The arrival of £5 a gallon diesel

Its £6 a gallon now?
we said gallons some time ago, isnt it funny we all talk Litre now, so its only a penny per ltr increase, Oh? that means 5P per gallon, OOPs missed that one didnt we

when will the |Government realise that by putting the prices of fuel up and inflation rates people who travel to wotk will soon not be able to afford it and I will have to join the millions who are on the dole just because I will not be able to pay the extra out of my poor wage

who many money i get?

The price of fuel is scandalous. I'm sure most of the tax goes out to fund Afghanistan and other wars. It certainly doesn't go to fund the British roads!
People need to stop talking about blockades etc and get on and do it and keep doing it until this lousy government reduces fuel tax.
So come on... someone needs to make a stqart.

Perchance we should hold the opposite of a one minute’s stillness in protest i.e. a national 1 minutes horn blowing at a designated time. The noise across the country would send a strong message.
Buying the cheapest fuel is one answer but costs are subject to district disparity in any event and finding a inexpensive outlet is not for all time doable
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fuel costs rising no end in sight, fat cats getting fatter, goverment getting richer, roads getting worse every day, it makes me sick in 1974 it was 50p a gallon then the worst thing in the world happened we joined the common market and got fleesed overnight, with those do gooders from the EU telling us how to run our what to do and how high to jump, its done nothing for us eccept cost us a lot of money, but then whats the point nobody is listening to us people above watford gap.
we the ordanary folk carry on paying the cost

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The difference between petrol and diesel is a massive 14p in my area, (Devon) On a recent visit to the Netherlands I noticed that petrol is considerable dearer than deisel there. My son-in-law who works for Shell tells me that diesel requires less refining than petrol so why are we being charged so much in this country?

I also totally agree with you Simon Hewett, 3090!

I ask the questions yet AGAIN, WHO owns Britain and WHO'S running Britain?
As far as who is running Britain is concerned, it's certainly not the present parasites masquerading as MP's. This week saw supermarkets reducing the cost of fuel in a bit of a price war. This urgent task should have been carried out by Government weeks ago in the form of a tax cut especially on our life blood which is diesel. But as usual, Govt. sat back and did nothing. It's high time we had a REAL blockade, until we get diesel below the £1/litre level. If hauliers do this, then ALL us diesel users MUST back them. Farmers, fishermen,car drivers, taxis and lets not forget the disabled diesel drivers who live on very meagre incomes. Or is it just the high fuel taxes that are keeping No Balls Brown & Britain from bankcruptcy??

I agree entirely with your comment. We should all be prepared to stand up and be counted. So how about all those who read up on this topic commit to write to Gordon Brown or our own local politician urging them to review the current tax situation on diesal.

With regards to the oil companies charging as they do perhaps we should ask ourselves whether this is the unacceptable face of capitalism. I think it is !

if the goverment want to do something to help the motorist scrap the road tax and levy the price of fuel this way people can only afford to run there cars if they can pay for the fuel the police are well aware if a car as a up to date m.o.t and insurance

shell desiel on loose road is £1 30 not £128

I totally agree with you Simon Hewett post no 3090

I agree with Dan Delamare-Lyon, where do we get bio fuel? One person making it for his own use(legally) has trouble getting a supply of used cooking fat. As to the increased use of diesel cars, it was the Gov. that originally encouraged same as an anti pollution measure!!

What a great website and campaign you are running. Well done! what you do is very worthwhile and has everybody's full support. Keep up the good work! H.

I am glad to see having run a search that even people incapable of spelling or grammar are fully aware that the supermarkets and independents all have to buy their fuel initially from Esso/BP/Shell/whoever. This aside, surely it is plainly obvious that now there are at least as many diesel cars as there are those fuelled by petrol, the oil companies are just being plain greedy and taking advantage of Joe Muggins and of course the government won't do anything because they are hand-in-glove with the big businesses, as ever. The sooner we get rid of all these so-called professional political types and replace them by sponsoring and voting in genuine people with respect for themselves, others and the environment, the soner we can slow the flow of NO COMMON SENSE legislation and place the onus of the problems in society where they belong (poor parenting, poor education guidelines, poor policing etc.) . . . . .

I am glad to see having run a search that even people incapable of spelling or grammar are fully aware that the supermarkets and independents all have to buy their fuel initially from Esso/BP/Shell/whoever. This aside, surely it is plainly obvious that now there are at least as many diesel cars as there are those fuelled by petrol, the oil companies are just being plain greedy and taking advantage of Joe Muggins and of course the government won't do anything because they are hand-in-glove with the big businesses, as ever. The sooner we get rid of all these so-called professional political types and replace them by sponsoring and voting in genuine people with respect for themselves, others and the environment, the soner we can slow the flow of NO COMMON SENSE legislation and place the onus of the problems in society where they belong (poor parenting, poor education guidelines, poor policing etc.) . . . . .

