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I am at a loss for words, being self employed and needing my vehicle to get around to my clients is putting a strain on my wallet! What do I do put my prices up? Clients will simply say "sorry we can't afford the increase" bye bye business then what do I do join the unemployed line ?? Something needs to be done, ask yourself this " What would the french do"?

About time this happened. We pay so much tax for everything not just fuel.
I would not mind paying fuel tax if it went to improving the roads easing congestion and gernerally making motoring better, but it just seems that the tax paid on fuel goes to the benefit cheats and drains on the UK.
I use the M6 Toll road daily and pay for the privilage of having an easy drive without the worry of being stuck in traffic jams, the second I get off the Toll Road I get stuck in a jam, where is the tax money going???
I will protest with the rest!!!!!!

As an American who has visited Britain many times over 30 years, I've watched one government after another there, each claiming to be for the people, rob Britain blind! You have raging inflation but the officials claim there is almost none. Same here in America. Lie after lie after lie . . . and its main aim is to protect the stock markets, and to ensure huge profits for corporations which often pay little tax on their corporate gains. I wish you all well in protesting! I do not think whatever impact you make will last long, however. Sad, as England is a country jammed with hard-working, honest people of the old ethnic strains. Brave new world.

I've just found out from my American penpal that they only pay around $3 (£1.46) a gallon for their petrol in the USA, which works out at 79 cents (38p) a litre.
I don't know how our government can justify the high tax on fuel in the UK.

if we can vote em in

we can vote the f*** out again.

lets get some 1 to run this country for the people of the country. yes we all know fuel is going to get more expensive as time goes on but come on the fuel duty and the vat on top is taking the p!$$ can we not just get rid of 1 or the other.... or both....

About time !! The Government should actively take control over fuel prices. Now that petrol is over £1.00 a litre it will become accepted and continue to spiral upwards. The Gov. should step in to ensure costs and overheads for all users are controlled [ i.e inflation ] and to make every effort to bring the price down under the £1.00 barrier. After all, at the beginning of the year I paid 93.9p per litre ( sometimes less ), now its 102.9p+ - A 9.6% INCREASE !!!!!!!!!!!! . I wish my income was increased by the same degree !!

Totaly agree with this protest, we should have done it a long time ago in stead of sitting on our arses and doin nothing as usual, but at the end of the day the goverment can do what they want, pisses me right off.

Its about time that we all stuck together & showed this government that we are sick to the back teeth of there inflated prices I am behind this protest 100%

I see there are still a few here (very few) who still don't understand. Gordon and his mates are not reducing the road fuel tax, nor would the Tories and certainly not the Greens. It's no good blaming OPEC or anyone else, it's simply the UK government, whoever they may be, loading the road fuel tax and then having the cheek to add VAT as well. If they wanted to, any government, they could reduce the taxation and make a litre 75p and STILL make money. Like so many others here, both my wife and I are disabled and need our car for the most simple journey. I support ANY action with the exception of restricting emergency services.

If you don't pay the tax on fuel you will only need to pay on something else so I see little point, especially as the Government claim reason for the escalator is to reduce emissions and help reduce the impacts of climate change.

200% in support of any action

1 point i believe the government has drastically missed is no matter how much they insist to increase the price of fuel, it still doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of the general public still have to buy it. We are all entitled to drive whatever vehicle we like so why penalise bigger engined vehicles in other areas. The vast majority of us all work long hard hours so why we shouldn't enjoy spending our money in the way we want and like to, wheter that should be driving a V8 powered supercar or a small 1 ltr town car. To sum up, we are all just an easy target and easy money for them!!!BRING ON THE FUEL PROTESTS AND HIT THE GOVERNMENT WHERE IT HURTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to drive for work some 60 miles round trip, I can't afford a new eco car so the old one I have does 30 to the gallon. Self employed i am finding it harder to pay for petrol. I would welocme a drop in fuel costs. Driving is not an option for me I have to do it.

