Diesel prices prompt questions about travel and household spending in UK islands
The Guardian is seeking accounts from people in the Shetland Islands and Outer Hebrides about coping with rising diesel prices. The newspaper says Russia’s war-damaged refineries and the Middle East crisis have reduced about a fifth of the world’s diesel supplies, increasing forecourt prices in those areas.
The Guardian is seeking accounts from people in the Shetland Islands and the Outer Hebrides about how they are coping with higher diesel prices. The newspaper says Russia’s war-damaged refineries and the Middle East crisis have erased about a fifth of the world’s diesel supplies. It links the resulting pressure on supply to rising prices at forecourt pumps.
The appeal is specifically aimed at people paying the highest average price for diesel per litre. It asks whether they are taking fewer journeys by car or cutting spending in other areas to meet their fuel bills. The supplied material does not provide the current price per litre, identify the locations with the highest average prices, or include accounts from residents.
It also does not give details of the refinery damage, the Middle East crisis or the basis for the estimate that about a fifth of global diesel supplies has been lost. The report is therefore a request for experiences rather than a report of survey findings. Its available details concern the stated causes of the price surge and the spending and travel changes the newspaper wants residents to describe.
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