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My blood boils, Yet again! It isnt just the companies that feel the hike on fuel prices. As a domicillery carer, (and there are many) its worrying every time you start your day. We just start to settle after the last round, Ding ding round 2!! Care users NEED Domicillery carers, who inturn need to be able to get there.
CJ

Once again the government place a higher priority in what the press will lead with a head line, hoping that we poor uneducated masses have no idea what the real impact will be. It is not the cost increase that annoys me as much as the conception that we are too stupid to understand the full impact.

Labour take with one and take with the other ..

i am 43 yr old and have voted labour since i was 18 unless gordon brown goes i shall not be voting for them anymore which means i will not be voting at all cause there is no alternative party to vote for, bring back tony blair

I'm just looking forward to the next election as thats when we really get to make our feelings known. Give with one hand and take away with the other, that should be labours new slogan.

Once again the chancellor hits the motorist.

As a pensioner, it gets harder and harder to keep our car on the road. As it is it spends most of its time in the garage. We only use it for essential trips.

Its months since we actually ent for 'a ride in the car' out into the countryside.

I budget £26 a month to run our Skoda Fabia, its very fuel economical, but when its gone its gone.

We are more fortunate than most in that we have a good bus service to the local shopping centre and also into our local town, but the day will come when we will no longer be able to justify paying the insurance and fuel costs and one of our forms of independance will have to go.

I am not suprised, after all what do you expect from this excuse for a government.

They have mortgaged the house to buy a bucket to try and stem the tide of recession, and it's the motorist who will be picking up the bill.

We motorists in this country are far too complacent. We should speak and act with one united voice like they do in the USA. We should BLOCKADE Downing Street and Parliament Square until Brown agrees to REDUCE fuel tax duty PERMANENTLY.

Total incompetence as usual by Herr Brown and his henchman Darling (what a stupid name for a chancellor!). Some of us don't have public transport available to us at all and the only alternative is the car. Could have made a much bigger impact on spending by scrapping the ID card - I believe this could save around £8billion, more than enough to compensate. Roll on the next election!

Wow our goverment never cease to impress me on how clever they are!
Reduce vat so you save £2.50 When you spend £100 But put tax on fuel so you pay £2.00 when you spend £100 on fuel! Mmm so if everybody could afford to spend £100 on stuff they can do with out they would save £0.50 But in the real world where we don't have the spare money (Because it all goes on fuel!) We have just been delt yet another kick in the balls! Thanks for helping to criple the country! We should vote in prostitutes they couldn't screw us half as much.

No wonder we are called a nation of moaners, yes petrol is expensive but deisel is 10p dearer at most petrol stations, so Get Real you have to see the big picture, the whole world is in a financial mess and we are all having to pay for the incompetant banking section workers, who whilst making this mess enjoyed a large salary for doing it

If we really want to get petrol prices down use this forum to tell members to boycot all Shell sites for a week. Then repeat this process by not buying Esso for a week. There would be so much petrol about that a price war would follow. People have the power to stop these price rises if they stick togeather.
Roger

Overall the price of fuel has gone down. The price of a barrel of oil has reduced greatly over the last month or so...How come the pump price mains high thereby creating higher VAT....I don't mind pairing a fair price for the fuel I use but I dont think itsc fair to pay over the odds.....

What's happened to the price of diesel? It used to be 5p a litre cheaper than petrol now its 15p dearer - makes my choice of a diesel (ie more fuel efficient/less polluting) car a nonsense! We're being ripped off - again.

I totally agree with "The Oil Drum" that we cannot expect preferential treatment for motorists or the transport industry. The government must recoup the borrowing that will find the vat and other tax cuts so in the long term personal taxation and petrol taxation will rise. It must also encourage us to reduce our reliance on a petrol economy which has is suffering a hiatus as people cannot afford to buy more fuel efficient cars.

This is enough don't you think? We should all reduce our use of oil to really pull down the prices of oil so whatever they do with VAT or oil tax we won't be that much affected. It's difficult but realistic. "Supply and demand" lets pull the demand down...right down.

Well, Prudence didn't save any of the multitude of taxes he hijacked over the past 10 years or do, so how on earth can we trust these idiots now? When petrol prices rose this year, EVERYTHING was affected: food, clothing, the lot. And he thinks this move will get people spending? Which planet are they living on?

Another stealth tax from a desperate challencor in a failing government. The fact is they are taking an enormous gamble with the economy and we (the taxpayer) are the chips! How will more fuel duty (and weak sterling) help a fuel-dependant economy?

Thieving gits!!!!

Labour is no good get them gone

And people still voted for Labour and I am sure will do so again. Its time for change.

It's the same old story let's got the motorest which hits every body

Not only is the tax going up again ..but is it me or is the gap in price between unleaded and diesel slowly growing.
If the Governments actions are meant to supress consumption why not encourage Diesel users who get more m.p.g. ?

Scumbags. One of the reasons why they say they're cutting VAT is to boost consumer spending. So what's 2.5% off say, a £500 telly? £12.50! An annual domestic fuel bill over that 13 months: £25! £1.25 off a £50 shirt? Big deal!!! In the meantime we get hit with the permanent fuel duty rise? It could be read that this VAT cut was just a smokescreen to lob a bit extra on fuel since now that the price has come down they're missing out on some revenue they'd become used to...

At least I can say I've never voted for these tossers (not like any of us got to vote for/against Brown anyway) and I never will! It's a joke.