These fuel prices have gone far beyond a joke.Action is necessary to show the Government how desperate the man in the street is.Intrest rates,price of fuel,and the uncontrolled influx of cheap labour from Eastern Europe taking our Job's God knows what the future hold's for our grandchildren

We depend on fuel, not just to get to and from work, but for our whole quality of lives, and it's that of which we're being robbed. If fuel prices are extortionate, it doesn't mean we're going to forego our commute to work - it means we can't afford to travel at weekends to spend time with families etc.
As has been said elsewhere on here, car owners are scapegoats for the fashionable green outlook. If we really wanted to stop people using cars and there really was an alternative, we wouldn't be putting more and more tax on fuel - it would simply be rationed. All the idea of taxing fuel is saying, is that if you're poor to average, you'll abide by the rules; if you're rich or a politician, continue to do as you wish.

Let's all stay home for a week... no buying of overpriced petrol, no shopping from supermarkets that think they can charge anything they want, no paying of ridiculous fees for entertainment... no tax income to a government that favours the rich over the people who struggle to keep warm in winter... that would drive the message home... Power To The People (without them there'd be no place for a government)!

I live in a rural area. I drive a bus for a living. I start work at 5.45am most mornings. The car is essential to get to work and home.
I am on a low wage and I am astounded that my local Lib Dem MP has not uttered one word in protest, but then he does claim all his fuel expenses, travels 1st class on the train.
This Labour government cares nothing for me or my fellow workers. Fuel is nearly £5 a gallon in Cornwall.

This Government has lost touch with its people.

It is making the lives of ordinary hard working families so difficult as they try to cope with relentless increases in car fuel, food, clothes, heating fuel, rates, inheritance tax, kids education, student fees... the list is just endless.

Many businesses, particularly those dependent on and sensitive to spiralling fuel costs are or will be driven to the edge of financial ruin.

Any increase in our take home pay is swallowed up to meet the endless bills and worse, many people have seen their real income drop over the last years because this government simply no longer cares.

Does Phil really think any other Government can afford to cut fuel-tax? Get real, the money is needed to run Hospitals and schools.

It was the Tories that started the fuel excaltor, it was Labour that stopped it when it could afford to.

The price of petrol at the moment is extortionate and is fast becoming too high for the man in the street.

Yet again this government has failed to see and tackle a problem and for too long has Joe Public continued to pay the horrendous duties/taxes attached to fuel.

Well done to those who are willing to make a stand.

Car versus Bus
Car = Leave for work 2.30pm cost of fuel/travel 80p,arrive 2.50pm
Bus = Leave for work 1.30pm cost of fuel/travel £1.20,arrive 2.45pm(if bus on schedule)
Car = Leave for home 11.05pm cost of fuel/travel 80p,arrive 11.20pm
Bus = Leave for home....NO BUS SERVICE AFTER 10.30pm

So Mr Brown some of us have no alternative than to use cars,because public transport does not cater for everybody,and even when it does it is more expensive and infrequent for people to use.

Of course a protest is not only a good way it is the only way to make govts sit up and take notice.

Running two 5litre+ V8@s and a couple of donkeys I am seriously thinking of letting two of them go.
With the current cost of carrotts I can no longer afford to run the Lambo so I will be eating Chistian scott donkey this Christmas not turkey.
J. C.

About time we all started to stand up to this rotten government.
The lame excuse of the government trying to reduce car use does not convince.
Like me most people in rural areas do not have suitable public transport (if any at all) so increases in fuel price just means that we have to pay and pay and pay.... We are being squeezed until the pips squeak. Something has got to give and I hope that the general public has had enough.

Cut the tax Alistair (Gordon)!

Always knew JC was a donkey

This government is steeling extra taxes from the hard working class. How do they think people get to work!!!! Stop steeling my wages. I fully support this action.

my only problem is that the protest don,t continue weekly say one day a week so the goverment lose revenue . and to force them to lower price,s

The fuel duty levied by the government in the UK is testament to it's ineptitude to effectively manage taxation. The government's answer to any problem in this country is to increase costs to deter and discourage users from drink to fuel.