I am glad to see having run a search that even people incapable of spelling or grammar are fully aware that the supermarkets and independents all have to buy their fuel initially from Esso/BP/Shell/whoever. This aside, surely it is plainly obvious that now there are at least as many diesel cars as there are those fuelled by petrol, the oil companies are just being plain greedy and taking advantage of Joe Muggins and of course the government won't do anything because they are hand-in-glove with the big businesses, as ever. The sooner we get rid of all these so-called professional political types and replace them by sponsoring and voting in genuine people with respect for themselves, others and the environment, the soner we can slow the flow of NO COMMON SENSE legislation and place the onus of the problems in society where they belong (poor parenting, poor education guidelines, poor policing etc.) . . . . .

I'm retired now, but when I worked I used to commute by bike. Try it - you'll be fitter and a lot less bad tempered!

I rely on my car to get me to work it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to afford to fill the car up, I have a family and have stay home most weekends because I need the fuel in the car for the week.
Yes I do think we should all do something about the fuel prices it just needs someone to start a campaign - we need to do this for at least a week so it makes an impact, maybe use the papers to start it off.

I live in South Ayrshire where we have one garage in our town. It's owned by Mr McKie. He put up his prices on the day of the budget by 5p despite no duty increase. He put up his prices again last week by 5p and again on Monday by 3p. He was offered a good price for his garage by the newly built Asda. He refused. The price for diesel in Girvan is now 131.9p per litre. He says if we don't like it we know what we can do. His supplier is Esso. I am a taxi driver and this is cripling us and the town but we seem to have to like it or lump it. What can we do?

£1.33 in Rural Lincolnshire, with no public transport for miles and miles how else are we supposed to get to work, or the shops. Apart from use the car.
Before long only the rich will be able to run a car, just like the old days...

I just recently came back from Gibraltar, which is a UK country but is not taxed the same as the UK.
In Gibraltar you can buy Diesel at £0.55p per litre, and petrol is 5p cheaper.
When you buy petrol here you are taxed a rediculous amount.
First you are taxed on your wages.
Then they tax the fuel.
Then they add fuel duty.
Then give the retailer 6p for his trouble.
The rest is the product you pay for.
Not only that but you pay car tax too which is always going up.
Personally I am now finding it cheaper to buy 25 litres of cooking oil fresh from tesco and bung in a bottle of meths to thin it.
Costs me about £15 now for quarter of a tank of fuel.
The car runs smoother and I am now not paying silly tax prices.
I use less than the allowed taxed amount of fuel so I dont have to pay duty, even if I did I wouldnt anyway.

since this labour gov has been in power,the tax fuel hikes has been detromental to all mtorists. every time they put up fuel duty it has a knock on effect to everyones life survival. the only way that can solve this nightmare is a change of gov and lets hope its cmes soon.please god?.

Found an Easy solution run your desils on vegetable oil. have been running mine on neat rapeseed oil will work in new cars also but ideal to do a 50/50 mix lets boycot the desil market stop buying it!

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I maybe stupid , or at least naive, but for the life of me I do not understand how the government can justify and get away with taxing the already massive fuel price without riots in the streets.

The government profess to want to control inflation yet happily put their hands out and STEAL our cash by adding 66% to every penny that the fuel costs, and rub their hands in glee when crude trades higher. Fuel prices contribute to every aspect of life particularly increases in food prices and costs of industry, and makes life particularly difficult for those on fixed incomes.

Why the hell cannot they consider using a fixed sum per litre sold... say 50p This would A) give them a fixed sum which they could calculate exactly at the beginning of the year, B) food and fuel inflation would be held in check C) there would be a lot less anger aimed at the government..... if producers put their price up by 10p our petrol goes up 10p not 16.6 p and OPEC gets the blame!

Silly idea?

M Hawley

I've created a fuel with production costs of 10 pence per litre that will run at a 100% in any petrol or diesel engine with NO modifications whatsoever and causes NO damage to the engine and I've been running my car on it now for nearly 2 years and it is non-toxic. I am in the process of registering the patent formuae for it then I will wait til this time next year when petrol/diesel prices hit
the £2.50 - £3.00 per litre mark to release the information under license
for the general public to make and use and I will live quite comfortably from the royalties, so the bottom will fall out of the market as far as oil is concerned.
So oil companies of the world make the most of what you have now because sooner than you think your product will be totally worthless!

We can only hope that due to the excellent results at the local elections that Gordon Brown and associates (believe me we have a property sales called this, maybe it is the one branching out to keep themselves in jobs) they will start to consider the damage that they have caused to the economy and will lower the price of fuel, but don't hold your breath.

the price of diesel is over the top this goverment did not help.

