09.12.07 Petrol price protests planned for this Wednesday

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Do you think the government should have acted before these protests?


UPDATE: Transaction 2007 have announced a firm date for the protest - Saturday 15th December 2007 at 10:00am. They say the date was decided by members as "the best possible to enable those who would normally be working during the week to attend." According to a press release on the site, they plan to protest outside refineries or storage depots across the country.

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A group called Transaction 2007 is planning a "nationwide legal protest" this Wednesday.

You might remember the fuel protest of 2000 which initially gathered strong support from motorists. However, that support quickly turned when many motorists were prevented from filling up because of lorry blockades.

PetrolPrices.com expressed to the organisers that they may find public support for another fuel protest providing it was properly planned to be legal and orderly. So far, the Transaction 2007 organisers have been unwilling to confirm to us specifically what action they have planned for this week. When we pressed the group's spokesman, Chris Hunter, he said "This will be a numbers game levied against legislation. I can comment no further."

With fuel breaking well beyond the £1 barrier, PetrolPrices.com has had a huge rise in the number of emails from concerned motorists. People were especially angry following the last fuel duty hike imposed by the Government in October. Despite being made aware of the huge resistance from motorists, the Government pushed ahead with the 2p duty increase, leaving the public frustrated and angry. Over 80,000 people had voted against the tax hike on our blog post.

The protests of 2000 achieved some success in that the fuel duty escalator was frozen. However, it has now resumed and with the rising price of oil motorists are paying ever increasing taxation due to VAT on fuel. Unlike fuel duty which is fixed, VAT is charged at 17.5%, so for every 1p increase in the price of fuel, we are actually paying an extra 1.175p.

We'd love to hear what you think. How have the tax and oil price rises affected you? Will you be forced to tighten your belt this Christmas as a result?

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Hi, I am a pensioner and i use my car for a my small part time guitar repair and set up business which i love, but because of the price of fuel, i have had to put up my prices to compensate but if little me is doing this, what about the big retailers e.t.c.

I thought that when years ago, we were told that "We've Struck Oil", just off Scotland, The papers were full of how we'll all have cheap petrol for a forseeable future and cheaper costs in our supermarkets e.t.c. It never happened! (Where did all that wealth go? No, not to us?)

I notice that now we are supposed to be a rich nation again and paying for our boys to go fight all over the world, with no problems on cost for planes, helecopters, new ships, tanks, weapons and man power, no wonder our country can afford all this, with all the revenue in tax collected and not just on fuel.

I cant understand that the pound against the dollar is so strong, yet we still have to pay through the nose for our fuel.

I am my family are fed up with all the tax we have always had to pay in this country, which is far to high to be fair. no wonder many people are going abroad. i'm a proud englishman, i love this country, why cant we just be sensible and get someone in to simply sort this out fairly for all our sakes before the people of this lovely country of ours, just simply break!

Posted by Chris Cutmore, 12th December 2007 9:29pm

Ok can see some people will not like not being able to buy fuel, but perhaps if people stand up to say lets not drag the uk economy down anymore. , Just who will house us when we have houses repossed when we can no longer pay bills due to fact that costs in general on top of housing costs have risen far higher than wages,

If the goverment want to avoid people protesting than why not call a snap general election & let the genral voting public kick labour out , i DON'T Normally vote but would now & it wouldn't be labour

Posted by Aj Atkens, 12th December 2007 9:29pm

with increases in fuel prices and extremely high taxation on fuel this will not help keep inflation under control. Why has Deisel fuel suddenly become 5% more expensive than petrol, the government should be encouraging people to use the more environmentally friendly deisel fuel.

Posted by Brian Hall, 12th December 2007 9:33pm

i am disabled and live in a rural area, i'm a big chap and need a large electric buggy which needs transporting in a large vehicle. We have no real public transport and if we did i couldn't make use of it, therefore the constant rise in fuel prices has an impact on our budget which is less since i took an office job due to health as i am reluctant to "live off the state"

Posted by Richard Couchman, 12th December 2007 9:38pm

smell the coffee its life things / prices go up look big and pay up stop whinging , iv got eight cars only two of them do over 20 mpg do i whinge ? no life s to short if you cant afford it either get a better job or use public transport ,owning / driving a car is a privilage not a god given right

Posted by Darren Tyre, 12th December 2007 9:38pm

smell the coffee its life things / prices go up look big and pay up stop whinging , iv got eight cars only two of them do over 20 mpg do i whinge ? no life s to short if you cant afford it either get a better job or use public transport ,owning / driving a car is a privilage not a god given right

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glad you have 8 cars maybe you should give 7 up????




