i don t think any care company has enough staff, and they are going to leave. there is a government scheme to bring down the cost of petrol and diesel in remote places. rural fuel duty relief is only available in a handful of post codes in england and scotland, and nowhere at all in wales or northern ireland. it s meant to compensate for the cost of getting fuel to remote forecourts, not the extra miles people drive in the countryside. the treasury says every driver in the uk has already benefited from the fuel duty cut in march. there s another garage, he s below £2. but nick says he has not felt the benefit. the cost of fuelling his cabs has risen 50% in the last six months, and after holding out, this month he has put up his prices. don t like it. i feel i m letting people down. i don t like doing it, but i ve got to, because otherwise, next week i won t be here.
it s meant to compensate for the cost of getting fuel to remote forecourts, not the extra miles people drive in the countryside. the treasury says every driver in the uk has already benefited from the fuel duty cut in march. there s another garage, he s below £2. but nick says he has not felt the benefit. the cost of fuelling his cabs has risen 50% in the last six months, and after holding out, this month he has put up his prices. don t like it. i feel i m letting people down. i don t like doing it, but i ve got to, because otherwise, next week i won t be here. oh, you have grown it more now. robin has already put up her prices and doesn t feel she can do it again, so this mobile hairdresser now stays at home. most of her customers now drive to her. for the time being, with the costs of the fuel,
i don t think any care company has enough staff, and they re going to leave. there is a government scheme to bring down the cost of petrol and diesel in remote places. rural fuel duty relief is only available in a handful of postcodes in england and scotland, and nowhere at all in wales or northern ireland. it s meant to compensate for the cost of getting fuel to remote forecourts, not the extra miles people drive in the countryside. the treasury says every driver in the uk has already benefited from the fuel duty cut in march. there s another garage, he s below £2. but nick says he has not felt the benefit. the cost of fuelling his cabs has risen 50% in the last six months and, after holding out, this month he has put up his prices. don t like it. i feel i m letting people down. i don t like doing it, but i ve got to, because otherwise next week i won t be here.
negated since then, so, perhaps they may look at doing another, a further fuel duty cut, one motoring expert i spoke to earlier today said one option might be to cut vat, that is sales tax on fuel, at the moment, the price you pay per litre, 30 penceis the price you pay per litre, 30 pence is vat, or sales tax, so that may be an option that is looked at, but, it is not an easy one to sol of. individual governments in any country would struggle to solve this, because it is being driven by globalfactor, notably this, because it is being driven by global factor, notably the this, because it is being driven by globalfactor, notably the price this, because it is being driven by global factor, notably the price of a barrel of oil which keeps going up and up and up. a barrel of oilwhich keeps going up and no and no a barrel of oilwhich keeps going up and up and up. ben, thank you very much, and up and up. ben, thank you very much. much we can speak to howard cox, co founder of the price ca
but because the prices, the wholesale prices kept going up and up, that has effectively been wiped out. the effect has been negated since then, so perhaps they may look at doing another, a further fuel duty cut. 0ne motoring expert i spoke to earlier today said one option might be to cut vat, that is sales tax on fuel. at the moment, the price you pay per litre, 30 pence is vat, or sales tax, so that may be an option that is looked at, but it is not an easy one to solve. individual governments in any country would struggle to solve this, because it is being driven by global factors, notably the price of a barrel of oil which keeps going up and up and up. let s speak to gordon balmer, the executive chairman of the petrol retailers association. thank you forjoining us today. you represent about 65% of forecourts in the uk. first, on that charge,