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This is great news, it is about time that this stupid government were forced to listen to us the british public...
What i would like to know is how much of there own money gos into running there own cars, no sorry its the tax paying public that pays that isnt it.
Public transport do the government use it (NO), IF we had the income that some of the government get then just maybe we would be ok with this but we dont,, we work hard for the wage we get....

I work 65 miles away from home as the money is better and my partner also works away for the same reasons, we are at the moment spending around £800 on fuel which is breaking us and we feel we are in a catch 22 situation. Why is britain over double than any where else in europe?? Is there anything we can do with tax relief?? I dont Know!

Tax is the major constituent of petrol prices , and unless the goverment reduces their take, the price will stay higher than that paid in other countries.

To increase fuel prices and then say it is to save the planet is ludicrous,We cause 2% of the worlds pollution and yet we have huge increases in fuel duty "To be greener and save the planet" It is once again a stealth tax to penalise the British public because we live on an Island and have no choice other than to pay it. Tell those in power to try to pay all of these increases when you live on a fixed pension and cannot get around like you used to.

The year 2000 saw picketts because of fuel reached 90p £1 a litre the price now is over £1.20 per litre in some rural garages.Its about time us british stood up to this day light robbery and did something about it. lets have another pickett but this time dont cop out until some thing is done about the fuel tax in country.

At this rate any small business will go bust, the cost of fuel will eventually affect all the products in the shops. Its time to stand up for the population, this government seams hell bent in bankrupting all of us.

i am fuming because the price of petrol in bristol has risen every two days in the last week by 1p each time .what is going on and can any one tell me when the increases are going to stop. ask mr brown to give us all a chance,as we are fed up.do they realy need to charge us so much ,what a rip of country this turning into

We need to act fast as this situation is getting rediculous as the rich get richer the poor suffer!

Three weeks ago before i went to Malaysia i was extremely angry at the increasing fuel prices. When i left the local garages were charging 112 pence per litre. Whilst in Malaysia i purchased petrol which cost me 2 Malaysian ringgit perl litre (32 pence per litre). When i returned to the uk on the 25th of April i was astounded to see the price of diesel had risen to 119 pence in the same gararge which was charging 112 pence prior to my trip. A 7 pence rise in less than 3 weeks is just not sustainable. We need fule protests, blockades, demonstarations, whatever it takes. The goverment say they are not increasing fuel duty, but they are. The tax on a litre at 119 pence is obviously more than the tax on a litre costing 79 pence so please dont insult our intelligence.

What has happened to your site does no one care about being constantly ripped off with higher fuel prices how long can this go on before it has to stop !!!!!

Good, im suprised the lorry companies have taken it for sooo long now! Im write behind them! im also ready to protest!

Another thing annoys me is:

"Oil giants BP and Shell were the toast of shareholders, but faced anger from motorists, after pumping profits of more than £3 million an hour.

The impact of rising oil prices meant their combined earnings hit £7.2 billion in the first three months of the year - a haul far greater than City forecasts and resulting in share price gains of around 6% for both firms.

The profits were achieved at the same time as motorists visiting UK forecourts faced up to average unleaded prices of approaching £5 a gallon.

The AA said drivers would be shocked by the latest profits haul."

This was taken today off the aol news website, why is the prices going up so much every day! is it tax or is it the the oil companies taking using it as an excuse to raise there prices!

Im a sales rep, i do about 60k miles a year up and down the M1-M6 and im finding hard to know where to buy my fuel, BP is always 4-5p over the average and even more at service(which brings me to a side issue, why is more expensive at a service's when they are the cheapest to distribute to, being on the motoway????????) Texaco has rubbish fuel which you wont get as many miles from, shell have boasted there profits in my face(wont be using them again) marco are normally abouve average but at least most of them are indepently run. This really only leaves supermarkets, Tesco are about average i find but the cheapest is normally sainsburys or morrisons. I say fill up there cos the petrol is normally below average and you wont be paying 2 pounds for a bottle of water and horrible feasters sandwiches!

