When it comes to oil FT does not write without fear and favour.

Sir once again, when it comes to oil, I feel that what is most valid about FT’s “Without fear and without favour” are the quotation signs. In your “Pumped up”, May 28, you refer to a study that finds that “UK duty was 20% higher in real terms in 2000” and you therefore happily conclude that “it is not the cause or rising fuel prices” Why did you not compare it to a year when petrol duties really started to increased, like for instance 1980?

You talk about that driving is getting costly, but you do not dare to specify the components of that cost, could that be because the taxman still gets more than the oil man?