But shadow Home Office minister Andrew Rosindell argued that Labour's "top-down, target-centric approach" to tackling the problem had "quite obviously failed".
While consistently high prices are the most obvious problem, the greatest challenge the new normal creates for fuel-centric companies is fuel price volatility.
This is ultimately a non-problem with the continual decline in the costs of smartphones, bandwidth, and Cloud-centric analytics, and the ever-deeper cultural shift in consumer comfort and the daily use of on-line services.