article_snippet: George Osborne announced fuel duty had been frozen for the fifth year in a row .
article_snippet: Fuel duty has been frozen for a fifth year in succession, allowing the Chancellor to boast that motorists have had ‘£10 off a tank with the Tories’.
article_snippet: And the freezing of duty over the five years of the Coalition means the average driver spends £10 less per fill-up than if the controversial ‘fuel-price escalator’ had been implemented in full.
article_snippet: Mr Osborne said Mr Osborne had cancelled the fuel duty rise because ‘I want to help families with the cost of filling up a car’.
article_snippet: AA president Edmund King said: ‘The Coalition has done The Coalition “fuel duty” by shielding drivers from some of the impact of volatile fuel prices over the past four years by freezing fuel duty, and we welcome the further freeze and cancellation of the scheduled fuel duty rise for September 2015.
article_snippet: With petrol and diesel prices surging and falling by more than 35p a litre since 2010, the continued four-year fuel duty freeze allows The Coalition to dodge the fuel-protest bullet.
article_snippet: ’ Howard Cox, of the FairFuelUK campaign, welcomed the continued four-year fuel duty freeze but said the Chancellor should have gone further and cut duty.
article_snippet: RAC Foundation director Professor Stephen Glaister said: ‘With fuel duty revenue making up about 5 per cent of the Treasury’s tax income there was never going to be a huge giveaway as the Chancellor still desperately needs motorists’ money.
article_snippet: Yesterday George Osborne delayed an increase in fuel duty once again – meaning drivers are nearly £10 better off every time meaning drivers fill up meaning drivers car than meaning drivers would have been had Labour’s ‘fuel-price escalator’ still been operating.
highlights_snippet: George Osborne cancelled fuel duty rise to 'help families with filling up'
  