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Welcome to Treasure Island ! (No, not for you and I brother) We are here to be systematically bled for the benefit of the few. Government figures for inflation, if we can believe them, include rises caused by the self same Government. Public Transport in my area is exactly the same as it was 45 years ago, i.e. diabolical. I know, I have personal experiences !

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Think about this-

You get paid and you get TAXED on your wages
You buy a car and it has VAT on it,
But before you dive it away you need a TAX disc,
And insurance which also has a TAX on it
Now you need to fill it up which has 80% TAX on it,
When it needs work you are charged VAT,
Drive in to London to the Congestion Charge (another name for TAX)

I think there is a comon theme running here,

the ever rising fuel prices are crippling me financially as i have a seventy mile round trip to work each day.The sad thing is if i was self employed or a buisness i could claim tax relief,but as i am an employie i cannot.
If this trend continues i will have to consider giving my job up,then the state can keep me,instead of me keepoing it as it feels lately!

Disgusting.....once again hit the motorist as we are an easy target.
We all come on here with all these good ideas, but 90% of us will do nothing....like we have always done!!! We bend over and get shafted every which way the government choses.
We are living with these increases to pay for foreign nationals to come here and abuse our system.
Labour is ruining this country....the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
As soon as i have the opportunity to get out of this dive im going to grab it with both hands and never look back!!!

I thought that the whole reason for us joing the E.U. was for "a level playing field" to quote the politicians. Well these same politions need to look at this field again because its tipped nearly upright with England paying most for petrol, food, beer, wine and cigarettes and we are taxed almost into extinction. We soon won't be able to afford to go to work.

It is a sorry state of affairs that we are being forced to pay higher rates of increase in anything we buy the life is being squeezed out of us, being a family we have now pulled in the belt tightly and when purchasing fuel we use certain shops to try and gain something back in the way of loyalty points this in turn does ease on the shopping bill so we see it as a (little) way of pay back to us. Will it ever end.

Until the Brit's are prepared to stop whining and do something about things, the government will continue to take the urine! If this was the Yanks, we'd have had an assination by now. And they're screaming about a 3 dollar gallon! (work that out)

Every guided missile into Iraq to maim and kill women and children, could have paid for all the health, fuel and social policing costs we ever had!

So watch who you vote for, you may get that which you wish for.

High fuel prices are driving inflation, I drive a diesel car & travel 30 miles to work each day, I live in a rural area so public transport is not a realistic option, to make matters worst I have to purchase oil for heating this has increased 60% in the last six months.

When he doubled the airport tax Gordon Brown said it would save hundreds of tonnes of CO2 emmissions. This shows what total nonsense he uses to justify tax increases

As a pensioner, I feel that the way Brown and Blair between them are succeding in destroying our once great country of England in the short span of 10 years, this petrol rip-off is just one more nail in our coffin. The dearest fuel prices in the world, what a legacy. Motorists conned into going green and buying diesel cars, and look at the price of diesel!!! Brown bleats about the cost of oil per barrel, but that has decreased now, have our prices?? and all this when the £ was at it's strongest and the $ at it's weakest!! are we supposed to be stupid? Our problem is we have no way of redress except in the Vote or referendum , that has also become a farce with Europe.

Oil went down to $87 a barrel in jan but did fuel go down did it heck, just what you expect in rip off britain

My job involves travelling by car all the time. I am certainly finding my monthly expenditure on fuel is increasing even though I walk whenever possible.

Allowing vehicles emitting less than 120g/km of CO2 to enter London free of charge after 27th October will simply increase congestion making a nonesense of the original purpose of the charges. This proves once again that congestion charging was always simply another way of raising money and nothing to do with London and the environement. I'm afraid we're on the recieving end of yet another government scam.

It is ridiculous that the government is even thinking of putting up fuel duty, as they are getting more than enough from the price hike we are currently under. If they can sell it cheaper in Europe and in America then why not here, it is just greed on the part of our politicians because they either get a big gas guzzler car supplied from us the tax payer or they get great big allowances for fuel and to buy the cars and for insurance etc. They definitely make sure their ok but to hell with the people who have to pay their wages and allowances but what they seem to forget is we can all have long memories when it come to the next election and get rid of the so called working man's friend the Labour party but unfortunately there is not another party who is any better.