Posted by Phil_gt, 12th December 2007 9:41pm

Well - doesnt that say it all 4053 comments already. This government should be ashamed of itself and the chancelor sacked for allowing this to happen, as if they do not get enough out of the poor motorist without this.
I did as was advised some years ago and now have to travel 50 miles per day to and from work, there is no easy way to commute by public transport so am now paying for it in increased fuel charges. Much more of this and it will no longer be feasible to work and may have to claim of the state - Tax - it's a joke

Posted by Paul Holden, 12th December 2007 9:44pm

I have read some of the previous comments and it appears that you are all mostly of the opinion that if Brown were to cut the Fuel Tax, He would raise it somewhere else. This is probably right.
Well I have some different ideas that might interest him and save money enough (and more) to cover it:
Get us out of the EU now before they interfere any more and cause us more loss of wage.
It was said that 4 out of 5 jobs created in the UK are held by immigrant workers!
Stop paying out legal aid to repeat offenders each time they go to court - give them a 3 strikes and you're out regime. After that they pay for themselves.
Stop ALL immigration appeals! Once they're told no, then throw them out and stop put them in holding centres pending failed appeal after failed appeal.
Stop ALL immigration of people who cannot support themselves, and cease giving out benefits to all and sundry who choose to come to this country.
I am not afraid to say that I am (as you've probably guessed) an avid supporter of the Late Enoch Powell who told us what would happen if we left the door on the latch, and boy, was he right or what!
All these moves would save an immense amount of money and probably ALL taxes, including fuel, could be drastically reduced.

Posted by Wyn Parkin, 12th December 2007 9:47pm

i live in a village in kent the fist bus starts at 7.30 a.m ihave to be in work at 4.00 am i need a car to travel the 16 miles to work i also drive a h.g.v for a living my company not only have to pay the highest price for derv in europe he has to compeat against european trucks comeing to the uk with 1000+ ltrs of cheap derv low paid drivers with very little training breaking every law in the book working in the uk all week cheaply doing us out of work ; every lorry driver should do as they do in france stop work bring the country to a standstill job done end of mr brown

Posted by Tonylovejoy, 12th December 2007 9:48pm

Hi phil why sould i , i work hard for my money its my choice and its not totally environmentally wrong as i can only drive one at a time and that leaves 7 off the road

Posted by Darren Tyre, 12th December 2007 9:50pm

I can't understand the logic of the governments' actions. They want to keep inflation in check, but then continue to hike the tax on fuel which directly impacts on all goods that are freighted. Does this make sense?

Posted by Richard Stevens, 12th December 2007 9:55pm

Totally agree with the protest and i am 100% behind you. This goverment are pricing you off the roads and public transport. It a happy New year from the goverment by putting up train fares by 4.5% How can you afford to get to work.......

Posted by Ian Heath, 12th December 2007 10:04pm

Why do we put up with the robbery of our hard earned cash to pay for the diabolical services and totely barmy policies of this incompatant and corrupt government. We pay exorbitant ammounts of tax on every thing we earn buy and save , sometimes even tax on tax . We are the laughing stock of the world . No matter what our government decides to do , however illogcal, corrupt or downright immoral it may appear , we still just roll over and accept it. Why no action. No other country in the world would put up with it.

Posted by S Collins, 12th December 2007 10:13pm

I am profoundly disabled and live in an rural area. I appreciate it is often difficult for anyone not in this position to understand why someone doesn't just use an alternative method of transport to a car - sadly my disabilities mean I am reliant on a powered wheelchair as I have no mobility, and you just can't get that type of wheelchair onto or bus, or into the majority of ordinary cars used as taxis in my area. There are so few buses round here anyway that even if I could use them, it wouldn't be practical.

My fuel costs have become a massive burden. A trip to a main town where there is a supermarket is an approx. 25 miles round trip. To go to the biggest major town where the hospital is located is no less than 150 miles round trip. I struggle to budget for travel more than ever now, and in an exceptionally bad month (i.e. where the mortgage has gone up again, domestic costs heating electricity etc all increased, food shopping costing more and more) I have had to miss a hospital appointment because I simply couldn't afford the diesel to get me there.

I have little enough quality of life and live in a beautiful area of Scotland, but the pleasure I used to have, which was being taken out for a run in the car just to get me out of the house, now is a luxury I can't afford. Apart from essential shopping or medical appointments I am housebound, and I am very sad and angry that this state of affairs is allowed to continue to affect the poorest, most vulnerable and disadvantaged - people just like myself, and pensioners who live in rural areas and have no choice but to have to pay more for every journey.

I am happy to support all protest against the ever increasing fuel costs and it's time that we remembered we all have a voice, so let's use it to good effect. We British are often though of as being stoical, and accepting whatever gets thrown at us and simply getting on with it; if this were France there would have been riots before now!

