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Map reveals WORST place to live if you’re a driver with fuel 10p more expensive than in other areas
THE worst place in the UK to live if you’re a driver has been revealed with petrol costing 10p a litre more than in other areas.
On Boxing Day, the average price of petrol in London was 155p a litre while in Northern Ireland it was just 144.64p, according to the AA.
The price of petrol varies by as much as 10p a litre around the UK[/caption]
That difference means a motorist filling up a 55-litre tank would pay £5 more in the capital than someone doing the same across the Irish Sea.
The motoring organisation also found that drivers in Wales and Scotland paid less for their fuel – 148.72p and 148.58p respectively.
The price difference for drivers of diesel cars was even wider.
In London a litre cost 178.17p while in Northern Ireland it was just 165.54p, the AA said.
That equates to a driver in Belfast paying nearly £7 less for a 55-litre tank of fuel than someone in London.
The AA found the cheapest petrol in Wales, as low as 136.9p a litre, in and around Milford Haven, Abergavenny, Abertillery and Ebbw Vale.
The gap in prices is far wider than the previous record in April 2020.
Then petrol was on average 7.1p cheaper in Northern Ireland, at 105.5p, compared with 112.6p in London.
In 2022, motorists have seen the price at the petrol forecourts jump by 32.5p a litre.
That increase added an average of £17.88 to the cost of filling up.
The price of diesel leapt by 42.4p this year, adding more than £23 to the price of an average tank of fuel.
With train strikes hitting over the run-up to Christmas, many people relied on their cars – and some petrol stations in London and the South East cashed in on this.
Luke Bosdet, of the AA, said: “Drivers pay far less for their fuel where competition is stimulated by an official price transparency tool… or a retailer sees a big opportunity to grab trade because prices are artificially high.
“The first has a widespread effect and can transform pricing across whole areas [and] the second creates a lottery where millions of drivers can miss out.
“Christmas and Boxing Day brought this to a head.
“Hundreds of thousands of travellers were forced from the railways into their cars to go home to see families, go out to shop or celebrate, or go to sporting events.
“This was probably a fuel sales bonanza for the forecourts.
“But while retailers in some areas of the UK slashed their pump prices because falls in wholesale costs allowed it, others cashed in on the Christmas travel misery.”
Motorists have seen the price at the petrol forecourts jump by 32.5p a litre this year[/caption]
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Since 2001, half the hospitals divested by CommonSpirit Health, a large Catholic system based in Chicago, were in communities where the poverty rate was above the medians for state hospital markets, compared with 30% of those it added. At Bon Secours Mercy Health, formed by the 2018 merger of two growing regional nonprofits, about 42% of hospitals it divested were in areas with higher poverty, compared with 27% of hospitals it added. Of hospitals divested or closed by St. Louis-based Ascension, about half were located in higher-poverty areas, compared with 40% of the Catholic system’s acquisitions.
At the same time, many top nonprofits were moving more aggressively to add hospitals in more affluent areas. At Mercy, a St. Louis-based hospital nonprofit, 56% of new hospitals were in places with lower poverty rates, compared with 25% of those it shed. About two-thirds of the hospitals it added were in markets where the share of households with incomes of at least $200,000 was above the state median. That compared with 25% of those the system shed. Of hospitals acquired by Florida-based AdventHealth, nearly two-thirds were in low-poverty areas, compared with 40% of those they divested. And 59% had a larger share of higher-income households, compared with 40% of those they exited.
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