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I am in full support of any protests!! My office and job is in my car and my weekly fuel bill has gone up about £20 a week all of which I seem to have to absorb. As commented on other comments it is time the goverment came into the real world then perhaps prices would be different.

Due to the fact that we pay for the MPs fuel they don't care, why should they, the gravy is good to excellent. They also don't seem to be pushing to many green things at all , or places where the biofuels can be obtained, its lip service only.
They are not in touch with the people who put them there and only think of themselves and how much milk the system for.
Reassess them, their pay, expenses & pensions.

Go ahead Transaction 2007 - let's show this Government we mean business and that we are sick to death of suffering their ever increasing taxes. Rip-Off Britain used to be a joke - now it is a reality. Can they not see or do they not care about the impacy of fuel duty and VAT - how it is affecting everyone in the country - wage earners and pensioners alike - not only at the pumps, but throughout the food chain due to transport costs (and what alternative do we have to get food to the retailers - the rail network is in a complete shambles !) All I ask is - will the last person to leave Britain please turn the lights out !!!!

The biggest con is that fuel is now priced per litre. We tend not to really notice the odd 1p per litre increase, failing to realise that this is really 5p per gallon.
My local garage increased prices by 1p per litre twice last week, that's 10p per gallon. We would have protested much earlier if we had stayed with pence per gallon. It would have been headlines news in the newspapers.

Reading the comments on this site, I cannot avoid the conclusion that most protesters cannot, or do not want to, make the connection between their own consumption of fuel and the environmental impact of ever-increasing car journeys. I'm thinking here of the congestion and consequent increase in journey times into and out of our towns and cities as well as the global impact in terms of CO2 and other pollutants.

A responsible government of any party needs to use the taxation system to regulate demand for fuel and encourage as many of us as possible to use public transport where that is a viable alternative to the car. As reserves diminish, the economic imperatives will force world prices up and we have to accept that. The solution? When you buy a car, reject from your shopping list any model that will fail to return 50 mpg - there's plenty of choice, and that includes large family cars.

Porphyro

Petrol taxes instead of helping the economy are actually having a crippling effect by increasing delivery costs to shops, commuting and all businesses that rely on transport. Then comes the rising debts in an effort to keep pace, particularly mortgage debt . As the governement continues to squeeze money out of people the huge debt would cause the eventual collapse of the whole fiancial system. Money would then become almost worthless. Millionnaires and big institutions will raise prices further to try to survive with many more businesses abandoning the UK to set up in China. All this can happen simply through the short sightedness of a governmnent to see what is happening. Watch and observe the signs.

I have just one thing to say please don't give up to early like last time one more day would have made all the difference to the out come .
Will be behind you all the way.

I too think something must be done and pretty quick too - but having said that I remember the long queues in 2000 and it was very, very difficult for us ordinary folk. This time I hope we do not face the same hardships and that a protest can be organised some other way. If I have no work I get no pay, and those in rural places who need a car to get to shops can't be put through the worry again of not being able to fill up with fuel.

My understanding of V.A.T is that it means 'Value Added Tax'. Duty does not add value to a product so therefore it is immoral to add V.A.T to duty imposed.
Yorkie.

It's about time somebody stands up for their rights, the cost of living in the U.K. is allready unbareable for some and these fuel prices do not help one bit. They ask us to use public transport but yet they put the prices of that up aswell, we are all being taken for a ride by the money grabbing government

I have to agree, it is about time. Sadly I doubt that it will happen or, if it does, it will fizzle out in no time at all. That is the nature of protest in this country.

Now we have now pushed thru the pound per liter barrier it will now be easier for the fuel producers to keep pushing up the prices.In France Diesel is still €1.17 per ltr,so why are we being ripped off?
Also I think the road tax in France is included in that price.
We need to stop being so apathetic and start showing the government that we mean business,or we will forever be a nation that rolls without any resistance.

I live in Shetland where diesel is now £1.22/litre! The rumour is that we pay the highest price per litre in the world. Will it ever come back down again? I doubt it. 13 Oil tankers left Shetland in October generating a whopping £72 million for the UK Government.

being self employed is hard as it is. now every time fuel goes up so my price has to increase.
mr brown and his clowns, just laugth at this. only because they still get a wage at the end of every month.
perhaps they should stop think before laugthing. they are not the backbone of this country. its us the joe public.
so Brown wake up

I agree that fuel prices are aburd in this country. Have just come back from the USA where petrol costs only 37p per litre. The trouble with this LITTLE country is that our government (of ALL political parties) wastes money minding everybody else's business around the globe..... and we have to pay for it! Also, they allow free access to anybody and everybody..... so we get millions of scroungers using our NHS and getting benefits.... and we have to pay for it.
The problem is NOT JUST FUEL PRICES .... but government policies which require them to raise ever large sums to fund their squandering, and the motorist is the easiest target under the 'guise of global warming'. Long may the protest and blockades last until somebody in Whitehall listens!!

