yes, you are right and it feels like a lot of things are going up. petrol one of them. just to give you a sense of how prices are rising, an average price in the uk right now, an average so you might find it more expensive or cheaper at your garage, 1a1.7 expensive or cheaper at your garage, 141.7 9p expensive or cheaper at your garage, 1a1.7 9p per litre. compare that to the record high we saw in 2012. then it was 1a2.a8 for eight litres so you can see we are just shy of that right now and some prices on forecourts already ahead of that. there has been a doubling in the crude oil price. but other changes are having an effect. we will look at some of those implications in a minute. as you said, most people