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Get this, I have just moved to Spain, my diesel costs about E105/l, but if I fill up in nearby Gibraltar (British, no!?) I pay only £55p/litre. Thats 55 British pence a litre, how is it possible?

Hi this is the age-old British way patch don't fix.
For the last 75 years to cash cow has been used for everything but transport.
We can't take the problem to a logical conclusion.
Look around us all our Europeans have solve the majority of the problems by creating the transport infrastructure first then tackle the individuals need for personal transport.
With magnetic levitation now a reality new rail systems could be constructed between major centres for fast efficient rapid transport between hubs. Local net works of say monorails from the hub to city's local population areas like work housing shopping hospital leisure amenities finally delivery to one home by bus running in counter clock wise direction so elderly and children do not have to cross roads to their homes.
Payment I feel we as motorist have more than filled the coffers why play wars when we can't look after the people that create the wealth. Blair Brown ego-trips, as world leaders are long past get real. We have the technology people to achieve the installation prove we still lead the world in innovation.
A but the rural population,- subsidised fare system with 24/7 transports to suit the area whether it is bus/local train/post bus/taxi.
Private cars would be prioritised to area needs we can't cover every home possibility, city's limited to one car per family. Worker would travel by city transport free if a community charge payer ie Householder. The car used for pleasure travel a monitoring system by satellite would add up monthly use and tax according to locality. This would eliminate the rural problem of must have car due to practicality.
Protest are ok but it is a day wonder we all have the power the VOTE forget party loyalties why cow tow to the feudal past. Lets see a new breed of leaders with vision put Britain first (that's from a Scotsman) take a lead from South Africa we are a rainbow nation lets build on it.
Ken

I think that if there is to be a protest it should be organised properly. I remember at the last fuel protest the blockages nearing killed my father! his ambulance couldn't get through to our home which is difficult to get to without using major roads. The main road for the ambulance to get to us was blocked by lorries who didn't care about his life. Luckly he was able to be air lifted out and survived.

The main people to be taxed for fuel is the people making money from it - haulage and taxis. They should have the most tax. Next should come non-disabled people and people under the age of 65, if they are too lazy to walk will they deserve to be taxed!!

The main argument I am hearing for the past 2 years about the petrol prices is they need to stay high to avoid more driving i.e. to keep the planet clean. Hmm... if this was the case why I don't see any government legislation about the max allowed amount of car emissions. All emissions by the way - not only CO2. CO, NOx and the emission particles are not very friendly to the human health.

The fuel price is based up to a certain level on the global petrol prices, so reasonable fluctuations should be a normal event. As with every goods sold on the market, the petrol price will stay high if there is enough demand for it. All the government needs to do is to keep this demand in place. However, the main problem is the amount of profit the government is taking from the petrol products. It is simply breathtaking and wrong. I would expect that with such a profit some improvements are to be made in the public transport or R&D of new cleaner technologies... but the reality is that nothing like this is happening - the road infrastructure is degrading vary fast in terms of capacity and quality, the public transport is unreliable /public transport in London doing probably slightly better than the other cities/, and there is no any visible government effort to fix this.

Would somebody please explain why that when we pay in dollars for a barrel of oil and the pound is so strong against the dollar that our oil is so dear?
I think this may well be ploy to get cars off the road. With fuel at £1 + the poor old pensioner is hit hard I only wish my pension went up pro rata to fuel

Having just spent 2 weeks in Tunisia, the fuel price when I left was £1.00 and when I got home it was £1.08 a litre, compared to Tunisia where it was 22 pence a litre its completely disgusting when you know the majority of the fuel price is duty. Its about time the Government stepped in to cut the price as before long there will be lots of haulage businesses and delivery firms that suffer from this increase, that's if they are not doing already. I personally back anything that will reduce our fuel costs.
The 2000 fuel protest might have made some fuel user some incandesce, but it prevented the government from increasing fuel tax for almost 10 years. I think the government has forgotten about that lesson. We should remind them we consumers are not here to accept what the government throw us.

I will fully support a fuel protest blockades again, I consider this as a little sacrifice for long-term benefit for all of us.

