Fuel tax up ANOTHER 2p in the Budget

i reckon from my point of view petrol and diesel are too expensive in which poor people in Britain who are self employed or retired cant hack it. even with people with high engine sizes i reckon it should come down to 1.00 a litre or less.

When VAT was temporarily reduced to 15%, the Chancellor added 2% duty to fuel to offset the reduction in tax collected from motorists. Now that VAT has been increased to 17.5% again this hidden tax has not been removed - hence recent rises in our fuel costs. Remove this stealth tax Mr Darling and stop using the motorist as a cash cow!

If the fuel is going up 2p a litre next month. How come the fuel station I use the most has put its prices up 8p a litre over the last week. It getting to be a bit of joke NO A LOT OF A JOKE , when is it going to stop???? Its the same old thing poor people copping the brunt of it again. If you have a lot of money it makes no difference how much the fuel costs. Why are WE ALL sitting back and taking this rubbish from this incompitant corrupt government.

I thought we were in a recession!! The bankers are again getting pay rises the MP's are getting pay rises, the Petrol Prices are higher than before. Those who don't work is far more than last year and constantly receiving benefits and they get so much they dont need to work!

The Working Class who are struggling to get by are getting hit in the pocket yet again. when is this Government going to wake up!!!!

Solution.
1. Those who claim un-employment stop there money coming in after 6 months and I assure you they will find a job, bloody spongers.
2. Hit those Bankers & Politicians, where it hurts and stop them having huge bonuses and claiming for a second house.
3. Stop asylum seekers from coming into this country and sponging.
4. Stop Foriegners coming across to the UK and getting operations carried out and then going back not paying. (NHSP 1.4Billion in debt)
5. This is Great Britain, if you dont like it then go back to where you come from we should not change our culture to suit others.
6. Adopt the French Attitude, and tell the Government that we wont stand for it.

Green cars ,Green fuel, save damn all

It's all just a" GREEN" vehicle to raise more tax for a prime minister that doesn't know his A--- from his elbow.

Can I suggest tha in this technilogical age he takes a mesure of the air we breathe and taxes that, at least in that way we all pay and not just the poor motorist.

Or perhaps he'd like to weigh us each year and charge for excess weight.

Brown, he's a bloody joke. sitting around doing nothing until he's ousted , waiting for his fat cat payout , and a very considerable pension for bringing GB to its knees .

Roll on the the 6th of may and election day.

I am Glad that I had my Gas guzzler 4x4 during this cold spell never crashed or got stuck unlike loads around my area and also helped pull some stranded people out but in a months time everyone will be back to slamming 4x4's .How things change,mine does 25mpg not great but then i only do 100 miles max a week and carry 5 people

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That's a bit too logical for these blogs! 109 in LaLa Land will never get it!

For those who are in favour of road pricing - we already have it.

Choose to drive on empty roads, you can drive more efficiently, thus it's cheaper on fuel. Choose to drive in the congestion of rush hour, you burn more fuel while sitting going nowhere, so it's more expensive.

Choose to drive a fuel efficient vehicle, you burn less fuel. Choose to drive a gas guzzler, you burn more fuel per mile so you spend more.

It’s been almost a year since I last commented on this blog about fuel prices, and still the same argument about the environment with suggestions that the car drivers should walk and leave their cars at home. I fail to see what that has to do with the greed of the government and fuel companies and forecourt sellers put tax and increased prices on the fuel.
They argue it’s to save the environment but give not real alternatives, have they not stopped and thought of who uses the oil they keep saying is running out and what will happen with the waste product of oils after being refined for all manufacturing, engineering, farming and lots more everything we use has probably needed refined oil in some way to make the thing. But that’s not all the motorists they seem to preach to actually get rid of the waste product of the refined oils know as fuel.
What do they want to do with all that fuel they cannot just though it away its too dangerous and explosive to do that. they cannot build storage tanks in every back yard for the waste product fuel for the same reasons, so what will they do with it please comment. In the mean time I believe we have the best option of getting rid of this waste product fuel by using it for transport mainly cars and with the small tax on every litre keep our hospitals running and make it easier for employers to reach out for offering employment to skilled people that may not live local and so on.
So maybe they the green brainwashed environmentalists should leave this site that is about high tax and charges for this waste oil product that no one wants in their back yard fuel and stay in the environment blogs. I would not be surprised if the government was to announce that tax should be charged for people exhaling as it pollutes the atmosphere that hundred agree with them.
And as for continuously attacking the 4x4’s and car users they start attacking the fuel companies that hold all the modern technology on producing motor vehicles that use hardly any oils or fuels to be released if they still think that the car users are still the major problem. But they know that they cannot do that until we actually get short of fuel or oil.

I haven't posted here before, but a few of these posts got up my nose, so i'll give it a go.

Starting on a good foot, Bob (post 107) made a beautiful point about why you shouldn't waste fuel trying to get it cheaper.