27th April 2008 - I have just paid £1.24 per litre for Diesel in Spaldwick. 15p more than petrol. Having heard the aurguments for the escalating cost of Diesel I am not convinced. The oil companies are taking us for a ride and profiteering out of all proportion. They argue that the demand for diesel has shot up dramatically. Why then are they not producing more diesel and less petrol? From what I understand it easier to refine from crude than petrol.

When I purchased a Diesel car nearly three years ago I believed that this would be the cheaper option in the long run, not to mention that a diesel car produces less pollution than an equivalent petrol engined car. Where is the Government in all of this. The Treasury is making record profits on fuel VAT - can they not give some of it back to the motorist by reducing Duty on fuel? Also where do the car manufacturers stand. They make more profit from diesel cars but will inevitably see unsold cars on their hands as a result of the current situation. People are being deterred from purchasing diesel car varients. Should the car manufacturers being bringing some pressure to bear?

Tony Scott
Great Gidding - out in the sticks where there are no buses and no shops and no option but to travel by car.

3100 Malcolm Heeley , Please do vote but not for this lot, I will vote BNP or UKIP just to let brown and his fellow robber barons see that we are not having any more of thier dictatorship, at least by voting for some other party your vote will not be totally wasted as opposed to not voting at all, I'm not a commie but I do think that we should come out of the EU and we should re-nationalise all of our services (gas, water and electricity) and take these services back off these foreigners.

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Well folks on St Georges day 2008 we have nearly 3100 people all extremely pi**ed off. Yet again us Brits get shafted by the very people who purport to be looking after our interests. When will we realise that we stopped living in a democratic society a very long time ago we are being stitched up by politicians who, in my opinion, are worse than the likes of Robert Mugabe! Hell at least he's simply a ruthless ba**ard; he doesn't pretend to be making life 'better' whilst robbing and raping your wife and kids...

Yes that is strong but that's how these conniving, thieving, parasitic, despotic swines we have running our lives make me feel.

Unfortunately, until we finally learn to stand up and FIGHT for our DEMOCRATIC rights our backsides will simply be bored wider and wider.

If you actually give a damn get off your backside and vote in the local elections next month. Frankly I'll vote for Minnie Mouse if she's up there as its CRUCIAL we send this shiester a bl00dy clear message.

There is an alternative I suppose, move to Eastern Europe or Asia; there must be plenty of room there now!

I realised the other day why perhaps, we pay so much for oil /petrol/diesel. Could it be that as we ( our Govt.) rub their hands on winning massive contract to supply fighter planes to the likes of Saudi Arabia ,we are paying for these through exorbitant fuel prices. Can't blame them though for all the other price hikes. I guess we would be in the same mess which ever party was in number 10. I am giving up voting ,it is a waste of time. I am also very angry that the majority of us are contantly screwed.

Hi there.

There is an obvious need to return to self sufficiency and independence in the 21st century. The Oil companies, big business' etc have had their way for far too long. Stuff the lot of them.
Buy a bike, get political by being an example for other people to follow. Avoid stuff you really don't need. Show some initiative by getting out of the whole oil needy culture we have. This is the only way forward for huge populations anywhere. Centuries of previous generations got on just fine without fricking oil companies telling them what to do. Take a leaf out of your great great great grandaddy's books and grow you own....hehehe

As far as I can tell, in my hometown it is TESCO who are dictating the cost of fuel. Every week for the past 5 they have put up the cost by another penny. Today they did it again and it now stands at 114.9. All the other supermarkets then have to follow suit, and it has to be said that SHELL are the last to do so. So maybe the government have kept there 2p rise on hold, but have allowed TESCO to run their own racket. I urge everyone to stop using supermarkets for their fuel and maybe they will start to come back down.

The TAX on "petrol" in the UK that subsidizes your "BRILLIANT" government sponsored, tax-payer funded, (a.k.a. "free") SOCALIZED programs of whatever sort the petrol tax is for. It is about 80% of the COST of a litre/gallon of petrol.

The GOVERNMENT is the actual GOUGER and the Energy Companies get the bad public relations (just as the bus driver gets the blame when the traffic is bad) because MOST of the public are ignorant of many factes of economic matters and have been taught by the government-run schools since Kindergarten and nursery school to LOVE the government and despise private business...

"We have met the enemy and he is us..."

SOCIALISM SUCKS!!!

Bernard M. Russelman
Deptford, People's Republic of New Jersey
United States of America

Why not run mopeds, scooters and motorbikes, save pounds that way and hit the govt and fuel companies where it hurts also.

£5 a gallon diesel ? you are having a laugh. I am currently paying £5.80 and the price per litre went up by another 1p today to £1.17. It will come to a point where I can no longer afford to travel to work to support my family. My wages do not increase at this rate. At the end of the day I have a finite amount of money for fuel and that's it.