Would somebody please explain why that when we pay in dollars for a barrel of oil and the pound is so strong against the dollar that our oil is so dear?
I think this may well be ploy to get cars off the road. With fuel at £1 + the poor old pensioner is hit hard I only wish my pension went up pro rata to fuel

Having just spent 2 weeks in Tunisia, the fuel price when I left was £1.00 and when I got home it was £1.08 a litre, compared to Tunisia where it was 22 pence a litre its completely disgusting when you know the majority of the fuel price is duty. Its about time the Government stepped in to cut the price as before long there will be lots of haulage businesses and delivery firms that suffer from this increase, that's if they are not doing already. I personally back anything that will reduce our fuel costs.
The 2000 fuel protest might have made some fuel user some incandesce, but it prevented the government from increasing fuel tax for almost 10 years. I think the government has forgotten about that lesson. We should remind them we consumers are not here to accept what the government throw us.

I will fully support a fuel protest blockades again, I consider this as a little sacrifice for long-term benefit for all of us.
Posted by Trevor.Brough 11th December 2007 8:41pm

I agree with the principle that motoring costs should increase in order to persuade more people to use more environmentally friendly alternatives (e.g. home working, using public transport, buying cars that are more fuel efficient). I therefore also agree in principle that fossil fuels should be priced to reflect the damage that they do, and to discourage wasteful use.

I personally have changed my car from a 32mpg 2.0 petrol to a 50mpg 1.6 diesel and feel that people who are still driving around in "gas guzzling" cars and 4x4s are out of tune with the times. Habits have been developed that pay little or no regard to the impact and consequences of car usage. These habits need to be brought into peoples consciousness and changed.

However, I also accept that this is a delicate issue.

The UK cannot make a unilateral stance by increasing petrol prices without impacting its competitiveness in the global marketplace. The transport costs will eventually be passed on to the customer, who will most likely switch to a cheaper (foreign) alternative.

It is also no use pricing people out of their cars without a value-for-money, safe, robust and reliable public transport alternative.

What the UK needs more than cheaper fuel is a realistic integrated transport system that enables people and products/materials to be moved around in the most efficient way possible. We also need a well thought out, all embracing strategy for reducing the nations collective carbon emissions. We all have our part to play in this.

hi is this protest local cant we join them to give them some more surport i back this 100% if we dont buy they cant rob us i no its hard as like all ineed my car too only if we can pull of for a month or so and dont buy the govement would fill it in there pocket as we do go protester if i cant join you im 100% with you

Living out in the sticks & having tried to use public transport it is clear that the only option is the car. It is about time the government woke up & realised that people do live outside London and as such, if they want to limit our reliance on the car, they need to invest heavily in alternative means of transport. Until then they should stop exploiting our necessity to use the car by taxing fuel at near criminal levels!!!!!
If the only way is protest then lets do it!!

i am 100% behind this demonstration, why is it that fuel prices keep rising and then SHELL offers you loyalty cards with up to 5p off a liter? also oil company's declare millions of profit each year but yet they tell us they are only making 1-2p liter profit off petrol and diesel, also why is the government not pushing BIO DIESEL into the petrol stations? this would cost less and be better for the environment win win all round apart from the oil company's would get nothing

All the comments I have read cover what I was going to say,how can this goverment condone these obscene price rises,when the oil companies make such huge daily profits. Not to mention the fantastic salarys the heads of companies enjoy.Talk about rubbing your nose in it,words fail me.

I am disabled, I rely on my car to get out & collect the food that I can no longer really afford because of the increases in prices caused by the governments price hike on fuel. I live alone & on a fixed income, therefore my independence is slowley being curtailed with every increase imposed by the government. When is Mr Brown going to realise that he is creating a Britain where the most vunerable groups i.e. the Disable & Pensioners will be all be stuck in their homes totally unable to get about. Or is this his aim, lets just allow the ellite access to our roads & cut down of fuel usage & congestion in 1 foul swoop. My local garages are charging £109 a litre for deiseal, how ong does Mr Brown think we can go on paying these rediculous hiked prices.
SO COME WEDNESDAY I WILL BE 100% BEHIND ANY LEGAL PROTEST.
I hope that he is about to see that MILD BRITAIN is once again going to show the TEETH & CLAWS OF THE LION SHE REALLY IS.

I have just bought diesel at £1.09p a litre!! Its a bloody disgrace.

i held my first petrol protest by myself last monday outside my local petrol station, it wasnt long before the newspapers, radio and tv all turned up, so i got alot of coverage just being a one man protester. if everyone did the same just for one day outside there local petrol station it would soon grab the governments attention. it is no good complaining about petrol prices and waiting for others to start protesting if your not willing to protest yourself.

