MSE News: High petrol prices to be investigated

savinghru

I get so fed up reading in the papers about what the average price is...in the North of Scotland..mainland....we have to pay (currently) £1.51.9 for diesel. Yet in the supermarkets in town (60 miles away) it is currently £1.36.9 (price war since Asda came to town).

It is the difference from there to here that really gets on my goat!

So NO the average is not currently £1.43.52

it IS £1.51.9

and I'm sure over in the Islands it is even higher.

I feel better now

Wongsky

The high price of fuel wouldn't irk me so much, if it had actually been used in any material sense in providing an alternative to car usage.

But it's just been another means of extracting stealth revenue from the public, in the hope they won't notice, much, or pitched at a level they'll just about tolerate.

It's one thing to say we need to raise taxation from motorists because of the cost to society and the environment, or to provide a future for transport such that congestion can be addressed - but that's what successive governments have largely said, and not done.

In reality, they've simply done it because they could and the revenue was useful, and has now created a need. And because it would be significantly less politically acceptable to be completely overt about taxation levels and revenue required.