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The three most significant factors causing the rise in oil are:- speculation by fund managers, the desire by the producing countries to get the same price for their raw material per gallon as our government gets by way of tax per gallon, the inability of this totally incompetent government to be able to show any temporary relief for it's people. This effects all of us, not just the motorists amongst us. Gordon "The Moron" Brown has literally bust this country, and indeed the problems that we are seeing and feeling NOW would have manifested themselves long before now if his bacon had not been saved by two other incredibly well-timed oil crisis in the past decade.

i am in the same position as a lot of people with the fact that i am self employed and need a van for work,the wife has a car for her work & then i have my car for personal use ( all on finance so cant be sold ) since the rises in fuel i could well be out of work before long as i will go broke. The point is i think that the unemployment rate is set to go through the roof with people not being allowed to work through no fault of their own so the goverment will then be even more out of pocket as they will have to finance even more unemploymant

My fuel bill has gone up by £20 per month and I have also noticed my shopping bill has increased considerably. This is unacceptable and something should be done to make the government realise they are put into power to do the best for the electorate and not line their own pockets at our expense.
I think they are all the same labour, tory, liberals as they promise to change and as soon as they get into power its what they want not the people who voted for them. Time it was sorted.

There are a lot of people making a lot of money out of these fuel prices at the expense of the general public. One of the biggest supermarkets in St Austell are selling there fuel above the price of anyone else, more then BP & Texaco garages. No wonder they have billions of pounds in profits.
What about the Arab nations that supply the oil, the oil companies and speculators . Fat cats getting fatter on our misery,

Where is all the money going to that the government are raking in every day, and they are not satisfied with that. They want to increase car tax for cars that are older then 3 years and put the charge under the disguise of green taxes. Its the poorer people who have the older cars and once again they are going to be penalised.
Surely this government can see the plight of the country and where we are heading. Its time they done something about it or the way the country is going it will be taken out of there hands with the ordinary people rebelling, as the truck drivers & fisherman are now.
Someone please see sense before its too late.

The government should STOP being so greedy. They based their taxes on an oil price of between $70 and $80 a barrel but now they are around $130. The government dont take a set fee, they take a percentage therefore they are raking in millions of pounds extra over and above what they budgetted for. Its about time they started taking a standard amount instead of a percentage. I think the percentage currently stands at around 65% WHY so high?
65% of $80 = $52 therefore they can manage on $52 dollars which they originally budgetted for. 65% of $130 = $84.5 a barrel. Now $84.5 - $52 = $32.5 a barrel is what the government is taking over and above what they budgetted for!!!
Its the GOVERNMENT being GREEDY that is our problem. The price of petrol could EASILY fall below £1 a litre if only OUR ELECTED GOVERNMENT will be fair with everyone.

The UK is still one of the very few countries of the world where diesel is more expensive than petrol. It costs a fraction of the amount of time and money to refine diesel compared with petrol.
Diesel is also less polluting to the environment. Therefore, why are we paying so much more for it??
The government is trying to make us "greener", so why not reduce the cost of diesel and encourage people to get diesel cars?
It must simply be down to them making a lot more money from diesel than petrol.

Not only should the Government scrap the proposed 2p/lit rise, but it should also go back to prices before these major rises, calculate what tax and duty it was raising and work out what that means as pence per litre, then reset current prices to reflect the same pence per litre. There is no reason why the Government should benefit from our misfortune - this is in effect yet another stealth tax and is completely unethical and unacceptable.

I'm an economics student, and I am aware of the concept of fiscal policy as a way of reducing demand for de-merit goods. However, petrol is price inelastic, making this ineffective, and even if it was going to work what is the point of increasing the fuel tax by 2p if the market has done that itself? Gordon Brown is an economic genius, but this is definitely a Mr Brean policy!

Hi, i would like to know why tesco charges 1.16.9p a litre in York when just around the corner its 1.14.9? So I asked. Tesco staff agree its a rip off and are tired of people complaining yet the price stays 2p more. As a nation we have always been led to believe that the supermarkets are cheapest place to buy fuel as they sell it in huge amounts (ha ).......lets hope the very nice man at the local press really does run his stroy!!

Since my last post this morning at 09.49, i came past the same Texaco garage and yes you've guessed it the price of unleaded has increased since this morning at 2.30 this afternoon it's was at 117.09p,

This situation is just getting beyond control, not a single week goes by when petrol/diesel doesn't get hiked up by profiteering petrol garages, because thats what i see it as, with these constant price hikes,

These garages are just "extracting the urine" now,

Ok so what are we the going to do about as a nation we surly cannot afford this any more, so what of next week then the price will be hitting 149.09p at the rates it rising and quite possibly the price of unleaded will be beyond the means or mere mortals by the end of 2008.

