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Target one petrol suppler eg Shell and stop buying from them, once they are not selling petrol they will either reduce prices or will put pressure on the government to reduce the tax
Brian Whyte

THERE IS NO WAY THE PEOPLE OF THE UK NEED ANOTHER PRICE HIKE ON PETROL

Cecilia blog664 "We didn't vote for him in the first place" so why is he there?

This govenment and any other could afford to REDUCE petrol prices if they close our borders to imigration and stop the scroungers from other countries using GB for finacial gain. The D.H.SS would save billians and could move the savings to Transport and Road users.

Raising of the cost of fuel only increases the cost to the end user, its Joe public that end up paying more due to increased transportation costs this in turn leads to higher prices at all types of stores.

Why not review how the rail network is run and maintained, One side says use public transport, but in most cases one has only the option of a car or spend a great deal of time and also a large amount of money to travel by train, just to stand up the whole trip.

Its the top earners that need to pay more tax since they pollute far greater, this also should relate to company car tax system

Lets hope a fuel strike does not get into motion, and the MP's do listen to who voted them in.

Who is buying the oil in the first pleas.Its not the goverment,its the oil companys.It sould be them that set the prys and not the goverment.In South Africa fuil in costly,but it is not taxed as bad as it is in the UK,and that is a so calld therd world country.So come on MR Brown lower your tax take and let us all see you stop stealing ower hard ernd pay.

Gordon Brown has increased taxes on fuel since 1997 He does not own or drive a car so it costs him nothing yet we stupid motorist go on paying It is about time motorist of all political sides said enough is enough and vote clunking fist Gordon and his party out of office and any other political party that does not halt this TAX on motorists

I'm retired - the car is my independence - I've always done everything legally (Insurance , Road Tax etc.) and I am already financially challenged by the cost of motoring. This additional taxation is another cynical measure by a profligate government - they tell us that the economy is recovering and on the way up, then kick the public down again.
Enough is enough !

seriously disabled and living two and a half miles from the nearest shop, 10 miles from the nearest supermarket, how am I suposed to manage on a pension of £50.90 if I have to pay local shop prices some 23.5% higher than supermarkets?

This Government has done nothing at all to help get people out of their cars by improving the transport infrastructure. I work in Runcorn which is around 6/7 miles from my home. To get their and back by car - without traffic takes around 15 minutes. It is not possible to do it with public transport. If the tax that they put on fuel helped to improve the transport system then I would accept it but it just seems to go into the general "coffers" of the Chancellor.

Doe they not get enough cash out of us. I am sorry I miss voted can I vote again

Not buying fuel won't work - we will still drive the same number of miles hence use the same amount of fuel...

Leaving your car at home for the day will work - use public transport, walk, take a day off. Just do not your car for a day, reduce teh number of miles travelled hence the amount of fuel bought. This will hit the treasury where it hurts most.

Tax is too high on petrol, we don't need another hike

There are two shell garages in Paisley, Scotland - one is selling diesel for 93.9p but it's opposite a Morrisons who are selling it for the same price, the other is two miles away and charging 97.9 for the same stuff.

This government see the hard-pressed motorist as easy meat. It's nothing to do with global warming as they are trying to con us into thinking but all to do with an easy way of raising more tax. Meanwhile the government reap all the VAT on the new suspension components we have to buy because the roads in Paisley must rank amongst the worst surfaces in the country. There's a new crossing in Paisley where they have painted the new lines over the existing potholes and some of the surface is down to the cobbles which once held tramlines - and still they tax us more and more!!

NO more tax. If train prices come down, I will be more than happy but right now its simply a joke to keep putting the prices up AS WELL AS the train prices >:(

I drive over 60 miles per day, just going to and from my daytime work. Public transport isn't on when I finish my night time work. I live 20 miles away from my 76 year old Mother. How the &%@# am I supposed to go about my business when I am being priced off the road.? My second job pays enough for a tank of petrol per week, plus some messages. I already work seven days per week, so what do the government suggest to improve my income to match my output on fuel?