This issue affects EVERYONE in some way with its knock-on effect on food costs, travel etc., after all, we all have to eat and we all have to travel at some point, so this should be a truly national campaign with EVERYONE getting behind it to be strong and show the powers that be something must be done.

Power to the people and good luck with the protest action!!!

Posted by Fiona Clements-russell, 12th December 2007 10:18pm

Oil price rises (as it will as the remaining oil gets more expensive to dig up) - so it's the government's fault - eh wot??
I'm happy to blame the government for most things but this one just doesn't add up.

Fuel will continue to rise in price.....period. We will have to get used to it. Sorry.

Posted by Mike Atkinson, 12th December 2007 10:22pm

It would appear that tengsted (no 63) obviously likes mr brown, and agrees with the hike in fuel taxation, and question where funds would be created if taxes were lowered ,a quick answer would be to cease funding the often (illegal) immigrants and state sponging no marks that fleece the average working person daily in taxes paid (by the way I wonder if he is one) he needs to try to run a small business like myself, and have to absorb (once again) the rise in fuel prices these cannot easily be passed on to customers whom themselves are suffering also... Labour goverment Ha! the working mans party, dont make me laugh... Mr brown your on your way down!!!!!!!
LETS BLOCKADE NOW Oh and let down mr B's tyres on his jags so he has to use public transport and see how he likes it.

Posted by Garry Ellison, 12th December 2007 10:23pm

As per other comment, living in a rural area with only one garage selling petrol at £1.10 approx. Problem is that they have to make money on petrol and its not there fault but the goverment must be making a few bob out of this. Now that it had reached the £1 it is boken the physiological barrier and could be a long time if at all that it comes down again. They worried about the congestion charges in city areas how about congestion our pockets with reduced petrol costs

NOW ITS TIME FOR THE GOVERMENT TO START LOOKING AFTER OTHERS

Posted by Leo, 12th December 2007 10:23pm

i have been running my own company for restoring classic cars for just over two years and it will soon be that people cant afford a classic sat in the garage any more as petrol prices are so stupidly high that that will be it for me. so thanks gordon brown, i hope you enjoy your big v8 powerd jags for many more years to come.
protest !! damm right we should, but all of us for one day buy no road fuel.do you have any idea how much the goverment would loose in tax. then they may get an idea how we feel

Posted by Stuart Baldy, 12th December 2007 10:28pm

I think in order to get the goverment to listen every motorist should participate in a mass protest by parking thier vehicle at the roadside,take the day off work and watch as the whole country grinds to a halt,politicians make decisions on what we let them away with,so it may just be time to let them know that the toys are well and truely oot the pram and we are sick of being ripped off,we run the country not the politicians,if we dont work nout gets done,just remember what a few lorry drivers achieved in 2000,i would just like to add that i passed two armed police officers outside Mr Browns home sitting in a big 4x4 with the engine running its easy to see that there are two sets of rules when it comes to global warming ,we pay the duty on thier fuel too,lets all protest we may just get mr brown to listen

Posted by Tam Smith, 12th December 2007 10:30pm

About time. I am all for another protest. However everybody and I mean everybody needs to accept the little bit of hardship that would come along with a protest such as those back in 2000. These fat cat politicians don't care. They are not the ones worrying about how hard this financial year has been. A back bencher earns about £80K a year and that's not including the money he/she has fiddled!! They do not care that we are, on average, £15 a month worse off, on fuel alone!!! Now look at the knock on effect it's having. Food is going up, decent clothes are going up, the kid's toys are going up, parcels and letters are going up, I could go on. This is all because of high fuel prices. It's time to put an end to it but we need to stick together, help each other out when the going gets tough and if we can manage that we will be triumphant.

Posted by Stephen Morrison, 12th December 2007 10:40pm

When is this country going to take a lesson from the French & Germans, had this happened over there they would have brought the Capital to a standstill until the goverment acted, when will the British learn that only when it hits the south will any action be taken. If you really want to force the goverment into act, start a drive slow around the M25, as the cars run out of fuel and start to bring the whole of the capital to a standstill the goverment will be forced to act.

Posted by Roy L Manchester, 12th December 2007 10:42pm

bout time somthing was done about it the goverment has taken the fuel tax to far this time


hopefully people will take the same action as back in year 2000 and stick to thair guns this time instaed of moaning they cant get fuel

remember no fuel and the country stops = fuel prices cut to get countrys transport network moving again

Posted by M Paxton, 12th December 2007 10:43pm

LETS SAY FOR INSTANCE ALL DRIVERS TAKE THIER CHITS WITH THEM ON THE MORNING OF THE 19TH OF DECEMBER AND AT O7.30 AM ON THE MOTORWAYS
AND MAIN ROADS JUST SWITCH THE ENGINES OFF AND SIT FOR 4 HRS IT WOULD CAUSE MAYHEM, JUST ALLOW FOR THE EMERGENCY SERVICES, AND A GREAT POINT WOULD BE MADE, WITH THE THREAT OF MORE ACTIONS POSSIBLE SIMPLE !!!