This is the end to the limit of public tolerence with the way the govt handles issues. The incompetence of this govt has become so evident with so many recent incidents (missing discs, donations et al). Instead of addressing internal issues (in teh country) the govt still seems to have huge pockets to support other countries develop. It is just pathetic. Even if people want to use the public transport, it is not possible due to rising ticket costs. To me it seems crazy that we, the people, having been putting up with rising costs in the hope of improved services and to date nothing is evident.

Fully agree with action.

Fuel prices cannot continue to rise as they are compared to other countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

It's about time we brought the Government & fuel companies to justice.

i've read a lot of these comments and the general feeling is that we are being ripped off left right and centre, it's always been this way and seems as if it always will be, more and more brits are leaving the uk to live in foriegn countries as financially they are better off, all that stops me is the cost of emigrating. it's about time the government did the job that it's payed to do represent us the brittish public, and protect our interests instead of constantly finding new ways of taking our money. give the government a pay cut themselves maybe if they did'nt get payed so much they might then consider general joe public a little better when thinking of taking even more money.
i'm all for the protests its about time we all stood up and made our feelings clear, we cant keep going on the way things are going, somethings gotta give, preferably the twits in government.

Go for blockades again, in france they dont mess about we should do the same, this would be really bad news at this moment in time, in fact they might even get rid of Brown if it hit them hard enough.

My job involves driving around to a lot of rural and extremely remote places. I receive business mileage expense but this has not been raised for 4 years. In that 4 years the price of petrol has gone through the roof! My costs have gone up 20% in the last 4 years and quite a lot of my colleagues have left simply because it is no longer commercially viable to be paying the amount of money we in the uk pay for the necessity that is fuel.
Gordon Brown waited 10 years to be Prime Minister and has just about done enough to ensure he will be one of the shortest reigning ever. Although come to think of it, i don't remember voting for him....

It would be something if the government cut their tax hike from 65 pence in every pound to a more reasonable 30 pence??

Does anybody know how the extra revenue is spent, because it certainly isn't being spent on improving highways or public transport, giving fuel users an option to travel to work!

That is if the trains are not filled beyond capacity as they normally are!

bring on the protests !!! the goverment think they can do as they please . its about time they were made accountable for their actions .

It must be clear to everyone by now that this government is desperate to raise more tax revenues from wherever it can. Having thrown vast sums down the drain and failing to ensure that a benefit was achieved they are now struggling to fund all the promises and the cost of Afghanistan/Iraq.

They are not going to take any notice of fuel price protests unless the scale of the action is so enormous that it threatens their continued hold on power. What we need is tens of millions of people objecting in a very vocal way.

I also suggest that everyone writes to their local PM with some very frank comments to ensure that the message is clear.

I thought we were part of the EU where fuel prices are generally cheaper due to taxes. I go to Spain often and even there the fuel has slipped above a euro but does go down as well as up on the price of a barrel. The government seems to be part of the EU and adopt there legislation when it suits them but when it comes to fuel charges and taxes they do their own thing. Either we are in or out.

I think it is disgusting what we have to pay for fuel compared to other countries. We are being taken for mugs and its not nice. Something needs to be done and quick. Any sort of action against these rediculous price increases has my backing.

ITS ABOUT TIME THERE WAS SOMETHING DONE I FULLY SUPPORTED THE LAST STRIKE AND INTEND TO DO THE SAME THIS TIME, AS A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE SAID I'M ALSO ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES TO LIVE IN THE STICKS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS NEAR ON NON EXISTENCE. CAN'T WAIT TO STAND UP FOR THE MAN ON THE STREET (SHOULD SAY THE MAN IN THE CAR) AND TELL THIS USELESS GOVERMENT OF OURS THAT WE'RE SICK OF THEM INCREASING A VERY INPORTANT COMODITY. IT OK FOR THEM GETTING CHAUFFEURED AROUND LONDON ITS US TAX PAYERS PAYING FOR THEIR PETROL.....

Why does n't the Government come clean, the tax hike on fuel is nothing to do with a "GREEN TAX", the Public are being conned - The extra tax is for the many Wars we are having to fight, the crippling debt the ex Chancellor G Brown & now Mr Darling is clawing off every one, paying for obscene Wars & massive over-seas aid budgets..

