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its about time we did something about what we pay for fuel I whole heartedly agree with action.

If this Government spent the taxes etc. that they extort (over & above that which is reasonable) from us then it would be slightly more palatable. They plunder our resources & fail to support necessary causes like failed pension schemes but ensure theirs are secure. Brown is a control freak & thinks we are a bottomless financial pit to fund his Governments hairbrained schemes. No other country is taxed to the depths this great country is for so little in return. There is probably a green issue in the fuel charge we are forced to pay, it affects everyone else world wide, but they do not have to face the crippling taxes that we do - WHY? Increases in fuel tax affects everything we buy so raising this tax is another double edged sword against us.

I live in East London where theres supoposedly good local transport but for my 12 mile journey to work it would take much longer & cost more then if I jump in my car which is parked right outside my house to the car park at work and its a straight route without having to deal with crowds of people.

I have no idea why they think they can just raise petrol tax all the time & just think that no ones going to worry about it. They cant keep claiming that its because of green issues as thats absolute rubbish & theyve just found the latest trendy thing as an excuse for the rise.

We're not heavily subsidised for our journeys to work like they are. And theyre not worried as theres no elections for a few years for us to make ourselves heard. And they think that as we're English we'll just lie back & take it. I really hope this demonstration achieves the right result.

The price of fuel is bound to "go up" then all other commodities rise in turn (it is difficult to think of anything that isn't dependant on some kind of "fuel"). My main grip is that the Government are quite happy to sit back and take the rises and "reap in" the windfall tax that comes with it..!! It wouldn't be so bad if they said that the extra revenue earned will go towards developing alternative fuels or improving on the "waste" generated at present (i.e Stupid Traffic Flows and controls etc.) or even (shock) improving the roads.! Compared with other consumeables, Petrol & Diesel are still "cheap" (ask those who buy beer, cigarettes, bottled water, coca cola etc) - they happily "fork out" for these, and also if these people whinging about prices should try just lifting their right foot a tad, they might just "save" a bit as well.!! Over speeding (as against exceeding speed limits) is just putting extra money in the Government's pockets - think about it..!! I live in a rural community and public transport (good as it is) unfortunately is just not an option - so I will have to pay whatever happens. !!

I am a student at a college 10 miles from where I live, and my girlfriend lives about 20 miles from me (albeit college is in the middle, so I can take us both there), so as you can imagine I spend a fair whack on fuel.

Easy solution? Don't pay fuel tax! Next time you are looking for a car, have a look for something like a Rover 220 diesel, a Corsa diesel, a Fiesta diesel... basically anything with an older style, non-computer controlled Diesel engine.

So how does that help you not pay tax? Run on waste or new vegetable oil! (Depending on how brave you are), I run on either, and all that is needed to make a local chippy's waste oil into good quality road fuel is a sieve, a pump and a fuel filter. run the oil through the filter using the pump, and you have fuel that is safe to use and either free or very cheap.
Or is you can't be bothered with that, put Tesco vegetable oil in your tank, at 78p a litre (Or 56p a litre for the Pura brand stuff they don't get in a lot) and save £s!

YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY FUEL TAX ON VEGETABLE OIL!

I have run a P reg. Fiesta diesel like this for about 6 months, and now it's getting colder I just add a bit of Kerosene to the oil (One capful per litre) to make it runnier, as it gets thick when cold.

I am fully in support of any protest, and will attend any I can!

Food for thought: I have a friend who has a Volvo 240 diesel, and he runs that on Waste vegetable oil, and does a lot more miles than anyone I know (40,000 a year) in a car that is extremely inefficient, yet he still gets around on £10 a week for the kerosene to mix the oil with!

Come on people, look up 'Vegetable oil as fuel' in Google, and use your heads.

Woot its about time something was done. Why the hell is it so damn expensive in this country?!?!?!??!

You save to buy your car (taxed), you buy your car (taxed), you insure your car (taxed), you have to MOT your car (taxed) then ofc there is road TAX - but just incase the government hasn't screwed enough cash out of you, you have to pay a fortune just to put fuel in it to make it run.