I think its going down the tubes this contry who would of thought it would go to over a £1.00 a gallan or even more i tell you its gong to crash its gread thats what it is dam right greedy for there taxe,s lets face it we will not be able to manage soon,they need to do a U turn now i think I dont no who to vote for this time let alone vote at all,I wont coment on all the free hand outs that thay do and give???.

Some long time ago, the emptyheaded - who always seem to run the country - decided that there should be a differential between diesel and unleaded petrol - probably to penalise the economy minded motorist. So they made diesel more expensive, despite the fact it is cheaper to produce than unleaded, is greener with fewer toxins emitted and goes further. As well as cancelling the proposed increase in April, what about levelling the playing field between the two fuels and then (are you listening David Cameron)....cut fuel taxes by 10p minimum. It can be done - you just have to budget more sensibly - instead of like an idiot i.e. Gordon Brown / Ali Darling.

It is so sad the way we are always hit by high taxes in the UK and we all just moan - hence the greedy Government of the day get away with it. The taxation on fuel is far higher in the UK than most EU countries, yet we are supposed to complete with other EU countries. The Government are so extravagant with public funds that they will find it hard to cut taxes, but if they had some vision a cut in taxes could actually generate more tax take. The logic is that people are more likely to pay tax that is fair than try and evade high taxes. Still there is more chance of hell freezing over than anyone with vision in the Government cutting taxes.

i drive a 182 clio sport that should run on super unleaded but today for the first time i put normal unleaded in as the price for super is now £1.10 a litre. its time we did something about this.

Yes, Im a 41 year old married family man and self employed in the construction industry and currently do around 1000 miles per week just to get to work and back this means my costs are drastically increasing, which means of course I will have to put my prices up to compensate, with the fuel prices and influx of foreign workers in this country I am very worried about my future, and am seriously contemplating emigration.

Fuel too expensive?? Then every day why do i see people sitting in their cars & vans with the engines running? Why are people still buying cars that do less than 20 mpg? Why are people not demanding cars that do 100 mpg?

Coffee from Starbucks or similar is around £20 a gallon so I would say petrol is under priced.

Oil is the most valuable thing we have and we are just wasting it. A gallon will move your car say 30 miles so think how long it would take you to push your car the same distance. A barrel of oil has about as much energy as 12 people working for a year.

The people who voted Labour are reaping the results of their decision to put these wasters into office.

I have reached retirement age but I am forced to go out to work to pay for Council Tax which is gone through the roof, Electricity and Gas, likewise. Food has gone up far greater than their so called Inflation Index, and now the cost of fuel is about to add another turn of the inflationery screw. Everything delivered to our supermarkets has already been increased in price because of the fuel increases in the last year, and now they will have to increase in price again and we will be the ones paying for it.

The snouts in the trough in Parliament get all their expenses and index linked pensions. I worked for 43 years and am still having to go to work.

If fuel costs are stoking inflation thats another good reason to slash the duty, its obscene and doesnt work anyway. We all got on our bikes and went out for work. I contract to Local Authorities around the country and the fuel costs are making my job unviable. I'd be better off on the dole, than trying to earn a living. Yes its making car manufacturers and others invent/bring on alterantive engines and fuels but what do we the masses do in the mean time. Get into serious financial difficulties thats what. Get in touch with reality Gordon Brown and go out and meet jo public and give us fairer taxes.

I own a pub and the increases in fuel prices hits the punter everytime. me and a few locals tried to work out how many vehicles are involved in getting a pint to your glass. And we got to about 9! so if you take out how much fuel was a year ago and what it is now then multiply it by 9 thats the total increase on fuel alone to your pint! so do we need another 2p added! i dont think so

Fed up with all this being stiffed by the government, as a self employed person I have higher fuel costs, more income tax, increases in all my materials, and I have to keep my prices the same, or I don't get the work! What's more, migrant workers are also driving prices down in the construction industry! Seriously fed up!

I blame the idiots who voted Labour in. Did you really expect anything different?

