Cost of fuel/duty, Petition to No.10

[Chrislong]

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Lowerduty30/

[telboy]

I've signed it.

I had a look last night but could only find an old one.

[ShiftF9er]

Great idea lets reduce fuel duty and encourage people to buy fuel inefficient cars and put income up tax to pay for this, actually no lets close the hospitals instead. Oil/energy is still cheap, if it was not we would not be flying fresh fruit from South Africa, beef from Argentina or wine from Australia, don't even mention New Zealand lamb.

[telboy]

But people will buy inefficient cars if they want anyway, no matter wha the cost of fuel.
They'll still mess around with income tax...as they always have.
And they'll still fly stuff in from other countries because of the lower production costs.

So, you're telling us that you like paying way over the odds for fuel for day to day journeys and doing your hobby?

Because I dont!

We are being ripped off, by the gov. and by the fuel companies.
No matter what happens with the fuel costs, all these other things will still happen, unless someone finds out a way of pulling the country back off its knees, before it falls flat on its face....which it will do if all the money problems carry on like they are.

[MK999]

Well said Tel

[DCM]

the petitions on the website, I think, it is just a way of the government 'pretending' to be listening, but never really look at it.

As for the Fuel cost, it will hit home all of a sudden, when haulage firms can no longer sustain making little or no profit on their business, and put up their costs to business, who then pass it on to us. then you will really see inflation go up. you have also got the hiking of car taxes going up, as they drop the emisions route of tax banding back to 2001....

If there was a way of bypassing it, I would rather do that, and do it to a point with buying LPG.... but that is going up now....

In the end, they KNOW you need your car, they KNOW you will buy the petrol.... not much you can do, except maybe refuse to pay your road fund licence.

[Chrislong]

Haulage companies are hitting Companies with a double whammy:

CAF: They are levying a surcharge based on the weakness of the pound against the Euro. Which is very hard for firms now as so many are now registered in Europe, so they can legally swerve the UK tax's.

BAF: The fuel surcharges are going up high, these surcharges have been around for years but now they're much higher.

Its crippling business's, obviously.

As for running inefficient cars. Well personally, I thought about buying an economical car, but then I thought against it, as this is what shit-for-brain Brown wants. I choose to drive a fast car, and I will continue to do so. The UK population has a weak voice (We don't speak up enough, and when we do the Government don't listen), and so we need to speak up, if this means blocking roads, blocking ferry terminals, block airports etc.... heck, im all for that, count me in.

Chris

[Fiddybux]

Signed.

Mazda RX-8
17/25mpg
Not happy!

I didn't expect to be happy with fuel bills though...so I suppose I can't moan too much. And I choose to keep the car because I love it and wouldn't be happy with something sensible.

Glad I don't have to commute far though.

How high will it go?....I reckon we'll see 135p a litre by Christmas.

[ashleyb4]

I signed it for all you fuel users i use it to

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[IceMike]

saw 132.9 this mornin. i think if it goes the way its going its gunna be more like 160 by crimbo

[DCM]

I think what agrevates is that oil companies do make an aweful lot of profit per annum, and it would be nice to see some of that passed on to the customer. As for the Tax on it, in the broader picture, we pay one of the highest, if not THE highest % of income back to the government, we just don't see it, as most is done by them slipping it out on goods and services...

Gordon Brown would not think twice about cutting fuel duty, it is too easy an income, like tax on fags and booze.... easy target.