I'm all for fuel protests, and although if they were the same style as last time it would severely disrupt my life, I think I could manage for a couple of weeks, if the long term gains were good enough. But there in lies the problem, when things start getting uncomfortable for us, we must stick it out, as this is when the Government is under the most pressure to find a solution

My husband and I live in a rural community and I work 25 miles away and he works 7 miles away but due to 'out of town industrial parks' (that the government pushed through) we have to own 2 vehicles as we cannot get public transport to work for a 6am start. The price hike is ridiculous expecially when you see the prices paid in other countries. It's about time we made a stand against the government - roll on the action to try and get this resolved hopefully once and for all!!!

I fully support this, and then we can challenge the supermarkets on the VEG oil prices!! I use veg oil in a mix with diesel and the cost of oil has increased from 49p a litre to 78p a litre in 3 WEEKS!!

When I first started driving there was talk that fuel would NEVER reach £2.00 a GALLON, now its nearly £5 a gallon!!

Come on people, use your vote, get these idiots out of control because they are control freaks, The desire to be a politician should forbid you from EVER becoming one!!!!!

Gordon Brown showed his true colours when he bottled an election. He knows he only ever got in on the back of Blair's superficial spin and would never have made it alone, since he has the personality of a knat. But even that I would forgive.........if only he wasnt a lying cheating corrupt greedy b**d

Bring it on someone needs to do something about this dictatorship perhaps we would have been better off losing the war. What did our great heroes die for Please remind me.

I am in full support of the fuel protests, however it will not change anything. You might think it strange how fuel keeps on increasing given that it is sold with the US dollar, which is at an all-time low. The fact is, the US economy is tanking FAST, bringing down the rest of the world with it. Already it is looking increasingly likely that oil will be sold in euros, and that can only mean prices increasing even further.

Basically the world is tanking, financially. This is going to bring mass social unrest. The UK like many countries is going to become a massive ghost town very soon, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Get used to food shortages, get used to shivering in the cold because for the majority of the country, that is what life will be like.

i totally agree with any protest about fuel charges, and i shall be behind you all the way, i have got a disabled dad who is not very good at walking and i have to take him to the gp, hospital, get his medication weekly, get his shopping, plus he used to love having a drive out seeing the country side but since the price increase i can not afford to do this any-more, some of the places mentioned above are far away, COME ON LADS SHOW THEM WE ARE NO PUSH OVER AND WE STAND FOr OUR RIGHTS, good luck.

the goverment has become used to us just rolling over,don't agree with how things used to be when there was a strike about something every other week but now the u.k. just does as it's told and pays up.The tobacco revenue being lost is replaced by fuel tax increases,if fuel goes down then booze or something else will go up.

It is obvious the Govt will use Global Warming to press its case, and this is a half truth. People just do not realise that Mr Brown has gotten this country into an awful mess. There is no money. If there were the Forces would be better equipped, far better. The Police would be better manned. The hospitals do have extrta money, but the waste is enormous. Education is in a similar state. Pensions have been grossly mismanaged by Mr Brown. This is only the tip of the iceberg, so how do you see fuel prices coming down in these circumstances. It is going to take decades to get us back on track. Yes I do have to tighten my belt too. Any Chancellor can look good if he runs the economy on DEBT.

It's about time there was a protest. Drivers in this country are seen as easy targets. We have fat, lazy, jobworth beaureaucrats i.e. police sitting in their cars or standing on street corners stinging ordinary people going about their daily business with £60 fines for creeping over artificially low speed limits, and we have this greedy, wasteful government htting us with artificially high petrol prices, which not only affects us when we fill up, but also every time we pay for goods. I would like to know how they expect people to get to work? Public transport is appalling, and even more expensive than driving! Roll on the general election, and anyone who votes for this shower of money-grabbing wasters deserves everything you get. If we get another so-called labour government, I'm off because I've had enough!

