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You've already brought us to our knees, now you Kick us when we're down. Nice one Mr Brown

Fuel duty WILL rise - another of Brown's underhand dealings - the extra will probably go on MP's expenses!!! It beggars belief that the motorist will have no alternative but to stump up again.

I can only say I agree with the comments made - the motorist is just a huge piggy bank for the government with the cost of fuel, car tax, mot's it is never ending!

there are so many people that consistantly moan and groan about the government, id just like to know WHO VOTES FOR THESE IDIOTS. they rob us, they send our army to get killed in other countries and they treat the British like something on the bottom of their shoes (oh except the scottish). WHY. its rediculous and who ever is voting for these people need a serious talking to. me for one i'd rather waste my vote than see it go to them.......

The only way the motorists will get their views trully aired is by periodically all of us leaving our cars at home for a day and getting about using other means. This would proove a couple of points:
1. How inadequate our public transport is in this country.
2. How much money the government "rapes" us of in car derived taxes.
3. How many jobs in this country rely on the British motorists using their cars.
I am sick of being a small voice and having to slap on the vaseline in preparation for a reaming from car taxes.
lets organise a bloody protest that sends a proper message. Lets not rely on hauliers to do it or farmers, let us the British motoring public turn the tables and ream the government back and rape it of every penny. I'd give it two day long protests before we'd see real action!!! Alternatively we can all bend over!

There seems to be a continuing policy of hit the country dwellers as hard as possible. We have a 'Bus Pass', but with minimal services what is the purpose. You can get there but not back, if you stay more than an hour.
Why have many country houses more than one car? To be able to live a normal active life.
Additional charges only help to pay MP's additional expenses. I wish that I could think of over £100,000 expenses per year, in addition to my pension!

Brian Thompson

It appears to me that M.Ps look after there own selfish interests and think that the general population are dim enough not to realise. Fuel is an essential item in rural area's as public transport is limited, and for the government to add extra to the cost on an anual basis is all but criminal.
This government supposedly support the working man, but it seems to cover up all the perks and bonuses of failed executives which is causing resentment.

I totally agree with Richard L's post of 18th March ("Think about this though - We should aim to have a mass week of public action during that week no one should buy petrol/diesel, and possibly stop using our cars"). What is wrong with the people of this country, we complain and complain again but do not take any effective action (myself included). Its high time we stood up and be counted instead of rolling over and taking everything that's flung at us.

hi
I'm registered disabled and depend on my car for every day things like shopping and the school run but with the price of petrol rising all the time i'm starting to really notice the increase in petrol prices. It seems to me that we are being ripped off left right and centre, and the goverment just don't seem to care.

Well at the moment things don't look good and it's the people of this country that are suffering. We need the fuel prices to be low to function even.
It was the will of the government to build a nation that is totally dependant on transport now it wants to price us off the roads and does not look at alternatives even when it is giving billion of pounds to the auto motive industry but not with the condition of looking at hydro technology which Honda has produced......

but then again the politicians that can claim all there expenses from government funds and at times get there homes paid for and travel and x rated movies does not seem right to me.

But what gets me is that the high politicians drive around in 3-4 litre engine cars and then they tell us that we should be more responsible when it comes to our cars,

But then probably drop there sprogs off in there 4+4s to school


And who wants to wait for 30-1 hour in the dam rain for a bus we don't have the best transport system any more and the freedom of the car the only real thing we do have left, and the big brother state wants to take this away from us as well and price off the roads.

But when you love driving and then be told to take the bus or the train is just not on especially if you don't know what the financial climate may bring.

Cigs petrol diesel and alcohol should be hammered in forthcoming budget.Pump the extra cash into health and crime prevention.

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Realistic price if you run a petrol station is 95.9 minimum so count yourself lucky if you're paying 92.9, that's nearly below cost.

Why are oil companies profits unjustified? - don't you like the billions they pay in tax? Don't you like the benefit our pension funds receive by investing in profitable companies? Don't you like the employment provided by petrol retailers?

Do you really think oil companies make their money by running petrol stations in the UK? They don't.

