The key factor responsible for this is the price difference between diesel and petrol.
It must be noted that this measure would not have the desired impact as long as difference between diesel and petrol prices is significant.
The petrol station is the branded building par ex cellence, though it is hard to see quite why.
Chapter 6 on volatility is not only well written, but the part about petrol shortage and near-crisis situations at the pump is also funny.
A minimum level of only 4.4 per cent, by contrast, tellingly concerned another case of transport policy - an increase in the tax on petrol.
Exhaust emissions are considerably higher from diesel-engined vehicles than vehicles with petrol engines.
Very soon petrol companies were building chains of standardized stations.
Of course, a petrol station, a fast-food outlet and a budget hotel do not make a community.