Why does "Being Green" to this govenment just mean tax people more ? how does that make us a greener and not just poorer?

past and present governments have taxed the motorist so much over the years and now there is no room for menoeuver in raising taxes. Its so
unfair on the motorist who does not do a great deal of mileage(not a slave to
their Car!) If prices continue the way they are going, my car might have to
go after giving up other things in life to have this luxury and working very ,
very hard to keep it on the road!Dont approve of bio fuels as it use crops
that should be used to feed people. scientist will just have to work
harder to find another solution to try and make things greener and cheaper
for the motorist.

I think this government is like the saying goes, "the blind leading the blind"

The hard working men and women of our country are being well and truly made to suffer. Not only does Mr Brown think its a marvelous idea to scrap the 10 pence tax band which ultimately puts the low paid workers in the poor house even further, and puts money in the pockets of the high earners, we are paying through the nose to put fuel in our cars.

Due to the fuel price rises we have seen food bills go up as the transportation costs are higher. When will this ever end? Where are we supposed to find the extra monies from to subsist.

Labour is a taxing government, tax for this, tax for that, tax for the other, and they will continue to tax, tax, tax.

Open up your eyes Mr Brown and have a look around you. You and your Labour colleagues purport to be a government with the working class people in our society held close to your hearts. You can no longer fool us. You are now become transparent and we will not be fooled by your government any longer.

TIME TO GO!

Oh dear the doom and gloom merchants are out in force here. We may,or even may not be in the mystical doom bringing peak oil scenario. How did oil get to $100 a barrel? All because some muppet wanted to be the first broker to pay $100 a barrel. He then sold them immediately at a loss. Smart broker eh?
Remember Jan 1st 2000, everything was going to fail, planes would fall out of the sky, oil refineries would stop working ( at least its on topic), petrol stations would stop working (again on topic), people started to stock up on food and move into the country and become self sufficient. What happened? Nothing, feck all, not a thing, nada. Petrolpries.com started this debate as the tax we pay to the government on fuel is to high, we pay fuel tax, then VAT on that fuel tax, taxed twice on one product, is that fair? The rise in VED isn't a green tax, its just another tax and one that is going to hit the motorist on a low budget or low income families. It will hit smaller second hand car dealers as no one will want the cars that attract a higher tax, putting more people out of business. Some people may even start using public transport more, anyone knows that that the public transport in this country cant cope. So what will the do? Put more buses and trains in use, increasing oil consumption and increasing oil process through demand. Everyone knows that buses are more polluting than an average car, so how is that green? High oil prices may be here to stay, or are they? Who knows what will happen. If you start a rumor someone at some point will start to believe it and then it becomes fact, even if its not.

There are as always a number of self confessed "experts" on here and the usual believers that we are all doomed.

A person is smart, people are dumb. Make up your own minds as to what is happening people, and don't believe everything you read.

Petrol prices near me are 103.9 for unleaded and 109.9 for diesel. Where do I live? Well I aint telling.

Paddy Ashdown made some comments on BBC's Question Time recently that high fuel and food prices were here to stay and we should get used to it (all the time denying that he was in any way employed by the government).
Only last week, Gordon Brown made the same comments which were easily digested by the public thanks to Paddy's blow softening technique.
These statements are dangerous as they allow retailers to raise and maintain high prices.
We are living in bad times, held to ransom by fuel producers and supermarkets with a government that doesn't represent our interests in a world on the brink of depression thanks to shenanigans in the banking sector.
The best thing is we can't even emigrate to escape this one!

The price of petrol is now 113.99 ay Shell soverein in prince avenue close to
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It is costing me a fortune to get to work now. Unfortunately as I work shift work public transport is not an alternative.

Yesterday I filled up my car and was very surprised at getting almost 40 litres in the tank. My fuel tank is only 30 litres and was 2/3 empty!

It seems to me that this particular filling station has rigged their pumps. This is the 2nd time it has happened too. First time I didn't realise at first what had happened.

This particular filling station is well known and not a small independant outlet.

i find it somewhat disturbing that the fuel price in arabia is about 7p a litre i realise that charges have to be made to us in relation to fuel tax or duty to maintain the roads but it appears with the rising costs our duty payments rise also please reduce those

My small family car is essential not a luxury, I only do around 3000 miles a year taking my child to school and getting to work on time. Public transport is too expensive and unreliable, Gordon Brown needs to come down to earth and realise that we cannot live with petrol prices going up hence all the food prices are increasing. As a single parent I find it all quite soul destroying to try and make ends meet. Wake up Gordon.

