By Jon Quirk 19 November 2008 10:14
If you’re planning on fuelling your car today, may I recommend you boycott every garage forecourt other than one of Asda’s 172 filling stations. The supermarket chain has just slashed the price of petrol at the pump to 90.9p a litre, cutting another 2p off unleaded fuel. The chain is also reducing the cost of diesel by a penny a litre to 105.9p. It’s a great help for the wallet, but when is the government going to step in? Does anyone else find it a bit weird how diesel prices remain so much higher than petrol? After all, the government has been encouraging us to drive cars with fewer emissions through lowering vehicle excise duty and company car taxes. Modern diesels do just that, emitting less carbon than their equivalent petrol engine, but when the price difference at the pump is so large, they only make sense for someone who spends their life on the M6.
the duty on petrol & diesel is the same - the price difference is the change in demand (more people wanting diesel in Europe) - thats the free market for you. Cutting fuel duty is probably not needed as the cost of fuel is falling around the world and will continue to do so for the coming wordwide downturn.
What is the government playing at?! It needs to cut fuel duty now. Were all struggling uint these tough times.
I have an Asda credit card which slashes a further 2p off every litre when you pay for Asda's petrol with it.
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