Posted by Joseph Mclaughlin, 12th December 2007 10:56pm

Think they should bring back Guy Fawkes. This government are taking the P yet again I would actually be better off not working at this rate. Oh they get me angry, flippin daylight robbery, Feels like now they have passed the pound we will never see it below again.

Posted by Nicola O'toole, 12th December 2007 11:04pm

yeah n if we won this fight they will just find another way to make up for there losses so either way we will still need to pay another way

Posted by Gibbi, 12th December 2007 11:06pm

i have just put a signe in the rear window of my discovery that reads
LOWER PETROL PRICES NOW lets hope one of the idiots running and ruining this country sees it and gets the message - perhaps if we all display the same they might just notice one [ for any one not sure on how to make a signe like this out of a4 paper - just carry on huggin your tree's and we will do it for you ]

Posted by Alan Wright, 12th December 2007 11:08pm

As a pensioner I don't use my car quite so much , I still sympathise with those who have greater needs than myself but I'am afraid it will be like flogging a dead donkey, the greed of the government will prove greater than the needs of the public. Sorry for posting so late but for some reason your Email ended up in my SPAM. Better late than never.

Posted by Ian Irvine, 12th December 2007 11:08pm

I think the current level of fuel tax is outrageous, especially for rural inhabitants who usually don't have the option of travelling by convenient public transport. Successive governments have largely destroyed rural transport in the form of trains and buses. It is utterly hypocritical of them to try to blame gobal warming on people living in rural communities who, apart from walking for hours or days, have no transport options other than private cars. It is alos very unfair to discriminate against allegedly gas-guzzling 4X4s in rural ares where four wheel dirve is necessary to get up steep, muddy or icey farm tracks, or tow agricultural trailers - very different from the school runs favoured by Chelsea tractor-driving MPs' wives!

Rural dweller.

Posted by Christopher Russell Richardson, 12th December 2007 11:13pm

I hope the fuel protesters mount a more sucessful PR campaign than last time when the government clearly orchestrated a smear campaign and it quickly became apparent that they had the ear of the press on this. Witness the many elegations citing the threat to public safety and of the reporting of the person who died of a heart attack whilst waiting in a queue for fuel.
If you see this happening this time around I urge you to contact the broadcaster and complain.

Posted by Tad Piesakowski, 12th December 2007 11:49pm

I think everyone should take a stance against the price of fuel as it affects everyone not just the people who have private transport

Posted by Charlotte Mcadam, 12th December 2007 11:59pm

Even with these planned protests the motorist is in a no win situation as the government will instigate the anti terrorist laws to stop the protests and will ignore the call for a cut in duty or price. Some haulage companies will have their licence suspended for taking part.
Fuel like cigarettes and alcohol will continue to be highly taxed whatever the voters say or do.

Posted by Melvyn P, 13th December 2007 12:20am

Its time the British public stick two fingers up at the government, we are being robbed left right and centre by them with backdoor taxes.

Although I agree we need to reduce carbon emmisions by reducing our use of fossil fuels, the government should be encouraging us to use enviromently friendly fuels like biodiesel, or straight rape but due to the ammount of duty charged these fuels are not economicaly viable.

I have also noticed that the retail price of vegtable oil increases in line with diesel pump increases, I have questioned these increases and have come to the conclusion the government is the instigator of them, obviously when fuel prices increase there is a temptation for some to run on cooking oil.
To employ countless customs officers for fuel testing would be a costly operation it is far easier to deter use by cost.