When is the next demonstration?

after reading all the comments, there is no protest date, so it shows that us brits have no backbone and we just sit back and do nothing, well lets change that shall we? lets PROTEST ON THE 23rd MAY, PROTEST ON THE 23rd MAY,
PROTEST ON THE 23rd MAY
PROTEST ON THE 23rd MAY
PROTEST ON THE 23rd MAY
PROTEST ON THE 23rd MAY
PROTEST ON THE 23rd MAY
at 8:15am untill 8:45am stop your car, van or what ever you drive.
and all haulage, courier drivers and anybody who can join in, go slow where ever you are from 12:00 noon till 13:00pm.
now lets stand up and be counted or suffer the fuel prices.
email everyone on your mailing list and link the to this site/comment, and tell them to do the same. text them, phone them , tell as many as you can and lets do some thing before this counrty OUR COUNTRY and its pepole are taxed so much we will not aford to live here.
dont wait tell everyone you know NOW!
and make sure you are counted on the 23RD OF MAY
spread the word now! email any news publishers and lets voice it every where!

This time last year it only cost £50 to fill our vehicle. Now its £70.00.
Whens it going to stop.
Would like to think more petrol protests can be done.

if you are willing to act on my last posting on the 1st may (above) the you can show your support by joining in on the day and i have also paid for a add on ebay item no. 220230422650 all you have to do is click ask the seller a q.
and type in " i support" and i will post on the listing.
now go on tell all and lets do something about the prices of our fuel.



thanks, to all who is supporting this.
ken.

I'm loosing workers because they can't afford the fuel to get to work. you have to think twice before visiting relatives. If fuel costs were put into the rate of inflation we would be at 10% for most families. How can you put 20% of your wages back into getting to work. The government need to bring down their tax and the oil companies have to reduce their profit margins. We're being screwed, its time for a stand!

i am outraged that we in the uk pay more for diesel than we do for petrol !!!!!on the contenent diesel is way cheeper than we pay over here in rip off uk . as we all know , diesel at one time , was in fact cheeper . but as diesel engines became more popular , more fuel EFICIANT , and more CLEANER , wot dose our poxy government do ? yes ....surprise surprise ,,, it goes in to " yes we will have some of that mode !!!!!! " and , hay presto , slowly puts the price up . the governmen keep banging on about " GREEN " issues , well as we all know you get more miles to the gallon with diesel than you do with petrol , i rest my case . we should all take a leef out of the french way of thinking ....and have a national strike !!!!! but no as usual , we all lie down !!!! and take it !!!!! i rest my case .

i think it's about time we stand up and be counted on this issue, £1.15 a litre here, of which i believe 63% is tax!!! the working men/women are the back bone of this country, yet at every turn we a robbed by the goverment.
how do they expect us to get to our places of work if these fuel prices keep on rising. then there is the knock on effect, most of, if not all our consumables are delivered by road, as the cost of fuel gos up so must the cost of haulage go up, there by pushing up the cost of the product.
we all sit at work or at home, maybe even the pub (if you can afford it) and moan, yet like sheep we drive the next day and pay the money. a nation of sheep, is that what we have become? out of the whole country there must be a large enough number to stand up and make a difference. i believe one or two major roads being brought to a standstill during rush hour should make those "above" open there ears, think on it, & if you are willing to sacrifice a days work then reply here and lets get something started.
Nick.

I will happily take place in a protest if i can afford fuel to get there. Have loads of local ones instead of big protests, more people will join in of they r close by. The government only give our money away instead of improving the roads infrastructure anyway, time to spend our heavily taxed cars on the roads and not third worlds, charity begins at home. Stand up and be counted instead of hiding like we are scared from politicians, they work for US not the other way about, lets protest and give them a well deserved fright

I forgot something... using duty as an excuse for ensuring that fuel price rises stays in line with inflation is obserd!! Are their any other products anywhere whos price is artificially controlled to make is track inflation? Oh... and now fuel prices have blown inflation away, should not the same arguement for reducing duty? Oh no..sorry..I forgot, this gov never gives...it only takes...

STOP TALKING AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

THE GOVERNMENT ARE YOUR SERVANTS - SO WHY ARE YOU LETTING THEM TELL YOU WHAT TO DO?

SHEEPLE. A LAUGHING STOCK.

LIKE THE BULLIED CHILD AT SCHOOL. THE ENGLISH. MY GOD.

