New Zealand Automobile Association

Andrew Dickens is in for Hear the Dupli CLN up next.

And if you're out and about for the school holidays, you'll want to hear this, an AA survey, uh, that even surprised them on how much drivers feel at risk on our roads.

Uh, that interview is just after 4:00.

But right now, Tyler, my good friend, why am I playing this 1982 song by the English ska and pop band Madness?

Drivers having to now give way to buses and e-scooter rides-- Sorry, having to give way to buses and e-scooter riders now able to legally use cycle lanes.

To walk us through the changes and what they mean for you if you're in any of those categories or if you are a pedestrian, we're joined by AA research Road and Safety Manager Dylan Thompson.

Dylan, so nice to have you with us.

We want to point out that you aren't responsible for any of these changes, right? But what do you think of them?

Petrol prices have increased sharply since the start of the month, with 91 unleaded now costing an average $3.30.

According to price comparison app Gaspi, the AA is warning fuel prices will stay high for at least another six weeks and maybe through to Christmas.

And, of course, the geopolitical factors behind all of this remain highly unpredictable.

Gatsby director Mike Newton joins us now.

The items measured make up about half of the overall inflation rate.

The AA is warning motorists to expect high fuel prices to continue for the next six to eight weeks at least.

Fuel monitoring site Gaspi shows that 91 unleaded petrol is now on average at $3.25 a litre, its highest level since late May.

Crude oil prices have climbed over US$100 a barrel in recent weeks, with supplies from the Middle East still constrained by the US-Iran war.

AA Principal Policy Advisor Terry Collins says a big factor is that Iran is trying to keep prices high, so it puts pressure on American consumers ahead of the U.S. midterm election on November 3rd.

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won't be any release until at least a couple of months, beginning of November.

There's no reason why you need to have this big app in order to have universal road user charges.

I saw the AA recently doing this interview saying oh well it's going to be a few years away and all this kind of stuff.

Yeah maybe until you get the app but there's no reason why you This coming year, you couldn't have universal road user charges.

So that's where I think the government might have an out on the no new taxes, and they only kind of had to say, actually, we won't do the fuel excise duty increase on January next year, because actually by the end of next year, everyone could be paying RUC anyway.

I think universal Iraq will be so good.

Absolutely.

This clown from the AA who is saying it's going to be a drastic, substantial, significant behaviour change, I'm like, mate, All the diesel vehicle owners, all the EV and PHEV owners already do it.

It's