Boris Johnson weighed into the row about fuel taxes last night, calling on the Prime Minister to protect motorists from soaring oil prices.
He said last night: ‘If I were the government, I would think seriously about that fuel duty stabiliser because when it costs more to fill your tank than to fly to Rome, something is seriously wrong.’
The London mayor described filling up his own 1995 Toyota Previa over the weekend, which - including the Sunday papers - came to £80.54.
He wrote in his Daily Telegraph column: ‘Talk about whiskey. It would be cheaper to fill it up with Black label’, adding: ‘The price clobbers small businesses and makes life tough for people in rural areas who don’t have access to good public transport....
‘Petrol is cheaper in virtually every European country than it is in Britain and whatever the reason for the recent spikes we cannot get around the fact that the spikes are jabbing the consumer all the more painfully because the Treasury takes about 60 per cent of your bill in excise.’
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