Growing fury as petrol price reaches £1.40 per litre
Campaign group Fare Fuel UK, last night warned of a fuel price ‘crisis’, as the cost of a litre of unleaded petrol rose to £1.40 at a BP Garage in Kent.
It makes a substantial difference to last month’s average price of £1.28 and the instability in the Middle East could see fuel prices rise to a record high of £2.00 per litre.
Chancellor George Osborne signalled he was ready to ease the pressure on motorists by dropping the increase in fuel duty in his Budget later this month.
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