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Is there an on-line petition at downing St .com or anything?

Lets have a general election and get shot of this government pronto, theyre already taking too much from the motorist .

Arse!

Ridiculous... motorists being punished for necessarily using their vehicles. Whats the alternative? Public Transport? Ha ! Dont make me laugh.

Can't Roman Abramovich help? He's b*ggered up my favourite football team - bring him on!

How long is this country going to put up with outrageous rises in taxes without seeing any of the benefit - Does anyone know where all this money goes? How many more businesses will go to the wall because they cannot compete with those in the Far East - is anything not made in China these days ?
I agree with the idea of boycotting retailers - even a day will have a serious impact on their distribution network - a week would be crippling for them. Something has got to be done to show this governement that the people of Britain are not prepared to be taken for mugs any longer.

Every goverment in the last 40 years has ear maked the motorist as the easy target to screw to the ground in terms of tax, Now you and every enviromentalist has decided to blame the car driver for every thing in regard to the climate change issue and tax us again.Remember that every motorist in this country is a voter,and you might just care to remember that at the next election.

my son has lived in germany for the last 22 years. mrs thatcher drove him out. the price of petrol and diesel is cheaper in germany, and they have not got any oil in there country at all.last year we drove from england, through france to italy. the dearest diesel!! damned england,by far.
we have to put a stop to the robbery of motorist's by the government, and the greedy robbing oil companies, whose executives pay themselves in lottery figures.
the only way to put a stop to this rape of the motorist, is to get out on the roads around the country, and block everything up for a week or two.
they can not put you in prison, there is not enough room for the criminals.
if anyone wants to get it going,lets go!!
p.s. no doubt the "authorities"will be monitoring this site.
well let them,it is about time we did what the french do, we are to soft.

price rises doesnt mean less traffic - it means poorer drivers

Typical of our Government, when will they realise they punish the motrist first but it has a knock effect on everything else.

We are lucky in one respect that we live in a small village, but unlucky on the other hand because we have no public transport, so are very reliant on our car. We also have a little girl who is in and out of hospital through no fault of her own. She attends hospital twice a week, sometimes more, sometimes less.

We need to make sure that we have petrol in the car at all times, especially as the specialist centre is a 70 mile round trip.

This extra 2.35p on a litre is going to make a lot of difference to everyone, especially families who are in our situation. We need our car, so I suppose will have to accept the rise yet again - we have no other choice.

The members of this government, it would seem, have little experience in either running a business or being involved in a business. It should be a condition of entry to the MP gravy train that a prospective MP should have either been employed or should have run their own business. Similarly, a minister of defence should have served in the armed forces. We have a collection of individuals who generally have little experience of the real world determining how the rest of us in the real world should live. They seem to live in an ivory tower which is immune from the effects of their own policies.

The Prime Minister, who as Chancellor of the exchequer, stole millions of pounds from pension funds and savers ISA's, now expects us to believe him when he says he will 'not let us down'. He has already done that by stealing pension money from us, and by denying us a referendum on whether we shoud accept the European Constitution when his manifesto clearly said we would have one. He has consistently underfunded the armed forces who are operating with equipment more akin to third world armed forces rather than that which should be provided to 'a leading world economy'.

In short, he is a political con artist who should be voted out at the earliest opportunity. Is it any wonder he wants to put up the price of fuel. I am amazed that this is the only increase he wants. Isn't is easy, when you don't have to make a profit, to raise money by stealth taxes to balance the books

When will people realise that the only way, this, or any other government will listen, is to take action.
Talk is cheap, otherwise it would have been taxed by now !

Gordon ? Alistair - you can't be serious?

We run three vehicles in my company, installing and repairing vital signs monitoring equipment for the Ambulance service. Perhaps the tree huggers out there could tell me how increasing the price of fuel will help me and my customers for one. We also look after other electronic equipment for haulage firms. They tell me that the Government brought in emergency legislation after the last fuel blockade, that will imprison anybody trying such a tactic today. Is this True?

We are the only country in the world that pays duty on top of duty for our fuel. I run a 4x4 as I have to tow a horse box, so I'm being hit in the pocket yet again. I work shifts and can't get to work on time without running a car.

