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The price of doing business
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Jon Brooke-Langham, CH Jones Average prices on the forecourt have not fallen below their April peak, and in some EU countries they have continued to rise.
As the election campaign ended, sporadic fuel protests had largely failed to raise the political profile of this issue.
Despite go-slow protests in various parts of the UK and picketing at key oil refineries, the strength of feeling hasn't yet matched that of the protests 2000, perhaps because the public don't perceive it as such a major issue.
The 2000 protests brought parts of the country to a standstill, but now issues like the Working Time Directive and the LRUC have diluted the protesters' message.
The LRUC will in theory address concerns about the unfair advantage enjoyed by European hauliers on UK roads, but how much of a reduction in fuel costs this might represent remains to be seen.
With the current high price of fuel it's an opportune moment to look more closely at how the fuel you use can be managed and thereby reduced by tracking every litre from purchase to supply and consumption.
Even if fuel tax concessions are achieved, in the long term, costs are bound to rise in the face of shrinking global reserves of the natural resource. If collective action has failed, perhaps it's time for fleet managers to take a detailed look at their fuel consumption and fight the battle for margins from a technological and operational standpoint.