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If the taxes collected from fuel actually went into improving the transport system maybe I'd mind less. As such, motoring has just become even more miserable over the years.

If the public transport system was a viable alternative maybe I'd accept this form of taxation but its not, its as unworkable as its ever been.

I'd don't make unnecessary journeys, I use my car as its the only way I can get to my job given I've been priced out of the local housing market.

It's impossible for me to comprehend what such taxes are trying to achieve other than finding new ways to squander what gets collected.

I'm wholly unimpressed by this thumbscrew tax.

Mr Brown and his colleagues are arguing that local Authority workers should accept a pay rise for the year 2007 (already very late) of 2.4%. How can he now argue that an increase on fuel tax, which far exceeds 2.4%, is fair

Bet this increase in duty will not affect the Government ministers with their large gas guzzlers on expenses.

post # 296.....aw bless ya Cathie, it's happened to me before - I have no idea how you can reverse it....but I'm sure everyone'll forgive ya :-)

As a disabled driver, I need my car for every journey I make, whether it's popping out to the shops or getting away for the day. This increase again in petrol prices is making even essential journeys difficult. If they insist in going ahead, I feel that an increase in the mobility component if DLA should be increased, and ring fenced for the driver's use, not handed straight to motability

I have just returned from the US. We were paying $2.59 a US Gallon, that's near on £1.30 for over 4 litres. Now I'm no rocket scientist but that sounds like about 33p per litre!!!! How can we be being charged so much when the biggest fuel guzzling nation in the world gets it for a third of the price.

We also saw an advertisement in ths US for an Hummer H2. They were boasting that it did 20mpg!! They just don't care. I say lets blockade the forecourts for a day and show them we mean business

Just make sure that you are filled up before Monday!!

U turn NOW!

This government continues to ride roughshod over people, in order to obtain

ever increasing fiscal monies to waste on their obscene quango's. How we are putting up with this nonsense, is just an amazing study in apathy. Let this threatened petrol tax rise be the catalyst to civil unrest; that this punitive tax deserves to create.

Get lost Government. How about we be efficent with spending in all other sectors?

I'm in favour of a price hike, but not yet. The alternative fuels market hasn't really taken off yet.

The government is doing the right things at the moment to encourage mass production of alternative fuel vehicles, but we are still a long way off. 0% road tax for non polluters, and heavy tax for the Hummers, 4x4's etc... is a start, but price hikes are too early - Anyone remember what happened when prices went over £1/Litre?

Greater encouragement with subsidies, tax breaks and investment from our Government is what we really need, once alternative fuels become common place, then they can tax the hell out of us.

I would be in favour if I believed that the 2.35p would go towards the above, but with election day looming it's a bit difficult to see it as anything other than a war chest booster.

Just another con by this government. Are they going to take all their limosines off the road?

This leaves me flabergasted. aren't they getting enough money from the speed cameras?
They are far more justified than a petrol price hike.
The well off won't blink an eye at this increase and will continue to drive just as much. Most parents will still be dropping their children off at the school gates after a 5min drive or less.
People who really need their cars, the disabled, those far from public transport,and those on low incomes will become housebound if they are not so already.
How about petrol rationing. At least that would be fairer.
My husband is disabled, can't walk to a bus stop. I have to work so that he can maintain his mobility. Nobody is going to give me a pay inrease to cover this!

i accidently voted NO. I want to vote YES.

What is this country coming to??? First of all it is trying to make us healthy by creating a Smoking Ban - hence killing off alot of the pub trade, We have stopped going to the pub!!! as I do not wish to sit outside in the cold and the rain to have a smoke, so there is some tax lost....not only getting a bad head in the morning but probably off work with cold or pnemonia..more strain on the health service.... people are giving up smoking (a good thing you might say) so more tax lost, keeping everyone at home buying cheap booze from the supermarkets, so saving some tax on policing the drunks.. so finally lets punish the motorist, and stick more tax on the fuel, road tax and insurance... If we all stopped smoking and driving, this country would go bankrupt..... I back your protest 100% ---Power to the People...

Sick sick sick. We get pounded and hounded every month. The only thing that makes me go to work is not for the paycheck at the end of the month but to make feel as though I contribute to society. I have no saving as the tax I pay on every single item I purchase eats into my meagre wage. I really would be better on the dole. Thank you Brown and all those that push the working man to his limits

Enough is enough this country has gone to pot. It is dear enough to live in this country as it is with interest rates, water rates, poll tax, prescriptions and food prices, they now want to add more on petrol which will start the whole ball rolling again as prices go up to cover the petrol prices. The last ladies comments on good is a little niave. Salary raises do not cover the constant rises we have. If the goverment stopped free treatment for anyone who comes to this country for the NHS & the so called benefit system we would be better off, there is enough genuine English people that needs help before immigrants. If we go abroad we have to pay why shouldn't people coming here have to pay. Then we wouldn't need these ridiculous price increases all the time. There is not one goverment party worth voting for as they all lie to get your vote and then go the opposite way.

We're already paying ridiculously over the odds for our petrol today! When wil it ever end???

Public transport is not efficient enough in Scotland to allow people to ditch their cars! I live in counryside and there is no possible way for me to be at my workplace for 8.30am if I didn't drive.

Disgrace!