If this was France the roads would have been blocked & fuel depots picketted long before we reached these astromatical prices We even let Brown add 2p on the tax without so much as a protest Everything travels by road now so cost of living goes up & up Soon only professional footballers will be able to afford to drive

I like that most of the comments are saying lets all take a stand together!
I agree so lets see how many of you are going to wright to your local MP to tell them you will not be giving them your vote (Browns rip of army)
but who will you vote for the (Cons) I thought the two where the same so maybe the ( Libs) what and you are moaning now about VAT and Tax
just check out all the possable party's websites and see for your self who has Britains best interrest at heart

make your vote count this time round before its to late before we lose everything
we have to produce our own goods to sell be in a possition to pay for all our strugling services not rely on selling other countrys goods they go down we will follow
VOT VOT VOT

fully support the legal action against fuel tax

Fuel Prices - It cant go on for much longer. Surely the government must start to take action before the public decide enough is enough and take action themselves. We have a leader that came in through the back door, and an economy that seems to be on the edge as the average Joe is finding it so much harder to keep up with the rise in prices.

Maybe we need to stand up and be counted, maybe we need to knock on the door of the government and say enough is enough. I know that I cant keep with the way that fuel is shooting up in price. Look at the likes of the US and the way that they are complaining when there fuel rises and it is so much less than what we are paying. When you consider the price that fuel actually is and the cut that the government takes. Its not even like the money goes into the roads if it did then we would probably have the best road system in the world.

No the price of fuel is a rip off and we are being fleeced in anyway that is possible and this has to stop. We have to take a stand and we have to bring this government to its senses before we are taken down further.

Brown needs to listen to the views of the people.

Tax Tax Tax that is all any goverment can do is to hit the working man, while they fly around the wold on the tax payers laping it up in four star hotels. Then come back to be driven around in big limos it is time for every one not just we drivers to make a stand and be counted.

Regards Ken Talbot.

Whilst I agree with that over taxing of fuel dosen't necesarily lessen vehicle usage, there is little doubt that fossil fuels do need to be cut. I am an engineer in the construction industry, and we've been taking climate change seriously for over ten years, believe me in the hard nosed world of construction it's not about tree huigging but real practicalities! What we need is cheap and efficient public transport (like they have in Germany and many other european countries), this will take the burden off our roads and allow those of us who use the roads for business more efficient vehicle usage. As for protests, well a million people on the streets of London protested against the Iraq war... what happened?

The prices and taxes on petrol are just so unfair. I am on low income and I have to spend £ 120 per week ( a third of my salary) on petrol to go to work as I can not rely on public transport to arrive on time because I work shifts( 3 hours each way). AT the end of the day, are we in Europe or not ? Why the spaniards, the Portuguese and the Greeks pay less for the Petrol, their cigarettes, their booze etc..........It is about time we have a general protest and it is time to show the government that 'Rip-Off Britain era should end !!!!!!!!!!!!

My son lives in Canada, I e-mailed him to ask petrol costs there and his reply
was as below:

'Cost here in Vancouver currently is $1.16 Canadian for premium grade 91 octane, (as this is what I use for the Saab, as it's a turbo)

Therefore around 56p per liter, lower taxes on the fuel than the UK.

I believe 96 cents for 81 octane'

It's this lousy British Government stinging us with taxes.

We should have a public vote of no confidence and get this government out of office. Have the roles reversed and let them try to live on benefits, be disabled and try to run a car on a low income is it any wonder that there is so much benefit fraud.

Lets kick some arse this time and don,t stop till them goons in parliament can,t sit down for a week. We want fuel well below 80p ltr, every other country manages so why can,t we ??? MAKE THEM AV IT.

I am a commuter and have no choice but to use my car to travel to work due to the poor transport links in my area but it is a huge chunk of my monthly income for fuel. I hope the government look at the taxation of fuel as other countries in the EU pay much less than us.
Not normally a "protestor" but I would willingly take part in legal protests.

I totally agree with the potest. The cost of everyday things like fuel, gas, elec and food are going up. Council tax and all other taxes are rising also but the wages are still the same. Ofcourse like many other families we have 3 children, we travel 24 miles round trip for swimming lesson once a week but because of fuel price we are having to think twice about it. Families just don't have the money to spare. I was bought up that charity begins at home maybe it's time that the goverment etc had a look at what is happening at home in the uk

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ABOUT TIME TOO!!! REALLY GLAD THE PROTESTS ARE BACK LETS TELL GORDON BROWN THAT HE HAS GONE TOO FAR AND GET THE 2P A LITRE HIKE SCRAPPED!!!!!

