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Petrol prices could soar amid crisis

Motorists could soon feel the pinch at the pumps as the conflict in Gaza sends petrol prices soaring.

Independent garages are being forced to pass on the increased price of oil, and the big supermarkets will follow in the near future.

It comes after city motorists have been enjoying continued price decreases in the past month.

The cheapest price at the pumps is 82.9p at the Tesco garages in St Oswald’s Park and Brockworth.

Outside Gloucester, car users in the Forest of Dean and Stroud have only seen slight reductions with the cost of unleaded fuel hovering around 85p.

But now the price looks set to rise, according to Emma Gardner, who runs Gardner Garages Ltd. The firm owns the Westgate Petrol Station, Chambers in Hucclecote Road and General Garage in Huntley, as well as garages in Cheltenham, Worcester and Salisbury.

She said: “The price of oil has stopped falling and because of the fighting in Gaza.

“The supermarkets are on a two-week lag price but we are on daily prices, so we will be forced to put our prices up.”

Emma says she expects to see an increase of 3p implemented today on yesterday’s price and a further increase of 1½p before the end of the week.

This could see the average price of unleaded petrol in Gloucester climb to more than 90p per litre by the end of this week and averages of 92p in Stroud and 94p the Forest of Dean.

Emma said: “If there is a ceasefire in Gaza then the prices will go back down and the smaller stations will see this first.

“It was falling so much before. December was an amazing month. We were able drop prices dramatically but now the uncertainty in the Middle East has had an impact on the barrel price.”

Dave Errington, who owns Kestrel Taxis, based in Innsworth, explained that Tewkesbury Borough Council, which sets the fares taxi drivers can charge, had put them up during the last petrol price crisis in September. They hadn’t gone back down.

He said: “After quite a bit of pressure from myself and my colleagues, the borough council put our fares up in September

“And then the prices slipped back down, but our fares haven’t changed, so unless there’s a big increase, we should be able to survive it.”

As with the last petrol price crisis, people are looking to the treasury and Chancellor Alistair Darling for answers.

A spokesman for the Treasury said: “Tax is a matter for the Chancellor as part of the budget process.

“The Chancellor will look at the issue of petrol duty in the run-up to the budget.

“People should feel confident the chancellor will consider all options in the budget.”

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George Carlin

They already have here, its now £0.91.9 for unleaded and £1.02.9 for diesel a full 5p jump

yep 101.9 diesel 2p jump

The Fuel we are buying now should not be affected by whats happening abroad...its been in the country long before this Sh*t kicked off in Israel...greedy bloody petrol companys once again....

Theres no such thing as a non greedy oil company

Perhaps we should ask the Israelis to stop bombing innocent civilians?

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George Carlin

Oil is always going to go up, the OPEC countries will see to that, they'll cut production and push the price up.

WTF has a strip of bombed out land got to do with Oil production, I don't believe any countries in the Gulf are involved?

If they wiped out Gaza, it would mean about 120 less Kebab shops for London that will open here this year.

Your's,

Sympathetic of London.

It's an idea but somehow I don't think it'll catch on

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Strange, I lost all sympathy for Israel when I learned how The Stern Gang tortured and murdered British Soldiers. The same group wanted to collaborate with the Nazis against Britain in the second world war.

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But I thought we were ****'s? Zeig Heil.

Or was that a creaky old has been talkng?

Apparently not....from wiki;

In 1940, Lehi proposed intervening in World War II on the side of **** Germany. It offered assistance in "evacuating"[vague] the Jews of Europe, in return for Germany's help in expelling Britain from Mandate Palestine. Late in 1940, Lehi representative Naftali Lubenchik was sent to Beirut where he met the German official Werner Otto von Hentig. Lubenchik told von Hentig that Lehi had not yet revealed its full power and that they were capable of organizing a whole range of anti-British operations.

On the assumption that the destruction of Britain was the Germans' top objective, the organization offered cooperation in the following terms: From the NMO side: full cooperation in sabotage, espionage and intelligence and up to wide military operations in the Middle East and in eastern Europe anywhere where the Irgun had Jewish cells, active and trained and in some places with weapons. From the German side, the following declarations and actions were demanded: (1) Full recognition of an independent Jewish state in Palestine/Eretz Israel (2) That the ability to emigrate to Palestine be conceded to all Jews, with no restriction of numbers, who, in leaving their homes in Europe, by their own will or because of government injunctions. For this purpose there was expressed a need to cancel any transfer plans of Jews to distant countries like Madagascar.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

I was right after all.