Official figures, from The Department of Energy and Climate Change, have showed a 10.6% drop in fuel sales, with almost 500 million fewer litres of petrol sold between April and June compared with the same period last year. The fall came despite a drop in prices during the same period.
The decline in fuel sales was described as a ‘huge drop’ by AA President Edmund King who said “While we welcome the fact that new cars have become more fuel-efficient, this goes nowhere near to accounting for the crash in demand over the past three months and the past five years.
“A fall of 2.27 billion litres in UK fuel sales over the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 2008 has got to bring some sense of reality to the fuel market and the Government.”
He added: “Price transparency is the way forward – to ensure and show drivers they are getting a fair deal at the pump.”
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Oct, 03, 2012