Of course the extra money does not go toward Public Transport or increasing the road network, (Governments only new release is "We can now use the Hard Shoulder when the M Way is full" -- Great Idea. -- (What ever happened to the Safety / Emergency Lane?)
This is one Con after another and the Motorist will always pay.

IT IS TIME FOR A FAIR DEAL TO THE MOTORING PUBLIC!!!

G Brown + A Darling = Take Heed, because your Glass House is about to come crashing down!!

Let the People Have a Say & Rule this Great land once more!!

LN

Thanks for the tip off, although on the road a lot and may get held up, am all for it ,action is the only way any goverment listens. Have just come back from australia and petrol and diesel work out at 52 to 58pence a litre depending which state you are in, our fuel could be this price if we were not ripped off with high taxes, go for it and good luck am all for it and will back it 100%.
Ron

We have politicians of all parties obsesed with saving the Planet by charging everyone more to live their lives. Its just taxation nothing more and i don't recall anyof them asking us to vote for this. I for one do not need them to save me from myself.

As a mum of three, working to a tight budget, I'm finding it more difficult to put fuel in the family car for just the simple things, like shopping, taking my youngest to nursery and for my eldest to get to school (her school is 7 miles from home and there is no pavements along most of the way).

I personally wont be taking part in the protests (blockading etc) but I will not be filling up at any of the major fuel suppliers and will be watching with great interest and honking my support, its about time that we make a stand, in whatever way, however small the gesture may be.

It is about time that more efficient cars (fuel and electric) became cheaper to encourge there purchase. The Honda can do over 80 mpg.

Let's get this party started. Bring down the fuel prices and Bring down this government lets stand together for Queen and country and our pockets. War on terror forget that for now it's all out war on fuel prices

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill

Stand and deliver (Adam ant) one for all and all for one! 3 musketeers

Role on Wednesday I'll be there where Eva that may be might just go slow myself in my little LDV van

As Pensioners we now stay at home more because we can't afford to take the car out too often and we need it to get to the tram/bus/rail. It has gone beyond a joke now even if it was ever a joke.

I fully support any action which will result in a reduction in the tax charged on fuel, it would be a bonus if it also got rid of the Government with their big Jags as well! Beware though, every time something contentious come up the Government will revive "Global Warming" as a smoke screen to cover their inept handling of so many things. High fuel costs put up the price of everything which is transported and that's just about everything. In Australia fuel is about 40% of what it is here and they have no oil wells of their own....but they pay much less tax.

Something has to be done to these insane prices, were paying 1.14!!!

everyone has already said what i would say, so i'll just say, lets do it! and stand up for ourselves, pretend we are French for a day, they wouldn't stand for it!

Its an absolute disgrace the way we are treated. Why is diesel so much more than pertol when it is cheaper to produce and is more efficient anyway?
Fuel is Spain recently was 70p a litre - so much for EU consistency!
Just remember when you fill up that half of the cost is TAX!!!

I am a self employed salesman who only works on commission. I sell on behalf of all those small uk manufacturers who can not aford to put a sales man on the road. The cost of fuel is now so high that it is now not only affecting me but also those small manufacturers who are the lfe blood of this country. They can not afford to increase there prices as they become un competative i spend most of my time in a vehicle and my largest expence by far is fuel. My margins have been so far eroded that i may have to concider packing up my job that i have enjoyed for many years doing a service to this countrys manufacturers. On top of the fuel Mr livingstone has now made it almost in possible to seel in the central of london due to his congestion charges. As a country we are seriously going back wards and will have no manufactureing industry what so ever and this is where the economy starts.

Over their years in power thisgoverment have increased taxes far more than any other. This must be the last strawwith petrol. If petrol goes up, everything goes up in price. Cut petrol tax.

Just a point....... are petrol stations the only traders who pass on price rises as they get them. I'm sure the majority of businesses "ride out" price increases for a while, before making any demands on their customers. Can the fuel suppliers "fight" each other for our custom first, before "stealing" from our wallets!?
Oh yes, before I forget... try asking a fuel station to sell you exactly 1 litre of fuel for 106.9pence.... can't be done!! Do away with "point 9" NOW !!!!!