How will rising fuel costs affect driving lessons?

How will rising fuel costs affect driving lessons?Just nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleManish Pandey & Naomi ClarkeBBC NewsbeatBBCRachael Hutson-Lumb is a driving instructor worried by fuel costsIf you're learning to drive, you'll know the cost of lessons has shot up and it can feel like it takes forever trying to get a practical test booked. But could it now get worse? Since the start of the Iran war, prices at the pumps have jumped, and bodies that represent driving instructors have warned that further disruption could push up lesson prices further and make it even harder to get a test.BBC Newsbeat checked in with instructors, learners and officials to find out what could happen for new drivers.Rachael Hutson-Lumb has been a driving instructor for four years.She told Newsbeat she's been "keeping an eye" on fuel prices, and has had to raise lesson prices by 50p to £37.50 per hour."My prices are going up a bit, not a lot, because I appreciate lessons are already not cheap for learners."I don't want to put prices up but at the end of the day, if it's a cost that's increasing, it's going to have to be reflected."Changes are going to have to be made just because that's my income stream," she says.According to motoring group the RAC, UK petrol and diesel prices jumped more than in any previous single month, largely due to the war, although the government has said fuel supplies are "resilient".The Driving Instructors Association (DIA), the UK's largest group representing the profession, says passing costs on to learners "will be a consideration for trainers".Rachael, 26, says "most" of her learners are fine, for the moment, with the price."They were coming to me and asking me: 'Oh, fuel's really expensive, are the prices going to go up?' They're so aware of it," she says."And they also understand that when they go on to pas...