Rising fuel prices have been described as “pump fiction” as they fail to reflect falling wholesale prices.
AA president Edmund King borrowed the phrase from director Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 iconic dark crime-comedy film Pulp Fiction to highlight the grim reality of sky high petrol.
With a star-studded cast including John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson Tim Roth and Uma Thurman, the award winning, gory gangster movie is far more graphic than the financial battering motorists are getting on the petrol forecourt.