The following is taken from http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/ .

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Britain is the most expensive country in Europe to buy petrol, new figures reveal. With a litre of fuel now costing an average of 83p, UK drivers pay £138.36 to travel 1,000 miles - the highest of ten European countries surveyed by American Express.

Austria is the cheapest country with petrol at 53p a litre and the same journey costing just £88.36. Spain with 54p a litre and Ireland where petrol costs 61p were the next cheapest.
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When I started driving in 1988 fuel cost around 45pence per litre. When I bought my first car in 1995 it cost about 56 pence per litre. In just four and a half years the cost of fuel has rocketed by about 30 pence per litre.

The chancellor has stopped the so called "fuel tax escalator", but when will this petrol pricing lunacy end?

John,

Couldn't agree more. It really pisses me off that we pay so much for fuel while public transport is absolutely useless. Just returned from my trip to Spain where Unleaded was £0.56 a litre £25.00 filled the convertible up. I could even afford to put my foot down when I felt like it !

Simon.

Hi Simon

Spain was cited as one of the cheapest European countries for fuel, on Radio 5 this morning.

Since spotting the campaign about three weeks ago on the Auto Express website - a few of the daily papers have written about it, two tabloids making it front page today.

More radio chat programmes (radio 5) are discussing the issue. The tories (they have a different agenda, of course) have jumped on the bandwagon saying that fuel prices have jumped 45% since Labour came to power in May 1997.

Unfortunately, petrol wasn't quite as cheap as that when I was in Sweden - but as I had the Griffin I put my foot down anyway ;-)

/john

Funny there was some questions and answers session on T.V. tonight with William Hague ?

One of the subjects brought up was fuel prices. Of course he was slagging off Labour for increasing fuel prices more then the Tory's ever did.....blah blah blah, but made no commitment to reduce the taxation on fuel if they get back in.

It's about time the public started voicing their opinions on the ridiculous amount of money we pay for fuel. I think Tony Blair may well have a riot on his hands soon. I hope so !

Simon.

Here's two sites to look at:
http://www.boycott-the-pumps.com/
and
http://www.lowerfueltax.co.uk/

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