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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Gemma Jones

Why petrol prices are so high and what the government are doing about it

Petrol and diesel prices hit a record high yesterday with it costing £100 to fill an average family car.

The ever increasing prices are causing people to worry about the costs of getting to work. The cost of living crisis is also causing the prices of everything else to go up too, with household energy rocketing and the price of food jumping up.

The RAC warned: “These are unprecedented times in terms of the accelerating cost of forecourt fuel. Sadly, it seems we are still some way from the peak.”

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