Petrol price protests planned for this Wednesday

IF THE PETROL STATIONS STILL HAD HOW MUCH A GALLON IT IS THEN I THINK THAT £1.15 A LTR = £5.68 A GALLON THERE WOULD BE EVEN MORE PROTESTS.

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.

This is your England

I think we all spend too much time talking about it and doing nothing about it! I’ve seen a lot of sites like this where we can complain to each other but do nothing about the problem. If we all do something about it it would make a difference, I.E; you say road tax should be in with the price of petrol, OK don’t pay for your road tax in its place put duty paid for with petrol! But the problem with this is that the price would still be too much, so you win nothing. Ok what if we all take a stand and block all the roads in or out of London, stop all trains and shut down all airports, and stop all work, this would bring the UK to a standstill and then you would have your say in how YOUR country is run. OK I here you say how do we do this??? Well it’s you that drive the cars, HGV’s, buses, the trains and we work the airports, factories, you sit in the office and it’s you that work the land, so without you all doing what you should this country stops dead, you see you do run this country no matter who sits in government, all it takes is you all not to go to work for 3 days or more, A country wide strike in protest of all the heavy Tax that we pay on all consumer goods Like your petrol, road Tax, clothing, food, drink and VAT.....

So it’s up to you to do what needs to be done or put up with the way your country is run by the rich who get richer by the day....... as you get poorer

Yours Daz

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.

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.

Yes the goverment should of acted sooner rather than later i think that Gordon Brown as having been the previous Chancellor he should know how to sort this out as he was in charge of a lot of taxes. Obviously he doesnt wnat to keep his job if an ordinary peerson i.e Joe Bloggs made a mess like he has done he would of been dismissed why cant we dismiss Gordon Brown he is totally useless

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

Ok so it seems from the comments above, that people are generally unsatisfied with the way that fuel prices are continuing to rise, so why not do what many contributors suggest an organise protests, anyone got a website that could be utilised to start some campaigning, or suggest a good and quick medium for further discussion

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

Don't need to plead with these b......... The civilised way of protesting with these lot does not work. You lot have not learnt from the Poll tax rioters, Even the lady not for turning had to turn, Learn from the French and break the law if you have to. If the law is not protecting the rights & the lively hood of its citizens than the whole spirit of the law cannot be respected or demand to be respected.

If,we had not let past governments walk all over us . This day would not have come. We are in EU learn from them. The government will blame all & sundry for the prices except themselves and don't fall for the blackmail that if taxes are reduced the schools & hospitals will close.

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!!!

Fuel prices are out of control but the biggest problem is PEOPLE MOAN AND GROAN BUT DO NOTHING ABOUT IT!!!!!!!
ACTION SPEAKS LOUNDER THAN WORDS.......

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.

at the minute as we all know petrol prices are discusting but its not just that its everything ordinary people are finding it a struggle while the goverment get paid for there petrol and expences.i think if it would be viable if everybody took 1 day off work as protest to the government this could show how much people feel about this situation because everyone i talk to have had enough

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.

all talk and no action.
sheeple the lot of you
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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...

Whats going on.... the price of fuel is rocketing and no-one is doing anything! I sence real anger everywhere, I hear people complaining all the time, and even now the gov wont rule out the next 2p rise at the end of the year! We need another national event, it needs to be noticed nationally, its the only way this gov will do anything! Come on....lets stop somplaining individually, or even on a town by own basis... Let go national....!!

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

Living in a rural community, it is difficult to go anywhere unless using a vehicle; I take my children over 50 miles a week just to take them to school,
I can not carry on if the prices go higher I shall go under and all my family will suffer,

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.

Does it mean that because we are British we should pay more for our fuel. It seems that the British fat cats of this world just want to take all our hard earned money that has already been taxed and then taxed again. I feel that Britain should stand together on two set days and just stop in the road where ever they are for at least enough time to show the goverment that the British pulic has had enough.

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 .

"The protests of 2000 achieved some success in that the fuel duty escalator was frozen. However, it has now resumed "

Sloppy and false- the fuel duty escalator was actually abandoned in the 99 budget, before the protests (as you admit elsewhere on your website), and has never been renewed- the fuel tax burden per litre has reduced since 2000 as the increases in total tax are below inflation (again, check the numbers printed on your own website)

Still, don't let the facts get in the way of a good story right? But you can't win this argument with misinformation, if we're ever going to get any action on fuel tax you've got to get the facts right or all you do is undermine the whole process. And if you carry on contradicting tyourselves within 2 clicks, you've got no credibility. So please quit it.

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!

