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Why is Diesel more expensive than Petrol when Petrol requires more refining
Why dosn't the government tax the cheap fuel brought into this country on board foreign lorries ie dip their tanks on arrival - easy
Why is fuel in Scotland 3-4p/ltr cheaper
Why are filling stations owned by ethnics able to sell fuel cheaper
Why don't drivers boycot those garages selling expensive fuels
Why did Maggy Thatcher sell our oil, she should go down in history as the one who sold this country down the river
Why won't those running company cars protest - because they dont pay for the fuel (directly)
DONT STAND BY AND BE TAXED AT THE PUMP - PROTEST IN ANY WAY YOU CAN

Please someone start a petion on the 10 downing street web page with the millions of names it will attract maybe the government will get the message next step revolution!!

Prime minister, politician travel with car and limosine everywhere, do we pay for their petrol????, We in this country, never protest as we really should as they do in other country. Many do not bother even to go to the cheaper petrol station so to tell others that we do not stand for rises on petrol. "I don't pay, my firm does" is their answer. Bull SH.., in the long run we pay ! ALL and I mean all, one day a week shold NOT go to take petrol THAT will show the goverment and petrol company that we mean business. I could go on but what's the use WE are not united, and politicians will do what they want not what we have put them there to do.

If only this government would swallow its pride, look at the way other countries manage to run an excellent public transport system and put it into action here!!
Glad to see action being taken again over our rip-off taxes, but i strongly believe the best way is to stop using one or two of the high street garage chains so they are forced to lower their prices.
They will lose more than the money they make on petrol as no one will be there to buy anything from the shop either.

Thanks for info about fuel price action.
It is about time that our Scottish National Cabinet thought about
the hardship caused by constant increase in fuel prices and duty.
Where do they think it is coming from. Council tax is ever increasing, and food prices must increase to counter higher fuel costs.
Have a good go at them on our behalf, please.

No need for me to have a rant as everyone else has. The prices are rediculous, i'm fed up of being mugged off by the government.
So therefore I am registering my full support of the protests, however they unfold!

How much longer can this Government rob us day by day of the money we
work so hard to earn . I have a lawn mowing business plus a small farm and all I have seen this year is price rise after price rise . Animal feed has gone up 25% so has the tax on my 4x4 and now Deisel has gone up over 15p ltr in 4 months .
This has to stop otherwise it time to leave .

Given the problem about global warming and CO2 emissions, it would seem that anything that gets "motorists" = homicidal psychopaths to use less hydrocarbon fuel should be welcomed.

I am disabled and have a car on Motability. As it is diesel it WAS very good value, but at the prices of today I am unable to go out more than 4 times a week because of the cost.....

So now I am housebound because of these money grabbing as******.

Sick,,,,HOW MUCH MORE DO THEY WANT TO RIP US OFF!?

It's about time the British public stood up and shouted enough is enough. Show this government and all governments that follow that we have had enough of this tax persecution. No other country in the world is taxed to the extent that we are in the UK. Good luck and success to any blockade.

I cant bloody wait!!!
Its about time the british public stood up.What ever happened to the fighting spirit we all had?I am sick and tired of not having any money left at the end of the month, nearly all of it goes on fuel just to get me to work.
Thats just the start of the ever increasing demands on running a car.
RIP OFF BRITIAN.I hate it here so much!

Hi all,
I simply cant stomach the increasing costs of fuel. I seem to remember that the reason that the cost of tax on fuel was so high, was because it was classed as a luxury item to most! Well those days have long gone and fuel is a necessity these days for most people.
I was in an unfortunate, but self inflicted, situation recently in the courts where I had to prove that I could not get to work from where I live on public transport.
It would have taken me 3hrs each way and there was No physical way of getting to work for my start time of 08:30. Bearing that in mind would you call commuting a luxury!!
The whole situation needs some redress as it is disgraceful that the prices seem to be increasing with no apparent justification.
I hope it gets to the point that the government is forced to change things......

Please send no further details of your ill conceived politically motivated protests. Fuel prices in real terms are lower than in 1997, are you intent on depleting the earths natural resources?

fuel protestors should be arrested on sight, bring in the army n keep the protesters away!!!!!!!!!!

fuel prices lower than 1997?Do you drive mate?so you enjoy spending 60 to 100 quid to fill up your 4x4?i take it thats what you own?
Get real.No transport =no job=no money=no house=s*** christmas!