It seems like we are constantly being penalised for going to work. If you want to decrease the number of cars on the road then improve public transport. Public transport needs to be made more available, more reliable and more reasonably priced. Otherwise people will continue to use their cars but just get more annoyed and bitter about petrol prices - we need better alternatives not resons not to go to work.

The government no matter who seems to run it just charge all of our citizens unneccersarily, keep the charity at home instead of giving it to people abroad and the immigrants that were over run with. I for one am totally sick of it.

I think it is appaling how motorists are treated in general and the extra tax is going to far!!!!!! I am only 19 and have a 1989 land rover 110 that I use for work and for play and I often use the 9 seats in it to stop people having to use there own vehicle and you cant tell me that by using my car is worse for the enviroment than two or three that would normaly be required. At 22mpg I use lots of diesel, and make a large donation to the taxman any way!! However I will just keep using my land rover untill it costs about £150 pounds for a tank of fuel (its closer than you all think!!!!!)

Rant over for now!!!!

Are we surprised by what governments do ...? Spin etc ... We ll all pay the price rise because we like our cars and wont give them up ... but we ll grumble and

what opposition have we got ?... They re all the same.


The last time there was a blockade at the refineries everyone queued to get the petrol and paid the increase .

People are apatheticwhen it comes to cars in this country

Is there no end to this Government's tax-more spend-more profligacy?

It is time to get rid of this lying, devious pile of trash for good. We will never see the tax we are paying on fuel put to do what it was intended to do. We need to get rid of the morons that have thrown almost everything we have all worked for away. Do not kid yourselves that voting against the tax alone
will make a difference, the only chance is to change the government that is milking us.

I think it's scandalous to raise the price of fuel still further. It will have a knock on effect on the cost of living at a time when inflation is already higher than anticipated.

So the motorist is to pay again. I am getting really fed up with all the motorist has to put up with from petrol tax to road tax and new on street parking charges. Why doesn't the government persicute another sector of the electorate??

It's not on, why is it the motorist that gets targeted when it's what makes this country work, people commute using a vehicle that uses fuel from the pumps, either traveling to work, the shops our on holiday, weather thats using their own form of transport to public transport, the cost of fuel will cripple this country, people will stop doing anything here because it'll cost to much to travel anywhere, haulage companies are going bust because it cost to much in fuel to deliver the goods, holiday resorts like here in Blackpool suffer because it's cheaper to go abroad the travel in this country.
We all protested agaisnt the price of fuel going towards £1 or above with a fuel strike some years ago, so why are we letting the gouverment get away with it now, are we going to sit back & say, 'oh well, never mind, can't do anything about it', NO, WE ARE BRITISH, STAND UP FOR ARE RIGHTS, WE ARE TO SOFT, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT INSTEAD OF MOANING ABOUT IT.

what about the poor pensioners on a fixed income?on top of all the increased costs to run a car and try to live of any hard earned savings--looks as if its one luxury i will not be able to afford when i join the rest of the pensioners in the same boat shortly---lit will be the bus for me--at least its free---------so far!!

Daylight robbery, the motorist pays again, when will this legal robbery stop, is it going to cause another protest.
The British people need to stand up and let the goverment realise that we will not put up with this.
Everytime, motorist, motorist, motorist, tax tax, tax.

This is absolutely outrageous. Prices should come down! The suggestion that PetrolPrices.com start a petition is an excellent one.

Raising money is a great idea until you consider people like myself and my wife. My wife is a school teacher and could only get a job somewhere that is near inaccessible by public transport (45 mins by car, double that by public transport having to travel on crowded, rarely on time public transport in to Edinburgh, then back out to get to her school). It also costs a damn sight more than taking the car.
I service customers in various locations and the pitiful public transport we have just can't guarantee to get me there on time, I'd waste half of my company's time taking earlier trains/buses and spending twice as long travelling as I need to do just now. Belive me, I've tried. I'd rather 'let the train take the strain' than drive any day if it actually worked!
I'm sure public transport is great in large cities, but living in the Central belt of Scotland it's awful.

