Budget case study: the motorist
Lynsey McMaster-Green welcomes the cut in fuel duty, but feels motoring still takes up too much of her household budget
Family finances are squeezed – what can you do to ease the pain?
Brace yourself for this week's budget. Anna Tims does the maths as Mark King and Jill Insley look at how to bridge the income gap
Japan earthquake may push up price of electronic goods
Cost of computer memory chips and display panels may increase
Direct Line loses court battle over claimant’s ‘faked injuries’
Direct Line accused a critically injured victim of a motorcycle crash of lying about the extent of his injuries, which were worth £3.4m in compensation
The problem with insanely low petrol prices
Huge petrol subsidies in Venezuala make it probably the world's cheapest gasoline. But at what cost?
Vegetable oil offers fat savings for diesel drivers
Changing your engine to run on vegetable oil instead of diesel could save you thousands of pounds a year
Lift share and shave hundreds from your petrol expenditure
As prices at the pumps continue to soar, you could cut £2,000 from your motoring costs by sharing a lift in the morning
Make a delivery and cover your petrol costs
Private car owners making deliveries on routes they were already driving can earn enough to cover their petrol costs
Swap your car for a scooter
You can pick up a 50cc scooter for much less than £1,000 and minimal road tax for overall savings of £2,000
Cut your speed, cut your petrol bill
Slowing down is the easiest way to cut your petrol bill, and coupled with some simple techniques you could save hundreds
Find the cheapest petrol
A family driving 12,000 miles a year could save £200 through hunting down the cheapest petrol forecourts
UK must follow Spain down the road to lower speed limits
Reducing the limit by 10mph would be a small inconvenience with great rewards, both economically and environmentally
Q&A: How will the ECJ gender ruling affect my insurance?
European court of justice rules against basing car insurance premiums and annuities based on gender
Male pensioners to lose out if European court backs insurance gender equality
New rules could ban gender discrimination for pension annuities and car insurance premiums
Consumers are paying the price for decades of bad transport policy
Craig Bennett: The failure of successive governments to wean the UK transport system off oil has contributed to a fuel crisis that could have been avoided