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Remember the largest british petrol companies recorded record profits last year!!
Between the government and the petrol companies greed, something has to be done to limit this extortion. Now food suppliers are using this an reason to put prices up. I do not understand why the petrol price can vary around the country; actually I do understand it is also due to greed. Take tesco for example they obviously look at other suppliers in the area and alter their prices to 'match' so they can make as much profit as possible, why not offer the motorist a real deal and keep petrol prices competitive across the counrty.

i run a small gardening business i find the costs are allready 2 high when is enought -enought ???????????????????????????????? i thought gordon brown was going 2 be better than the last egg head BUT NO he is the same
just a lier / a traiter to the british public & the country

Please do not put another 2p on the petrol as I will not be able to afford to go to work.
When you put the price of petrol up it affects all areas of daily life as everything is transported to London at some point and that means basics like food will go up. It will end up being a third world country. Or at very least the poor of this country will end up a larger percent, then crime will follow.

I'm against the 2p petrol rise because I don't earn enough and have to travel to work in my car like many other people. I feel, if petrol prices rise too much I shall have to rethink about working, meaning a possibility of giving up work and living off the state and that won't do the government any good at all if everyone decided to do just that.
All living expenses are rising and my pay increase is nil although my wife got a 1% pay increase which does not cover all the increases the government is demanding.
So please don't put the petrol prises up because we don't want to be joining the dole queue.

Absolutely it should be scrapped....Fuel prices are so unbelievably hig halready that it's ctually making life difficult for me to GET to work. If I then have to leave work simply because I cannot afford to get there any more, I just end up with the dubious honour of having to try and get the state to help me, which in turn only increases costs for the government.

I know I'm not the only one in this predicament, but it seems that our government has absolutely no understanding of the fact that every action has consequences. Yet again, they fail to take in to account the big picture. Seems to be a common theme in just about everything they do.

If there's a requirement for more cash, here's a few quick wins. Cut out expenses accounts for MPs and oooh, here's a fun one - quit sending our soldiers off to fight other people's wars? You never know, that might spare the country a couple of quid to fix up the roads...

Why are we paying VAT not only on the fuel but also on the fuel tax - literally a TAX ON A TAX?

Why, if diesel is less expensive to produce than petrol is it more expensive at the pumps?

Why, if diesel produces less CO2, does the goverment penalise diesel users when it says it is trying to reduce CO2 and help the environment.

When is the AA to produce car-stickers saying: EVERY MOTORIST IS A VOTER

I am sick of the price of petrol, its a joke how much we pay. If it keeps up soon i wont have a car on the road!!!!!!!
Some government

We should have 3 referendum's,
1 Get us out of the E.U.
2 Get rid of thse migrant's and please don't tell me that we need them, it's the other way around, they need us. When the E.U. common market was first thought up it was to benefit us and our near nieghbours, supposedly to strenghten our economies, now they are letting all in sundry in and we are being inundated with not just the worker but his whole family including the grand parents and aunt's and uncle's and the social services are at breaking point, If we must have the so called workers then so be it but at least send the rest of the hangers on back. A nieghbour of my late mother had a car for sale, a knock came to thier door and it was a migrant worker and his mates, "yes we will give you your price for the car we'll be back this afternoon" an hour later they turned up with a cheque for the price of the car, "I'm not taking a cheque said my mam's nieghbour, "it's OK if you ring the social services they will OK it for you" sure enough when the people rang the number the social services said ,"it's alright , it's so that they can get around to look for work", would you or I have been given a cheque for 2 grand so that we could look for work, not on your nellie, and I would guess that the S.S. then had to fork out for the road tax and insurance as well.
3 A referendum to ask the voters should we hold a general election immiediatly, this gov doesn't believe in referendum's so dont hold your breath.

Mac' comments 2912.

You should put you'r post in the papers mate, that is one of the reasons we are the highest taxed in Europe, so that every Tom, Rick and Mohamed can come over and take advantage of the freebies on offer.
Thanks for you'r tip post 2913.

Brian

why dont we as a country stand up to this bully boy government, before they crush the working class into the floor. its us that keep this country going, yet its us they keep hammering with their stealth taxes etc etc. were spending billions on a war we cant win, with money we havent got. anybody from eastern europe can come and live here, and claim money for everything they want. its ridiculous, and i think our fore fathers would turn in their graves if they could see the state this country is in now. and if this government award people with greener cars,eg diesels, lower annual tax. then why then are those same cleaner burning diesels hit so hard at the pumps?????????????

