Litres Have Cost The Motorist A Great Deal.

Published on Friday 30 March 2012. Yorks Post.

From: David H Rhodes, Keble Park North, Bishopthorpe, York.

A SMALL increase on a small amount appears insignificant. Consequently, dealing in the metric system as opposed to imperial is a boon to the Government when taxing fuel.

Currently we pay £1.40 per litre for petrol which is £6.36 a gallon and when the fuel escalator tax is added in August, the probability of the cost being £1.50 a litre or £6.84 per gallon will be the outcome, an approximate increase of 50p. Nearly £7 a gallon! And to think when I was a lad I remember petrol at four shillings and threepence a gallon (21p).