Well, we’ve had a few months of pretty low fuel prices. It went up to £1.20+ a litre at the peak of the last hike, but fell quite quickly to well under 90p. It was funny reading the know-it-alls in the driving instructing industry who predicted “that’s it: it will never fall below £1 ever again “.
Well, there was a delayed tax which went on to the price a few weeks ago and prices have risen a little in their own right – currently around 93p a litre.
But the Daily Mail hasn’t tried to cause problems for while and has now reported that price rises have “[overtaken] last spring’s cost surge”. What idiots these people are – half of the increase was due to a delayed tax increase, so has nothing to do with last year’s rises. It’s also down to oil companies profiteering.
But this is just the Mail trying to cause another scare. And it has the kind of readership which readily drives its 4x4s to the nearest garage the second the Mail tells them to.