Petrol prices likely to rise for North Lincolnshire motorists
NORTH Lincolnshire motorists could soon be facing higher petrol costs, after warnings that prices are on the rise.
Following more than three months of falling cost at the pumps, petrol prices are expected to rise by 4 pence a litre in the next few days as retailers pass on increased wholesale costs to motorists, media reports.
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Filling up with petrol in Scunthorpe
The rise, forecast by the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), would add £2 to the cost of filling a Vauxhall Astra.
However the AA, which forecast a small rise of about 2.5 pence a litre, accused the industry of failing to pass on recent falls in wholesale prices to motorists as quickly as increases.
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Edmund King, the AA's president, said: "Another new year, another new round of pump price rises after the industry failed to pass on fully wholesale price savings. The Office of Fair Trading decides soon whether to launch an investigation into fuel prices, hopefully tackling the fuel industry's treatment of drivers, consumers and businesses.
"The insight we are now getting on wholesale price movements rams home the need for this information to be out in the public domain immediately. Wholesale petrol prices turned upward in the first week of January, average pump prices six days later. If falls in wholesale were reflected as quickly, no-one would mind - but they're not."
6 Comments
by ewbfchamp
Friday, January 25 2013, 7:56PM
“Perhaps if MP's had to buy their own fuel, something might be done about all this. The tax on fuel is obscene and outrageous! I once asked on here - who gets all the points from fuel fill-ups at Morriisons from the council vehicles - there must be a lot ! What a surprise - no-one came back with the answer !!”
by IT_MAN
Friday, January 25 2013, 7:04PM
“We can expect a rise as any slight thing in the oil industry causes a rise and the goverment did cancel the duty/tax rises labour introduced. Anyone noticed Morrisons Miles card now only gives a 1p discount (10 points) per full litre, £5 voucher for 5,000, it used to be 1.5p discount per full litre. I bet the points 10 per litre will mean they can secretly drop it to say 8 then 5 points meaning 0.5p per litre will it happen, otherwise just one point a litre would have been easier.”
by Hazzers
Friday, January 25 2013, 11:39AM
“Why don't we all start 'copy & pasting' national news stories, give them a local spin and post them on the Telegraph website like this poster seems to do.”
by leonidas
Friday, January 25 2013, 11:36AM
“i pretty much stay in town anyway, i think i should but a horse to to do my shopping & chores on, i wonder what they'd find to tax me on, can you get a parking ticket on a horse, would i need to hire a digger to follow me round & clean up after it so i dont get fined, shafted whatever choices we make, might as well keep my car & bend over & pull my pants down to rip off britain...”
by ewbfchamp
Friday, January 25 2013, 10:23AM
“Now there's a surprise !”
by DFlated
Friday, January 25 2013, 10:22AM
“Why are North Lincolnshire motorists singled out for this price hike - surely it should be a national price hike and as such should be national news. Get finding out why we are being singled out ST.”