HOW ABOUT THE CARROT FIRST INSTEAD OF BEATING US ALL WITH A STICK?

What's wrong with investing some money in an integrated public transport system that works? Then I'd leave the car at home. Until then it's just not feasible and until I emigrate I suppose I'll need to let the robbers in charge fleece me!
What can we all do, easy, it's not stop buying petrol for a day, remember who's taxing us more than anyone else has ever and vote them out when they call their election. They know they can keep sticking the tax up because we've all got no choice. What happens when we can't afford it? It's not the beautiful pollution and congestion free society some people seem to think... it's unemployment because the cost of transport outweighs the money we're bringing in. Then see how much money goes in to government coffers!

We hold the power here if we're prepared to use it. For example, if the vast majority of motorists decided to boycott one fuel supplier (just for example BP) for a week (or even longer) the effect would soon be felt.

I know that would be difficult in some rural areas and perhaps many don't care, or others would say it would put jobs at risk but it would be interesting to see the effect - even for just a week.

Rob Pickering

NO more petrol increases please.

Some of the comments on the site are outrageous, local and national government has viewed the motorist as a cash cow because they know that with the dismal public transport provisions we have little choice and have to soak up all new initiative to take money off us. They dont even wear a mask.
Bill

it seems funny to me that a few years ago we were fighting against the raise of fuel from the 0.70 to the pound, this as expected did the trick for a short period, but as time went on fuel raised to the pound anyway, but bit by bit, and have you noticed that once upon a time diesel was so much cheaper than petrol, so what happened there then, diesel is now more expensive that petrol in a lot of cases.
but the most interesting of all is that petrol and diesel, is in fact a waste product of crude oil, that's right its the cr*p that left over, but still it would seem to be the most profitable. Seems i need a different job, selling cr*p!!!!!.
if the government would like to put another 1 percent on my mortgage, and another 2.5 pence on my fuel, oh and don't forget the extra on the vat and tax let alone the lack of wage rises, then perhaps i will go bankrupt, i know i can go into rented accommodation, go on the dole and have all the expenses paid for me. WHY WONT THE GOVERNMENT LISTLE TO THE VOTING PUBLIC INDSTEAD OF DOING WHAT THEY WANT AND MAKING IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE COMMON MAN TO GET TO WORK............

They very sadly don't care or listen. It happened in Scotland as the Scottish Labour leader said just the other day. Lets hit them where it hurts and remove them from their little ego ivory castles. Then let them join the rest of us who are now dependant on cars, with really poor public transport and not being able to afford it all.

feel the government has lost its way

Yet mor taxes on top of taxes on top of taxes. This is nothing to do with Green issues it is simply about raising revenue.

Its time tha the government stops and takes a look - visit railway stations at rush hour to see teh commuters that are turned away when the train they intended to catch are already full.

The trains themselves are so old that they belch out the fumes but these companies have to make a profit and they do this by keeping old trains running.

The country is on its knees as borrowing reaches yet another high.

SO all this tax will do Mr Brown (or Alistair Darling) is force the poor to borrow more and struggle for their survival yet again.

One day the government in this country will push the people to far - woe betide them (whosoever is in power at that time), Yet again they are taxing the motorist, It is totally wrong that the majority of the cost of a litre of fuel is down to a tax, the US pay a lot less for fuel than UK motorist, what does the chancellor do with it? its certainly not being spent on upkeep of the roads, no it is use by robbing Peter to pay Paul. They should take a look back in history, to people like the Sheriff of Nottingham, he bit off more than he could chew!!!!. Government, you have been warrned before, the last time it was only a taste of things to come, whilst i do not advocate violence of any kind, mark my words it will get very ugly before long and someone may well get hurt in the process. STOP RIPPING OFF THE MOTORIST !

I'm in England for 2 years - enough to discover that petrol is more expensive than in other european countries. 2p more is 2p too much.