We can’t take another 2p now!
9418 Comments | Add Comment | Blog entry posted 27th September, 2007
Back in March 2007 Gordon Brown, then chancellor, announced that he would be adding 2p extra duty to fuel and as an additional result collecting 0.35p extra VAT on every litre sold at the pumps.
In March, October seemed like a sensible time to implement it, after all on the 1st of October 2006 prices for unleaded had fallen from a summer high of 99.5p right down to 87.4p.
You may think I am a cynic, but I think he had calculated this date as about the least controversial date to hit the motorists with yet more tax based on last years prices.
2007 turned out to be different. October 2007 hasn’t quite turned out to be everything that he hoped for. In fact this year, instead of falling from summer highs, the average price of fuel in the UK has stayed steady at around 95p and soon looks set to rise even further with the price of oil reaching record highs of around 80 dollars.
So as it has turned out October 2007 might be the worst time to hit us motorists, and at PetrolPrices.com we want to let the government know how we feel. We have prepared a vote on the right hand side and I hope you will join me in voting for a U-turn on this proposed hike in fuel duty.
With so many PetrolPrices.com users, hopefully the government will have no choice but to sit up and take notice.
Replies to We can’t take another 2p now!
C August 3, 2010
B******S
Robert Larney April 16, 2010
Is anyone going to have the bottle and organise a march against these unbelievably high fuel prices, I for one am fed up and finding it very hard to get to work each day!
When I say march I mean 1 million pissed off human beings that are getting robbed of there hard earned cash everyday, bringing the streets of London, manchester, liverpool, leeds, birmingham etc.. to a stand still on the same day, then they will listen to us!!!. Any other country would have stood up by now, we British people are mugs and we just let it happen.
So who's with me? lets get the ball rolling with this one and scare the living daylights out of them, just like the poll tax protests,BUT WORSE!!!!!
Derek Fulton March 24, 2010
THIS coutry is knackered and who has done it......our bloody goverment thats who. The cost of living is just getting silly now and the goverment is doing nothing about it at ALL. They dont care about the working man and women all they care about are themselves. If WE dont stand up and do something NOW they are just going to keep walking all over us. All politicians are just LIARS, they promise you this and that and when they are in power they do NOTHING for us. Please WE ALL need to stand together and do something or we will have no FREEDOM or MONEY to do anything.
C March 13, 2010
RIP OFF Britain what a place. Government are scamming everyone .
This will continue until the British people say STOP NO MORE.
Time to wake up people out there.
Jack Foster. March 11, 2010
Fuel for transport is on the rise again, the price for a Litre of Unleaded is £114.9 at my local filling station. The price will rise again in Three weeks time, when the Government tax, plus VAT will be added.
Carl Edward Bennett January 19, 2010
If we got together and boycotted one particular petrol provider for one week we would have an effect on petrol prices, lets do it.......
Carl Edward Bennett January 19, 2010
If we got together and boycotted one particular petrol provider for one week we would have an effect on petrol prices, lets do it.......
Jack Foster. October 23, 2009
Fuel for transport is back to £1.079 a Litre, and will rise again, when the VAT goes up in January.
Jack Foster. September 4, 2009
The cost of fuel for transport ncreased this week, due to the rise in the fuel duty, to £1.079 a Litre. The workers at the oil refineries, are considering going on strike, because of cheap labour being empolyed from the EU, which will lead to fuel, and power shortages.
Jack Foster. August 18, 2009
The cost of a Litre of Unleaded petrol went up again today, to £1.059. Carry on at this rate, it will be £1.119, or more, for a Litre of Unleaded, by the time the Tax on Fuel comes into effect.
Jack Foster. August 17, 2009
The cost of a Litre of Unleaded fuel, has risen by One pence, to £1.049, where I live. The question is, after the new fuel duty is added, from the First September, what will it cost for a Litre of Unleaded?
C Evans August 15, 2009
We are still being ripped off big time by this vile greed fueled government. They see us as an easy target to line their pockets. Direct action needs to be taken as this is the only thing they take any notice of. Hit them where it hurts, in their pockets just like they do to us. play them at their own game is the only way to get a reduction in the extortionate tax they impose on fuel. Evil dictatorship.
Jack Foster. August 12, 2009
The price for a Litre of Unleaded petrol is still £1.039, where I live, but do not forget that in Twenty days time from now, the cost will rise again when the increase in fuel duty is added.
Jack Foster. July 13, 2009
The price for a Litre of Unleaded petrol is £1.039, where I live.
Becca June 7, 2009
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Alexandrina April 6, 2009
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Zalman April 2, 2009
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Jack Foster. February 16, 2009
The cost of a Litre of Unleaded pertol, has risen to £.909 pence, at my local filling station.
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