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If & I say If this duty Is raised as I cant see Mr Brown being In a position of helping the Bankers to the tune of Billions, turning round & saying the hard pushed people of this country will have to yet again, dip Into there ever shorter pockets (If they still have a job!) whilst the Bank Excecutives rake In over the top Bonusus! should this happen then we should all - on an agreed day each week, ALL try & get to work (no matter how far) on public transport & block It all up! make the transport come to a halt by queing for the buses - the Trams - & the Trains. That should show thw P.M that If we all leave our cars at home because we cant afford the fuel, this country would come to a grinding halt! & the revenue he would lose would make him think again! I feel this would only need to happen ONCE & he would have to take the duty off again! Mick

At a time when we are really struggling to exist on incomes that are a mere fraction of the expenses MPs can claim, we are to be taxed further - to fund the bonus rewards of failed bankers and their failing banks. What utter arrogance and abuse of power! Yet another unrealistic move from those who live in planet London, who are cushioned from life's realities and know nothing of the realities of those they purport to serve. They only serve themselves and their business buddies. Labour is actually widening the rift between the haves and have-nots.

the people in government do not live in real world as usual the motorist is a easy touch i don't think the other bunch will be much better

Comments are just so much wasted space to this shameless and incompetent administration! Why are they putting up the fuel tax? BECAUSE THEY CAN!!!!
The government has less credibility than Mickey Mouse.

I live approximately 25 minutes drive from work. The government is always saying that they are trying to get people off the roads and onto public transport... My local bus services stop at 7.30 each evening and even to get into the local major town (which would not be my route to work) would cost me approximately £3.00 each way.. If I were to be able to get public transport to work, it would take me about 4 hours each way... .If the goverment is adamant that they want to get people off the roads, then they need to provide a viable alternative.. If the the goverments were to invest this money on public transport, it would possibly make it easier to swallow, but they are not, they are using to fill the massive black hole that they have generated with their ridiculous polices... roll on the next election... I am not convinced there is a more viable alternative out there, but I would hope that perhaps before the next election they would not be so arrogant as to ignore the wishes of the vast majority of the population and actually do some thing about this draconian stealth tax... actually hang on, they probably are.....

Once again the long suffering motorist is to be hit yet again on the 1st April.
Has any body told Brown that this country is in the worse recession in 100 years.That does not seem to matter.Browns attitude is that does not matter lets hit the easy target yet again.The long suffering motorist.
I suppose it is very easy to ignore what is happening to the motorist. When you are driven around in a 4.2 litre Jag.And the general public pay for it to be filled up.

what can you say;its motorish who gets again and again how can we stop it

Also at a time when 2 million people are out of work and thousands more have had to take a cut in their wages this Labour goverment sees fit to make peoples lives even more difficult by raising fuel duty yet again.

I cant believe that this rise is going ahead in the circumstances we find ourself in today. This rise has to be stopped. Do the right thing Mr Brown!

I am so sick of this government, they bleed the ordinary folk dry with there stealth taxes,so that we have to skrimp and scrape to survive, I am a disabled person whom served in the british forces and worked right up until i was forced to retire due to ill health,and now I cannot even afford a holiday, I need a vehicle to get about, and can only afford (just about) one gallon of fuel per fortnight to get about, what the hell is happening to our so called GREAT BRITAIN? Disgraceful!

This just arrived in my inbox from Australia - might explain the tax rise!!

Subject: The financial crisis explained for Beer drinkers and drivers


Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Berlin. In order to increase sales,
she decides to allow her loyal customers - most of whom are unemployed
alcoholics - to drink now but pay later.. She keeps track of the drinks
consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).

Word gets around and as a result increasing numbers of customers flood
Into Heidi's bar.

Taking advantage of her customers' freedom from immediate payment
constraints, Heidi increases her prices for wine and beer, the
most-consumed beverages. Her sales volume increases massively.

A young and dynamic customer service consultant at the local bank
Recognizes these customer debts as valuable future assets and increases
Heidi's borrowing limit.

He sees no reason for undue concern since he has the debts of the
alcoholics as collateral.

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert bankers transform these
customer assets into DRINKBONDS, ALKBONDS and PUKEBONDS.. These
securities are then traded on markets worldwide. No one really
understands what these abbreviations mean and how the securities are
guaranteed.