I see the majority of people demanding that the government bring the level of fuel taxation down but in reality this ain't going to happen and if it dose it not going to be by much (I guess if it comes down that decrees would soon be swallowed by the rising cost of the raw material) I changed my petrol car (which returned 20mpg) for a diesel car (which returns 50mpg) just over a year ago which has helped, and also reduced my road tax but that's a different issue I have no choice but to drive to work I cover 750-800 miles per week which I have to cover the cost of, I have seen the price of diesel rise by 30p per litre over the pas 12 months and don't think signing a petition, blockades, boycotting individual filling stations, etc, etc. will really help what we need to do is plan for the future I am currently trying to decide weather it would be a better long tern solution for myself to A. go back to a petrol car and stump up the £2000 need to convert it to LPG or B. keep the diesel and buy a biodisel processor for around £1500 and produce my own fuel for around 15p per litre using the waste oil from a friends chip shop (which he now pays to have collected) .
I have do quite a lot of research into both and am still unable to make my mind up but at least I ain't crying in my porridge demanding the government and multi billion dollar to give me a break they are not going to listen you have to do it for yourself or just pay the price and stop crying.

I think a total, national strike could be in order - just think of the chaos that we could all cause by refusing to go to work until prices were slashed - the cost of fuel at the moment represents a taxation level approximating 100%.

Is it time that we showed the petrol companies and Mr Brown that they can not keep robbing us blind like this. Both the petrol companies and Mr Brown have driven the cost of fuel this high based on one factor 'money and profit'.

Enough is enouth is it about time we started to gain control back as the customer. Should we not boycoting petrol suppliers ie this Month all buy at Shell and boycot all others, next month we then buy at BP and boycott all others. This would mean that all bar the petrol supplier not boycotted will loss their profits for that month, they would have additional cost for storage.

Hopefully the companies being boycotted will start to understand that we are the customer and if they want our business they will have to start dropping the prices

I am not a business but a parent with a big old but still good diesel car, and a child who is away from home and three others still to ferry about. I don't want to pay these increases either. I have huge sympathy for businesses but don't leave it up to the diesel owning private citizens to meet these massive rises alone. I wishe the road tax increases were not retrospective. If I had bought a diesel now the government could stick me thses rises but I already own my car and have had it for some time. I would replace it but it is too expensive for me

How far does it have to go before HM Gov. do what we pay them to do
and sort this Fuel problem ?
And is it just me or is there a plot at hand by the fuel suppliers regarding
the pump price, all but one station in my area are charging the same price
No competition anymore.

Blair left Brown deep in the brown and smelly, so if he wants to get our vote next time round he better listen to us the people and dramatically drop the fuel prices. Most of it is goverment taxes anyway, and the fuel prices affect everyone.

What would happen if all car owners refused to fill up for one day, did'nt go to work or go shopping or use there car for any reason, did'nt use public transport or taxies, after all the transport companys and moter bike owners have had a go and shown there disgust its about time the car owner had a crack

Greenergy is a manufacturer and supplier of petrol/diesel to Tesco (Tesco also have a 25% holding in greenergy)and ALL the fuel Tesco sell has a 5% biofuel
mix in it so it should be cheaper but here in Bridgend South Wales Tesco are the first to raise their pump prices and with very few exceptions are nearly always the dearest in the area. Today they're selling normal petrol @117.9 ppl & diesel @ 130.9 ppl.
So to all of you advocating boycotting the big boys and using supermarkets please bare in mind that the fuel supplied by the said supermarkets might well be of a lesser quality I personally find that my car runs better and further on fuel bought anywhere other than from a supermarket.
However as is constantly mentioned the real reason our petrol/diesel is so expensive is the government tax on tax and we are quite simply urinating in
the wind if we think they are going to reduce it any time soon. Gordon Brown himself doesn't have a drivers license and has no idea how much it hurts us to pay such a very high price for our fuel yet he goes blabbering on about how he feels the hurt of the British motorist but blatently blames the "high world price of oil" Note to Gordon Brown :- It's no shame to admit that you were wrong and you now need to ease this back braking burden you have inflicted on the british public/motorists after all it's your stealth taxes that are to blame.
It could be 2 years to a general election and at the moment despite all the opinion polls you really couldn't get a cigarette paper between the main political parties so the fuel tax needs to be cut substantially NOW not as a last minute bribe on the eve of the election but I somehow feel that we will wait in vain.

