THE countdown has begun to next week’s Budget and the nation’s 37million motorists fear they will be left counting the cost. There is concern that for the first time in 12 years fuel duty on petrol…
Mobile hairdresser Helen Mainwaring says: 'Any rise in duty will definitely have an impact'But when lockdown hit, social distancing measures meant she could no longer go into clients’ houses and she was forced to take a job in the family business, selling shellfish on a market stall. She now spends about £60 a week on fuel.“I have to factor the cost of fuel into the price of the haircut when I drive to see customers.
“I save money by living rent-free at my mum’s, but because my boyfriend and I don’t live together, when we meet we often go for drives. “It means that sometimes I put £20 into the car — it’s a lot. I’ve thought about asking other people to see if they might be interested in a lift share.”Single mum Laura Gregory says: 'I put £12 of petrol in the car on Monday and when it runs out, we have to walk'SINGLE mum Laura Gregory can only afford to put £12 of petrol in her car each week.Dental receptionist Laura, from Gravesend,, says: “I do the school run with my ten-year-old son before heading to work.
Laura has this advice for Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt: “It’s an absolute joke if they put fuel duty up. It’s embarrassing asking for £12 of petrol. I’ll be walking a lot more.”Grant Davis, from Bromley, Kent, now puts £200 of diesel into his taxi each month and says putting fuel duty up would be 'outrageous'BLACK cab driver Grant Davis will see fares go up by seven per cent soon, but that rise will barely cover his increasing expenses.
“If the price of diesel had dropped to where it should be I wouldn’t be so upset, but the oil companies are raking it in.“And in London, the Mayor wants to fleece us even more by extending the
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