Petrol
Rigged petrol prices will outrage voters far more than Europe ever could
Believe it or not, while voters might be unimpressed by the ferrets fighting in a sack over Tory Europe strategy, what will interest them far more is the possibility that… Continue reading
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How will Tory whips respond to Ed Balls’ audacious petrol vote?
Ed Balls has secured a debate for next week calling for the government to postpone for a second time the 3p rise in fuel duty that is due this January.… Continue reading
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Iran and oil are still on the agenda
For all the talk about Greece and France and the Eurozone, it’s telling just how much our politicians are focusing on Iran. Indeed, some of the most concrete political settlements… Continue reading
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Fuel for the political bonfire
Pasties and jerry cans — who’d have thought that yesterday’s politics would descend into a roaring debate about two such innocuous items? And still the hullabaloo goes on. Most of… Continue reading
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The government’s keen to avoid the petrol chaos of 2000
So, once again, we face the prospect of disruption at the pumps, as tanker drivers have voted for strike action over their terms of employment. According to the union Unite,… Continue reading
9 CommentsFuelling the recovery
Today, the government has listened. In his Autumn Statement, George Osborne scrapped the fuel tax bombshell that was scheduled for January 2012. As regular Coffee House readers will know,… Continue reading
12 CommentsBeating fuel poverty
As Tim Montgomerie has noted, a growing priority for voters is the astronomical cost of petrol. In fact, according to a Populous poll conducted outside the Westminster bubble, people are… Continue reading
35 CommentsPetrol woes set to continue
Despite small falls in petrol prices last month, the consequence of a supermarket price war according to the AA, motoring becomes ever more expensive. Political campaigns have opened as pressure… Continue reading
15 CommentsDuncan warns of oil price rise and King of future financial crisis
There are two important political interviews in today’s papers, Alan Duncan in The Times and Mervyn King in the Telegraph. Duncan, the international development minister, echoes Chris Huhne’s warning of… Continue reading
22 CommentsThe domestic politics of oil
Developments in Libya continue to dominate the news, and rightly so. The view from Whitehall is that this stands off will continue for some time. There is even talk that… Continue reading
20 CommentsWill Cameron have a Brown moment over petrol?
Remember when Gordon Brown came up against Fern Britton in a TV interview? I’ve pasted the video above to remind CoffeeHousers of two persistent truths: how tricky a subject petrol… Continue reading
23 CommentsWhat price a fuel duty stabiliser?
Last we heard, the government was considering what it should, and could, do to suppress rising fuel prices. I wonder whether they have now pencilled something into March’s Red Book.… Continue reading
29 CommentsRising costs: a problem for the public and the coalition in 2011
Ne’er mistake correlation with cause, I know. But, during the Brown premiership, the correlation between petrol prices and poll ratings was still pretty striking. Mike Smithson graphed it early last… Continue reading
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