Posted by Clive Fletcher, 13th December 2007 1:00am

I remember the Fuel Strike of 2000 as clearly as if it was yeaterday. Petrol was priced at 85.9 @ litre, the following day it jumped up to 87.9 after a series of price hikes. Soon after the Petrol strike took place, sadly they gave in, when the Government was on the brink of being broken down to reduce the price of petrol - we were so close.!
I bought my first diesel car in early Sept. 2007, at the time I was buying diesel for 92.9 @ litre, within 3 weeks the price had gone up to 98.9, then seemingly every week, the price has crept up markedly. Hello fuel prices had gone up 2p @ litre October 2007, the lowest price is now £104.9 @ litre, the day prior on Monday it was £105.9. I have seen prices nearby for as high as £1.10.9. What is going on??????, that means that since October prices have rocketted by 12 to 18 p @ litre, far greater than the so called 2p!!!
Something seriously has to be done, to stop these clowns in the Government from ruining our freedom, to be able to simply enjoy our motoring, whether it is from A to B, or general enjoyment.
I visited Tenerife in mid August and noted their fuel prices - 47 p @ litre of diesel and 52 p for petrol. They should have to pay more, as it is not a mainland state, so how come they can get their fuel so cheap???
Most peoples lives revolve around shift work over the past 10 years, which means Public Transport is not a viable option, at all.!!!
Hopefully this protest will do something and help to curb the continous grief that the Government persistently meter out to us. I am sure that no one would complain if prices backed down to at least 85p @ litre, for quite awhile.
Sadly that will never happen.!
Good Luck with the Strike, you have my support.

Posted by Russell Turner, 13th December 2007 1:25am

i agree with the protests but not the protests against a main supplier the profit in a ltr of fuel is just 2ppl most forecourts like bp, esso, shelll, texaco and gulf are now sole owned by the manager who just gets suplied by thatfuel pruducer but the person who takes on the garage on avrage only makes 0.002ppl so lets make the goverment bring that tax down it needs taking off

Posted by Joe, 13th December 2007 1:45am

BRING IT ON whatever it takes to tell gordan prices are too high

Posted by Mary Massey, 13th December 2007 4:38am

Obvious what's happened here!!! The government have lost out on money from the drop in sales of tobacco therefore have needed to regain this money elsewhere. Where they have lost from the few, they have gained from the many. Very clever really!!! Oh, possibly another way also of forcing cars off the road!!!

Posted by Paul, 13th December 2007 5:10am

Great news!! I feel the blockaders should never have given up in 2000, their small victory could have been so much more!!
last time we had a small amount of fuel and stopped using the car so much, we cycled to School so it was good for me and the kids.

Posted by Janis May, 13th December 2007 7:25am

the reason for the fuel costs is very simple, first and formost the country is run by utterly useless to the people, but brilliantly self serving scum.
They have no idea what they are doing, the uk is just a huge business, the problem being it is being run by toilet cleaners and if i ran my business as they do i would have been bankrupt years ago, but i dont have the luxury of just being able to steal from my customers.
the whole labour party are failed at what they did in the real world and just plain dishonest.
the second reason is this country is overrun with parasites whom have to be paid for...fuel and other costs will only fall when we have the guts to remove both of the above from this land.

Posted by Pete Odell, 13th December 2007 7:32am

I have gone to using my bike to get to work it takes me 15 mins in my car. on my bike 35mins but its so dangerous as its all main roads and as i found out today painful when u fall off when u touch a patch of ice. i tried the buses(pot luck if it turns up) so i went to try the metrolink. im sure they have a book full of answers to read out over the tannoy. ive given up public transport as i couldnt afford to loose my job for being late every other day. The goverment HAS failed and is still badly failing, maybe time to emigrate and let the scum in.

Posted by Manchester, 13th December 2007 8:01am

All I can say is good luck to the Hauliers, I hope the country comes to a standstill, maybe then the government will then see sense that the fuel prices are way too high. However I will be filling up this weekend just incase this does go ahead.

Posted by Allan Mcneill, 13th December 2007 8:03am

At least Mr Turpin wore a mask, go for it.
It is getting beyond a joke you have my support
Keep us informed what is happening

Posted by Paul Emmett, 13th December 2007 8:20am

Lets take a leaf out of the Italians book and block the roads. There's enough cars and lorrys to bring this country to a halt. Confrontation seems to be the only language polititions understand. So much for democracy!! What other country in the World would put up with being ripped off like we are - the arrogance of levying two taxes on the same item is beyond words!!!!

Posted by David Stokes, 13th December 2007 8:32am



STOP WINGHING AND WHINING ABOUT FUEL PRICE RISES.

GOOGLE 'PEAK OIL' TO SEE WHY YOUR PETROL, DIESEL, GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILLS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE AND WHY OUR ECONOMY WILL CONTINUE TO DECLINE.

GET USED TO ADVERSITY. YOUR LIVES ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE FOREVER.

