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Right now. a litre is about 1.61 as a litre, and a litre of diesel is about £1 70, the highest they have ever been. also the rise since last year is about 30%. you cannot have that happening without it having knock on effects. as we were hearing there, the price of containers, generally the price of raw materials, is going up at record rates. we saw a 19% increase in the prices manufacturers pay for raw materials. sometimes they can absorb those fluctuations but it is too much, they have to pass it on to consumers. that is what you have got 7% inflation. if you look at the old fashioned retail prices when we were kids and mars bars are going up from 5p up to 10p, that is the highest it has been since 1991, the rpi at 9%. that matters because a lot of pensions are linked to the retail prices index, so for pension schemes to pay those pensions it makes it more expensive. the government has something like £343 ....

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