Yes, I am fuming over fuel prices, they have become a total rip-off.

At every level, from the arm waving idiots on the oil trading floors, who will spike the oil price for any very minimal reason, as was proved when the North oil pipeline into Grangemouth had to be shut down for a couple of days.

The Government is raking it in from motorists. Every time the pump price goes up they get their cut. But they are getting huge amounts of money from being an oil producer. They do have the scope to cut the duty on fuel.

Then there is the oil giants BP, Shell etc with the massive profits they are making why can't they give something back to the motorist?

Lastly, the poor retailer putting up the price at every opportunity sometimes more than twice a week. Since the price broke through the psychological £1 barrier its upward rise has known no bounds.

But my biggest gripe is the differential between petrol and diesel. Only last summer they were about the same price – indeed some places sold diesel cheaper than unleaded.

Now why is diesel on average 10p a litre more expensive than unleaded?

It's now time that the motorist took direct action and I would advocate a boycott of retailers such as BP, which is selling fuel at greatly inflated prices, and sticking to buying fuel at the supermarkets.
Michael Lock
Hoylake Drive,
Peterborough

On the chopping board
In response to your front page about the graffiti board being chopped down (Graffiti board chopped down, ET, May 12). I don't believe it was a resident. It's more likely to be a graffiti artist liking his own work and not wanting it destroyed by it being sprayed over.
Is there any other news in Peterborough?
A hero is put on page seven while a graffiti board is put on page two.
Is this because city councillors are more important than the rest of the Peterborough people?
Webby
Hetley,
Orton Goldhay,
Peterborough