fuel duty. Now I know that’s not how the Chancellor put it, and it is absolutely true the government could have lumped one penny plus inflation (about three pence) on straight away.’ Tink believes that the fiscal measure will irritate
motorists, especially when ‘the average price at the petrol pumps is seemingly on a never-ending march towards record highs’. (At time of going to press the highest petrol prices was £1.30/litre).
The average price at the petrol pumps is seemingly on a never-ending march
towards record highs
ADRIAN TINK, RAC MOTORING STRATEGIST
Tink acknowledges that the government is not
entirely to blame for the price at the pumps. ‘But, whichever way you put it’, points out
Tink, ‘this is the fourth rise in fuel duty in just over 15 months. For the average motorist, who’s watching the numbers on the petrol pump rack up like a pinball machine score, this is the hardest fact of all to swallow.’
Cutting parking costs
Tony Wakeling, RCP parking general manager, agrees that the motorist has been hard hit. He said that the 2010 Budget ‘has dealt a further blow
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