Thanks Louis for pointing out my typo. (post 225)

I like comment 43. A national boycott to not buy fuel if possible for a whole week. I'm willing to suggest Monday 5th Oct - any takers?- we could all put a yellow postit saying NO TO FUEL TAX in our back window.

Where does the money go anyway? Prices are rising on everything.
Scrap road tax,then put up the price of fuel.

the government keep on putting up the tax on petrol and promising better public transport but they never put anything into action. Other countries have cheaper transport and much more frequent that we have here and there petrol is cheaper. what insentive is there to que at a bus stop for a bus that never turns up and if one does come along to find it is full up with school children and you cant get on it. you get soaking wet when it rains or just freeze while you wait, in hot weather you have to stand next to smelly rude people and again if and when you do get on a bus or train you have to stand as there is no room. yes i really am going to give up travelling to work by car which takes me 10 mins when if i go by bus or train it will take me 45. my time is presious and time costs me money a luxoury i cannot afford to give up.

I recon transfer taxes to reflect environmental damage. That would mean reducing general income tax and increasing things like fuel tax. That would really make us think evrytime we use the car, which not many people do now.

i work in the community looking after young people in their own homes and have to pay for my own petrol,can't see me getting extra wages for this petrol increase though can you?

I used to get fuel for 89.9p a liter and now the best i can hope for is 92.9p a liter i think another 2.35p per liter will be too much as I already only get at best about 45 miles to the gallon sometimes 50 on a strait run (better than most new cars) now i could only hope for 42 miles to the gallon. 3 miles less times 2 at 6 times a week to and from work 36 miles a week less if im not mistaken. I think 2.35p will cost me nearly £4 thereabouts a week.

The main problem with fuel duty increases is that it is inflationary as it forms an element of the cost of every single thing we buy.
Otherwise, I would not have a problem with it if the revenue was ring-fenced for transport infrastructure improvements - but it isn't!!
I like PetrolPrices.com as i like avoiding lining the pockets of the fuel distributors - as someone else pointed out, if Tesco can offer 5p/litre to most of their customers then there is a healthy profit margin being taken somewhere!

Majorities often keep quiet expecting others to protect them. Minorities know they must stand up for themselves. Governments listen to people who are a pain and confront them, they then inflict policies on the silent majority who are law abiding. In other countries the motoring public lobby their representative, not because they are selfish or couldn't care less about the environment, but because they expect to be guided not penalised for something they have little control over. Encourage the manufacturer, subsidise where possible but don't penalise to get rich. Our society deserves personal transportation, it would respond to alternative versions if given a serious alternative. I'll trade my car tomorrow if I could afford to do it and if all manufacturers had eco cars, I think our government maybe capitalising on this, unfortunately I see no benefits.

The country will not be able to accomodate the petrol price rise. It will add to inflation and economy will have a retrograde step. The price should decrease, a wise step from wise government.
Sarup

This is ridiculous.. we already pay way too much for petrol here. Even less developed far east countries have subsidised fuel. I was paying 20p a litre in Malaysia..

The Goverment take more than enough money from the motorist as it is this is just more of a burden for hard working people to have to put up with, we need to petion the goverment more.

The fuel price is so high because the exchequer gets THREE bites at the cherry
1 When it is pumped out of the ground (VAT)
2 After refining (Fuel Duty)
3 At the pumps (VAT Again)
If this isnt a licence to print money I dont know what is . One thing is for certain the cash will not be spent in favor of the road user, the same go's for licence duty.
I live in a rural area a car is a must, as bus services by Stagcoach are abismal.
Traveling 9 miles to the nearest large hospital can take the best part of an hour.
Labour used to favour the working people now they see them as a bottomless pit from which they can continue to draw money with no consiquence. The next national election should be a few Labour MP's out of a job.


P.S. Add 1 to the YES total above I clicked the wrong button

Don't vote for them! I have just got a job after 7 months unemployment and the mileage allowance is the same as it was 8 years ago! I am told this is because the government tax the employer on it.
I was also astounded to find out that now I am back in work I will be taxed on the unemployment benefit I received.
How low is that.

Dear Mr Brown....how I wished I had pushed you down the stairs at Edinburgh airport when I had the chance!

Disabled drivers, like myself, are not able to absorb these price increases because we are mostly dependant on the benefits system.
I don't think the PM will increase disabled benefits to take into account these rises, do you?

We should boycott each supplier for a week at a time..... Boycott Esso for a week, then Shell, BP etc..... We would soon see some price wars to gain back custom...........

If fuel duty continues to increase i will definitely change my vote at the next general election.

We are generally fed up with the back-door taxation system of the present government.

I know thing go up in price, but petrol seems to be the one that affects all drivers. Im a disabled driver, so need my car. Its gonna get to the stage where i wont beable to afford to get around. This will make my life even more harder. Please rethink about this action.

RE Number 1: "income can easily match the increasing cost of motoring". What an arrogant comment.

Those who need to drive are very often the ones who can't afford the rises. .

In mid Wales I am 30 miles from my nearest station, with no through bus route, and only 4 buses a day. I drive 120 miles round trip to my nearest NHS dentist, my nearest hospital is 25 miles away, incl. casualty.

When my wife was under treatment for breast cancer I travelled up to 80 mile each way for specialist departments and clocked up over 8000 miles in one year just travelling to hospitals. My income is low and fixed. I suggest my situation would not be unique.