It’s Your Duty: join the PetrolPrices.com campaign to stop another fuel tax hike

I find the price of fuel a real burden, especially the cost of LPG for my heating and domestic hot water boiler (natural gas not available and cleaner than oil). The cost of motoring means that now I'm retired I restrict my journeys to one a week. However, I don't think the tax should come down. I'm all for green taxes, provided the money is ploughed back into producing green energy or to save energy by subsidising energy saving in people's homes. I think motoring costs could be reduced, by taxing the oil giants and putting a limit on what they are allowed to charge the consumer. As well as employing some of the poorest people in the world on starvation wages and polluting their countries they pay their British, European and American bosses and board members disgustingly high salaries and bonuses. That is where the cuts should be.

198 "Joe"

I agree with you 100% the problem is WE the voting public put these idiots into government and now we can't get them out because Gordon Brown is too scared to go to the country. He knows that come the next election he and his "New Labour" cronies will be banished to the politcal wasteland.

I loathe all politicians because they are all liars. I also hope that they get their come-uppance in our lifetime. It is time this country started standing up in what they really believe in.

I suggest that we do not buy a single litre of petrol for a week and see how the treasury would like it.

Where does our "TAX" go ??? certainly not to repair or provide suiatbly surfaced roads or any systems!...they all seem to full of potholes, badly marked and maintained ..perhaps causing more accidents ?... ayz16t

Surely another fuel tax increase is out of the question at this time, on the basis public transport is overpriced and if you wish to visit family a journey of 60 miles is going to take all day by public transport expecially if changes are involved in the journey. At the same time this is only going to increase the cost of food and for unemployment persons yet another problem.
As for electric cars with initial costs more than double for a petrol or diesel cars and some eight hours to re charge same this is surely a non starter. At the same time the electricity has to be generated and will increase CO 2 gases. A disillusioned pensioner.

And so the Brits got on a plane to Canada/US/Oz/New Zealand.
Threw away their YUCK-UK passports.
Pretended they never spoke English.
Maked "gun bang" noises pointing fingers at head, cried in immigration in port of arrival.
And lived happly ever after!
Living in a properly sized/priced/taxed house.
Driving a car with a proper engine.

"Global warming" is the biggest global con trick ever successfully launched. Carbon is the element on which all life is based, and carbon dioxide is the plant food without which there would be no sugars and no life on earth as we know it. Carbon dioxide is *not* a "pollutant": it is plant food. Carbon dioxide is the ultimate "green" compound.
A huge leech industry has been created from the scientifically illiterate notion that driving Bentleys will cook our grandchildren. It is therefore not surprising that the notion is being abused by politicians to create new tax streams to support increasingly intrusive "big government".
Whilst there is some sense in seeking to reduce dependence on unstable foreign regimes for our energy supplies, that is no excuse for perpetuating spurious goobledegook and - worst of all - indoctrinating a whole generation of schoolchildren with this nonsense.
Carbon dioxide is green. That is the most important point to make when writing to MPs. Few of them have enough background knowledge of hard science to challenge the "big lie" about the centrality of carbon in living systems, but many of them have the intelligence to mug it up if pressed hard enough by voters.

New Government Seal

Official Announcement:
The British Government today announced that it is changing its emblem from Britannia to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the Government's political stance.

A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pr1ck5, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed!

Damn, it just doesn't get more accurate than that.

I have sent a mail to my MP as a result of the Petrol Prices mail. I am apalled that they can act in this way, but you have only got to look at the state of the current financial market to see how well the government are performing. I have been checking my vehicles (more than 1) tyre presurres etc and following tips on this and other web sites about being more frugal, optimum speed etc., and have found real savings in mpg. Meanwhile ton up merchants are still out there so some people have more money than sense!

At this particular time, when everybody is suffering with the recession, you would think that our government would be trying to help but once again they are using the motorist as a soft target. They have made some idiotic decisions over the last few months, especially the VAT mess, and spent billions of taxpayers money on stupid things that have helped no-one. I really wish somebody up there would do something for the majority instead of alway helping the least deserving.

