casey and rachel

The Reporters- Casey M & Rachel T.E

Rise in fuel prices

This blog is here to tell you about the rise of fuel costs and how many angry people there are due to how high they are.

Here are the three interviews that are showing the difference of three different people. Lucy is a mum that has three children and drops two off at school every day, tom is from an older generation and has been driving for a lot longer than Lucy and we have Gemma a 14 year old girl that doesn’t drive but is telling us about how it affects her mum and also how it affects her.

Interviews

1.       How much fuel costs have raised since you have been driving?

Tom-about 300%

Lucy-about 250%

Gemma-I don’t drive but it has went up about 200% since my mum has started driving

2.       How many other people do you know who drive and are angry at the rise in fuel costs?

Tom-everyone

Lucy-everyone

Gemma-nearly everyone

3.       Can you think of anything you could do to stop the fuel prices rising?

Tom-send a letter to Downing Street, add a little more onto road tax

Lucy-send a complaint letter to the government

Gemma-send a letter to the government stating why it is unreasonable to make them higher

4.       Who do you feel is to blame for the rise in fuel costs?

Tom-the government

Lucy-the government

Gemma-the government

5.       When do you feel the costs started getting unfair and out of hand?

Tom-about 10 years ago

Lucy-about 9 years ago

Gemma-about 5 years ago

6.       Why do you think they are making the cost so high?

Tom-the government keeps on putting fuel tax up

Lucy-the government is being greedy and wants more money

Gemma-the government wants more money

7.       Is there anything else you want to add to this?

Tom-if the government wasn’t so greedy as they take over 50%of fuel price in tax and if the price was lower then services would be cheaper ie: food transport

Lucy-its very unfair because the government already has more money than us but he still wants to take more of our money

Gemma-its unfair and should be put lower, even though you think that might not affect me my mum hasn’t got enough money to buy nice things for me because of how much she spends on fuel.

On the 1^st of January 2011, a government fuel duty put, yet, another 76p on to both petrol and diesel. The AA estimated that both increases would add 3.5p to the cost of a litre for both petrol and diesel. The AA also estimated that motorists were spending £10 million more a day on petrol than this time the year before.

Currently, Petrol costs are rising and high unemployment. But it gets worse Naysayers (people with aggressively negative attitudes) predict that it is only the beginning and the fuel costs are only moving in one direction, which is up. It is a complicated issue which has caught much newspaper’s attention. Rising fuel costs has been affecting everyone and coupled with growing unemployment its causing a big dilemma. Prices are now up to 7% in 2012. The average of unleaded petrol has reached a new high of 137.44p per litre, according to industry analysts Experian Catalist. That just exceeds the average of 137.43p.  Fuel campaigners have called for chancellor to scrap the 3p a litre rise in fuel duty planned for august. Meanwhile a survey by the Countryside Alliance has indicated that the price of diesel in rural (country) is, on average, 4p more than in urban. The most expensive diesel was in Purbeck  in Dorset and Ryedale in North Yorkshire, where it costs 146.9p per litre. Diesel was at its cheapest at an average 139.7 per litre in North Tyneside, Birmingham and Dartford, Kent. The Countryside Alliance said cars were becoming an “unaffordable necessity” for many living in rural communities.