War in Iran 'has put up our fuel bill by £100,000'

War in Iran 'has put up our fuel bill by £100,000'11 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleDave HarveyWest of England business and environment correspondentBBCThe speed of fuel price increases has been "crazy" says Stuart Wring, of Wrings TransportA family haulage firm has calculated the US war with Iran has increased their fuel bill by £100,000.Stuart Wring, who runs Wrings Transport at Avonmouth in Bristol, says the price hikes have been "crazy".Like most hauliers, Wring "has to pass all these increases on to our customers", which means the price of everything transported by road is rising.But some, like carers, cannot pass on the rising cost of fuel. Margaret Smith from Somerset says her extra petrol costs were just "effectively a wage cut."Meanwhile the price of home heating oil has doubled, leaving some families deciding to switch off their boilers altogether, using blankets to stay warm.As the ripples of the oil price spike spread across the UK, many people have contacted the BBC's Your Voice to tell us how the rising price of oil has affected them.Emma Gwynn was told her heating oil bill would double after the US Iran war started.The price of petrol and diesel is the most visible impact of war in the Middle East. Latest figures from the RAC show petrol up by 24.7p and diesel by 47.8p a litre since Feb 28.Filling a typical family car with diesel now costs around £27 more.But trucks have huge tanks. Stuart Wring shows me his brand new lorry at his yard. It takes 450 litres to fill it, and Stuart has 67 trucks on the road.The moment the war started, his business felt the impact."March was £45,000 over budget," he says. "And April's already going through the roof, it will be £60,000 over easily".The family haulage firm employs 110 people at Avonmouth in BristolBut crucially for his business, he already had a so-called fuel surcharge mechanism in place. This is common in the ha...