If the price of oil uis rising or if that is what we, Transaction 2007 and myself, are told then how come the report recently in the NEW ZEALAND TIMES indicates that the price of the oil may well have already peaked and started to decrease ? Here on Treasure Island I have noticed over many years that our media trumpet loud and clear when the oil price is increasing or about to increase yet when the reverse is true there is an uncanny hush ! We OAPs or whatever the current title is are unable to pass on increases as we are subsisting on a state pension which is rated at 17% compared with the European average og 57%, therefore we move our car 3 times a fortnight (was twice a week).
Here in NP25 3NF, South East Wales, local public transport, i.e. the bus, has seemingly not progressed much in 40 years. Train services were removed from here before I arrived in 1961, or pre-Beeching. Nearest airport is c40 miles away. Good luck with the protest(s) but please remember that there is little point in talking to people who are not listening.

Well Done! we all have the power in our hands to stop this government and the megga rich oil companies exploiting the motorist, and yet we carry on paying. Simply stop paying and buying the fuel.......wouldn't that do the trick?

Just a thought!

Blockades never did work. It may last a few days then people get fed up and do not carry on, A better idea I think would be to boycott a big petrol company. when they find out that they are losing sales they will soon drop the price. Keep this up as it is a lot easier than the bockades. Come on all drivers which company do we pick on

I live in Norfolk, a largely rural county and own a car. But I agre with high fuel taxation. The higher it goes the more likely it will be to have an effect on petrol and diesel consumption, and we should all conserve non reniewable energy. Furthermore this tax is fair in that it is paid only by people who buy the product and the more you buy the more you pay in tax, like VAT, whereas flat rate taxes, like Council Tax have no relation to useage. The more progressive taxes are raised by the government the less it has to raise elsehere.

I am a disabled driver myself and i understand the difficulty of using public transport, it's not impossible but is tricky.

I would suggest us disabled drivers and thier carers contact the minister for this field and request we get a concession on the tax duty payabler forfuel given the necessity for some oif us to use private transport.

we too live in a rural community and have watched with horror at times an almost daily rise of !p each time at our local Tesco over the last 3 weeks. I run my own business and the taxman only allows me to claim 40p/mile - fixed some years ago and no sign of an increase in line with the rising price of fuel - over 30p/litre more than when I started trading 9 years ago.
I find it very odd that almost every suburban/supermarket petrol ataoion sells at an identical price. Is this price-fixing or what? Time the official bodies investigated this 'phenomenon'.

The only sure way to reduce fuel prices is to stop buying any fuel, petrol. diesel or gas from one of the biggest retailers until the prices come down. Lets say BP. BP is one of the biggest outlets in the country. Consider what would happen to BP if everyone stopped buying fuel from them ... within a week there would be panic and they, BP would soon put pressure on the other companies to lobby the Government to bring down the costs. No need to stand in the rain with a placard, just boycott one very large company and they will fight our fight for us.

google new world order all part of it

The poor old motorists yet again have had to stump up for Mr Brown's mess.
I cant wait for the next election surely all motorists will think twice before
putting such a party as labour in power again, after all if they cant look after
their own financial affairs then how can we expect them to look after ours
It seems they are jumping from one frying pan to another lately.
Maybe this is his way of reducing the amount of cars on the road by increasing
the fuel cost at the pumps to £5 a litre, then nobody will be able to afford
running a car.

we put up with too much in this country....its time to put our collective 'foot down'

Enough is enough,i am in full support of the protest,we cannot expect to just put up with it.We need to take action against this government with the ever increasing cost of living,its about time that they listen to the working folk

Go for it! Think action is long overdue. This is one of the most expensive countries in Europe to live in and is ridiculous. If the French are against something then they take direct action and the government cave in. We are too nice in this country. Politicians waste money and don't have a clue.