They'll get my vote and if I run out of petrol then so be it. As covered in a number of other posts, now that the price has broken through the psychological barrier of £1 per litre, it will do nothing but increase from here. Anyone else notice that as soon as we had gone past the £1 mark, suddenly £1.09.99 were common place? Act now and kick this corrupt, money grabbing, inept government where it hurts - votes!! Luckily, they seem to be pushing the suicide button every five minutes, so with a bit of luck we they'll be replaced by someone (?) who will actually listen to the electorate. Don't forget the when Labour got in, petrol was on 52p per litre!!!

If they reduce taxes on fuel, you do realise that george bush will have to invade Iran on his own!

Excellent ....let that filly sucker fix the mess he's made of the world on his own!

Apparently the protests round my way are over the weekend ...so I'll be there!

I wish everyone would calm down. I have two limo's to pay for, plus four drivers and you don't hear me moaning! Only yesterday I was on the way to the office, when the traffic got so bad, I had to call for my helicopter to pick me up, otherwise I would have been late for my meeting (something about some CD's being lost or something). People say that we're taxed too much, yet they don't understand this fine government needs as much money as possible to fund our armies in fighting terrorism. Don't people understand that there are many many countries out there still to be conquered, such as Lichtenstein, Maldives, Malta and the Shetlands. We all know full well that these countries are probably harbouring terrorists and my mate in America says that they've got some really nasty weapons that could kill us all. Now where are we supposed to get the money from now that all the banks have cut up the credit cards? That's right, petrol.

So stop whinging and keep buying petrol to fund the fight against terrorism. Got to go now, apparently my lunch of virgin prawns in caviar with a dash of champers is ready. Long live Scotland.....sorry I mean Britain.

Lots of love Gordon Brown MP.
xx

How many times are we going to get taxed to use our cars? The lastest being the idea of the "Lexus lane" on motorway. It's just another tax to keep us off the road.

I'll try to keep this as brief as I can.
I agree with all of the comments about how us motorists are assumed to have bottomless wallets out of which we need to pull ever increasing amounts of money.
I agree something needs to be done now.

Yesterday I listened to the organiser of the latest protest on radio. He seemed to be asking everyone to stand outside refineries - not blocking the tankers - not causing an obstruction. Whilst I agree something needs to be done - I cannot see what will be achhieved.

Gordon Brown will not be affected. The Government as a whole will not be affected. So, a wasted opportunity.

How about standing outside Parliament intimidating the Government instead of intimaidating tanker drivers who are only doing their job.

Surely arrangements could be made for coach operators to ferry coach loads of supporters into London to carry out a peaceful demonstration; one where OUR representative (MP's) have to pass through the cordon and one where they connot fail to see the level of concern.

I realise there would be a cost implication but if we really mean to press home the point, I for one would be willing to make a donation to cover fuel (!) and 'conjestion charges'.

About time something happened to knock some sense into this apology of a government. Start doing something for the british people for a change.
We need to complain a lot more.....and really make GB's life unbearable.
Currently i question as to if we actually live in a democracy...getting more like a police state.

Repeats of the 200 Fuel price protests are a great idea that is well overdue.
Only thing I would suggest is that the action takes place after Xmas when people may be restricted from travelling to see relatives.

I wouldn't mind if the fuel taxes, VAT and other road related taxes were spent on the roads and transport infrastructure, but they're not! The motorist is once again subsidising everything else, and is an easy target. A much fairer way would be to reduce the tax burden on fuel to cover the spend on the roads and transport infrastrure, and unfortunately increase direct taxation (i.e. tax on pay to penalise those that earn more) to cover the non transport infrastructure. Those with big thirsty cars (myself included, sorry!) would still pay more than an more economic car (which i accept), but at least I wouldn't be subsidising other areas. Those people that don't have a car (and those living in London, where I work, but cannot afford to live!) would be paying their way too!

First, abject apologies: I voted NO for "should the Government have acted .." by mistake. It should have been YES. Living in the rural sticks, this increase in fuel is crippling. We have very little choice of service stations and have to use cars to travel. I am totally behind the protest and unless we all stand up to increases like this - and the Nanny State in general - we only have ourselves to blame for what they dish out. United we stand! And now, stand we must!

I wish transaction 2007 every success this weekend with their fuel price protest. About time someone took a stand...