Fuel Articles
Car insurance claims on the up
Car insurance claims are on the up in the UK, and this is having a knock-on effect on insurance company share prices, according to a recent report in The Financial Times. The article specifically refers to a nine percent fall in the value of Esure shares, but also...
Britain’s Fuel Second Cheapest in Europe…Until Tax is Added!
Prepare to feel annoyed! The Daily Mail has revealed that the cost of petrol in the UK is almost the lowest in the whole of Europe (second only to Estonia). However, once taxes are added on, petrol in the UK becomes the fifth most expensive in Europe, with only...
Fuel duty relief coming to more rural areas
There's some good news today for UK drivers located in certain rural areas. The European Union has confirmed a fuel duty relief scheme that could bring the price of petrol and diesel in these areas down by as much as five pence per litre. The scheme had already been...
Oil Companies Slammed for Rapid Rise in Pump Prices
Against a backdrop of a small upward trend in petrol prices recently, the AA have stepped out and said that motorists are suffering from the effects of "oil company greed." In a report in The Belfast Telegraph, AA president Edmund King has once again criticised the...
FairFuel UK Attack “Scandalous” Pump Price Rises
Last week, we talked about how UK petrol prices had begun to creep upwards again the wake of a rise in the wholesale oil price. Subsequent news stories towards the end of the week suggested these rises were only temporary, but there's another facet to the story that's...
Governments change their minds about diesel
For many years, diesel cars have been seen by many as more economical and more environmentally friendly than their petrol equivalents. Much of the reason for the latter is that governments have chosen to focus on CO2 emissions when determining car tax rates, and this...
Petrol Price Reductions “Equal to a Tax Cut”
Petrol prices have now been falling steadily for months, and you've probably noticed the positive financial impact already - whether than means a little more money in your pocket, or a bit longer between trips to your local petrol station. Extrapolated over a year,...
99p Petrol Begins to Spread
Last week, we talked about a garage in Walsall that had been widely reported as the first in the country to drop the price of unleaded fuel below the one Pound mark, specifically to 99.7 pence per litre. As we predicted at the time, petrol for under a Pound has begun...
UK Petrol Drops Below the Magical “One Pound per Litre”
For some time now, we've been debating whether petrol would drop below the one pound per litre mark. For some time, The RAC have seem convinced it would happen, while The AA have remained less sure. Well now, as we predicted at the end of last week, the optimists were...
£1 Per Litre Petrol Edges Ever Closer
Several times over recent months, we've speculated on whether petrol prices will drop as low as the "magic" one pound per litre. Experts have been divided on the issue, with The RAC typically seeming far more optimistic than The AA or the Petrol Retailers Association....
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