FUEL taxes are more than double those on Champagne, research shows.
Drivers are hit for an eye-watering 56 per cent while posh revellers pay 22 per cent on a bottle of bubbly.
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The fresh analysis from the AA comes as pressure mounts on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to freeze fuel duty at the very least in this month’s Budget.
More than 7,000 FairFuelUK supporters emailed their MPs with the demand in just 18 hours.
Currently, motorists shell out 75.2p in tax for every 134p litre of petrol — 52.95p in fuel duty and an additional 22.28p in VAT.
Meanwhile, a typical £50 bottle of Champagne includes £8.33 in VAT and £2.67 in duty.
AA president Edmund King said: “Road fuel is taxed as a luxury even though it enables 70 per cent of people to commute to work and powers haulage, deliveries and services that keep the UK functioning.”
FairFuelUK founder Howard Cox added: “This Champagne socialist government, which seems to indulge in luxury at every turn, should do the right thing at the Budget and cut or at least freeze fuel duty.”
And Tory MP Saqib Bhatti told The Sun: “With instability in the Middle East stoking volatility in the oil markets, the Government must help out.”
The Sun’s Keep It Down campaign with FairFuelUK has seen taxes held since the start of 2011.
But there is mounting speculation that Ms Reeves is eyeing cash in drivers’ wallets to help plug a £22billion “black hole” in public finances.
Last night, the Treasury said it would not comment.
