Fuel Articles
Drivers hit with second month of pump price rises
New figures by the RAC show higher wholesale costs meant both petrol and diesel prices rose for the second consecutive month, last month with petrol prices increasing, on average, by two pence and diesel by almost a penny. Petrol station retailers were quick to pass...
Police catch four speeders a minute, one county reported 416% increase
Throughout the UK, just over four people are caught speeding every minute – or around 6,000 every day. Avon and Somerset police top the league table, at around 548 a day, the neighbouring force, Wiltshire, are at the very bottom – just 1,191, per year. Do...
Potholes are worse than ever, government pumps more money in
The hazards potholes create are well-known to motorists and cyclists; damage to your car or bike and an uncomfortable or dangerous ride. More worrying is potholes have resulted in serious injury or death of almost 400 cyclists over the past ten years. Now,...
Drivers to be paid “cash not to drive” in new UK pilot scheme
It seems that we’re getting used to reporting on councils looking to motorists to bridge the gap in their funding, but a new scheme, the first of its kind in the UK, is looking to pay motorists up to £3,000 to stop driving their cars. A £20 million Department for...
Brexit go slow drivers causing traffic chaos are prosecuted
Brexit Protest and Direct Action Group (BDA), outraged by Prime Minister Theresa May’s negotiations, organised a series of ‘go slow’ protests on Friday ending in police prosecuting four pro-Brexit drivers. The decision to push back the deadline for the...
Intelligent speed limiters may not be safe to use yet claim motoring experts
While the chaos surrounding Brexit continues on, the European Commission is pushing out regulations continuously, and the latest one means that from 2022 all new cars will have to have an Intelligent Speed Assistant (ISA) built in. Like the article we...
Jaguar Land Rover recall 44,000 vehicles over emissions
It never rains but it pours … and Jaguar Land Rover must be breaking out their Sou’westers right about now; in January of this year, they announced 4,500 jobs were to go, the following month they posted record quarterly losses and more recently, it’s been...
In-car monitoring systems will follow your every move soon
With well over 6 million CCTV cameras in the UK, we Brits are accustomed to being watched. This is even more obvious when you’re a British driver, with recent news telling us authorities will use cameras to detect drivers using cycle lanes and mobile...
Sainsbury’s commit to fuel price cap if they merge
The proposed Sainsbury's and Asda merger has been around for just under a year now, and on Tuesday 19th March they released a joint statement responding to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Their response to the CMA’s Provisional Findings and...
Parking charge increases are another stealth tax on the motorist
£2,400,000, £2.4m, two million four hundred thousand … however you write it, it’s not an insignificant number, and yet that’s how much profit is being made each day through parking charges. Note the word profit, not revenue. And despite that, some...
Fuel prices on the rise once more, according to RAC
Drivers across Britain have enjoyed lower fuel prices for three months in a row because of price reductions across the UK’s filling stations. This now appears to be at an end as both petrol and diesel prices increased last month. Fuel retailers were swift...
Driving with loud music could now get you a £100 fine
With more and more cars getting high tech sound systems, hearing loud music while driving has become a daily occurrence for most people. One council is fighting back and has introduced a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) which gives officers the ability...
Britons are overcharged £300 million a year on financing cars
A shocking investigation by a British watchdog has discovered that car dealers are manipulating customers’ interest payments to earn larger commission totalling an ‘unacceptable’ £300 million each year. The report comes almost two years after the Financial...
Half of used cars have a hidden history, warns RAC
A study using data from the RAC’s Vehicle History Check service, covering more than 32,000 vehicles has shown that over half (52%) of the vehicles checked had a history that could be a potential problem for any purchaser. Some of these issues could be...
Volvo limit top speed of all new cars to try and stop deaths
On Monday (4th March,) Volvo announced plans to limit all cars manufactured from 2020 onwards to a max speed of 112mph. This is part of their plans to bring the number of people who die in a Volvo car to zero over the next coming years. In a press release...
You could soon get a £50 fine for doing the school run
Last May, PetrolPrices wrote about how clean air campaigners wanted to ban the car-based school run. With figures showing that a quarter of all cars are on our roads during school drop-off and collection times, a new plan to reduce air pollution—and defend...
Latest diesels aren’t actually that dirty, new tests show
This is the tale of conflicting opinions, misinformation, financial burden and innovation; no, not the plot from the latest blockbuster, but the demonisation of diesel. Or perhaps the non-demonisation, and therein lies the problem. Diesel was hailed as the...
Tax it or lose it as DVLA reinforces its policies
New DVLA stats released earlier in the week show that over 460,000 vehicles in 11 cities nationwide are clamped or fined yearly for failing to tax their cars. The new advertising campaign targets 11 areas nationwide where the highest number of untaxed...
70% of drivers don’t know what to do when they see this sign
We’re sure that most of our readers have heard the legend of Hackney Carriages having to carry a bale of hay and some oats for their horse (and contrary to popular belief, it was dropped from law in 1976), but traffic laws and road legislation in the UK...
London scrappage scheme: PR stunt or helping hand?
In just seven weeks, a new daily charge is to be introduced for entering the City of London, it will affect all pre-Euro 4 petrol vehicles and pre-Euro 6 diesels, with no resident discount nor blue badge exemption, it’s thought that up to 2.5 million...
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