transparency is the way forward - to ensure and show drivers that they are getting a fair deal at the pump Edmund King, AA

"So by the end of March everybody with a car had their tanks full of petrol and, of course, after that, in the second quarter, sales fell off the cliff."

The AA blamed the slump on the fuel industry for "trying to squeeze more money out of shrinking customer demand".

Its president Edmund King acknowledged that panic buying - as well as wet weather - may have played a part in the April-June fall.

"However, petrol prices slumped more than 10p a litre - from the record of 142.48p a litre in mid-April to the low-point of 131.19p at the end of June - and UK drivers beganthe Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This research has made use of the Washington Double Star Catalog maintained at the U.S. Naval Observatory. This research has made use of the Simbad database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France. MWM acknowledges the MIT Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences department for hosting him while this paper was written. BFL acknowledges support from a Pappalardo Fellowship in Physics. PHASES is funded in part by the California Institute of Technology Astronomy Department, and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNG05GJ58G issued through the Terrestrial Planet Finder Foundation Science Program. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through grants AST 0300096 and AST 0507590.
