According to petrolprices.com, a website which monitors 11 000 garages in Britain, the average price at the pumps yesterday (Monday) was 127.8p for a litre of unleaded and 132.05p for diesel. There are nearly 400 forecourts in Britain charging 130p a litre for unleaded petrol and four that are selling petrol for 140p a litre.
If the average price hits 132p a litre it will be the equivalent of £6 a gallon and that could happen with the climbing price of oil, which shot up over the weekend on news that BP and its partners had been forced to shut down the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. It carries 15% of America's oil and they have now discovered a leak, necessitating in its closure.
I think I'll carry on walking.
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