But increasing the price of petrol and diesel for all motorists is very crude.
Many Germans abhor Green policies like doubling the price of petrol over the next few years.
It carried out an 18-month investigation into the price of petrol, diesel, heating oil and marine diesel.
The MQM quit the coalition on Sunday, condemning last month's 9% rise in the price of petrol and kerosene.
The cuts, introduced on Sunday, mean a four-fold rise in the price of petrol and reduced subsidies for bread.
But not on health care, or climate change, and not on the economy, taxes, or the price of petrol.
Andrew Howard, from the Automobile Association, said the price of petrol in a particular town "boils down to supermarkets".
Would you like to see the price of petrol ideally higher or lower?
The Republicans argue that allowing oil firms more leeway to drill offshore will help to bring the price of petrol down.
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Think about it: there isn't going to be another VAT rise and I don't expect to see another big rise in the price of petrol.
Last year they tried to hold a public hunger strike in protest at the government's decision to raise the price of petrol overnight by 1, 600%.
The SNP has said it would like to see the introduction of a fuel duty regulator to moderate rises in the price of petrol and diesel.
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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.
Instead, the government was trying to control inflation through unorthodox measures, such as limiting the price of petrol or slashing electricity tariffs and taxes on car sales.
According to the Australian Petroleum Institute, the price of petrol "has largely been driven by rising international crude oil costs and the falling value of the Australian dollar".
The day after the budget the government had to reduce increases in the price of petrol and urea (used for making fertiliser), because of growing oposition within its ranks.
"The NPP has enjoyed higher international prices for cocoa and gold, and more manageable petroleum prices, and yet the price of petrol has doubled, " Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, a Mills campaign aide, points out.
He also pointed out that Nigeria does not have many commuter railways, so people have little choice but to use motorcycle and minibus taxis, whose prices are closely linked to the price of petrol.
Consumers across the world, such as in the UK and the US, have been hit by rapid rises in the price of petrol as a direct result of the oil price rises in recent months.
So far, eco-friendly car buying in America has been driven not by any revolution of taste but by necessity either legislation mandating that cars reduce or eliminate emissions, or external economic factors like the price of petrol.
The average price of petrol is 137.75p a litre, compared to the year high of 140.03p in March.
In America, where the price of a gallon of petrol can be less than the price of a gallon of bottled water, large fuel-guzzling trucks and sport utility vehicles (urban assault vehicles) make up more than half of the market.
It also highlighted the high price of petrol and its impact on general consumer spending.
The government has also raised the official price of petrol from 25 to 180 kyat a gallon.
On fuel subsidies, for example, he has suggested raising the price of premium petrol only and not until next year.
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The possible eleventh-hour exception is the rising price of petrol (gasoline).
Here the low price of petrol, much less than half of that in other developed countries, has predictably resulted in ever-larger and heavier vehicles that consume more fuel and road, and generate more pollution, than is necessary.
Yesterday the average price of unleaded petrol was 132p a litre.
According to Mr Wiek, the wholesale price of unleaded petrol has risen sharply on Europe's largest market, in Rotterdam during recent weeks, and now bears no relation to price movements in the market for crude oil anymore.
Earlier this year, lower energy prices seemed to offer some prospect of relief: a fall in the petrol price is the equivalent of a tax cut for Western consumers.
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