And what of "greener" fuels - the price of LPG has risen by even greater proportions and the variances in price are far greater than that of petrol - it can vary in price by as much as 50% across different parts of the country. I think many garages have siezed on rising duty to put disproportiate increases on LPG

On a fixed income I struggle more as the price of fuel rises - public transport is ok to a point but can't always take you where you want when you want. Sack this money grabbing, money wasting government NOW.

I'm 100% PLUS PLUS PLUS behind this protest!

The only way to force the Government to drop the fuel tax is for the EVERY vehicle driver, CARS, LORRIES, BUSES, COACHES, TAXIS etc to all at a pre determined date and time............say...... 09:00 hrs on every MONDAY morning to simply STOP their vehicle, wherever they are, TURN OFF the engine and just sit their for minimum ONE HOUR. Can you imagine the sights we will see on Television? The M25 would be at a standstill all around, the PRESS Helicopters would film it and the GOVERNMENT would be in position that it would be forced to take account of our wishes.

I want 50 pence tax slashed of the price per litre.

The poeple of this country cannot afford to live as it is with rising costs yet the rich can easily pay the price of the fuel, the masses cannot.

I work 40 miles from where I live. I would love to live nearer, I do NOT enjoy driving this distance, but I cannot afford to live nearer work. The increase in fuel prices is having a drastic effect on my finances. I do not understand why we seem to pay so much in this country for everything! It could end up putting me out of work, If they end up with black boxes as well as the fuel increase I couldnt afford to go to work, is that what this government want?? The people who work hard and contribute to the economy out of work? It angers me so much. They penalise people who commute, but, contribute to the economy, pay taxes etc.. I would be happy to be unemployed claiming benefits!! Something I have never done, but, if it fuel prices keep increasing it will make me consider my options!

The total known oil reserves of the entire world are estimated to last only 4o years, even at present consumption rates. That means that well before that time, petrol will become unavailable for such mundane things as private motoring or air travel. It is time that everyone woke up to reality and realised that we have a very limited finite resource and it is inevitable that prices are going to rise and rapidly as consumption increases and supply diminishes.
One more interesting and frightening fact. There are approaching 7 billion people in the world. They are fed by a system of intensive agriculture which depends on oil for tractors, fertilisers, and transport. Without oil to support this agriculture it is estimated that the world can only support 2 billion. What happens when the oil runs out? I would prefer petrol prices to rise if it means my children will live a little longer.

go for it i am behind them all the way it is about time all car drivers stoped getin screwed by this goverment

What I don't understand is why with the dollar at an all time low and oil being bought in dollars is the price at the pump still rising unabated. Wouldn't be anything to do with greed or is it just cynical old me?

I live in a rural area and the fuel prices are squeezing the live out of us.

I am unemployed and so is my partner, so we have to travel into oxford to attend interviews at job centre.

We used to pay no more than £8 to travel in by bus, now its £9 with the possability of going up even more.

I have also noticed that my weekly shop at Tesco has gone up.

I tend to buy virtually the same each week, and since petrol hit the £1 mark, my weekly shopping bill has risen around 10%.

I think it's about time that the government cut the amount of duty on fuel.

After all, they are not doing so well at the moment, and if they want to stay in power, they have to do something right.

We as tax payers pay thier extortionate wages, just so they can make terrible decisions, which are severly afecting those on low wages, and unemployed.

i have just returned from states from a holiday and they think it is a joke at what we pay for petrol. It is time we all put a vote of no confidence in this goverment as they are taking a lend.

My winter fuel allowance won't be going on heating oil but on petrol!
Linda

The only way that a protest would achieve anything is to affect the working lives of MPs. I have to drive 300 miles a week to get to work and back home. My support work not last long if I caanot get to work, to earn, or get home to relax. This means no rolling road blocks on motorways or bloccking fuel supplies. Blockade Parliament and your local MPs offices, not their homes.

fully agree with the action planned - something needs to be done to stop this ridiculous amount we are paying.

I am disabled and live in a rural location with no public transport so have to have a car to get anywhere, my nearest post office and spar is 2 miles away.
I have also noticed the cost of my weekly shop increasing, namely milk, bread etc.

