cost.
Where this comes from
Retailers are required to publish a price change within 30 minutes under the UK Government’s statutory price reporting scheme. We record every change as it is reported and never estimate a missing one — where we have no price, the page says so.