PETROL PRICES

For starters, let’s look at what the Prime Minister has been saying for the past 12 months — apart from ‘there will be no new taxes’ (insert Tui billboard here: “Yeah, right!”). In October 2018, she said that motorists were being “fleeced” at the petrol pumps. That was presumably on the basis that between October 2017 and September 2018 petrol prices had risen by 39 cents per litre, of which only 6.8 cents could be attributed to taxes and levies. National’s Judith Collins had started an enquiry but that lost traction after the election.

Being someone who can remember