Petrol prices are going up, clothes prices stary the same or are falling. Ther is a simple formula that explains these two facts. When supply outstrips demand, prices fall, when demand outstrips supply, prices rise.

Petrol prices are rising because World demand is rising with newly industrial countries like China and India seeking the sme quality of life as people in UK, Europe and US.

If the whole World cuts its demand (mostly by making industry less dependent on oil, but also by driving smaller cars, using hybrid cars and making public transport a feasible option -- which it is not for many people), that is the only way that oil prices will fall (given that supplies are finite and eventually will run out altogether).

You can ask our government to subsidise petrol prices, but if they do that, where does the money come from to pay the subsidy: health, education, police force? You can ask the oil companies to make a loss, but if they do, they will not bother to sell petrol to the UK any more: why should they?

Diesel is even more expensive, what a temptation to use rebated fuel as supplied to central heating systems, it's the same colour as diesel but it does have chemical markers which can be detected. It's illegal, perhaps that's why Road Fuel Testing Units have been visiting rural communities a lot lately. The government know how to turn the screw, what a Police state we now have, just like dear old Stalin.

Unload a few thousand "Civil servants". the hangers on, absentees, sickies and lead swingers. Bring in a "Won't work, no freeloading" regime and TEST all the supposed invalids to weed out the fraudsters then use the cash to reduce fuel costs, thereby increasing business, thereby improving the lives of everyone through increased emplopyment and higher wages..

so again it goes up up and up, they rise the price to line there own pocket, i personally have'nt seen any of the tax money put back into the roads just re-doing pieces of road that are fine and are wasteing money on traffic lights on roundabouts,roundabouts are there to eaze traffic flow if theres lights there they make it a junction. another rubbish idea by the council and goverment, what they also don't see is the fact they raise the price of fuel meaning, businness's need to raise the price but they can't due the fact that with the ever rising immigrants doing jobs for nearly nothing, we can't raise our prices because we need to stay at a competitive level, and everyones running out of ideas, im sorry to have to say that if we want something done we will have to do something to make the goverment change there minds either that or something more i'm not saying it but il put it like this it starts with an R. and rest goes E.V.A.L.U.T.I.O.N, this is meant to be a free country seems to me if your a working class person in this country then you get tax to high heaven while the goverment fat cats count the pennys and think of new ways to shaft the british public

Oil companies make massive profits every year but still the price of petrol rockets through the roof. The Government won't act because they make money from the price hikes too. We are the biggest mugs in the world in this country, getting crapped on left, right and centre. Revolution anyone?!

We all moanning and do nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good point made by Darren about bio-diesel, but there ar far too few retail outlets. I live in Hertfordshire which has none. The drive to the nearest in North London would out-weigh any savings made.
I think that it's O.K. for Ken to charge extra for gas guzzlers, but where is the cheap public transport? Public transport in the UK is far too expensive possibly due in part to high fuel charges.
Cutting duty on diesel would help both it an us diesel drivers too. As an example if I catch the bus into town (St.Albans) from home it costs me £4 for the round trip. I can drive for 50p worth of fuel + £2.50 for 3 hours parking and it's more convenient.

Brings our lads and lasses home from Iraq and Afghanistan and use the billions to reduce fuel duties, which in turn will reduce inflation and boost the economy. Tell Bush to fight his own wars!

Roger Scott do you really think the tories under Camreron will be any improvememt dream on Cameron has loads of new green taxes ready to go and has already said he has no plans to reduce tax except to his backers the super rich.

For those who are too young to remember the last time the tories came to power under Thatcher the first thing she did was to raise VAT from 7.5% to 15% the second was to create 4 million unemployed, the third was to abolish wages councils these guys set minimum rates for the very low paid. People in low paid jobs like shop staff actually had pay cut if they did not like it they were told to leave.

So take care and be suspicious of all politicians. Its only after they get in that you find out what they really intend to do.

i thing it,s about time we said drop the fuel tax ,give us a break the gov must be makeing a mint out of us

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i can remeber diesel use to be 5 pence cheaper then patrol and now its 5 pence dearer what going on and diesel is cheaper to make than patrol

My modest naval pension is being rapidly erroded by council tax increases and petrol price increases. As I live in the country, this makes life very difficult.