Petrol pump sales slump
Supermarket sales dipped 14.6 per cent in the last three months of 2009, compared with the October-December 2008 figure, according to statistics from the AA.
Measured in tonnage, overall petrol sales in October-December 2009 dipped 9.9 per cent compared with the year before.
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Hide AdDuring the October-December 2009 period, the average price of petrol rose from 105.3p a litre to 107.95p. In the same period in 2008, prices plunged from 110.0p a litre to just 87.64p.
Petrol sales for the whole of 2009 were 4.3 per cent down on the 2008 total, with diesel sales falling 1.8 per cent.