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UK inflation hit its highest level in five months in the year to August, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Overall, motor fuel prices rose by 23% compared to August last year.
In Ystradowen, Vale of Glamorgan, drivers filling up their cars said they feared prices would increase further.
Ron Jones, from Cowbridge, said he was driving less but higher prices were "to be expected, given the world as it is".
Joy Thomas said prices were "extraordinarily high" and she had searched for the cheapest petrol station she could find.
Lewis Wall, 28, from Ystradowen, said prices were "ridiculous".
"But what can we do about it? You can't control the price and everyone needs fuel."
Sioned Williams said the government would "do all we can to support families who are going to be finding it tough this winter".
"But we need to see wider measures and many of those leavers reside in Westminster," she added.
Williams called on the UK government to bring in a system of cheaper energy prices for low income households, known as social tariffs.
"Social tariffs on energy is one of the main things I think that could really make a difference to people," she said.
The UK government said: "We have cut VAT on electricity bills from October, on top of the £150 we removed from bills earlier this year, and we will keep looking at what more we can do to protect families from unaffordable bills."
Reform said support to help ease the pressures of the cost of living "should be welcomed if delivered in the right way".
But it also said the Plaid Cymru government "could be doing more" if it did not "waste money" on projects like "spending taxpayer cash on planting trees in Uganda", referencing the long-running climate resilience program funded by it.
