When, in the final days of last month, I predicted the imminent arrival of the £2 litre, I hadn’t expected it to be disposed on us rather so soon. however barely into the second week of March it landed.
At one of the last filling stations before the port of Dover, I found as well as photographed routine diesel being offered to chauffeurs at an extortionate 206.9 pence a litre. This is equivalent to £9.40 a gallon. as well as that’s the unjustifiably high cost household motorists were expected to pay as they headed off for their long-overdue spring breaks on England’s south coastline or in Europe. Crueller still, volunteer van as well as truck chauffeurs heading for the Poland/Ukraine border with urgent medical as well as crucial supplies may have been caught out by this grubby rip-off prior to boarding ferries.
UK petrol as well as diesel prices: 5p tax cut implies just 3p off at the pumps
If it had a heart as well as a bit of typical sense, BP (or its retailers) would provide its diesel away to charitable organisations bravely embarking on potentially life-saving missions to the Ukraine war zone, some 1,150 miles away. Instead, it’s seemingly delighted to fee them as well as others over £2 a litre for the stuff. sheer greed? Profiteering in a crisis? business stupidity? The unacceptable deal with of capitalism? You tell me.
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