What really gets up my nose is "The damn government". Yeah, they are bad. Boo hoo. I tell you what. YOU get up there and make a difference. There is nothing stopping you going to the party you support, and applying for a position. Apply to be an MP. Change the system from the inside.
The system is set up so that you CAN become an MP. It isn't closed. Go to the local offices, and do something about it.
Standing on your soapbox and saying how its all gone to the dogs wont give you what you want. Or... perhaps... are you unwilling to actually DO anything about it?
Big phrases like: "We need to think about climate change" doesn't actually mean anything. You need to say:
"We are thinking about climate change, a couple of examples are;
We are encouraging farmers to produce biofuels with tax cuts on production of certain types of product;
and we are going to put a faster national rail network in place to reduce domestic flights;
and we are going to encourage petrol filling stations to provide alternative fuels;
and we are going to encourage development of solar power because wind farms suck, and houses will get a reduction in their council tax if they put electicity producing devices in their home"

Now if someone said something like that.... they would get my vote.

106 "When times get hard people are happy to drive a little bit further to fill up at a cheaper petrol station, provided they know where it is."

Taken from Yahoo just today:
2) Shopping around for fuel
Does it really make sense to shop around for fuel? Or should you just fill up whenever you get the chance? Our trip from one fuel station to another was 1.7 miles (so we cheated and drove on a further 0.3 miles to make it a nice, round 2 miles).

Cost of journey was £0.11, using 0.087 litres (so a four-mile round-trip would cost £0.22).

Say the nearest fuel station sells unleaded at £1.04 per litre. And the second fuel station (a four-mile round trip away) sells it at £1.02 per litre. If you buy twenty litres of fuel you will save £0.40. But once you factor in the four-mile round trip, you're only £0.18 better off (and you've wasted 10 minutes of your life).

Is it worth it? How much is your time worth? We bet it's more than the £1.08 you save for every hour you spend driving around for cheaper fuel. Unless you know a station that sells fuel at a price that's considerably cheaper than average.

Ah well, perhaps not so clever eh?

"Too much money is being made from oil" Oh what a sin - making money! Presumably you have no need to work and produce anything for your family or anyone else! Private income and a few 'chariddy' events to salve your conscience?

What a great idea this site is. I love it, it has already saved me money and if it hadn't existed I would have been very tempted to create it.

Sites like this are a great way to level the playing field and exert a downward pressure on petrol prices by ensuring that greed is not rewarded. When times get hard people are happy to drive a little bit further to fill up at a cheaper petrol station, provided they know where it is.

As for all the swivel eyed, window licking, bunny huggers. Continually raising the price of fuel is not the answer. This just perpetuates the cycle of greed by giving the fat cats an excuse to charge more for the oil, thus they have no incentive to stop selling it.

A bicycle is impractical for anything other than a bit of exercise because it has no load carrying capacity, very little range and it isn't very comfortable. A bus/train is not acceptable either. Most people don't want to be ferried around in the human equivalent of a cattle truck; they value their personal space too much and want to be able to travel door to door any time day or night.

Thus you will NEVER get people to give up their cars. So the answer is to manufacture a PRACTICAL, AFFORDABLE alternative form of PERSONAL transport.

For example: A hydrogen fuel cell would do very nicely. It could produce enough power to propel a car at high speed. The by-product is water (no pollution there then, eh?). The hydrogen can be produced by fermentation. A personal transport solution like that could be made to work in harmony with the biosphere.

We keep being told that "the technology is not mature enough yet". Well, they would say that wouldn't they? There isn't a huge amount of incentive to develop or release it yet is there? Too much money is being made from oil.

It is not enough to vote every 5 years .
If you do not like the politician , join the local party and deselect him / her / it .
You can not do it on your own but a good few like minded people could change matters .
The first target should be Disaster Darling .
Replace the tax greedy _____ with a more responsible MP .
The UK can not afford to continue in this way .
If we do not do something soon then we will not be able to drive a car , drink alcohol or take a holiday .

M J Y

I would like to see a comparison between fuel and oil prices over the last 10 years and just see how much we are getting ripped off by the fuel companies charging way over what they should and making massive profits which doesn't benefit anyone but the greedy company CEO's like Shells massive 18 billion profit in this years first quarter. surely there must be a law against monopolizing the market and taking advantage over what people have to have for there daily lives. every other product comes down in price when there is a higher demand but the fuel companies just cheep increasing there prices. IT MUST STOP WHERE IN A RECENSION FOR GOD'S SAKE

The problem is lack of affordable alternatives. If the car is to be taxed off the streets then adequate and affordable transport alternatives need to be provided. Otherwise it is simply invalid to criticise people for using environmentally damaging vehicles.

If alternatives are offered then punitive social engineering taxes can be discussed and the electoral process decide the outcome, otherwise it is simply punishing the lowest income wage earners and a highly regressive tax.

I think the Government should think about us who live in the country and rely on vehicles to get to and from the shop or work. Why put tax on petrol when they could be investing money into helping people convert to gas or electric cars? Plus if they put any more tax on cars people are going to revert to stealing from the richer which is something that nobody wants is it? Mabey we should put the politicions into the country for 2 weeks and see how they get on without transport my prediction is not very well!

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Sorry chum, increased diesel costs don't really affect the price of my food - I grow nearly my own veg and a fair amount of fruit too. Stupid me for being "brain washed" or stupid you for being, well er, just stupid really. Won't don't you stop (incorrectly) blaming everyone else and do something about it yourself?

Some people.............