Your simplistic arguments simply don't bear scrutiny - oil prices have increased nearly 50% from recent lows as an example. Don't wind yourself up about things which aren't true (seems to be the main pastime on this blog).

Increasing fuel prices at the height of the financial crisis that we are in is crazy. This just adds further pressure to people and businesses struggling to make ends meet and also adds to the apparent excuses for all other product prices remaining high or going higher as it is too easy for producers and distributors of essential products like milk, bread etc., to say their costs are increasing all the time.

The government needs to have a long hard look at itself and decide if they really want to help the people struggling to pay their bills, to prevent more homes being re-posessed and prevent further redundancies due to small businesses not being able to stay competitive and maintain a market share with revenue and profits that allow them to stay in business.

Anyone else thinking its time for a fuel blockade like a few years ago? It almost worked as fuel was running dry. I do a 100mile round trip to work and back every day, due the government being unable to control our financial industry.

And now i have to pay an extra 2p per litre. The price of fuel in our contry is a joke. The only way oil companies are able to get away with the price of petrol being so high is because the government charge so much tax on it.

The VAT reduction was simly a ploy to give them to raise VAT above 17.5% when the 15% runs out. So this means along with any other tax rises, the cost of fuel is going to rocket within 3years.

They say they want us to use 'green' cars. Why don't they make LPG more available or encourage more manufacturers to produce LPG care etc? Why, because they will loose out on valuable tax revenue! The same basis as the 'green' airport tax!

The government are doing nothing to help the middle class working family, and despite the current climate. Why the cost of fuel increase - absolute disgrace!! whats worng with them !

absolutly outragous i cant sfford to pay more for petrol. does it not cost enough???

I am currently in New Zealand for a month but am returning in a week to UK and am disgusted to hear petrol has risen again. I am reading in the papers that infact oil has gone down in price. I think we as a nation should not buy on a weekend for as long as it takes to stop the rises and profiteering.

As a driving instructor.the price of fuel is my biggest out lay. what I would like to know how we got a PM when there was no vote by the public, in other words he got in by default. If Brown got PM by default then he will have all he needs to increase fuel by default.

I have just paid 105.9p / litre for diesel- a few days ago it was 99.9p. Petrol has increased a similar percentage. As several correspondents have pointed out, fuel costs have a direct impact on the cost of living, and in this difficult worldwide economic climate I would have thought governments would take REDUCING fuel costs as a priority. As a nation we need to insist on this to OUR government.

why are petrol prices so different at different total garages, surely they should all be the same!!

I do 5000miles a year, thats 750 litres, which means this rise will cost me £15. That's Ok with me, all I have to do is cycle 4 miles a week instead of driving and I will be in profit.

This act just proves what a bunch of unmitigated liars this government is and led by an unelected egotistical idiot. Remember those words Education, Education, Education?
They have become Failure, failure, failure and spin, spin, spin but never truth and honesty.

The Prime Minister has pledged to help us through this recession so how does another rise in fuel duty help us??

I will probably be Mr Unpopular here, but I for one don't object to the increases. When diesel peaked at around £1.30 my commute was much faster. Now I am not after increases to make my commute easier but this does demonstrate that there are many journeys being made unnecessarily - after all they stopped when prices climbed sufficiently high. I know of people whose employer has stopped paying for private fuel and they have now reviewed their car usage considerably. I know of many people who drive half a mile to take their children to school. All of this proves that there are a lot of unnecessary journeys being made - and therefore a lot of damage to the environment.

Perhaps we do need to build in some relief for the hauliers, but I don't think we need to at the current prices. Might make sense to review this though.

Here we go again, does the government not realise that we are in a recession

2.5% of VAT, did anyone notice, should have been more like 10%

Who do the government work for, us, i don't think so. All they are doing is lining their own pockets and forgetting who's best interests they should be looking after

Tax has three letters in it, which this government love. Well how do they like the sound of BNP? I would never have dreamt of voting BNP thinking they would be lying toe rags in it to tax us to the hilt to feather their own nest and to hell with everybody. Well, as far as I'm concerned thats what we've got in the Labour government. 10p a gallon wouldn't be so bad if it was all going on the roads and the transport system. I only live 6.5 miles from work which takes me about 15 to 20 minutes, to catch 2 buses would take at least 90 minutes. Perhaps if I could claim for a second home next to my work i wouldn't have anything to moan about!!!

