Motoring will soon cost more
Thursday 13th August 2009, 8:00PM BST.
Motorists in Shropshire face their highest fuel prices for six weeks after petrol forecourts increased the cost of diesel and unleaded.
And there is more misery to come with a further 2p to 3p rise in the pipeline from recent wholesale price increases, and a Government 2.3p fuel duty and VAT increase due on September 1.
Fuel in Shropshire had dipped to 99.9p per litre but is now higher with most forecourts charging about 100.9p to 105.9p per litre.
An AA survey showed that petrol prices have returned to their summer peak following a six-week respite. The average price at the pumps is now 103.88p a litre after it fell to 102.28 a litre in the last weekend of July.
AA public affairs head Paul Watters said: “We know that, at the beginning of July, drivers from all backgrounds were cutting back on other family expenditure, car use or both to compensate for higher fuel prices. We are back there again, with at least a fortnight of summer holiday motoring to go.
“And, with another 5p going on a litre of petrol, the coming weeks look bad for drivers.”
He added: “It will be completely baffling if the Government pushes ahead with its 2p rise in fuel duty in a fortnight’s time.
“Why inflict more pain, for no gain? The AA has asked the Treasury to abandon September’s rise.”
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Brown and Darling must go now they are an embarrasment to the world
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If they like taxing our pleasures so much, why not give drivers a break, leagalise drugs and tax that.
And tax opera, instead of subsidising it from fuel tax of those who can’t afford to go to the opera, so those that can afford it, can afford it even more!
Bring on the revolution!
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I think we can fairly say the government has officially run out of money and is now increasing the tax on essentials as people give up buying non essential taxable items such as cigarettes and alcohol. We have an ever increasing social security bill to pay out of ever decreasing income tax as more people find themselves out of work. More people out of work means less people driving to work and therefore a smaller collection of fuel duty. Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling are on a mission to being UK to it’s knees just to make it harder for the Tories if they should happen to win the next election – the finances of the British Public are being used in a point scoring political schoolyard row!
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