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Old 23-03-2012
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I may well be wrong...

Diesel used to be cheaper than petrol. This was when there were more petrol cars than diesels.
Petrol is now cheaper, but there are more diesel cars than petrol (I think)

I have no idea whether it's a tax thing or not.
You're right, if I remember Gordon Brown pulled a flanker with company car tax etc etc which made it cheaper to get a diesel car, then when there were loads on the road (and the ex company cars filtered down to private owners) he bumped up the price of diesel and generally pulled our pants down and rogered us
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