This is a joke, how can the government and Fuel companies expect the country to be competitive in Europe with these sorts of price rises. I do find it funny that when the strike action that was taken in Scotland that lasted 2 days the price of fuel began to rise rapidly as there would be a shortage. Well there was no major shortage but the prices not only stayed high but also continued to rise.
Enough is Enough I for one am sick of being held to ransom by these people. We are all just trying to make a living and from where I am standing the re-invention and deployment of the Highway Robbers is in full flow.

Well I am discussed with this country, it is like a communist country. We are payout out far more than most of us earn!! It is terrible that we are taxed so much.......it is almost fare to say it makes working a waste of time, all we work for is just to pay taxes!! I am 22 and trying to start getting on the property ladder and I just cant afford it and now I cant afford to drive to work!!!!
Bring on the protest!!!

The sitaution is getting ridiculous, I live in Wales and many people had to buy houses in rural communities to try and get on the housing ladder as property prices were continually rising, thus requyiring a long car trip to work, now with fuel prices going through the roof many people in rural communities are really suffering. I have every sympathy for the truckers, but to some extent they are able to pass on the increase in fuel, not so the ordinary consumer who are seeing rises in mortgages, food, council tax, utilities and now the ridiculous rise in fuel prices. I accept that fuel price rises are not down to the government, but every time fuel rises so does the taxes that the government receive, truckers demonstrating is a good thing, but surely its time for the ordinary motorist to do the same and show the government that we will not be squeezed anymore, take to the roads in an organised show of strength and make a point for Mr & Mrs Average

My husband is disabled and we have a motability car from the goverment charity motability although we dont have to pay for tax and insurance we have to find the money for petrol. we are currently on benefits so finding petrol money everyday is difficult my husband needs his car as he cannot get out and about like other people. I think the goverment should come up with some ideas on how to help the disabled when there is such a crisis with petrol costs there is going to be a knock on affect with the price of petrol which will hit the car industry too if people cannot afford to buy petrol then people wont be able to afford cars either. Plus the price of basic food i.e bread,milk,fruit and veg and meat is being affected too and we all need basic foods living on benefits of £80 a week is such a struggle we cannot even afford for my husband to have a break as we cannot afford the petrol to travel anywhere else in the country it would eb so nice to live in Spain or one of the other countries as the price of petrol is so much cheaper. If the goverment was to cut the amount of tax on petrol we would alol be a lot happier

Just an idea. How abou tax the speculation ?
Simple. Put a heavy tax in the difference of the oil price that OPEC is charging and tax the gains speculators are having when tey sell the oil.
Lets have all the big markets working together: CEE, Usa, China etc etc.

Its disgusting to see polititions giving themselves hefty expenses each day along with more than adequate salarys whilst the rest of us on minimum wage struggle on a daily basis. I would like to see eveyone leaving their cars at home for a week of two and go for a bus or to a train station to get to work. The government would then see how pathetic the public transport system is and it would bring the country to its knees, and rightly so.

SUGGEST THESE BLOGS BE SENT TO GORDON BROWN, TO SHOW THE FEELINGS OF THIS NOW THIRD WORLD COUNTRY.

I know how to" twist the governments arm"with regard to fuel prices,but it needs YOUR cooperation.Other countries can manage their economies without excessive fuel tax!!. YOU, the public, have power you dont know about and with 80 to 90 % cooperation WE can turn this around.But you have to be willing to cooperate on a mass scale.Colin Pomeroy.

Higher fuel prices will only drive overall livings costs higher, leading to higher inflation - a never ending spiral.

Why cant government act?

If they gave the subject any thought they would peg fuel costs to a specified price bracket, increasing and reducing the tax burden, keeping prices stable - similar to interest rates set by the BOE. Dont blame the BOE when the inflation target is not met....

Government prefer to seat back and enjoy the revenue stream - at the taxpayers expense!

Get Paid, Get Taxed !! Get some faggs, Get Taxed !! Have a Pint, Get Taxed !! But petrol in the car You got it "Get robbed",, dicck turpin had the decency to were a masks !!!

i live in a small town in a rural comunity where the wages are low and u need a car to get to the shops etc how does the goverment who takes all our money get to run about in posh jaguars at our expence where we struggle to run our cars and homes because of being so highly TAXED on everything that is meant to be a help and hand in life ITS A JOKE

we wouldnt mind paying the fuel prices if the goverment did away with the road tax.
i think it is about time that all motorists stood up for themselfs.
the fuel prices dont just hit motorists they hit the whole population due to the increase in the cost of living .its about time g.brown put a mask on to rob us.and did it with some dignity.

