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Three years after Bob Dylan released his iconic song (the times they are a changin' 1964), the UK's forecourts were at an all-time high of 39,958; today, that number has dropped to below 9000. According to the latest Retail Marketing Survey, conducted by the Energy Institute, there are now just 8892 sites.
There was great hilarity recently at one of those remaining forecourts at Poole in Dorset when the price of Tesco's unleaded was changed to 25.9 pence per litre. Diesel was described as LOL - presumably laugh out loud abbreviated?
Not looking forward to April 1st with its attendant fuel tax rises, the FTA's chief economist, Simon Chapman, said: "Political instability in other countries and the impact this has on the price of a barrel of oil is beyond the chancellor's control. However, the level of tax he then heaps on top of it is certainly not." Will the chancellor be swayed?