Is it just me or did my O-level chemistry tel me wrong , that diesel is a lower grade in the process of refining and petrol and the greener unleaded as it became is the top notch before we get to polymer processing. therefore is it not easier/ cheaper to produce diesel. its just that having been a diesel owner since the early 80's when the people laughed at such ownership and deluded souls like myself paid premium to drive the sluggish tractor like cars purely because we had long lived engines with good return for high mileage, as the numbers of diesel owners has increased so has the price hike, are we not facing a demand v profit hike. from one who lives in a rural area, no buses, no gritters, works nights nearest hospital now 37 miles away so does a 74 mile round trip adding 2 hours to my working night to serve the public who moan continuosly re lack of beds, facillities, staff, to whom i must smile and speak at least 1 eastern european language as i am now accountable for every restriction imposed on me by gov.target uk! and pay through the nose for the privilidge.

I would also like the Government to think about the Disabled, i need to use my car for all my needs whether it is a long journey or even a very short journey to the local shop, the price of petrol has risen so much that some days i have to stay at home and ask my neighbour to pick a few items up for me at my local corner shop, i know i can park in a disabled parking bay but i have to have the petrol to get there first... have a heart, or even borrow one, but cut the outragious duty we are paying on Petrol..

hi can I mention some information you sent me seems to be a bit innacurate ,you sent me this recently

Station : Roseberry Filling Station
Address : Acklam Road, Middlesbrough, TS5 8DL
Brand : Imperial
Distance : 2.89
Price : 52.9p
Updated : 02-06-2008
the postcode shows the garage on the opposite side of the road of where a garage is and that garage does not sell lpg , if you go to the postcode that you sent me this place sells vehicles but not petrol anymore , whowever I have found a garage about half a mile down this road that does sell lpg , regards Paul

Great,not only do we have alarming petrol prices,but manchester has now been given the green light for congestion charges . There wont be any point going to work soon, it will be too expensive .

Sir

I have just returned from a 2 week holiday in france diesel in france is cheaper then petrol,why is this so.

I wrote to Gordon Brown on the 5th June... in essence ... "the Treasury is gaining massively through high oil prices / extra fuel duty as most of us suffer. They should slash duty by 20p immediately. This would surely have a positive effect on food prices etc." or am I being too simplistic ? If the Govt received a few hundred thousand letters they might get the message and do something.

I would just like to know where it is going to end - hitting 131.9 for Diesel in Berkshire now, how high will prices have to before the Great British Public rebel and say "We've finally had enough?". A month ago it cost me £30 to fill up - it is now costing me just over £37 - as this is going up almost on a daily basis, it makes it very hard to budget if you rely on your car to get to work, no wonder there is a credit crisis!

i have a big family and therefore need a big car. the other alternative is to sell one big car for two smaller ones thus doubling my running costs but why should i do that after working so hard to get what i want....all the taxes have been on things we need to live comfortably...i.e, fuel food gas electicity and so on so the government KNOW we will continue to spend our hard earned to line thier pockets. i for one am not going to sit back and have the money i work for taken by government fatcats

When this Labour Government first came into Power, and what a scam that was, I remember that our good friend Darling was assigned to Social Services. Straight away, the noises he made about those who defrauded the system and how he would deal with them, was refreshing. Here, at last, was someone who would stand up and be counted.......
After some ten years of staying in the shade, he is now in the Chancellors' robes. And I have the feeling that he will be as effective in this role, as he was in the last.

So we might just as well stop complaining about the price of fuel and bend over, collectively, as what that bunch will be doing to us will need for us to take as painless a stance as we will be able to afford.
I thought about it before mentioning the word ' Scam' at the beginning. They promised us honest government, by honest people who would not have their hands in the tills....... Hah!

I understand your concerns, Lee Jordan. However, your thinking is flawed. If one were to only take the case of the garage round Exeter way, whose fuel rose to £1.99 the litre, immediately following the strike threat of the other week.
His reasoning was superb. This would allow the motorist with the most need to have access to fuel when heeded. Of course what was not said was that if he had plenty, it would probably be because no one would enjoy being fleeced by this particular dogooder.

People, especially web developers, are in a unique position to tell us how to get Duggie Brown to reduce the tax levy on fuel instead of making himself look good to foreigners. They will not vote for him, next election. Come to think of it, neither will I.