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I've just been reminded of petrol prices on a podcast I'm listening too. A month on makes for some interesting reading:- In the month since this thread started crude has fallen over $10 a barrel. The quarter from Sept had seen prices drop by a third from $100 to $70. Finally the price of...

That is true but as GF points out It's a fine line (albeit the worlds finest line) between Capitalism and daylight robbery. It's not as if capitalism wasn't making a tidy profit before the +22% price differential was added in it's favour.

It's amazing how 'we' take that. I bet the hauliers blockage that bought the country to it's knees a few years ago was over a considerably smaller disparity.

But that doesn't explain the price remaining artificially high, does it. Isn't the duty is set as a percentage of the pump price?

Has this rampant profiteering slid under NSC's radar? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/oilprices/11218225/Petrol-for-a-quid-if-oil-price-slump-deepens.html Oil prices have fallen around 28% since June, but the drop has been slow to filter through to cheaper prices at the pumps...However...