For obvious reasons, rural people are more vulnerable to rising fuel prices than people in many other parts of the country are; that is true not just in relation to personal or public transport, but because of their reliance on the Road Haulage Association to transport goods and the price of all goods in every shop.Given the bumper Christmas windfall that the chancellor is receiving from high and escalating oil prices—an estimated £3 billion extra this year—I hope that he will consider measures that could assist...