UK motorists even pay up to 30p more than Romanian or Bulgarian drivers, according to The Press and Journal.
The diesel is not expensive because it is scarce, but because the government likes to rake in extra taxes. For every litre that is sold, the UK Treasury gets 70.4p in duty and taxes. If this amount is deducted from the 106.9p that UK motorists have to pay the gas station, one can see that the diesel is Britain is actually the cheapest in Europe, with the exception of the 36.5/litre in Bulgaria.
Haulers fear that prices might increase even more later this year, which will make it impossible for them to compete with their European counterparts. However, the chances that prices will decrease are zero to none. A Treasury spokesman already stated that the prices of diesel in the UK were so high, because it was as harmful to the environment as petrol, and therefore gets taxed the same way.
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