UK petrol price up at the highest in 10 years
21 Jan 2011
Pump prices of petrol In the UK are rising at the fastest rate for 10 years and it now costs £3 more than it did a month ago.
A litre of unleaded petrol shot 6.13p in mid-December to a new record high of 128.27p.
A two-car family now pays £156 a year extra, but millions prefer to keep their cars at home. Petrol sales are down 13 per cent since last January as families cancel days out and people choose to take the bus or foot it out.
Compared to one year ago, drivers are paying 16.3p more for unleaded and 19p more for diesel now – an average of 132.75p a litre.
UK Automobile Association (AA) president Edmund King blamed the rise in fuel duty and 20-per cent increase in VAT for triggering the rise in petrol prices and the huge fall in sales showed that many drivers could not afford to fill up.
He added an increasing number of drivers cannot afford the prices that are pushing inflation and taking money from other spending.
Petrol is cheapest in Yorkshire and Humberside, where it costs 127.3p.