Why not threaten to boycott one particular supplier of fuel for 7 days, say BP for example. This way they would lose hundreds of thousands of pounds unless they made their fuel more attractive. How would they do that? By reducing the price of course. Now we all buy BP once the price is more attractive. Its difficult to control, but could be immensely effective.

A Rip Off. The Good Old UK Will Stand For Aney Thing or so the Goverment Think, WE Must Show Darling & Brown That Enough Is Enough.

Yet again the goverment is about to hit the easy target in the pocket, we pay the highest fuel duty, soon we will be hit by a nationwide toll to enter our city centres while there is no improvement in public transport to aliviate overcrowded road use hence proving this is a money making scheme and not to improve congestion or envoiromentalist issues. We as motorists need to stand up and be counted we are voters aswell as car owners, we see on tv every day MP's and the royals all driving round in gas guzzling jags and range rovers and such like and who foots the bill? The tax payer of which the motorist pays the largest ammount and still we take it on the chin. We will soon be forced off the road due to cost of running even the most economical vehicles, when this happens who will foot the countries tax bill then?

So, Amanda, when the chancellor realises that revenue from fuel tax has fallen drastically do you really think he'll let it rest? Do you think the oil men will let it rest? You clearly are, at best, naive.

i work in an industry that uses a lot of fuel , with another hike on the fuel this could have disastrous affect on our competivness and could end up in some people losing their jobs. we are paying higher taxes than most other european countries so this puts us in an unfair situation and we cannot compete with imports

Tax Tax and more tax hiting the british public. We are not all on huge incomes. I'm not on the minimum wage, but the constant rise on fuel and other day to day living cost certainly countermand any wage increases that I may receive each year. I can not be sure I will get a rise in the coming year. Public transport does not work as efficiently as the government would have us believe. Until it does there should be no more rises in petrol or diesil prices.

I was recently in St Austel, Cornwall and a BP filling station was charging £1.06.9 per litre of Super unleaded and 98.9p per litre of unleaded. How those folks cope now beggers belief.

I hope the Government see sense on the far reaching consequences on those on low incomes who rely on their cars and vans just to earn a livable wage.

I could go on...

I got this from a friend in the US recently, possibly the most unlikely nation in the world to protest en masse, but they did and they continue to do so...because their petrol prices went up to a staggering 42p!!! Yep, that's right, the American protested because they had to pay 42p for a litre of fuel and we're paying close to 100p!

Check out what happened when they did this before...prices went down by 30 cents overnight...they stopped pumping fuel for a day and something happened...somebody needs to get this organised and we need to start taking action now to mobilise the people of this country. We've been getting the p1$$ taken out of us for far too long.

For me, if it goes on for much longer I'll be moving out, and I never ever thought I'd even be contemplating that. Read on and let's get organised! For once we might be able to learn from our American counterparts.

"We are paying over $3.30 per gallon here. I do not see the
justification!!!!! I am willing to do this, and maybe we can make a
little difference.

NO GAS...On May 15th 2007

Don't pump gas on may 15th. In April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted
nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a
gallon overnight.

On May 15th 2007, all internet users are not to go to a gas station in
protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most
places.

There are 73,000,000+ American members currently on the internet
network, and the average car takes about 30 to 50 dollars to fill up.
If all users did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take
$2,292,000,000.00 (that's almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companies
pockets for just one day, so please do not go to the gas station on May
15th and lets try to put a dent in the Middle Eastern oil industry for at
least one day.

If you agree (which I cant see why you wouldn't) resend this to all your
contact list. With it saying, ''Don't pump gas on May 15th"

I agree with all those who have highlighted the situation for people living in rural, low economy areas with few public transport choices. Our vehicles are our life line, without them we cannot work, shop, visit elderly parents nor get children to school safely and on time. Public transport works well in areas of high population but for us there's no option. The more remote the filling station, the higher the cost of fuel.

I agree with all of the comments regarding extravagent fuel prices and the government needing to find new revenues from tax due to them near enough encouraging all smokers to stop, thus loosing a fortune in tax of cigarettes, but what are we going to do about it? I have read alot about blockades and strikes but they will only affect the motorist too. And the petrol stations for a few days. Also, why are people using this as a forum to blame all the countrys problems on legal immigrant workers? It soooo is not their fault that we have a government that likes to hang on to Americas coat tails and plunder all available money into Mr Bushs war.

