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Demand for fuel falls in second quarter

Date: 17 October 2012   |   Author: Rachel Burgess

Fleets and consumers contributed to a decrease in petrol and diesel sales between April and June compared with the same period last year, according to the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Nearly half a billion fewer litres of both fuels were sold, despite a fall in fuel prices during those months.

The trend followed on from heightened sales at the start of the year due to panic buying thanks to the threat of a tanker drivers' strike.

The statistics also show that more than two billion fewer litres of petrol and diesel were sold on forecourts in the first half of this year compared with the same, albeit pre-recession, period in 2008.

The AA's president Edmund King recognised that cars had become more fuel-efficient, but added that this could "nowhere near account for the crash in demand over the past three months and the past five years".

He also used the news to push for price transparency: "Price transparency is the way forward to ensure and show drivers that they are getting a fair deal at the pump."

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