Two new services have emerged which could help individual motorists (and eventually companies) save a few pounds and lighten the burden of ever-increasing fuel prices. One service (PetrolPrices.com) points you towards the cheapest fuel, while the other (pipelinecard.com) allows you to buy at a discount!

It's now possible to check out the cheapest fuel prices are in your area for your vehicle by using the new website www.PetrolPrices.com. Petrol prices vary from 85.9p to 105.6p per litre across the UK and the new website provides free access to petrol prices across all UK service stations, allowing you to save a small fortune a year on motoring costs.

Launched by Fubra, PetrolPrices.com is an exclusive web site delivering all UK fuel prices free of charge. It's updated with new prices on a daily basis to keep the information fresh and accurate covering all fuel types and grades: unleaded, diesel, lrp, super and lpg. It uses Google Maps technology to display the stations on an easy to navigate map.

Using the service is easy. All you do is enter the postcode or town of interest on the website and it will display ten service stations and the prices they are currently charging for fuel. A comparison is, in fact, made of all the stations within a radius of five, ten and twenty miles specified by the user and the prices of the ten cheapest stations are shown on a map and in a list.

It is common to find service stations charging 10p pr litre more than others just a few miles away. All major service stations are covered including BP, Shell and Texaco as well as smaller chains and hundreds of independent stations.

Recently launched is the Pipeline Card, which eventually will offer petrol discounts of between 5p and 10p a litre on petrol, according to the service's founder and fuel campaigner Ben Scammell.

He says: "Our idea is very simple. If we can accumulate enough members, we can buy petrol at a discount - just like some major corporates do. We already have an agreement in principle with a major fuel retailer to supply petrol to us at a reduced price.

"We just need enough people to sign up online at www.pipelinecard.org to increase our numbers to that critical level.

"There is no charge for the card, no registration fees, and no other costs. It's a very straightforward bulk-buying proposition."

So far over 50,000 people have registered but Ben Scammell needs around 250,000 on board to achieve maximum discounts. He is confident that this will happen by Spring 2006 when he plans to have the scheme up and running.

Currently the scheme is aimed at saving money for individual motorists, but Scammell could soon be looking at corporate registration too!