Regardless of the administration, fuel prices need to be much further up the political agenda, else all we can look forward to is another government which increases duty and ignore the motorist!

Wonderful news. I will support this all the way. This government' and any that may follow, needs to know that we are sick to death of taxation, we are paying well over the odds for fuel. Bring the country to a standstill, and do not give in until the price is lowered to a reasonable amount.

Does everyone reallt think the state will sit back and let a fuel protest cripple the UK? Of course, they were caught out last time, but will have planned this time. The Army would be bought in to ensure the economy still runs, and the only losers will be those people who really need to use their vehicles: the disabled, emergency services etc.

Get real, it will make no difference.

I think we are kidding ourselves if we think fuel prices will come down, now it's broken through the £1 pound barrier i doubt whether we will ever see it below again. The only thing that I see that I can do being a self employed tradesman is to try and work in my local area instead of travelling 30-40 miles a day, in fact recently I have been lucky to have worked 2 miles from home and have infact biked most days unfortunately this job is about to finish and I will have to look for other work or stay with present contractor and travel again. What a sad state of affairs!

It about time some thing was done over 80% of the cost of fuel (=TAX)go to the government but where is it spent cause it sure not our roads?
How come ever other country seem to be able to look after they roads with out ripping off the public!

I agree with what you are saying about fule prices but I work for one of the biggest fuel company's as a cashier and all you are going to do is cause panic buying and put more stress on cashiers like my self and others by doing this blockade when we are only on a low wage pay.

I have great difficulty with understanding the government on fuel prices and taxes on motorists .

Fuel tax puts up prices of everything in the shops and slows the economy

there is a direct corelation between an extra 2p on fuel and the rising cost of food

heating is also effected heating oil goes up due to delivery costs

grain for feed goes up to delivery costs

council tax rises as refuse is more costly to collect

aircraft fuel rises as its delivered by tanker

al the costs add to inflation which then suppreses growth within the UK

its just silly and shows what an uncaring government we have

also costs to NHS go up ambulance fuel deliveries to hospitals means less doctors and nurses being employed

if it costs more to commute wages increase so adding to inflation and stopping growth

YES!!! Its about time we all did something to stop and reduce these fuel prices. If we were France we would down tools, block ports, in fact stop everything? But we are British and just take it up the arse!! What a twating country this has become?
About time we ALL fought for what is right, and not let them tossers stick another one up us and laugh all the way to the bank.

WE MUST ALL GET OFF OUR BUMS AND HELP THE CAUSE!!!!!!!!!!!
I'M SURE IT WILL BE WORTH IT IN THE END.

VIVA La France!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Julian Vantienhoven - Get real. My fiancee lives 25 miles from her work place and I live 25 miles from mine that puts us square in the middle of our 2 places of work. We cannot move closer to one or the other without being further away from one or the other. As our chossen carears do not allow for use to move employment, without moving 100s of miles away, from family and friends, why should I do that just because our government can't spend the money properly.

What about people that have to drive for a living? Why do our haulage companies have to pay huge amounts for the fuel they use, with the european lorries coming from across the channel have there tanks full of cheaper fuel.
Where is the fair trade for all in the EU!!!!!!!!!

The politicians are quick enough to give themselves a pay rise when they need a new house or car. We should be able to have a few nice things and that for a lot of people is a car.

i run a small cleaning and ironing business, so the increase in fuel, is ridiculous, trying to keep my prices low, but if fuel, goes up much more, will have to increase my prices, personally, i think the rise in fuel costs, are linked to the no smoking ban, allot of people giving up smoking, cigs were mostly tax to the government, so now the whole country, has to pay!

It would be ok if the tax the Government take on fuel is re-directed back into the transport infrastructure but we constantly keep hearing of overcrowding on trains.
It's abount time that something was done about this stealth tax

All politicians have ridden rough shod over motorists for years. It's time to take a stance against them. If they want to be in a democracy, then let the people speak!