Tax is far too heavey now without any more increases,the sooner we vote this govement out of power the better the country will be run

Is anybody really surprised ? As ever, a Labour Government promises much and delivers very little (but charges more for delivering it). They have always given with one hand - usually to those who don't really contribute - and taken away a larger chunk from those struggling to improve their lot. The VAT reduction is a stupid gesture that wont work but gives them the excuse to increase taxes in other areas. The fuel increase is just typical - they are hoping we wont notice because the price of fuel has been falling and thus the tax increase will be masked. I do not appreciate being treated with contempt by a government which I , and the majority , did not vote for. I can't imagine many will be voting for them next time but they dont care.

Are we supprised? This Government is based on lies and high taxation, not in helping the general public. Yes lowering the VAT by 2.5% is a good idea of course to get prices in the shops down, but wait, increase the fuel duty?? SURELY THAT WILL PUSH THE PRICES IN THE SHOPS UP!!!!. All goods sold have to be transport by ROAD to the shops by VEHICLES THAT USE FUEL!!.
LABOUR PARTY = DIMWITS. Best they go back to school and study economics!! or at least resign from power.

For some reason the government cannot get it through its thick skull that higher fuel costs have a large knock-on effect to the economy. Everything is transported by petrol burning vehicles. If the government had only reduced the rate of fuel rather than anything else, I think the UK would have seen a nice reduction in the costs of food, clothing etc.

In case you all forget, the LAST time labour were in power they left they left the country with MASSIVE debt and it was the Conservatives that managed us out of it. It was only a question of time before labour reverted to form. SPEND SPEND SPEND, DEBT DEBT DEBT. The only problem is that it is OUR money and WE will have to pay it back and it will be a conservative government that has to do it.

There is no better way to stimulate the economy than with a feul tax cut. Forget the income tax reduction or VAT just scrap the duty on petrol/deisel. This would make all deliveries cheaper, all raw material cheaper, all prices cheaper and would encourage people to travel and BUY more goods.
The cost of feul is stopping growth and helped cause this recession. With no fuel tax it would generate spending at all levels and it would reduce prices without 'deflation' because the price reductions are not caused by the recession but by cheaper basic raw material.

This stealth is typical of Labour. Remember the 10p tax rate fiasco ? However, not all will remember the announcement of car road tax going up to £400/year for some cars by 2010 - because it wasn't even mentioned in the speech of the budget when it was decided !

10 years to wreck our economy, blaming every other country for the problems that they have caused, creating thousands of 'non' jobs in government whilst those who actually make something of value are taxed into poverty. This is YOUR country, paid for in the sweat & blood of YOUR forebears - WE are letting them get away with it. I suggest that we all speak our minds and get active before our right to do so is finally eroded away. This government has to go!!!

Yes Mickey Mouse Government is what we have. What an apt name Brown has, yes he is putting us all in it up to our necks.

I see he spent tens of thousands of our money to decorate his rent free flat in Downing Street - no wonder we are in the Brown!!!!

They are nothing more than a bunch of crooks!!!

I use diesel and cannot believe the difference between petrol and diesel in price - it's the widest it's ever been. I drive two days a week from Leeds to Barnsley for work and was just starting to appreciate the general drop in prices. My other half uses his car as a service engineer every day for work. The firm had not increased its mileage allowance to cover the fuel increases, so the recent falls have been most welcome for him.

I agree with comment 28 - get rid of them. They are taking the mick, to say the least!!!!

Like it or not we're a transport dependent economy. And like it or not that means road transport thanks to the rail network being destroyed by Beeching and decades of asset stripping. This is down to DECADES of mis management on the part of governments

All this airy-fairy greenwashing which is in itself just a con to find more ways of taxing the public will have one effect and one effect only. It'll cripple the economy, it's cripple Britain and on a global scale lead to economic collapse and eventual anarchy.

NOTHING of any relevance has been done to ease the crisis. An end to the war on motorists and moves to FORCE the banks to make finance again should have been the first priority. Next the end to wasting public money on big-brother projects and pointless wars which serve ONLY to massage the egos of our modern day robber barons and divert public money into their pockets and that of their cronies.

Yesterday's announcements only reflect the CONTEMPT our current crop of politicians of all parties have for the people who keep them in the style to which they've become accustomed.

The government have suspended the last few 2p tax rises for obvious reasons, and have now suspended this one until 1 January 2010 - is it such a bad thing 2p extra a litre? Prices shot up 20-30p a litre over the last few months and everyone coped, maybe its a good thing having sky high oil prices, at least then you can't blame the government for it. The time has arrived now to start the invetment needed in alternative technologies and get away from our thirst for and dependence of oil. One thing all you having a go at this government should remember is, who introduced the fuel escalator that got us to the point of over 50p a litre fuel duty in the first place. Thats right, you will have an alternative at the next election, and maybe the grass is "greener" on the other side, more green taxes that is!

Whilst I hate that fact that the government are yet again putting the costs up for us poor motorists, i dont think that we can solely blame labour. Whoever is in power thinks of themselves and shafts us motorists. What we need is a government that has balls to change the VAT rates in a big shake up. Put VAT on everything, but have 4 or 5 rates (and yes I know that's going to mean a lot more paperwork for us all), but essential food items would still be Zero, other things would have a low rate of VAT and luxury items (petrol/diesel isnt a luxury!!!!!) would have a high rate of VAT (Big cars etc). If they did this, then all other taxation could be cut - even road tax!!!
Ah well.... rant over and now it's time to wake up and think was it all dream???