Energy and Environment

Knee-jerk state intervention won’t cut fuel prices


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Christopher Snowdon writes for The Critic

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Julian Jessop quoted in The Telegraph

IEA Economics Fellow, Julian Jessop, has been quoted in The Daily Telegraph stating that government information provision schemes for fuel prices will be a waste of resources.

Julian said:


“The UK already has petrol price comparison websites and apps, though perhaps forcing supermarkets to provide live data could make these sites more efficient… and of course, [it] also ticks the box for the government to be seen to be ‘doing something’.”

Read the full article here.



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