For far too long now the British Government and previous British Governments have heavily taxed and penalised motorists at all levels. The convenient and political excuse now being used to terrorise the public is the 'global warming co2 emissions' effect. When will someone stand up and say that, the United Kingdom as a nation, are responsible for no more than 1% of the world's pollution how can they possibly justify this exorbitant and unjust taxation. Our mealy mouthed Government should be concentrating and voicing their concerns to the main culprits of global warming, the United States, China and Russia, how much do they pay for their fuel? I guess they wont though and the masses in this country will continue to be exploited and ripped off. We drastically require fair pricing and taxation in this country. The rest of the world would not accept this, we Brirtish have sadly sat back year after year after year and allowed ourselves to be downtrodden in this way. We need to fight back together.

i run my own buisness in constrution and these fuel prices are crippling me after reading quite a few of every ones views its good to see how much support we have. we must take action against a greedy goverment who care nothing of our needs but only to line their own pockets.
I am ready for the fight bring it on brown.

I, for one, would accept any form of fuel protest no matter how much I was inconvenienced. I think it's time the government were forced to recognise that it cannot continue to tax fuel purchasers to pay for it's foreign wars!

Don't be misled. These taxes have little to do with so-called 'green' issues! If it were, then I would whole-heartedly support them, or perhaps if the government were beeing seen to spend the money on improving the mass-transport system; bringing a reliable public transport network to the whole country - to Argyll, to the Highlands and Islands, to much of Wales, to Devon, to Cornwall, to Dumfries and Galloway, to the Scottish Borders, to the Yorkshire Dales, as well as to the south-east of England but that's not happening and so, having wondered where the vast amounts of tax we pay is going, I can only conclude that road users are being forced into paying for two very costly foreign wars. Insidious taxes to pay for unpopular wars! I support our armed forces, but I do not support our government's foreign policies regarding Iraq and Afghanistan, yet, through my fuel tax I think I'm being forced to support the wars, financially. I object most strongly to this.

So, let's have direct action! The lorries driving at 20mph on the motorways was very effective the last time. I supported them the last time and I'd support them doing that again.

what is really the price of a ltr of petrol. now?
how much tax do we pay?

These petrol/vehicle fuel hikes have decreased my options to travel and the increase on consumer goods has spiralled. Gas. Electric Water have gone beyond the limits The government have only got fuel left to tax NO SMOKING (I could not afford to) has cost a lot of their income.The options look bleak O A P

I am extemley glad to hear of the petrol price protest on Wednesday, overdue and hope that it is forceful enough to impress the impact of this action by this government. They have raised monies on all the usually needed utilities and services from the majority of the tax paying public, from the many resources at their disposal, and targetted the most needy in terms of earning a living, raising families, etc, and yet continue to impose what I see as a further penalty for trying to progress in life, not only for those who wish to go forward, but those who have no other choices. I see it as another form of stealth tax, as the more you strive for yourself, the more they wish to take, and as always, is planned at the time of year that will have the most impact, and cause the most distress.

I have been boycotting BP and Esso for months now, due to some circulars I got. This was supposed to make prices drop. Looks like there wasn't enough interest. Either that or "silent revolts" aren't enough.

i had to sell my 2.8 sharan mpv because of high fuel prices i live in andover and the prices have gone up 4 times in a matter of two months why is england such a soft touch i am glad with what you are doing and if you print any leaflets i will willingly put one in my car i now have a 1.9 its not the same all ican say is why should we drivers line the governments pockets when there is trouble in the world the british join usa so why cant british government charge the same as the usa do for fuel we are not made of money i work on a farm and on agriculturel pay which is low so fare play to you and good luck

I too, have been boycotting Esso and BP since October as a result of emails I received. As you said, Bill Welsford, - Looks like there wasn't enough interest. - sad, really. I think that could've had a big impact, but many people are too apathetic to care.

The tax on fuel is ridiculous, isn't it about £0.75 per gallon in the states, and obviously they are making a profit. Surely the government could keep the prices to less than £1 per litre (£4.54 per gallon i think).

It is about time the poeple of this country stood united together and was heard as one voice. it is about time we realised that if you do not fight for you believe in, your goverment will take advantage of you. Bryn Williams led us to victory with the last protest and i feel this is a good thing one person can make a difference but on the magnitude of this problem we need to united and become the one voice which refuses to be ignored and we will be victorious once more..LONG LIVE BRITAIN AND LONG LIVE THE BRITISH SPIRIT LET US FIGHT AND SAY NO....NO MORE TO A RIP OFF BRITAIN AND THE RIDICULOUS FUEL PRICESWHICH THIS GOVERMENT THROW UPON US

IF IT DOESNT END HERE HOW MUCH MORE DO WE STAND TO PAY