I would like to see more motoring organisations joining in this campaign. The AA and the RAC are supposed to represent their members, so perhaps the members can assist in making this happen. There is also the Car and Van Rental Companies which must account for over 100,000 vehicles on the roads of the UK, their contribution would be a significant impact.

I see the French are at it again,

They blockade the ports, creating havoc on the roads both sides of the channel, I bet the French Government will give in, (if they haven't already).

Those Lorry drivers currently trapped on the M20 should abandon their vehicles (taking their keys with them) returning to their vehicles only when those A55H0LE5 Brown and Darling start to listen to "Joe Public).

Having the M20 blocked for a week or so might do it.

Getting one's point across is like reverting to using Algebra (lol)

re 182 Greg Brown.

Welcome back.

Just a minute of your time and one or two queries, as you agree with heavier taxation regarding fossil fuels. Taxing the hell out of tobacco is no longer an option as too many have given up the habit.

Can you tell me how adding more and more tax to the petrol/diesel driven engines in our transport systems (trains, lorries, buses, cars) will help reduce the carbon impact on the environment?

When it has already been stated by our own ex Prime Minister that even if we stopped using fossil fuel in this country, the impact would be dwarfed within two years by the sheer amount of oil to be used by China and Asia.

Why should we (UK) be taxed so heavily just to supplement a lower fuel usage that other countries largely ignore.

Using the 'green issue' as an excuse to milk the population for money to clear debts caused by their own mismanagement is literally taking the pi$$.

Whoever wins the next election will have years of work trying to sort out the mess.

My question is, when an alternative fuel source is in mass production and usage, will they the tax the hell out of that instead and will your response be the same?

Reference to cornucopia motoring forever. Are you taking the bull by the horns? ;-]

I just got back from Gibraltar, which has a 1:1 exchange rate with Pounds Sterling (you can use sterling or Gibraltar pounds there as a result).

The price of petrol there was 63.5p!

Please spare us any more price rises, our human rights are being effeted, as we can not pay the price for fuel, to have some sort of quality of life.

Why do petrol prices go up?

The the same reason why police smash Brits at G20 but nothing to illegal immigrant Folkestone fence jumpers.

It`s about time successive governments stopped treating motorists as an unending source of revenue. All motorists should make their voice heard the government must realize that we make up a large part of the voting population.
They should also be capping the rises in fuel prices by the large multinationals who keep making obcene profits, especially now during this recession.

I agree with the gentleman at number 75. The 2p price hike went on and then lo and behold the easter weekend arrives and it goes up another 1p!!! It will soon go back up to over £1 a litre.

Re: 181

Yes, that is the way forward. Cornucopia motoring UK forever!

how can transport be improved in the UK?
>we should be allowed to use our mechanisms to work and indeed our in our luxury
>time . as tax payers it should be us that chose our method of transport... if
>that means driving a 3.5 liter or a ford KA to the shops, then so be it... we
>pay taxes against everything. the government dont want us out of our cars, as
>it is not sustainable for them, with loss of revenue - god, they dont have
>tobacco tax to fall on nowadays.
>So what they do, is entertain the 'greens' and play us off... perfect excuse
>to tax us more.
>
>there are alternative fuels. lets not get distracted by the
>petrol/green/environment debate which they love.... our cars can be ran on
>alternative fuels. but whilst greed, the requirements to have to drive and
>playing us off against the greens is entertained - we are cannon fodder.
>
>Alternative fuels are the only way forward... legistlation willsee heavy tax
>eventually, but lets not play in to thier hand.
>
>public transport should be optional

This jury of 10 million motorists unanimously finds this dictatorship guilty of felonius c0cksuc4ing and attempting to swallow the evidence.

Sentence: Fed petrol on a veinous drip for the number of hours equating the number of pence duty added to a litre.