The Chancellor could save almost £1 billion by bringing MP's expenses into line with current industry practices that are required by auditors. Why should we pay even more fuel tax to (effectively) keep MP's on their gravy train paid for by extremely questionable (many would say corrupt) personal expense practices.
Those of us who do not have the option of public transport, which in any case is a shambles, are steadily running into financial difficulties. We must all vote with our feet and put Labour into oblivion at thje next election

I object to the comments made ealier about changing our lives to suit less oil consumption. If i didnt know any better id say you were from the goverment trying to ruin our comments like you have done our financial lives.

We live in a fast moving technological society now. We HAVE the technology to make 1 tank (52 litres 11.4 gallons) (astra size) last 2000miles! Yes 2000 miles.

But the oil companies will not release the technology because low and behold it wouldnt be so in demand anymore would it? and that means it wont cost as much so ultimately thats less profit.

We need another oliver cromwell to put the house of the privaliged back to the house of COMMONS.

Goodbye Labour, Goodbye Conservitive Hello somebody different for once.

How can this government price the motorist of the road without offering a clean, safe, reliable, practical, competitive alternative. This is just highway robbery and should be legally challenged.

The price of petrol/diesel will keep on rocketing simply to pay the family allowance of immigrants who claim to have several children back home in their country. YES they CAN claim for children not resident in this country and the money (ours) go's into their country's economy!!!

I am currently working in saudi arabia,Its a struggle to get three pounds worth of fuel in to the tank of my car,its so cheap.
When they increased the price by less than a penny,there was such an outcry.The king ordered a reduction in price .the best way to attack the fuel companies is to stop buying fuel from one oil company,say we all start with BP.

If you don't like it learn to walk, or use public transport. It is not a requirement to own a car. Good Luck to the Chancellor, rather him than the opposition.

ladies and gentlement
forget about voting out this poor shoudy government.
as you will probably vote another in its place lets not forget what the tory did to the working man too back in the 80s/90s.

i we still had the coal mine's we would NOT have a energy crisis in the UK, if the torys nationaised and controlled the North Sea oil reserves instead of biding them out to american oil copanies there would NOT be an energy crisis.

do you really think that Fuel crisis and oil prices will return to normal if you vote a new government in? no they won't each Government that we had have been useless but we still vote one of the same two in.

what i suggest is get on you feet off your arses stop watching bellenders and the other trash that is on the box and march ,fight for your belief.
we are all here reading this lets make a stance start by haveing a national go slow day on this Friday 4/04/08 then do it every Friday till they get the message

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The government claws back more tax with every price hike emposed by OPEC and so over the last year alone there is much more than 2p per ltr going into the bottomless pit.As any fuel price rise contributes to raising the price of essential goods such as food, then they ought to be LOWERING the tax now and not starving out the the very people who who work hard to maintain their never ending and ever growing EXPENSES.

Motorists are voters too, let's not forget that when we vote in the May local elections, this will be our chance for us all to give Broon a bloody nose and give him a sample of what he's going to get when we get the general election.

five years ago Petrol was 79.9p a litre now it's over £1, it's all tax, I'd like to see the mp's pay for there own petrol without claiming on there expensis.

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 them 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 labour leader of Sunderland council was voted out, but I don't know what the rest of the results were. In case you have not guessed, yes I live in Sunderland.

This has got to be the most money grabbing regime ever to get into power! How they can begin to justify their new road tax system I will Never know! So, in future, you will pay up to £450 a year to be allowed to take your environmentally unfriendly motor onto a public highway regardless of how much it is used ( I do 6000 miles a year) but lower emission vehicles can buzz around for next to nothing and clock up 20000 miles in a year! Which of us is the cause of more pollution? I say scrap the whole road tax system and put it onto fuel prices ( within a reasonable amount) and that way everyone pays a fair price for their amount of pollution and road use - EVERYONE including the road tax dodgers who I'm sure are going to get even greater in their numbers in future.

hi, just returned from spain, road fuel is approximately the same price in euros as it is here in sterling, and without wanting to state the obvious I think the chancelor is taking enough already in duty and should actually reduce it.
robert

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I agree that something must be done to counter climate change and reduce road congestion, traffic accidents and social exclusion. What I hate is the goverment taxing us to death and no improvements in sustainable transport being done. With all that cash, the following must be done:
1) lower the cost of rail / bus tickets
2) Every large city to have a good tram system
3) Beeching in reverse policy. I would not mind high taxes if I saw railway lines being re-opened, especially those most needed trunk routes eg Woodhead,Waverley , Skipton-Colne, Hull-Market Weighton- York and those with a regeneration power Spen Valley, Wealden link, Penrith-Keswick
4) Freight being moved onto Rails/ Canals. Instead of hundreds of lorry miles, trunks visit their local goods yards to collect freight.
These would help

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