Belfast Telegraph  Sunday 16 March 2014  No fuelling motorists,
taxes are real culprit  If you believe what the Office of Fair
Trading (OFT) is saying then we shouldn't be complaining when it
comes to filling up with fuel.  They say the price of petrol or
diesel at the pump isn't factoring in a huge profit margin for
the oil companies and is in fact one of the most competitive in
Europe.  That is, of course, until you take into consideration
the tax imposed on fuel by the government, and therein lies the
rub.  Although our untaxed fuel price may be the envy of drivers
from the Champs Elysees to Las Ramblas, add in the tax and you
could be forgiven for thinking that you have a leak in your
tank.  That firmly lays the blame for the leak in profits, which
haulage companies up and down the land are suffering, firmly at
the door of government.  While there's nothing wrong with a
policy which tries to get more of us to use public transport or
our own two legs, it's getting a little out of hand when our
elected repr