This dictatorship is guilty of felonius c0cksuc4ing and attempting to swallow the evidence.

Sentence: to hang on the gallows

I'm a pensioner on a very restricted and small income, I have difficulty in walking even short distances at the present time and have to use my car to go anywhere - this increase in petrol prices which we have just endured is really a step too far. When the cost went up last time it was because of the oil prices (or so they said) with this having come down so considerably over the last few months why is the cost not coming down instead of going up. I know that Gordon Brown has put the tax up which is just an iniquity, but the petrol companies have a lot to answer for as well. We are being held to ransom all round.

one understands this government needs to raise extra funding to pay for the state they have got us into and increasing fuel duty will raise prices of everything however why should we?
As an alternative think of your fellow man, cut down on greedy second home expenses reduce costs on fighting other peoples wars abroad andkeep the status quo

Re: 168

Well said.

What I don't inderstand is why no withering blast of criticism from other posters?
I am quite jealous, in the past when I have posted stuff like that the response was instant, and often quite impolite.
Perhaps the 'Cheap energy forever' brigade are on their hols?

Does the Government not know there is a recession on and people on low incomes are going without! No more tax rises on petrol/diesel please.

Why put more tax on fuel the greedy garages are doing it already the average price of petrol 92.5 per litre yet a barrel is down to $50 and according to the press an over supply how long are the stupid public in this country going to stand for this.

Why should we the tax payer have to pay extra taxes e.i on fuel to repay the money the goverment has borrowed to bail the banks out, surely they should claim the money back from the banks profits instead of paying big pensions & bonus's out to greedy top dogs who have caused this mess

Are the government trying to see how far they can push the British motorist before they see us revolt like other countries? In the Phillipines a litre of Derv is 28p, here it is 100.9p where is the fairness in that?
We also pay extremely high Vehicle Excise Duty, now correct me if I am wrong but I always thought that (V.E.D.) was meant to go towards the upkeep of our roads.....
Yet another money spinner for our government's pockets!!

As usual the Government are penalising the motorists for their shortcomings and it must stop, they are taking the mick. I hope and pray that we have a change of Government and that they are able to put the Great back in Great Britain because quite frankly this Country is going to the dogs......

Any further rises are only going to spark off inflation yet again when we are in a credit crunch! Petrol has bee creeping up steadily from the low of 82p in the summer to just under £1-00. BP are one of the main instigators of this as in the Hereford area they are always some 5pence above others. Why to the head themselves as "British"

Its about time the gov. did something useful with the revenue. Look at the state of our roads and cycle paths Opps lack of cycle paths.

I do not support your compaign and cannot understand why you have emailed me and assumed that I do. Broadly speaking I believe that increasing the tax on this scarce and polluting resource is an important and probably essential part of a range of policies designed to encourage changes in our long-term transport choices. While I agree that the present moment is possibly not the best time to be raising any taxes I do agree with the broad sweep of the proposal.

If speed cameras can burn, so will the petrol stations. The people will get pissed off, the government push us closer to anarchy every day, get that scottish idiot out and put somebody in charge who actually has the people in mind.

Highly agree with comment 166. Unfortunately the Brits are the softie idiots of the world. Hence the reason why the public is the laughing stock of Westminster!

"Oh Gordon, I want this nice house in Cornwall but it costs £1million".
"I know we'll get the idiots to pay for us by passing some legislation that forces them to without choice".


It won't be long until we face an invasion maybe from North Korea. After all Brits get raped blind and still do nothing!

I have just returned from a trip to Spain where I was paying between 78cents (75p) and 84.5cents (81.25p) for normal diesel (They have a Grade 'A' diesel as well over there which is on average 2-4 cents more).
When I returned to Plymouth I had to pay 1.03p for my diesel.
How do the UK goverment justify us having to pay such a diferencial to our European cousins?
Apparently a few months ago the Spanish goverment put up fuel prices but no where near as much as ours and the lorry drivers threatened action if the prices were not immediately brought down, which the goverment ignored.
So the lorry drivers parked up their vehicles and refused to transport any goods.
Within days shops were running short of goods and factories were running short of materials.
Guess what? the goverment soon brought the prices back down and commerce started flowing again - Why don't we stand up for fair play and do something simular?
This current goverment is bleeding the motorist at every opportunity and it's about time the British public fought back.

