European Diesel price league

Posted on June 7th, 2008 by In51der in Blog, Consumer

What a surprise! UK is top!

When we pay our 126p for a litre, only 57p is going on the actual fuel.

 The rest goes straight to Chancellor Alistair Darling – just over 50p in duty, plus 19p in VAT. 

Diesel prices per litre
UK
125.6
Holland
117.8
Italy
117.6
Germany
116.1
France
112.9
Belgium
108.4
Spain
102.6
Ireland
99.4
Cyprus
93.5
Malta
87.8

 

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