Just a couple of actual facts to make the angry brigade even angrier -

Petrol hit £1 a litre in 2000, it's now at say £1.20/litre - a rise of 2.5% a year, well under inflation and I suspect your wage rises.

Reducing tax on fuel would increase instability of petrol prices - it's the tax that has cushioned us from the worst of the oil price rises. Particularly in business, it is the inability to plan for your fixed costs which is he killer, not the actual price of the commodity. Reducing tax would make it a lot harder to plan for the varying price per barrel (you don't mention this when comparing us to the States do you?). There is a real argument for pegging the price of fuel to an inflation linked fixed rate and adjusting the tax as the price of oil fluctuates. Trouble is this is tantamount to nationalising the fuel supply and I doubt whether there'd be many takers for that approach here. Also the initial price would undoubtedly have to be more than it currently is to make the policy work over any decent time frame.

We all want to pay less for everything, food, services and fuel so we can have more money to spend on holidays, cigarettes and subscriptions to the Daily Mail - but the fact is the overall price of motoring is lower now than it ever has been. The economy is a balanced system, the conditions that have allowed this to be the case include the current rate of fuel tax.

I don't pretend everything in the Garden is rosy but I find these protests depressing and ill-conceived - it sounds to me as if you are dancing to someone else's tune. Oil is running out and we need to reduce our dependence on it and you'd be better spending your time and effort addressing this.

Now... off to start my campaign to get Gordon Brown to do something about these rising sea levels.........

I am intrigued to see if this post gets any comments (apart from abuse that is !)

Even though the price of oil has gone down on the open market, we are still being ripped off by the government and to think that so many people voted them in on the "Honestly Clause". Something must be said and done as soon as possible and show the government that we (the public) should not be trifled with.
Most of us try and limit our usage of our cars to help with the environment so we do not need to be beaten with a stick.
Come on Mr Brown. gives us a break from more taxes..
its a big Rip Off

I am surprised at the fact that the majority of the bloggers here think that it is OK for the Oil Companies to make Huge profits for the same product. That they have been making for years telling us the same things again and again and getting away with it. Exxon alone for the first quarter of 2008 had a net (not gross) profit
of over 10 billion dollars. They have told us in Early 1980's we had a shortage of oil, The same people told us the same in 2000, 2005, and now 2008. Folks, believe what you want, but at least read between the lines, If you had a spouse that constantly told you that they were not being unfaithful, but yet they were caught with someone else more than once, wouldn't you be at least suspicious of something going on?

They tell us CO2 emissions from cars are bad, so they've raised the price of fuel.
Who stops the Volcano's from erupting!
It is a proven that one volcano eruption
emits more CO2 into the atmosphere than all of the cars in the United States combined, So why should we suffer.
create an alternate fuel source. (we have them us them) Think of it, the only reason we have soaring fuel prices is to line pockets with OUR HARD EARNED MONEY!

Then they tell the media to print something positive about high fuel prices.
(Less Traffic deaths with higher fuel cost)
But nothing about Hurricane deaths from people that could not afford to fuel up their cars to evacuate! People wake up!
In my business I have to us a truck and a trailer, to go from town to town. I can't get a tiny car to save on gas. My customers can't pay more just because Exxon wants more money from me. It's just not right.
Then I would be just the same as Exxon, raising the price of my product just because Exxon wants more money!

My husband is disabled and we have awheelchair accessible vehicle.He became disabled when he was 67 so he doesn't get a free road fund licence or mobility allowance,so we have to pay the full whack.He worked all his adult life and has paiid tax and NI only to find that he's banned because he was too old when he became disabled to get what people disabled at under 65 get for free,when they haven't been able to work ,and haven't paid as much into the pot as he has.
We live in a rural area,and rely completely on our vehicle.
My Mum is 88 and has difficulty walking so she relies on our vehcile too.
Isn't it about time that this unfair situation was sorted? Let us all be treated equally and not be penalised on the grounds of age. Isn't ageism illegal these days?

Lin ,West Yorkshire

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