THE GOVERNMENT'S fuel price 'strategy' has gone from bad to worse after an announcement that the planned 2p increase in fuel duty, due to come into action this October, is to be postponed. The delay, the second in six months, is because of rising

GORDON Brown delivered his final budget as Chancellor this afternoon and included impacts on road users.Fuel duty will rise for 2007 by 2p a litre in line with inflation but this is deferred until October. Fuel duty rises have been set at 2p

CHANCELLOR George Osborne has announced that the government will postpone August's planned 3p rise in fuel duty until January next year.The controversial plans had been under criticism from motoring groups and Labour and MPs from other parties had

UK PETROL PRICES are set to reach record levels due to soaring oil costs, higher fuel duty and recent blockades in France, it has been announced.It's feared unleaded could soon hit a record £1.25 a litre (£5.68 a gallon) by Christmas 2010

be around 60 pence per litre.At the moment, at £1.28 for a litre of petrol, 48 pence is the petrol, 59p is fuel duty and 21 pence is VAT.Stephen Voller, Chief Executive of Cella Energy said: "Early indications are that the micro-beads can be used

million.Without fuel duty and the VAT added on top, unleaded petrol would cost 52.8 pence per litre, meaning it would cost £9.50 to fill up a 2012 Honda CBR600RR.More and more commuters are switching to motorcycles, partly due to their impressive MPG

's spiralling fuel costs, which have risen to, on average, 120.5p per litre for unleaded fuel. Organisers said Saturday's protest was a chance to show politicians ahead of this Thursday's General Election that fuel duty must be cut.

THE RAC Foundation has called for Britain's road system to be made "pay as you go" following the revelation that just one third of the revenue brought in by road tax and fuel duty is being ploughed back into the UK's road network.In his new report

FUEL DUTY is to rise again - this time from 2p per litre from this September onwards.The news has just been announced as part of the Budget speech by Chancellor Alistair Darling.The money is the Government's tax on top of the basic price of a litre

commuter bike currently pays a vehicle excise duty of £15 – the ratein 2009 will more than double to £33.Andrew Davis, director at the Environmental Transport Association said: “Adoubling of tax for motorcycles that produce less than 100g of CO2 per