I have read alot of posts about getting out on the street, and also previously posted + written to four MP's about the issue.

PLEASE DEAR GOD - If anyone has the talent at mass organisation, please organise a rally.

Tell me the time and place and I will be there - LETS GET THIS GOING IM P*SSED OFF WITH THIS TWO FACED GOVERMENT !

Lets learn from a french protest and block a port !

If speed cameras can burn, so will the petrol stations. The people will get pissed off, the government push us closer to anarchy every day, get that scottish idiot out and put somebody in charge who actually has the people in mind, help the people, then help the economy, it all goes hand in hand.

With oil price per barrel no so low why am I pating 102.9 for diesel??????

The goverment must stop rapeing the motorist TODAY

NO MORE TAX ON FUEL

Yes, I pay tax on things I do not want! As a tax payer it goes to the arts, I have never seen a Constable and I don't want to. I do not want the London 2012 Olympics, but my money will go there! The banks should have been taken over at no cost to the tax payer but it was.
My tax pays for school hospitals and the police. So as a tax payer I have no problem with £600 on Tax on my transport cost.

hi,

3 days and only 160 comments.

Call this a barrage of statements to post to the PM?

He will be rolling on the floor laughing and being slapped on the back by his aides and fellow ministers.

The unanimous feeling will be what a soft touch the British really are.

Wait until St. Georges day, after the fuel goes up again, and these pages will be flooded with the usual thousands of moans and groans calling for something to be done.

What a bunch of NIMBY's. These people who only complain because they really think someone else will take action for them.

Get off your idle arses and do something!!!

Don't wait for the bloke down the road to write to your local MP, do it yourself.

Only if we join together can we really hope to make a difference.

Sometimes, I sincerely wish we had some French backbone and stood up to our government.

Bloody hell, the French only know how to surrender but they show us a thing or two when it comes to protesting.

The original Steve M.

It would seem that even though I am writing to add to your blog Gordon Brown and his so called cabinet of crooks are already hatching a new plot to get every available drop out of the humble motorist.
We need to make a massive protest about any increase in fuel duty or any other rise in prices whilst unemployment rise's to record levels.
IF WE DON'T WE WILL GET RAPED AND PILLAGED BY THIS GOVERMENT YET AGAIN.

When do we have a day of action and protest?

Yeah the goverment should be done for theft especially those that increase petrol and other taxes so that they can by tax payer funded second homes etc, halve the petrol taxes now, If they had not added the smoking ban in pubs causing 1000's of pubs to close not to mention the 5p a pint tax recently added, then they would not have to add these taxes, they shot themselves in the foot so now they are thieving from somewhere else just like a herion addict trying to fund their habbit. At the rate they are going it will probably be £2 per litre in a year or so. Vote them out next election although I dont know if any other goverment could be any different? Note they are allready robbing us of a further 2p per litre as of 1st april.

PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN !!!!

Following up on my previous sarcastic comment, it is time that this bunch of New Labour crooks were voted onto the Opposition Benches and left to rot there as they did from 1979 unti 1997.

In 1997 we as a nation miguidedly voted them back in, on a "Cloud Cuckoo Land Image" (New Labour) headed up by their biggest PR stunt (Tony Blair), who has since jumped ship.

We have been taught a hard lesson.

This party is only interested in "lining their own pockets".

Never mind all this twaddle about them being "The Party of the Working Man".

Much more of this lot in Government and there won't be any "Working Men"

Chris

IS EVERYBODY BLIND?

The country needs to be taxed to the hilt so that MP Jaqui Smith can claim expenses for two houses and her husband can hire adult films.

