According to official statements the price of flour could be 40 times higher, petrol would cost between four and seven times more, gas five times more, and electricity and water about three times more.
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The AA said drivers were again picking up rising petrol bills, with retailers often reluctant to pass on savings when the cost of petrol is falling.
The pollution produced by burning petrol in cars imposes a cost on the environment and on human health, yet its price hardly reflects this fact: petrol remains cheaper than water in America.
The decision is partly seen as a response to the rising cost of petrol to consumers.
Other staple rural concerns preserving green fields, and the cost of petrol could generate votes.
The cost of petrol and diesel on the Western Isles and other Scottish islands has been a long running issue.
The watchdog has launched an investigation into domestic oil and gas prices but this will not cover the cost of petrol on station forecourts.
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The rising cost of petrol pushed the headline inflation rate in the UK up to 3.3% in June - its highest level for nearly two years.
They may use that wiggle room to raise the cost of petrol, frozen for the past six years despite big rises in the world price of oil.
He said he travelled to many sites on the route and although the cost of petrol was a "slight problem" it was the car parking costs that "soon added up".
When Floyd decided he didn't fancy Florida, and turned instead towards Charleston, many people headed home, having suffered nothing worse than the cost of petrol and a day's lost business.
People should walk and bike more and quit pointing a finger at the rising cost of petrol and instead poke at the huge gut they develop from driving two blocks just to pick up a carton of milk.
The car dealer at Mitsubishi tried to explain how rapidly the car would pay back the initial cost in saved petrol and congestion charge costs - but how many motorists will swallow that when they could get two or three petrol cars for the price of an electric vehicle?
The average cost of a litre of petrol in the UK is currently about 140p.
The main cause is that Zimbabwe has been selling imported petrol, diesel and paraffin at below cost for the past two years.
Even though Nigeria is such a big oil producer, for instance, its few refineries are so old and inefficient that it now has to import the bulk of its petrol and kerosene, a huge extra cost to business.
Even if more expensive daytime power is needed (some office and supermarket car parks are already being fitted with recharging points, in anticipation of mounting demand), the cost of such juice is still favourable compared with petrol.
As a result, Mr Parry finds, the net benefits of a road-specific peak-period fee (the gain of less congestion minus the cost of disrupted travel) would be about three times bigger than a petrol-tax increase calculated to curb congestion by the same amount.
Moreover, in most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s.
But the focus is now on smart cards, which would ration subsidised petrol to a few litres a week, with excess consumption being paid for at the cost of imports.
After all, guzzling petrol leads to clogged roads, and it seems to make sense to price fuel to reflect that cost to society.
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