IT’S difficult to understand how they get away with it without government intervention and still without any satisfactory explanation coming from the perpetrators.

Mystified? Well, last week I bought some fuel and a few goods from a supermarket filling station in Taunton and then, later in the week, I was compelled to similarly shop at a service station on the motorway because of getting close to running out of fuel.

You can imagine the horror I felt when the bill for the motorway fuel was £1.14 per gallon dearer (149.9 per litre as opposed to 124.7), the same bottle of soft drink was 70p dearer (from £1.30 to £2) and the same bar of chocolate £1 dearer (from 99p to 1.99p).

Of course, as a matter of principle, I bought the absolute minimum of fuel – just enough to get me to a filling station off the motorway – and I refused the drink and eats.

Surely this sort of captive customer rip-off must be wrong and must be stopped?

Any chance of our, or any, MP getting parliamentary distinction by enacting urgent business or an early day motion in the Commons to call a halt to this blatant unfair motorway trading, come what may persistent protests?

ALAN DEBENHAM
Taunton