UK PETROL: £1.16-9 per litre
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Oil prices are being driven by speculators, plain and simple.
There is no significant increase in comsumer demand, nor decrease in suppliability since this time last year, yet the marketeers have gone crazy, buying THEN SELLING oil stocks and futures, it's just money chasing money, ever upwards.
Add to the artifically high cost of the product a ludicrous taxation rate and you have the real cost increase multiplied out of all proportion.
I would be interested in seeing figures for Govt fuel tax revenues for the last year, and precisely where it has gone.
People drive because they need to, to make the economy and society work. Noone drives for any other reason - setting criminal laws into place on the back of some flawed eco studies does not curb people's need to drive vehicles.
Driving vehicles isn't and never has been the problem.
Voting the Tories back in isn't the solution.