This is typical of today's government punish the motorist, we motorists are an easy target be it for VAT, vehicle taxation, fuel of all types. I see the new slogan for this goverment to be:-

'PUNISH THE MOTORIST IT IS SO EASY'

blockade the ports jam the motorways
whats this country coming too
why are we letting them get away with it

come on people, the man who raised all these taxes is now our unelected leader & the man, A Darlng, waged economic war on the motorist as transport minister 7 now is in a position to wreak more hardship in his current position

Lets not make taxation a political argument. The Tories gave our high earners a 58% reduction in their income tax making these people think that they actually earn it. Money has to come from somewhere

How can anyone say it's right to put petrol or any fuel price up...especially if it only makes tax payable higher .. What about balancing it out by making public transport ...CHEAPER ... MORE EFFICIENT ...WELL STAFFED & PAID >>>etc...so that many may consider leaving cars at home rather than toil ...as we do ...on over crowded roads... NO "HE" won't do that as motorists are a very soft target ... !!!.... and perhaps if a re think on how all our taxed income is spent ... this may assist in alleviating the poor motorist of this heavy tax burden ... soft touches ...that's what we all are ...
Norman Woodfin

I think that as a nation we can drive down prices even lower than they are now, And I would be the first in line if we could be bothered to do somthing, instead of complaining on a website, something Direct needs to be done.

The only problem is in doing this, if at all it does have any effect, they will pass this on to other area's, such as less money for school's, less money for the NHS, less money for the Forces, the list goes on, so in all our fights against this, in the Grand Scheme of things it wont really make any difference at all.

They are the government they have "do whatever they want & get away with it, badges" so any action we take will always have a reaction, and will effect someone else in the same way as car user's.

Something bigger than blocking deliveries needs to be done here, i'm talking HUGE, I'm not sure what ! but that old saying "power to the people" has more relevance than ever before in a situation such as this, as this will not only effect car user's but everyone in the UK.

What does everyone else think ?

it's not just this tax - the revenue are now trying every means to fulfill the government's obligations to spend and increase spending on a lack of improvements
One reason that they can get away with increased fuel tax is because we [motorists and public transport users] cannot, in our current society, continue without travel

Rising fuel costs affect more than getting around in our cars. Its a vital ingredient of MODERN everyday life. Heating homes and offices, getting food to our supermarkets, getting post around the world, lighting our homes and streets to name very few examples. So the tax is levied on top of the taxes we already pay for all those other MODERN DAY services without the slightest hint of offering a SERIOUS alternative to oil based energy. We certainly are a nation of overlapping taxes!

It is not just the people in cities that need cars. Living here in Lincolnshire there is a totally inadequate public service for either buses or trains. People here are being penalised by the proposed increase in fuel, especially as an agricultural area where wages are not very high. No wonder some people choose not to work and live on benefits. Let the politicians try to live like local people around here do

I think it's discusting how the gov keep ripping off the hard working people of this country, it is time to make a stand, for to long we have taken this financial abuse from the leaders of this country. it's seems to me that the goverment cant balance the books properly in this country and so they just keep leaning on the wages of those trying to make honest livings, rather than watching where they spend the money more carefully in other areas.

I do most of my driving whilst working in the voluntary sector, at the moment I have never claimed for my fuel. With the price of petrol even now expensive, I will no longer be able to do what I do for nothing, thus taking away the feeling that I am putting something into what I do for no financial gain. I will now feel that I am weakening the things I am trying my best to strengthen.
The Government want the"third sector" to help improve society and bring communities back together, I am afraid these ideas do not come to fruition if the means of getting out and about is removed from people in my position.
I WILL BACK YOU TO THE HILT - KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKS BRENDAN!!!!!!!

I am disabled and I live in a rural area in the North of Scotland where the fuel is dearer than anywhere else in the UK to start with and for no reason at all.
As I said I am disabled and I need my car as this is the only way that I can get anywhere, if the goverment wants to put more tax on fuel then he should give more help to the likes of myself and other disabled people.