Maybe if the goverment stopped all these multi million pound aids to china, taxed people who earn over £50k a year up to around 20%, put a cap on profits by the oil companies and just a had a review of the finances and then we could see the real picture, oh... and stop bailing out banks, reading a report in the times the other week did you know that all those billions wasted could have given us 3 months of no fuel duty and working tax.... interesting! so i could have been £90 better off and paying 30-35p a litre for my fuel....

The thing is... if the goverment reversed and took fuel duty off the inflation will go down, prices will fall, public transport will find itself making more profit = better service, people will have more money in hand, for days out etc and the country would be out of reccesion on no time!

At this moment in time its going to get worse, and it will reach a point where it will all kick in! as i agree with some posts.. we need french style protests as they are effective and cause disruption! Imagine thousands of motorists doing a go slow on the M25 M1 M62 etc blocking refineries ports etc. the goverment would have to act Its time do something! We should be paying 42p a litre NOT £1.02 -- and what have the goverment got planned for when oil runs out? air tax?

Manifestos made by Politicians? They are lies to get elected for the MPs' gravy train.

Promises made by Politicians? They are lies to get short-term gain. You don't REALLY think they have the public good at heart?

It is proven we are governed by liars, (45 minutes.) cheats and thieves and how much can I get out of the system for ME.

What wonderful role models those who rule the country are. What respect we hold them in.

I cant believe Gordon Browns greed, he will tax fuel to the point where people will be forced off the road simply because we wont be able to afford to put fuel in our tanks. If people cant put fuel in tanks then they will stop driving and therefore stop taxing their cars and ultimately stop buying cars. I think its outrageous that we have to pay 71% fuel tax, then road fund licence and tax when you buy a car. I fully understand that we need to contribute to road building and maintenance and fully support this, but every time I look at the roads in my area, I only see patch repair and very rarely a new surface, so where does this money go?
So my message to Gordon Brown to help him with his election pledges would be give the populus something back, like a reduction in fuel tax to help the public and business alike.
Thanks for listening.
Lawrence Ringshaw.

Oil hit $60 a barrel today and many analysts predict a continued rise. This year will see 3 duty increases totalling 6.5p a litre. This of course includes the increase to counteract the VAT cut (motorists are fair game). When VAT is returned to 17.5% or more? that amounts to a 2.5p duty increase and is the most stealthy of stealth taxes. Things are made worse by the weak pound and all this could mean pump prices return to the 2008 levels this year. What a way to hit the poor hardest when instead they should be raising income tax for middle earners who CAN afford it!
The only way to stop this is protest and it you want an incentive fuel is 20% more expensive on average than at the time of the 2000 protests. Or might I suggest emigrating to Venezuela where fuel is 3.5p a litre and you never need heating!

Hey, hello from across the Atlantic. I hear your guy over there has solved Einstein's theorem. He just made a year disappear in weeks LOL. All govs are the same, they feel the citizen's are there for the gov not the other way around. Hell our pres thinks he can solve the world's problems not just ours. Oh wait, all our president's think they can. Just to let u know, most American's are not a bunch of simpering idiots that u usually get visiting over there. Those are just the richer idiots that think the world is their proper butler. Most of us have never left our own states let alone our country. As I like to say on my blogs (Lie, Obfuscate, Deny, Attack, or Change Subject WAKE UP AMERICA). How do you know a politician is lying?-their lips are moving. Keep up the good fight and GOD SAVE US FROM THE FOLLIES OF GOVERNMENTS

Has anyone noiticed the price of petrol lately the price seems to be going up every week, are we secretly paying the MPS expenses scandal? I can see no reason why the government should keep putting up petrol prices with so many people losing their jobs, especially when the price of oil has gone down dramatically over the last year.......... Just anothe nail in the coffin as far as I can see no one really cares enough.