Posted by Peakoil, 13th December 2007 8:32am

THE GOVERNMENT AND COUNCILS ARE SO KEEN TO GET EVERYBODY ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT,THAT ITS MAKES YOU WONDER IF THEY DONT CARE HOW HIGH THE PRICE OF FUEL IS,I KNOW THAT THE SEQUENCE IN TRAFFIC LIGHTS IN MY AREA HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO CAUSE CONGESTION SO THAT THEY CAN INTRODUCE ROAD TOLLS [ANOTHER TAX]IF YOU GO INSIDE THE M60 AND EVEN MORE IF YOU GO NEARER THE CITY CENTRE,HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT WHEN TRAFFIC LIGHTS ARE NOT WORKING THERE IS NEVER A QUEUE?.THE TAX ON FUEL IS TO HIGH AND I CANT SEE IT COMING DOWN UNTIL THE WAR WITH IRAQ AND AFGANISTAN IS OVER AND THOSE IDIOTS DECIDE TO ATTACK IRAN THEN WE CAN SEE FUEL PRICES GETTING EVEN HIGHER [THE TAX]SO I AM IN FAVOUR OF THE PROTEST,POWER TO THE PEOPLE.

Posted by Roy.b, 13th December 2007 9:02am

It's about time we stopped deluding ourself about green taxes, public transport and dwindling resources. Whilst there may be some truth in all these, it seems that politicians simply take the cynical view masquerading simple tax rises as some sort of ecological concern. We must be the only population in Europe systemtiacally exploited by its own government. Sometimes one wonders for whose benefit we elect these people. No wonder public confidence in politicians is at an all time low.

Posted by Bert Pringle, 13th December 2007 9:03am

Working shift work, makes it impossible to get to work by public transport.
I would happily take public transport to work instead of driving my car, as the rising petrol costs make using the car prohibitive.
Unfortunately i need to take a train and London Underground to get to work and the times that i start work mean leaving very early, when unfortunately, there is no service on the underground.
The Governement insist on us using public transport instead of our cars, hence the rising duty on fuel. But they do not take into consideration people like myself who cannot use public transport as the service is unavailable for the times i work.
Stop the duty increase or offer earlier services for public transport!

Posted by Paul Knight, 13th December 2007 9:14am

This long overdue.

I have come to the conclusion that the Lunatics Running the Asylum?

First it's train fare increases that force people not to use trains
Then yet more tax on motor fuel so the people that have been forced off public transport have to pay more anyway.
Then the day before yesterday we had little red books for all students
Then yesterday morning we had talking to the Taliban
Then in the afternoon we won't talk to the Taliban.
And also we had a minister saying middle-aged council tenants to move to the country to ease city overcrowding.
Not forgetting the 'ealth & Safety Nazi's who manage everyday to dictate some other stupid edict.
The list is endless.

With Comrade Brooon and his commissars' we are fast becoming more and more like the former USSR .

Will it never end?

Posted by I Young, 13th December 2007 9:23am

For peak oil, read peak oil prices.

DEPOLYMERIZATION

ABIOGENIC

Limitless supplies of the stuff.

Posted by Herb Cooper, 13th December 2007 9:28am

by all means proteset on sat-15th dec, maybe a better threat may be every driver of car,van or truck dont drive on a given week day ie all stay home for the day mid week, okay loose a days pay but this could benifit us all in the long run.

Posted by Keith Grimshaw., 13th December 2007 9:39am

I suggest we all down tools for a week - thats stop going to work/school - stop all of britian as though there were no fuel left - then let the government see how they run things..... they are totally out of their minds and i think we ALL need to stick together on this one - okay a week might be over the top but atleast a day and stop buying fuel from all stations across the nation to show our support - also for that day lets ALL take our cars for the safe keeping around parliment streets to make sure the government know about it (free buffett lunch day at houses of parliment would probably be best)

Posted by Parvez, 13th December 2007 9:46am

lets stop this daylight robbery right now!!!

Posted by James Wood, 13th December 2007 9:57am

I can't believe what is happening to this country. Brown and labour have practically raped our beloved country. We no longer manufacture anything worthwhile. It looks like the biggest assest this country has is TAX!

"Tax everything possible" is the way labour runs it's policies. They are also going to tax chewing gum...so they will tax the air we breathe soon. Come on people we are the highest paying country when it comes to fuel tax. Why is it that fuel is so much cheaper in third world countries like India, parts of Africa and also in the USA. It sickens me to the stomach when I saw fuel prices breach the £1 mark and it looks that there is no stopping this rise!

Looks like we need another Robin Hood to sort out these tax fatten critters who suck us dry for every penny we earn. Why don't all the MP's have a cut in their salaries and fringe benefits, I bet that would solve most of our tax problems. Remember, the government work for the people not the other way round.

I thought we lived in a democratic world so why does it feel we live in a dictatorship. What was the point wasting billions on Iraq and Afganistan, and more importantly, losing those valuable lifes of our military only to find that this country too is nothing but a dictatorship. Fight the cause, bring fuel prices below £1.............

