Weasel words.

Another fuel price protest, and the usual response from the Government that it is all down to the rising cost of crude oil, which is outside their control. Well it may be true that they have little or no control over the price of oil, but the price of petrol is another matter entirely. When you pay £1.12 for a litre of petrol - that's the price around here at the moment - about 45p of that represents the actual costs involved in getting the product to you - the other 67p is tax, and that is something which is definitely within the Government's control. Whether they're prepared to do anything about it...