How long are we as fuel consumers going to tolerate, and put up with being constantly RIPPED OFF by the exceedingly greedy oil companies? When the price of a barrel of crude oil reached an exorbitant 147 dollars a barrel, unleaded petrol was costing us at that time, at best, £1.19 per litre. Then when the price of a barrel of crude oil fell to 34 dollars a barrel in January, unleaded petrol was costing us £0.829 per litre, - some financial experts informing us at that time, that a fairer price would have been £0.10 cheaper than the £0.829. We are told by the oil companies that it takes approximately 6 weeks for the price of crude oil to be reflected in the prices at the fuel service stations. - I for one, do not see this happening at all. Then when we see the price of crude oil steadily decreasing, we are then told by the oil companies that they are not in a position to reduce their prices, as the British pound is in a weak state against the American dollar. So now with the British pound coming steadily into a stronger state against the American dollar, what is then happening to the prices at the service stations? - A most definite NOTHING in the reduction of prices! - Rather, prices still continue to increase. Surely it is about time that the Office of Fair Trading took a concerned and deep interest into the affairs of the oil companies, and then strenuously and conscientiously, on behalf of the beleaguered fuel consumers, engaged with these companies to stop their blatant profiteering, and obtain for us, as consumers, fair and just, and reasonable prices. We must wake up to the fact that we are the victims of a strategic and organised campaign to drive oil prices constantly higher, in order to satisfy the disgraceful greed mentality of the oil companies. In the name of common decency and fair play, - THE BLATANT RIPPING OFF CULTURE OF THE OIL COMPANIES HAS TO BE BROUGHT TO AN END.

How long are we as fuel consumers going to tolerate, and put up with being constantly RIPPED OFF by the exceedingly greedy oil companies? When the price of a barrel of crude oil reached an exorbitant 147 dollars a barrel, unleaded petrol was costing us at that time, at best, £1.19 per litre. Then when the price of a barrel of crude oil fell to 34 dollars a barrel in January, unleaded petrol was costing us £0.829 per litre, - some financial experts informing us at that time, that a fairer price would have been £0.10 cheaper than the £0.829. We are told by the oil companies that it takes approximately 6 weeks for the price of crude oil to be reflected in the prices at the fuel service stations. - I for one, do not see this happening at all. Then when we see the price of crude oil steadily decreasing, we are then told by the oil companies that they are not in a position to reduce their prices, as the British pound is in a weak state against the American dollar. So now with the British pound coming steadily into a stronger state against the American dollar, what is then happening to the prices at the service stations? - A most definite NOTHING in the reduction of prices! - Rather, prices still continue to increase. Surely it is about time that the Office of Fair Trading took a concerned and deep interest into the affairs of the oil companies, and then strenuously and conscientiously, on behalf of the beleaguered fuel consumers, engaged with these companies to stop their blatant profiteering, and obtain for us, as consumers, fair and just, and reasonable prices. We must wake up to the fact that we are the victims of a strategic and organised campaign to drive oil prices constantly higher, in order to satisfy the disgraceful greed mentality of the oil companies. In the name of common decency and fair play, - THE BLATANT RIPPING OFF CULTURE OF THE OIL COMPANIES HAS TO BE BROUGHT TO AN END.

18 months ago I started using biodiesel - as fortunately my car is an older model (1995 1.9 litre Volvo TD) . Apart from the usual teething problems (changing fuel filters when car stalling at commencement of biofuel usage) I've had no problems since. The car runs better, performs better (40 mpg on urban cycle, 50 mpg on a run) and obviously runs much cheaper at between 85p/litre and 89p/litre.
OK, so I live in Lancashire, with two biodiesel suppliers close by, but you can always buy your own manufacturing plant from Eco-Tech at Bamber Bridge, Preston, and make your own for as little as 40p/litre. [No - I don't work for Eco-Tech, I'm just making money-saving suggestions.]

Yet again we see another fuel price rise, I'm sick to death of this disgusting rabble we have in government. There's a credit crunch on and these hideous bunch just aren't interested, the price of a barrel has dropped but do we see a drop.
The more it goes up the more tax they make. It's about time we stood up and did something instead of talking about it.
I know what the French would do.

i think thay can wage war which cost millons then charge us for it
get rid of the t.w.a.t.s. at no 10