AA Fuel Price Report as at March 17

• Guest 640

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  18 March 2011     10:4497433
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  AA FUEL PRICE REPORT MARCH 2011
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  Average UK petrol and diesel prices have risen by up to five pence a litre in the past month, propelled by oil prices that, at one point, touched $120 a barrel following unrest in the Middle East. The cost of a 50-litre tank of diesel has gone up £2.50 in two-thirds of the UK's regions.
  
  The cost of a barrel of oil has dropped back to $111.
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  Unleaded prices have risen by 4.1ppl from 128.8ppl to 132.9ppl.
  Diesel prices have also risen, by 5.0ppl, from 134.0ppl to 139.0ppl.
  
  The price difference between unleaded and diesel has risen to 6.1ppl.
  Northern Ireland recorded the highest price for unleaded at 133.8ppl. Yorkshire and Humberside recorded the lowest price for unleaded at 131.9ppl.
  
  Northern Ireland recorded the highest diesel price at 139.7ppl.
  Yorkshire and Humberside have the cheapest diesel at 138.2ppl.
  
  Supermarket prices for unleaded also rose over the month by 2.6ppl to 130.0ppl. The gap between supermarket prices and the UK average for unleaded has risen to 2.9ppl.
  The UK has the eleventh highest unleaded price in Europe and the second highest diesel price.
  
  
  
  South East 133.6 139.4
  London 133.5 139.1
  UK AVERAGE 132.9 139.0
  
  SUPERMARKET
  AVERAGE 130.0 135.5
  Per cent taken as Tax 62.0 60.4
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 640

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  18 March 2011     10:4697436
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  I had all sorts of charts in that dont reproduce well without chaotic figures running all over the shop...so have abbreviated it down to the above.
  Worth noting again that supermarkets provide the cheapest fuel.
  email: dover7@msn.com
• howard mcsweeney1

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  18 March 2011     19:4797521
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  i wonder if the chancellor will do anything in his budget.
  
  i am against a cross the board reduction, i think any money should be aimed at those who need fuel to survive.
  
  i would give a rebate to emergency services and road hauliers, the latter so that they can compete fairly against the cheapos from abroad, plus the savings they would make would impact on everything we buy in the shops.
• Guest 653

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  19 March 2011     07:3297547
  #4      
  I support a fuel price adjuster, or whatever it's called.
  
  Setting a retail price - say a £1 and when the cost goes up, the tax comes down and vice versa. Why is that viewed as too complicated ? Is the mechanism impractical ?
  
  
  
  Roger
• howard mcsweeney1

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  19 March 2011     10:0897558
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  i think the treasury would not go for it, too many peaks and troughs.
  
  they need to know what they expect to collect in revenue in order to plan spending.
• Guest 696

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  20 March 2011     02:0497721
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  I have a feeling - now I don't know why - that fuel is going to go further north. It sort of seems written all over my computer screen, when I read the news.
  I won't make chart projections here, but a number of factors indicate that fuel will go up, and also that Gov. will have considerably less money in the Treasury before long too. I bet Dave Blue forgot to speak with the Chancellor of the Exchequer before his latest adventure.
  
  It would be funny if the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the Treasury was empty, no money left to purchase fuel, and Britain's tornados had to return home
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