Fuel prices: Scots now paying highest in UK
The motoring group said petrol in Scotland now averaged 112.5p following a 3.4p rise since mid-February, compared to 111.92p across the UK.
Diesel saw its biggest increase in Scotland over that period, up by 4p to 118.9p - and nearly 1p higher than the UK average of 118.19p.
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The figures come two days after Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Budget that the four-year fuel duty freeze would continue into the autumn.
However, the AA has highlighted that UK drivers are still paying the highest duty in the European Union.
It said “damaging price volatility” was as bad as four years ago.
Oil prices have gone up by one third since mid-January, scotching hopes of petrol dipping below £1 a litre.
Average pump prices reached a four-year low of 106.39p on 1 February.
AA president Edmund King said: “Although UK drivers should be grateful to the Coalition for freezing fuel duty over the past four years and not adding to the burden of crippling pump prices, events in the oil and fuel markets in recent weeks send a dismal message to drivers – nothing has changed in the past four years.
“Commodity market speculation is as impulsive and dangerous as ever, pump prices shoot up with little effort and the UK continues to have the highest fuel tax burden in the EU.”
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