I'm pretty sure other MPs have similar skeletons in their cupboards too.

Where do you think the money for these essentials comes from?

Do you think Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling have money trees in their gardens?

Mps live the good life and the rest of us can get stuffed ................ after all, this is a Labour Government. What more do you expect?

Before long there will be a Tax on the Oxygen burnt during combustion in our engines.

Chris

Much as I would love to help out by writing to my MP I know, from past exerience it would be useless.

I know that this sounds horrible but more than once I have written to my local MP and always got the same answer back. The answer, when finally got from two pages of waffle is basically "No".

When fuel rose to over £1 a litre I wrote to her as a disabled person, believe it or not she wrote back supporting the Government, claiming they were doing everything they could to get the fuel price reduced. That was extremely rich after watching a programme where they said that most of the money on the fuel was taken by the Government in taxes not the fuel companies.

So, in view of the times, more than once, I have written to my local MP and not got any help there is no point in contacting her this time, I know it is a shame and it is time people did something about it but there is no one else to really take her place.

Being disabled, I am totally dependent on my car, and find the continual fuel rises hard to cope with especially as I get under £300 a fortnight. I am meant to do everything with this money, would love to see a Government official live on this!

The Duty on Petrol and Diesel is exactly the same @ 54.19p/litre.

With Petrol at 94.50p/litre the Duty+Vat = 66.50p/litre or 70.37%.

With Diesel at 102.30p/litre the Duty+Vat = 67.53p/litre or 66.01%.

Back in the days of "Derv" Diesel was cheaper, but the Sulpher content was 2000ppm. Now it's 10ppm plus the UK's refining capcity for Diesel cannot keep up with demand from Transport and Industry.

This has created a permernant shortage, and refining Diesel has become more expensive. We now import Diesel to keep up. So much for saving the planet, and other such twaddle.

Well I've sent off an email to my MP who, incidentally, usedto n the Environent Minister, protesting at the prposed increase. It's unlikely to do any good, since the Commission, which was set up to measure our failure to control carbon emissions, has to be paid for from somewhere. I expect a reply which tells me how this is a measure to reduce greenhouse gases, when it is clearly noy yjr case. If it were, previous increases in fuel duty would have proved successful. As a country, our emissiom record is poor and it would surely be better for the Government to actually show that it is invester into a proper public reansport infrastructure, such as the likes of Singapore, for instance, has. The only thing that they invest in is non contributory penson schemes, bank bonuses and "golden parachutes", for those that have brought the country to it's knees.
Martin

There is no doubtin the current and future government policy will be to increase duty as it is viewed as a soft option. By this i mean almost if not all of households own/run a car therefore its an easy target and with an apathetic public unlike our european counter-parts its politically safe to increase this tax. However, the politicians are not taking into account the harm in the real world increases of this nature cause. I am disabled and rely heavily on my car for my independence and more importantly for quality of life. Politicians have used many guises to increase fuel duty not least the ill advised effect on the environment. The continued rise in not just fuel tax, but, all taxes to pay for the fraudulent manner in which bankers and the finacial institutions have behaved will do nothing but harm both disabled people like me and other vulnerable groups such as pensioners and those struggling on benefits. Its all well and good when you are in the position to award yourselves 10% increase as did the politicians, 2.3% on actual income and 6.7% onto their already inflated expenses. Please can I join this gravy train or do i need to be privately educated and and come from an already privelged background?

SOD THE LOT OF YOU!!!!

I'M GOING TO SQUEEZE YOU TILL THE PIPS SQUEAK

Has anyone noticed that the duty prices for unleaded and diesel are different?

According to the calculator the fuel duty for unleaded is 68.32% but for diesel it is 64.12%. However I am not sure whether this figure includes VAT which is yet another 15% to be added on to the total.

I seem to remember from my schooldays that "petrol" was one of the higher distillates from crude oil and, because of this was the most expensive; Diesel was one of the lower distillates and therefore cheaper.

What has happened