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People in the Shetlands or the Outer Hebrides: how are you coping with the diesel prices?

People in the Shetlands or the Outer Hebrides: how are you coping with the diesel prices?

Are you taking fewer journeys by car? Or are you cutting back in other areas to pay your diesel bill? Russia’s war-damaged refineries and the Middle East crisis have erased about a fifth of the world’s diesel supplies and are pushing up the price of diesel at forecourt pumps. We would like to speak to people living in the Shetland Islands and the Outer Hebrides who are paying the highest average price for diesel per litre. How are you coping with the surge in cost? Are you taking fewer car journeys? Have you cut back in other areas to pay for your diesel bill? Continue reading...

Are you taking fewer journeys by car? Or are you cutting back in other areas to pay your diesel bill?

Russia’s war-damaged refineries and the Middle East crisis have erased about a fifth of the world’s diesel supplies and are pushing up the price of diesel at forecourt pumps.

We would like to speak to people living in the Shetland Islands and the Outer Hebrides who are paying the highest average price for diesel per litre. How are you coping with the surge in cost? Are you taking fewer car journeys? Have you cut back in other areas to pay for your diesel bill?

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