1.   All political parties accept that long-term increases in petrol prices are not only environmentally necessary but unavoidable.

2.   As motorists have found to their cost, the result has been a sharp increase in petrol prices at the pump.

3.   The government accused the two companies of fixing petrol prices.

4.   The largest contribution to monthly price increases came from motoring costs, including petrol prices.

5.   The Prime Minister yesterday ruled out Government action to hold down petrol prices.

6.   The Liberal Democrat leader, Paddy Ashdown, has called for fifty pence rise in petrol prices to be phased in to cut levels of carbon dioxide emissions.

7.   The European Community is to implement new moves to protect the environment which could raise petrol prices by up to four pence a gallon throughout Europe.

8.   As petrol prices are er reported to be rising again the oil companies are blaming the crisis in the Gulf.

9.   Spanish lorry drivers started the blockade as a protest over rising petrol prices, then their French counterparts retaliated by blocking their side of the border.

10.   For years, traders have based decisions to buy and sell on so-called fundamental analysis -- whether newspaper print shortages were anticipated or petrol price hikes expected.