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Speaker 1: Kay Oliver UK correspondents with US. Hell, okay, hello header,

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Speaker 1: So what's going on with petrol with you guys? Well,

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Speaker 1: you've just said about people putting prices up for the

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Speaker 1: containers and basically we are seeing a ten percent petrol

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Speaker 1: increase unloaded, twenty percent diesel. I did a quick survey

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Speaker 1: one pounds forty nine eliter unloaded one eighty nine for diesel.

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Speaker 1: It does seem that these prices are going through the roof.

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Speaker 1: They've had meetings in Parliament, big discussions, and they're keen

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Speaker 1: to stop profiteering at the petrol pumps. Now. This means

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Speaker 1: they're going to give new powers to the Compliance and

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Speaker 1: Marketing Agency and they also want new anti profiteering legislation.

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Speaker 1: The feeling here is that the stocks were already here,

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Speaker 1: but these prices are being pumped up. They are going

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Speaker 1: to be meets, meetings with banks and supermarkets. I will

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Speaker 1: say that a quick survey I've done the supermarket pricing

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Speaker 1: is much cheaper than if you go to the major supply.

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Speaker 1: But however, people are definitely beginning to feel the pinch.

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Speaker 1: There aren't any cues at the petrol pumps that I've

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Speaker 1: been able to see, and I did a little quick

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Speaker 1: survey yesterday, but there's certainly people filling up and not

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Speaker 1: letting their fuel run out, So that's the advice here.

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Speaker 1: They're also talking about slowing down, adjusting the speed limits

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Speaker 1: from fifty to forty miles an hour on some roads,

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Speaker 1: working from home and cycling again. So lots going on Hereheather,

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Speaker 1: with these petrol prices. But they're keen to stop price gouging.

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Speaker 1: So is your government looking at doing something similar to

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Speaker 1: what ours has done and rolling out some support for

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Speaker 1: people who are struggling to pay the bills? Well, big

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Speaker 1: meeting is again. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has stood up and

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Speaker 1: said that the people who are most in need will

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Speaker 1: be helped if these energy prices continue to spiral, which

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Speaker 1: basically means that middle earners HI high owners won't be

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Speaker 1: getting the help. She stressed that she's keen not to

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Speaker 1: repeat here what happened in twenty twenty two when Liz

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Speaker 1: Trust was in government and there was a Russian invasion

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Speaker 1: of of Ukraine and there was basically a guarantee on

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Speaker 1: prices that she said yesterday in the House of Commons.

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Speaker 1: They're still writing out the checks now for something that

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Speaker 1: happened in twenty twenty two and it actually costs a

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Speaker 1: UK government forty billion pounds to sort this out. So

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Speaker 1: all we know is that with there is an energy

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Speaker 1: price cap here on gas electricity prices until July and

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Speaker 1: then things could change. At the moment we're kind of

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Speaker 1: locked into these fixed tariffs. We've also heard from the

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Speaker 1: Energy Secretary Ed Milliband that he has got possible plans

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Speaker 1: to decouple gas and electricity bills, so in other words,

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Speaker 1: you'll pay separately for your electricity and for your gas.

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Speaker 1: So they're you know, they're talking the talk, Heather. Let's

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Speaker 1: see what happens ye too? Right now, who's been hickling

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Speaker 1: the King and the Queen? Well, it's just group again.

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Speaker 1: They're believed to be Republic, the anti monarchist group. And

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Speaker 1: Charles and Camilla were on walk about the Eden Project

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Speaker 1: in Cornwall to celebrate twenty five years and again Andrew

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Speaker 1: mount Batten Windsor's name came up and why you still

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Speaker 1: covering for him? Was the shout that went out and

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Speaker 1: in fact it was such a that it was a shout,

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Speaker 1: but there was a lot of noise Heather, and basically

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Speaker 1: I sorry. On TV they had to kind of capture

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Speaker 1: what was being said. But it's not going away for them,

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Speaker 1: and the Royals just ignore these questions, but clearly William, Charles,

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Speaker 1: Kate Camilla, they're going to have to put up with

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Speaker 1: this for quite some time. The commentators last night were

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Speaker 1: saying it's never going to go away. He is kind

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Speaker 1: of the hidden uncle in the cupboard that's pulled out

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Speaker 1: every time they do a royal visit. Yeah, that's embarrassing

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Speaker 1: for them. I thank you very much. Kay appreciated as

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Speaker 1: Kay Oliver, our UK correspondent. For more from Hither Duplessy,

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