I'm so angry & have voted labour all my life - never, ever, again will I be fooled by these lying parasites with their greedy snouts so far in the trough they cannot see the damage they are causing.

3092 Christine M. try to get all of your friends and nieghbours on the Isles to have a meeting and look into the possibility of starting a co-operative so that you could all buy shares in your local petrol station and then all of the share holders could get thier fuel at cost price and anyone not a share holder would have to pay the going price, possibly some of the share holders (retired maybe) could run the petrol station, but all you would need to control who is getting fuel would be a computorised system, naturally the share holders would have to pay up front to (a) buy the petrol station and (b)pay for the fuel, depending on how much one puts into the cooperative would limit how much fuel they could have, but at the same time the share holders would open a bank account (on the Isle of course) and they would just pay with thier own bank card for the fuel that they where getting, yes it sounds a bit fiddely but you would probably find that some of the share holders are capable of setting things up.
3093 Simon W I,m not a communist but I think that all of our services should be re-nationalised, were being taken to the cleaners by all of these foriegners who now own the bulk of our utilities, send your MP the blog addresses and tell them enough is enough, for those wondering I asked Brendon last week if I could do this and he said by all means.

I believe we are now stuck with these high fuel prices. I personally don't know what to believe with respect to the reason behind the rise, but one thing is for sure, the government is doing well out of it and want it to continue. Further rises will occur, either naturally or as a result of the governments green policies (except the money raised never actually goes into green projects!!)

I am currently a full time mature student hence money is tight, I sold our previous gas guzzling shogun before starting Sept last year and bought a second hand Peugeot 306 HDI, this has the latest high tech fuel efficient low emission engine in it, yes I get good millage, but my RFL is still the same as the Shogun (work that one out) and the ever spiralling fuel cost is having an impact. The rising cost of living rarely effects the wealthy, always effects those less well off, something the government don't seem to be aware of (or are they as they are clearly amongst the wealthy).

My cheapest garage is currently 112.9 its fluctated recently to 116 but dropped again quickly, strangely an independant garage near my house still charge 119 and it seems to have plenty of customers (with money to burn clearly), I paid 125 down in Portsmouth a few days ago.

This year, council tax is up (as always), gas/electric is up, water is up, car fuel constantly rising, income barely increases at half the rate of inflation, what do we do, not a lot because they are essential (or compulsory) services that we all have to live with and the government know it and hence for them its a license to print money (and then waste it).

We are responsible people who walk when we can, recycle what we can, do not live extravagant lives, keep travel to a minimum and live independantly within our means and we always look for ways to reduce outgoings. (such as replacing a delapidated back boiler for a modern combi-boiler) if the government gave a little back, then soem taxes would make sense. Solely taxing road users to fund the military, NHS etc is wrong, services used by all the people should be funded by all the people, road users should cover expenses related to road use only.

A fiver a gallon - I wish!

Here in the Western Isles, it's fast approaching £6 a gallon for diesel. In the main town of Stornoway, it's an average of £5.63 a gallon just now, or £1.24 a litre. In some of the outlying areas, it can be up to 3 or 4 p more expensive than that.

Is there any end to the price hikes?

What I would like to know is why the difference in price between diesel and unleaded has risen from 2-3p around a year ago to around 7-8p now?
Is it the government? Not in this case, as they impose duty equally. It must be the oil companies who realise that many more motorists, like me, have changed to diesel to save money from the better consumption and that they will now make less profits with less motorists using unleaded petrol.
Would someone from the oil companies like to comment?

I haven't read all 3000 odd comments, but from what I see, most people are sadly deluded.
If some positive action did actually achieve a significant reduction in fuel duty / price, the loss in revenue for the chancellor would be unacceptable and just recouped somewhere else!
Too many leeches, freeloaders, non-contributors, defrauders, bootleggers, tax dodgers, malingerers, alleged refugees / assylum seekers, criminals are being fed, clothed, housed, paid, educated, policed, and generally given a free ride by the government at our expense.
The environmental argument for fuel duty is a convenient vehicle for revenue raising, in the same way that speed cameras are linked to road safety.
Until government policies change, you will continue to pay crippling taxes one way or the other, either through fuel duty or some other way.
If every private driver in this country traded their vehicle tomorrow for a 60mpg low CO2 vehicle, fuel duty would just rise further, or income tax would go up to maintain revenue.

There are so many people commenting on this extraordinary situation where diesel costs so much more than petrol - you have to wonder why something isn't done. The reason must be that no focus is given to it by just a blog. We need this website to realise how many people so strongly and act on our behalf. Can they take this issue to the media and make it a biger splash? can they lobby on our behalf?

It may well be that we all have to get used to paying more and more for fule - but there should not be a huge disparity between petrol and diesel prices.