Car dependency in UK reaches 15-year peak as fuel prices soar

Reliance on cars has reached a 15-year high despite a drop in commuting, new figures show.

Amid a surge in fuel prices, our London reporter Alice Porter has the latest.

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[benjaminimos]

If you can't afford to fill your tank now, wait until you can't afford an electric car let alone the electricity to run it, thanks Conservatives!

[willmatthews]

Sadiq Khan is concerned about air pollution, yet he continues to speak?

[essonandrew]

The expensive bit of the price of fuel is the greedy governments taking a large share in taxes

[stevenpaddybwoy]

Next on the horizon is cashless society with digital ID that tracks your carbon output

[kentwydell]

Thankyou GB News for showing us what a petrol station looks like.

[johnlee]

I'm sorry but between 2011 & 2015 the price of oil was at over $100 dollars per barrel. It's 15% less now but more expensive for petrol.

Why ?

[mrade]

How do you make people buy the most expensive fuel there has ever been? Create a fuel shortage and all the sheeple will be falling over themselves to buy as much of it as they can. How about people stay at home and tell them you can't afford to get to work? I got a new job last week and it's monthly pay. I won't get my first wage until the last working day in November. That means I would have to pay for my own fuel (£40 p/w) for the next 5 weeks, coming off universal credit. It quite simply isn't possible, so the company I started with agreed to let me bring the van home and they pay for the fuel. That's great, however, it's not very "green", is it? I can't use my cheap and cheerful little low emissions petrol car, because I can't afford to, so this company that prides itself on going "green", is giving me a big dirty diesel van to do the commute instead. I'm totally happy with it (fuck the "green" agenda), but the hypocrisy is mind blowing.

Oh, the universal credit thing as well. I have just seen first hand how making people on universal credit poorer, to encourage them back to work, is complete bullshit. If I got a job in McDonalds, would they give me a sprinter van to get to and from work? I don't think so. It's all lies from Boris the twat!

[JJ-ohtr]

Millions of people will be priced out of the market to drive so who is going to do all those jobs on the industrial estates and rural areas where no buses or trains can go and you cant walk there either? HGV driver shortage will get worse and this effects every person in every job sector including police, ambulance, fire crew. If people can't afford to get to work the country will be at a standstill. People are made poorer in the name of climate change. It is disgusting the way it's being forced on people already struggling to work to feed their children.

[BanjoPixelSnack]

And they want everyone to stop home working and start driving back into the office?? Pffft!

[neil]

It's pure greed !! Its, all tax

[veryhappychappy]

All 'metropolitan' centric.
Try and live in the countryside where 'public' transport is a mirage.

[dinerouk]

I'm 74 years old and never had a car, thank God!

[SEVE_P]

As more cuties and towns come online with the pollution charge I wonder where they think the money is going to come from for all of us to be able to afford new pollution compliant vehicles. As an example my 2004 lane rover is understandably not compliant, but neither is my 2016 van. The high street is already on its knees, people are already stretched financially, where’s the money going to come from for new compliant vehicles so we can travel freely and is the idea of batteries actually any cleaner. Fuel is now more expensive which will stop many of us travelling so much, impose fines for older vehicles entering towns and cities, impose covid restrictions….in the end it’s the economy and the mental health of people that will suffer. I hate this government.

[mechellekingman]

Wait too the budget on Friday I bet deziel car tax will take a big hit .

[paulshea]

DELIVERY vehicles going into London . Now watch out for goods shortages for shops. I bet Kahn will still get his groceries delivered though.

[stevengordon]

So when global prices for a barrel of Brent crude was $38 did we see a litre of petrol at 70p?

[DD-zdlw]

Profiteering, giving those at the top more money.

[ruthcollins]

Would be good if we have a brilliant public transport, but as we don't I'll stick with my petrol car which I aim to upgrade to a more powerful one next year. Electric cars another diesel car farce!

[TurinTuramber]

The price of fuel is just like any other price, it is simply the highest cost at which most people will still pay.

[dlafferty]

Yeah push the petrol ⛽ up force people to go electric then the minute you have "wrong think" switch the car off petrol = freedom