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Fuel prices - everything you need to know

The price of petrol has reached a new record high - the average cost for a litre of petrol and diesel has now hit 142.5 pence per litre and 147.9 pence per litre respectively, according to the AA.
A year ago a litre of petrol cost 135.3 pence per litre on average, with diesel at 141.6 pence per litre. The two fuels have gone up by 4.0 pence per litre and 2.4 pence per litre respectively in the last month alone.
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Continuing rises in the price of fuel is affecting millions of motorists across the UK, not helped by the uncertainty surrounding strikes by fuel tanker delivery drivers.
The graphic below from Confused.com maps out the UK's fuel price predicament in easy-to-follow terms. Among other things, it shows there's been steady growth in the price of a litre of petrol since 1991, mostly as a result of increased levies on the motorist. An average 58% of the price of a litre of fuel is now made up of tax.
VAT and fuel duty together account for 82.7 pence of the current average fuel price for a litre of petrol - meaning just 59.8 pence goes towards covering the cost of the raw materials, refining process and sales overheads.
In the midst of a large national deficit, however, it is taxes such as fuel duty that are often sustained at high levels to recoup government debt.

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It is national scandal that the road users, lorries and cars, are used in such a manner to subsidise every other type of transport in this country. Trains, buses and ferries are all highly subsidised by the government using income from the ever and constantly overtaxed motorists of this country. It is estimated that the government claws over £45+ billion a year from the motorists in the UK and spends a miserly £4 billion on the road network - so £41+ billions is used to fritter away on other government spends. If we had even one quarter of what the government takes from the motorists, we would have the best and finest road network in the world by this time.
And to add insult to injury, the motorists of this country are constantly vilified and abused by both government officials and the people who use the heavily subsidised other forms of transport, complaining bitterly about traffic noise and air pollution. What hypocrits they are, if there was no car and lorry raft of taxation, all other forms of transport would be either horrendously expensive or not running at all. The motorists want simply a degree of even handedness in the level of either taxation or else road upgrading and a far improved network of roads in this country for all they contribute towards that end, is that too much to hope for?
I just filled my tank this morning and "gave" the government a total of £42.33 for that one purchase.
Garages at it now,,barrells of oil has gone down in price,,the VAT 3p rise was moved to 1st January 2013,, Prices went down to £1.32 litre diesel,, the good feel factor was there, but for long as of the start of August 2012, Greedy garages AND super markets with fuel stations have been ADDING 1p per every second day to fuel. The price have not gone up 2p-4p ask stated above, but has jumped up to 8p-10p per litre and it's only the 21st August 2012, so still time to add more pennies on.
It's about time action be taken against these people, and maybe it's time to boycott some of these Garages and supermarkets. There's no help from the millionaire tyrants in westminster or disney world clowns in edinburgh as we the people are paying for them, they couldn't careless and are to busy fighting against each other for scraps of ''fame'', to make them look good in public but they are just ''kissing buddies'' off camera and public view. We have to not, just look at the fuel situation, but the bigger picture of the abuse being stowed apoun the people of the UK. Maybe we the people, should look at the problems in the Middle East over the last year, where the people took matters into there own hands and changed the way of living in there home towns, by taking down the tyrants, the so called leaders, with very little problem. Maybe the so call leaders of the UK better careful,,,NO MORE EXCUSES or LIES, it's time for action, with or without you.
what a set of theiving B's they are in whitehall
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