Posted by Bob, 13th December 2007 10:03am

Again, all you read is BRING DOWN LABOUR!
This is just a RIGHT WING attack to get their own Government back into power. Do you really think the CONSERVATIVES would change anything?
NOT A PRAYER!
Get real, Stop playing POLITICS with the real people.
I hope the protests are fully legal, if not ARREST ALL RINGLEADERS and make an example of them!
Prove they are blue blooded, hunting, shooting, gas guzzler driving idiots!

Posted by Simon Williamson, 13th December 2007 10:52am

Didn´t hear much about the protests yesterday!

Posted by Simon Williamson, 13th December 2007 10:54am

It's good to see so much anger about fuel prices. I agree, they need bringing down.
Do we really think that the Government will do anything about it?
Come on, since when have they ever paid attention to public opinion. Remember the Gulf-war protests? that was all about Oil not WMD...
We can vote them out at the next election but the next lot could be just as bad. It's a great way of collecting revenue.
Perhaps the partisan French attitude might make the government capitulate.

Posted by Jake Bishop, 13th December 2007 11:05am

I seem to remember the goverment saying that the price of petrol would reach and stay at £1.00p a litre within weeks of winning the last general election. How they could predict this I do not know; I beleive that this outragous price increase in fuel has been 'engineered' and that terrorism in the middle east is just an excuse. I certainly will not be voting for a labour goverment again.

Posted by Tony Whillock, 13th December 2007 11:15am

Petrol prices are obviously at the moment a joke, I remember a time ago when it was closer to 60p a litre as opposed to the current 102.9p it is in my area. The rise in petrol prices seems to be yet another reflection of our poorly led country and the way in which the government doesn't have concern for anyone excpet themselves and their bursting bank account. This country seems to be going from worse to worse with rise in council tax, house prices, increasing crime, I mean even the money that you work so hard to accumulate is subsidised so heavily. My message here is that they need to cut the taxes if not so out of petrol then atleast out of some other factors so that petrol prices become more affordable.

Posted by Harinder Singh, 13th December 2007 11:21am

The government throws - no wastes money away on all kinds of useless ventures but doesn't seem to worry because all they do is add more tax on to anything they can get away with and Gordon Brown has been the worst offender of this by far. People seem to have forgotton exactly what he has raised taxes on over the years. This is yet another example. This tax will effect all people in all walks of life - travel, transport and food to name but three.

Posted by Lynne Gaylor, 13th December 2007 11:24am

The differential between Petrol and Diesel is a con too. We were lulled into changing to the more environmemtally friendly diesel then "Whack" got you! as a pensioner I am dependant on my vehicle and it's getting more and more UNaffordable.

Posted by Adrian Goulding, 13th December 2007 11:34am

The point about the VAT increasing as a result of a duty rise effectively amounts to a tax on a tax. Something which this government should address as it not equable and inflates the effect of a duty increase to the detriment of the motorist; no change there then.

Posted by Geoff Hollyer, 13th December 2007 11:36am

In reply to Alan Clark, comment No25, the hauliers in this country pay exactly the same as the ordinary motorist,£106 per litre, they may get it 2p a litre cheaper if the buy in bulk, as for the farmers, they can run tractors & other agricultural machinery on red diesel (which is still taxed but not as much)£1.20 per gallon, they are not allowed to run road going vehicles on red diesel, we are farmers & in the last month have had the tanks dipped 6 times by the M.O.T.

Posted by Andrew Gill, 13th December 2007 11:46am

Apparently we have the most expensive petrol in the world ! I believe that a responsible protest is overdue, and I welcome and support your protest. The price of fuel is another additional area of dispute that this damned awful failing government needs to address; or better still get out of office.

Posted by Norman Adshead, 13th December 2007 12:09pm

STOP WHINGEING !!!

You had more than one occassion to get rid of me and my buddy Gordon via the ballot box so why didn't you do it then? You think I can be blackmailed? I've got you by the short and curlies and you know it so pay up!

You useless shower.

Posted by Tony Bliar, 13th December 2007 12:16pm

I would use public transport but it's useless and pathetic, so there for I use my car.

Posted by Dan, 13th December 2007 12:17pm

<quote="Tony Bliar">STOP WHINGEING !!!

You had more than one occassion to get rid of me and my buddy Gordon via the ballot box so why didn't you do it then? You think I can be blackmailed? I've got you by the short and curlies and you know it so pay up!

You useless shower.

Posted by Tony Bliar, 13th December 2007 12:16pm</quote>

Ummm... ok,.. random..

I put it down to the fact the government does not have any more money in the bank due to the war... did people know that each cruse missile costs apx 2mill pounds. Some one has to pay up the cost.. o look.. we do.. the tax payer... he he he.. I have to change job due to the price in fuel.. I wont be able to run my Honda with out doing so.. (Pride and joy) (Also would like to live on my own.... currently with mum and dad :( )

Posted by Dan, 13th December 2007 12:26pm

I returned from Lanzarote yesterday where the cost of 'Sin Plomo' (unleaded) was about 60 pence per litre. Why can't Britain have similar prices/taxation.?

