joe, another futile question as YOU well know and no doubt will point out if we enter into this debate.
2008, they peaked at around £1.30 a litre. They then dropped back to the low 90p's a litre. They have been creeping up slowly ever since.
Look at the two things affecting pump prices. Crude and tax.
Crude oil, as you know, is running out. As it becomes scarcer and arab countries become greedier, and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan continues, prices will rise.
Tax. This government will not cut tax on fuel for at least a few years. It simply cannot afford to, and any tax cut will be in the region of a few pence (which will have to be added to another tax - fags? booze?) The only way to reduce any tax sustainably is to cut the amount of money going out of the govt by the same amount, which isnt gonna happen for a while yet.
Quite simply joe, fuel prices will not affect the way people vote. Nobody can cut fuel prices sustainably.