When and where will it end? The government is strangleing us with unfair taxes on fuel. OIL PRICES ARE NOT THE REASON WE ARE BEING CHARGED UNFAIR PRICES! Reduce the tax on fuel now, then producers of other essential consumables would have to reduce costs to the man in the street. I for one have had enough! Keep prices high to save the environment? BULL C**P!

Take action now!

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.

email hotrodjon@aol.com


Devizes
Wiltshire

29/04/2008

ITS OK WRITNG THESE THINGS BUT WHAT WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT

As you know the cost of living is reaching extreme measures, with government racking in 56 million a month approx from petrol duties.
And yet the roads are full of holes, just take look around Wiltshire, pot holes every where, heavy traffic going through small villages, and villages ripped apart with new builds, where’s our village life going?

Has this prime minister lost his way, or lost the plot?

Then there’s tax’s on nearly everything we buy and vat.

TAX>TAX> TAX That’s this goverment

The people I speak too are outraged with the government, there’s talk of police state, big brother, ripping off the poorer people.
So many losing there homes.
The cost of living is going through the roof, the rate of inflation of trains fares , petrol, buses, should I go on, why should you pay for a train ticket when you cannot sit down, this is a safety concern, if a train had to stop in a emergency.

If this government cannot make money they put charges on things like congestion, tools and so just to money of the motorists.

People don’t work for themselves any more they work for the government.

Please don’t think for one moment, people know the fuel duties are costing price rises,
And inflation, without fuel, things don’t get moved, things don’t get made.

People are say they want a full country strike, close the country down.

All this is the tip of an iceberg, Hospital closures, people having to travel miles for treatment, post office’s closing down, schools trying to coup with the influx of foreign children who cannot understand English.

Foreigners claiming child benefit, for children in a foreign country.
Since the 60’s Discipline for young people has gone to the wind, bring back the proper punishment for crime, prisons like home, make things harder make convicts know what they have done

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.

i with you on this one kenneth, you can count on my support!

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!

its about time. if i knew how to rally the pepole of briton to protest i would of done it as soon as it hit 95p. me and my family live in a remote rural location and we have a roud trip of 6 miles just to get one child to school and that is the shortest round trip, a trip to the shop is 9 miles. and petrol prices are going up on what seens to be a daily basis. all of the britsh public sould act and act now and STAY INDOORS ON A WEEKDAY FOR 1 DAY A WEEK UNTILL THE PRICES ARE DRIVEN DOWN, we should all stan to gether and show the goverment that we will not be walked over like this and they just cannot keep taking our money. our wages dont rise as much as the rising cost of uk living. STAND UP AND BE COUNTED ALL

When is the next demonstration?

it feels like every week i put the same amount of petrol in my car which i can afford but the amount of petrol i now get for my money is hardly anything, i spend the same amount each week and the petrol doesnt last. im a college student so paying to get to college is bad enough! Driving a car doesnt get any cheaper.

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!

Should have been capped at £1,00 a litre with the government subsidising the remainder out of the extortionate tax they take. Lets go french and blockade all garage forecourts for a day.

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 !!!!!

I believe that the Welsh Farmer who was organising the fuel protests of 2007 was threatened with violence against his family if he contiuned his organisiation of the fuel protests. These fuel protests were a credit to him and brought the country to its knees's in days. Nobody wants the country on its knee's but some things are very much worth fighting for, and having money stolen from your pocket by this goverment is defiantely one of them. It is quite apparent that it was goverment agencies who arranged these threats to the welsh farmer as he had defeated them. Well done to him for showing the way forward.

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.

I would willingly use public transport if there was any. Many rural villages have a two weekly service only and to my knowledge none of these buses go to any train station. Then there is the problem of parking when you get to a bus station or a station which is a huge problem in this area. Finally of course there is the cost of public transport..trains e specially prohibitive and a cheap day return only entitles you to trains after 9-30a.m. - return before 4 or not until after 7-30! With this present governments policy on cars, No wonder all our villages are being left by people whose families have lived here for generations.

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

maybe we should get a mass potition all around the country, then maybe someone migth take notice how the people feel

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

the reason the fuel protests dont work is simply the piblic do not support the truckers in there work and what they do for the country. Until we all have unity as in how the french do things then this goverment will continue to walk all over the motorist and our dwindling haulage industry.

so lets all rise up and take on the goverment and the fat cats who profit from us

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 think we should block fuel trucks again and make sure we get a really good deal this time OR BUSINESS WILL GO BUMP AND THERE WILL BE MORE PEOPLE ON THE DOLE !

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.

Where are the organisers to plan for a fuel boycott on the basis that groups of people in different areas do not use their cars for a week or so. This is legal and is staying within the law no petrol use, no fuel tax. That is the way to hit back.

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.

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.