Nevertheless, as their prices continuously climb, the securities become
top-selling items.

One day, although the prices are still climbing, a risk manager
(subsequently of course fired due his negativity) of the bank decides
that slowly the time has come to demand payment of the debts incurred by
the drinkers at Heidi's bar.

However they cannot pay back the debts.

Heidi cannot fulfill her loan obligations and claims bankruptcy.

DRINKBOND and ALKBOND drop in price by 95 %. PUKEBOND performs better,
stabilizing in price after dropping by 80 %.

The suppliers of Heidi's bar, having granted her generous payment due
dates and having invested in the securities are faced with a new
situation.

Her wine supplier claims bankruptcy, her beer supplier is taken over by
a competitor.

The bank is saved by the Government following dramatic round-the-clock
consultations by leaders from the governing political parties.

The funds required for this purpose are obtained by a tax levied against
the non-drinkers.

Finally - an explanation I understand . . .

Are we surprised by this imposition by the inventor of stealth tax ! I doubt it but what worries me more is the tax increases that will have to come when we all start paying off the cost of all the bail outs that are anounced daily. The most frightening thought is that us sheep will put this government back in at the next election as just before it they will certainly anounce the biggest give away yet to be concieved in order to buy another five years on the gravy train.

What makes us think that a change of government will fix this problem? I notice a lot of folks looking forward to Gordon Brown being voted out, but will Cameron be any different?

Today Gorden Brown says he feels for all those people out of work, He might feel the thing is What does he feel Contempt!, Now he trys to sneak through a further cost of living raise for everybody.

Anyway just as long as the bankers are Ok Ahh.. & Ex RBS Chiefs get there £700,000 a year pension, MP's can get & keep expenses claimed for....

Who cares about Joe Public They don't matter at all.

As soon as the searchlight of public opinion moves away from (any) minister they try and backtrack on what they said! They only way to get them to keep their word is to maintain the pressure and demand that they deliver the promised action.

Tim

Once again our government introduces inflation, when will they realise that due to the worst public transport system in europe we are dependant on petrol and putting the price of this up increases the price of everything delivered using it?

Oil prices dropping , petrol prices going up ? What the bloody hell is going on Get this government OUT .

As a tax payer I help bail out greedy bankers and their big fat bonuses. Oil prices are down and fuel prices are artificially kept high and the government does nothing accept punish the hard working public.

Brown you are a disgrace to your profession!

I think the government should be changed and a local government be added
let the ordinary person on the street make some important issues these are the people who count the one's on the low income, pensioners, single parent family's.
Who talks to us? nobody who does things without our approval, they do, the government, why cant they do something clever like capping petrol prices to an affordable price we can all cope with, after all they are all still making money, profit ev en in this day an age is still pretty good, give us our petrol for a fair price

This is just another excuse to squeeze money from everyone of us so that they can then squander our, not their, money on schemes which they hope will encourage the idiots who voted them in in the first place to vote them in again.

75% of this motley crew originally headed by the odious man Blair had never had a real job in the real world when they came to power, have never run a business or been involved in running one and yet consider themselves worthy to run a country.

Perhaps some form of collective government without politicians or religious leaders poking their noses into our lives might be a better way to run the country. All this lot do is to hand power over to the un-elected rulers in Europe and then pay themselves more money and bigger pensions for doing less and less work.

This debt that the inept have accrued will be hanging over future generations for many many years and we don't even have a gold reserve to help pay of the debt for Brown sold that off when the prices were at the lowest will will now rise to unprecedented levels as citizens realise that worthlessness of money made from trees.

That Australian who has invented the magnetic motor that runs on it's own without fuel or outside power has a golden future ahead of him as we all try to escape from the poverty trap of buying fuel to run out transport to get to our jobs and carry out our normal functions.

Will darling Darling or Brown listen when we complain about the increasing fuel prices?

NO.

Mr Brown talks about the cost of living, shopping, business, transport etc but then hits firms that need transport to get to the job. I can't take ladders etc on public transport. Don't forget that the motorist will also be hit by the new road tax costs in april as well. Oh but I forgot, Dear Mr Brown can't drive and does not have a car

Lets do exactly the same as last time they increased fuel duty
Bury our heads in the sand
What a pathetic spineless nation we have become.
The very mention of a fuel protest turns us all to jelly.
The government know this and have no fear when inflicting
more pain on the motorist.