I predict a riot (if something isn't done to adjust us to the rest of Europe in the long term). Someone should take the government to the EU commision on fair-pricing and go for a ruling from a higher authority that they cannot challenge..

Posted by Terry Sutton, 13th December 2007 12:29pm

I live in the middle of nowhere - very rural are, surrounded by sheep fields!
To go by bus into the nearest town costs £4.20, yet I can go in the car for £1.50! Public transport is an absolute joke!! I have to use the bus in the day, as my husband takes the car to work.
He works in a rural are, about 4 miles from here. So to get to work every day, he has 4 miles of windy little country lanes. We NEED a 4 wheel drive, rather than just having one or show.
We have driven round here and seen that many cars in the ditch in the winter yet the Land Rover is ok to cope with snowy, slippery, icy lanes.
Not only is the tax for a 4WD extortionate, but they are a lot more thirsty. Hence the cost cripples us financially.
I agree with the person above as well, you should pay VAT on the cost of the petrol, not VAT on the tax as well. Otherwise where will it stop? We just pay tax, on tax, on tax, on...well - you get the idea!
Stupid government! I'm voting conservative next time - I wonder if they'll be any different.

Posted by Siobhan Hobson, 13th December 2007 12:35pm

The price of fuel is absolutely ridiculous. This government is robbing people.
At least D**k Turpin had the decency to wear a mask when he robbed people.

Paul..

Posted by Paul Hopkinson, 13th December 2007 12:51pm

The solution is simple enough long term. Vote for anybody at all other than these people.

(1) Short term write to your Labour M.P. if you are unfortunate enough to have one and tell him/her what you plan to do.

(2) At the first possible opportunity do it before they completely ruin our country.

Clive Evrall

Posted by James Clive Evrall, 13th December 2007 1:01pm

My wife and myself drove just under 200 miles to attend a schools education day as part of a group talking about live in the English Civil War. If fuel prices keep goin the way thay are we will be unable to keep this work up for much longer as the schools will not be able to meet our cost.

So what have this bunch of jokers managed :

My Wife's out of work (I have a second job)
The students miss out on a very important part of english history and are poorer for it.
The companies that make the equipment we need go under and put more people out of work

Well done Brown!!

Posted by Graham Tasker, 13th December 2007 1:05pm

I can fully understand the feelings of everyone concerned about fuel prices, however I am of the opinion that this sort of protest doesn't work. If we thought like the French a complete ban on using the road for one week would have far greater impact. If every vehicle was removed from the road for one week it would have disasterous effects. Yes there would not be any fuel being purchased, food could not be distributed to shops and supermarkets. Okey we may have a lean time but it would probably cause a whole country revolt, and have an effect. As I see it the only vehicles on the road would be the Prime Minister's, and his side-kicks. Reckon the police would join in as well!!!

Posted by Peter R Lewin, 13th December 2007 1:07pm

I would like to give my support to the impending fuel protest this weekend.
When I started driving 5 years ago I was paying 67p a litre and now it is around £1.09 and there is no sine of it slowing down.
Good luck on Saturday
Regards
Jonathan

Posted by Jonathan Sole, 13th December 2007 1:26pm

I wish somebody out their would enlighten me. Firstly I hear China is to blame for the shortage of fuel! how come., If the chinese are manufacturing a product, it means that they have replaced a competitor in another country, whats more most of there energy comes from Coal. Secondly when the price of a Barrel of Oil rises,, the Dollar takes a slide aginst the pound, where does that profit go?. Thirdly, there's a supposed shortage of Oil! where? I haven't heard of petrol or gas queues anywhere on the Planet. Fourthly, If there is a shortage, then why doesn't a responsible government Ration the stuff. Being an oilfield hand with over 40 years experience, it smells of speculatory investments and the government is taking all the excess taxes that speculation provides

Posted by John Roe, 13th December 2007 1:51pm

People should get a smaller more economical car and do all their shopping online. The amount of people who drive people carriers with just a driver and 4X4's who don't actually use off road is amazing. Road tax should go on petrol because of this.

If this protest is popular then we are certianly turning into a selfish, junk culture just like the yanks

Posted by Chris Caz, 13th December 2007 1:52pm

good on them its about time that someone stood up to the goverment the tax is well over the top i wouldnt care if the country came to a stand still its the only way the goverment are going to see that the genral public are sick of them and the take take take attitude

Posted by Matty R, 13th December 2007 1:53pm
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