My parents are currently in Malaysia and they are paying 28p per litre for fuel, if they can do it why cant we??

The prices are getting rediculous now...we protested at the price reaching nearer 80p but I have to pay 107 for deisel now....must fill up then protest..

It is a shame there is not a way of affecting a good protest and only hitting those that are not in emergency need of fuel..its a shame that the big comnpanies do not get behind such strikes but at the end of the day it is all revenue for them as well.

I live in Isle of Wight and prices are more excessive than the mainland but with living on the island we can walk to most places ...

I wouldn't mind about the fuel price hike if it was a genuine cost increase but the government take such a big chunk it wouldn't kill them to reduce it. I need a car for work as it would take me too long to get there by public transport. Everything else in life has become more expensive so it is all reducing our standard of living. We don't take holidays abroad or eat out anyway, neither myself or my husband are big alcohol drinkers nor do we smoke. I'll make sure I've enough fuel for the next week or so. I'm in full support of the action.

With the price of fuel & the morgage going up we can not afford Christmas this year & have already told our children that things will be different this year. My husband works hard as so do 3 of my children but this country is the pits at the moment. People in other countries wouldn't stand for it. About time we British put the GREAT back into Britain again & made a stand . If we refused to pay the petrol price & no one go to work for a couple of days because we couldn't afford the petrol prices hmmm they would have to do something.

It's bloody time, that the UK gov takes a step to reduce the tax on fuel.

As a disabled pensioner who lives in a rural community yet another fuel price hike hits me very hard. Even if I could use public transport it is a bad joke, infrequent, dirty and hellishly uncomfortable for someone with spinal problems (yes, I have tried using it). But this hits food prices too, and with the additional expense of getting to the only supermarkets available being an out of town one, with village prices inevitably high. But it is nor just the elderly or disabled who are hit, the buses are so infrequent that it is almost impossible to use them to get to and from work, and young people who want a social life are hard hit too. On one bus route the buses finish at 6.30pm, the other one has a total of two buses all evening, finishing at 10.00pm - living in this tiny village with social life except for the pubs, what are the young to do for entertainment? And the bus company's idea of Sunday transport is no buses at all! I could go on, with hospital transport now bring cut because of funding cuts - I think we can all get the picture, this government is destroying any semblance of a civilised life in this country.
Dee

makes no odds, type all you like here,sign petitions? waste of time. Hard action is required. everyone needs to atke to the protests, not just the rolling blockades etc. Government must be forced to make changes. The trouble with us English is we will rant and rave to each other, but thats about as far as it gets. I need my car as I am disabled, but now i struggle to afford to run it. Grants should be made avaiolable to all tiowards the cost of lpg conversion, this would help regarding spirilling fuel costs as well as help global warming issues.

I am partially disabled, I can walk but not very far as a chronic back and circulatory problems prevents me doing it, I feel soon I will have to give up my one little luxury (my car) because of these fuel price increases. I could use Public Transport, but the bus stops are too far for me to get to them, and if I do manage to get on to a bus, the journey is often very fraught, being flung around by a driver who seems to think he is transporting animals. I think its disgusting that any Government should be able to bully us into giving up our cars, our cigarettes, (former smoker) and I soon suspect we will soon have to pay a tax for the air we breathe if the clarity is better in some parts of the country.

It is of course not just the motorist that is affected by the high fuel prics but the entire country. The cost of living alleged at around 4% is simply not true. Supermarket prices have icreased by as much as 20% over the last few months and certainly more over twelve. If fuel prices are increased we pay at the pumps and at the supermarket on the bus, the train and in every walk of lif involving fuel. Yet those on fixed incomes get poorer whilst those on incomes where a payrise is possible or the opportuity to earn more is availabel just about keep up. Whilst it must be notices that MPs' salaries have recently increased from £60,000 to some £120,000 plus expenses - a fact kept very quiet -check it out.

"The reality is that oil is a finite resource, and as there becomes less of it then it will become more expensive. If you choose to live miles from where you work or work miles from where you live then you have to face the costs of your choices. Don't blame everyone else for the consequences of your own decisions, particualrly the government."

Peter (comment 56) I for one do not choose to work as far from home as I do, the unfortunate thing is that due to the cost of housing I had little choice over which property was affordable, also the factor or where I live there are no jobs, so I am forced to commute...

I am all for these fuel protests. Count me in. And for all of the public transport fanciers, how about an extra 5 hours a day travel (my commute is 18 miles each way) and an extra £25 per week..... thought so.