At this time in a land dominated by recession/ redundancies escalating prices, if duty is increased on fuel it will only add to the ever increasing costs of food etc which will be passed on from the hauliers ti the retailer then to us. Enough is Enough taxes should be coming down to pat 75% of fuel cost as a tax is becoming outrages.
This will only get worse in years to come as duty is lost due to the reduction in revenue from smokers and from the people who are being made redundant the goverment has to raise money from somewhere and that is obviously coming from the motorist

STOP WINGING, STOP WINEING, BLOCKADES BY EVERYONE. THE ONLY THING THEY UNDERSTAND

Of course there will be a rise in fuel duty. Gordon Brown said fuel duty would be frozen for a full year, last June, and as politicians are not truthful people then we should expect the increase, what else can we expect? Lets be real about this. The governement has made error after error. The war in Iraq has cost billions. The banks have lost billions and Brown sold our gold reserves. So we have little gold to back the pound. We the taxpayer must pay to bail out this hopeless government. Expect alcohol and cigs to hit the roof as well in tax increases. We need to take action and masive protests might be the only way.

Way to go Gordon, showing your cowardly true colours as usual.

Prices seem to change daily and for some of us there is no alternative. Ship the government out to rural living (but please, only temporarily) and let them experience a lack of public transport and the necessity of a car and yes in some cases, even the much criticised 4x4, and the mileage and costs incurred for a very "normal" standard of living.

Why should the motorist always have to shoulder the burden of extracting extra tax to cover the shortfall of the government? I wondered why petrol prices had gone up shortly after coming down, yet we do not enjoy the 15% VAT rate given on everything else.

I can appreciate that the tax might be used for things other than motor-related, but if I'm going to pay fuel tax and road tax, I do expect the majority, if not all, of the tax accrued to be used to the benefit of the motorist. The short snow storm we had here showed exactly that the road user is not well looked after - 6 weeks later and the damage done to the road by the weather still hasn't been put right...will the government agree to pay for the damage done to our cars? More likely I think the tax accrued by squeezing the motorist yet again will go straight into the government's coiffers to be used when they're about to be put through the wringer again!

I can't remeber the last time I heard something from this goverment that I actually believed, so it doesn't surprise me that the promises they made about fuel tax are being broken, there is only one saving grace, they will be out of power soon and good ridance to bad rubbish.

If this bent Prime Minister told me that Scotland bordered England to the North I would feel compelled to go and check it. This man has lied to the electorate consistently, both as Chancellor and as PM.

Spin has reached new depths under this man; he is still not telling us just how much he is putting us all into debt but blythely gambolling along with his head stuck firmly where the sun don't shine. He has pretended to give with one hand and whilst taking back more with the other.

Yes, I object to being lied to, be it about fuel duty or the price of fish, by the man who has caused us all to be in debt for many years to come

Funny how having a diesil car is so so expensive now I hate the fact we get took for a ride every year next will be the cheap gas!!!

Not again is all I can say! Why don't they start putting some taxes and VAT on airline fuel as they are far more polluting. Oh no, that would mean brown would stop getting backhanders from the airlines

Mr Brown has been in charge of the money of this country and he has (lost ?)
So much of it through his negligence and here once again he is going back on his word and upping the tax on fuel---He and his Goverment lie to us time and time again--- I cant wait for the next General Election and take the smug look of hid face.

Best idea yet i think it should go up by 20p a litre.It will stop more car save CO2 and help stop planet warming.

I will not be voting for Labour in the next election. I feel it's time to allow the Conservatives back in.

David Cam, seem's to have a heart, so. Role on the general elections.

Further more, we the people never voted in Gordon Brown anyway, so he is just on borrowed time!!

What more can one expect from such a lying, devious bunch of morons that unfortunately are running this country of ours. I pray that it's not for much longer.

Gordon Brown is a lying brown thing that's found at the bottom of a toilet!
His whole raison d'etre is to screw us for as much money as he possibly can to pay for a whole range of Government inefficiency and excess.
He's done to private pensions what Robert Maxwell did to the Mirror Group pension plan and seems to have got away with it!
He won't be satisfied until we return to an agrarian economy and lifestyle where nobody ever moves more than twenty-five miles from their place of birth - unless they're a member of the political elite, of course!

I am not surprised in the slightest - the sooner we get a caring government the better