Fair Fuel Prices

[RickRick]

reposted from another forum


Fair Fuel Petition - Please Sign

Hi,

I think you will agree with me and others that in this country we are paying far too much for the fuel in our cars. In fact on average most people are paying around 10% of their salary just to fill their cars up every week. The Fair Fuel UK Campaign are doing all they can to get this Government to lower fuel prices. They have set up an e-petition to have a full debate in Parliament regarding the high fuel prices here in the UK.

They rapidly need 100,000 signatures to make this debate happen to try to get the Government to reduce fuel prices by cutting fuel duty. In just 12 hours they got 4,000 signatures overnight but, with your help they need more.

Please sign the e-petition straight away and will you please forward this e-mail to as many of your friends, club members or anyone else you can think of to sign the petition. If you just click on this link it will take you straight to the e-petition.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/347

Many thanks for your time and together we can hope to lower the high fuel prices we are seeing now.

Kind Regards

[Big G]

signed.

[Dave Dodd]

Signed.

Ash. signed too

[Robocop]

Done

[Jamie.T]

I also signed, lets hope this petition counts for something.

[JBL]

I have also signed, lets hope it makes a difference....

[deano261]

signed

[SlowOne]

Not signed. It costs £600m a year to run this country. If you take tax off fuel prices it will turn up somewhere else. I have a choice whether to buy fuel or not, and what car to run to pay fuel for. I do not have a choice about most other taxes. I don't won't to pay more income tax, I want my income so I have a choice where to spend it.

Of those who want to sort this country out, how many voted? Only 63% of people in this country bothered to vote at the last election. The Government was elected with only 35% of that vote. If everyone else had voted, it is not very likely this lot would be in power. If we had a proper voting system then we would have a Government that represented our proportion of votes, but only 42% of people bothered to vote in the last referendum. I'd gladly accept that we need to do something more pro-active if only people had used the system that was available to them, but no! People, as has been said, can't be a***d.

I remember when fuel was 25p a GALLON, and when I started driving it was 26p a litre.

I'm with C0sie - where else are you going to live that's any better?

[wacattack]

Originally Posted by SlowOne

Not signed. It costs £600m a year to run this country.

It costs a hell of a lot more than that to run the country!

Originally Posted by SlowOne

If you take tax off fuel prices it will turn up somewhere else. I have a choice whether to buy fuel or not, and what car to run to pay fuel for. I do not have a choice about most other taxes. I don't won't to pay more income tax, I want my income so I have a choice where to spend it.

What labour was trying to dp before it got ousted from power was to encourage people to spend more. If people spent more, business would make more money. The more money they make the more successful they are the more successful they become. The more successful they become the more opportunities there are for everyone.

By charging people less on taxes you actually encourage people to spend more. Increasing taxes is short term thinking, particulalry when the economy is as it is and has no long term benefit to the overall economy. The better the economy, the more money the country will have long term

Originally Posted by SlowOne

I'm with C0sie - where else are you going to live that's any better?

Australia

[SlowOne]

Ooops - It's £600bn... :embarassed:

Ahhh... trickle-down economics, born under Thatcher and Reagan in the 1980s, already disowned by Thatcher personally, and proven by many good researchers in the US and the UK to be a crock. Labour did indeed do as you suggest, and we did all benefit from the expanding economy, but parties on both sides of the house agree now that the people who earn a lot have to pay a lot for the country - Labour brought in the 50% tax rate and the Tories are keeping it!

If it costs £600bn to run the country, and then you get less money because people aren't in work, there is no option to reduce taxes. Presently we are increasing borrowing, and the interest rates will have to be paid for for years to come, making it even less likely that taxes can come down. The argument is simplistic - if you want to offer lower taxes you have to cut spending. As that must eventually mean sacking people, then you have even less people paying taxes to run the country. This argument about lowering taxes has lamentably failed for the last 40 years - every country that tries it has to abandon it.

Australia - 30%+ to 50%+ income tax rates, no NHS, dentists and ambulance fees extra, massive immigration issues, strong trades unions, large Government debt and expensive housing in urban areas. Awesome country for a tourist, not my choice to live in. Send me photos of Sydney when you get there - my favourite city of any in the world.

[wacattack]

Originally Posted by SlowOne

Ooops - It's £600bn... :embarassed:

Ahhh... trickle-down economics, born under Thatcher and Reagan in the 1980s, already disowned by Thatcher personally, and proven by many good researchers in the US and the UK to be a crock. Labour did indeed do as you suggest, and we did all benefit from the expanding economy, but parties on both sides of the house agree now that the people who earn a lot have to pay a lot for the country - Labour brought in the 50% tax rate and the Tories are keeping it!

If it costs £600bn to run the country, and then you get less money because people aren't in work, there is no option to reduce taxes. Presently we are increasing borrowing, and the interest rates will have to be paid for for years to come, making it even less likely that taxes can come down. The argument is simplistic - if you want to offer lower taxes you have to cut spending. As that must eventually mean sacking people, then you have even less people paying taxes to run the country. This argument about lowering taxes has lamentably failed for the last 40 years - every country that tries it has to abandon it.

Australia - 30%+ to 50%+ income tax rates, no NHS, dentists and ambulance fees extra, massive immigration issues, strong trades unions, large Government debt and expensive housing in urban areas. Awesome country for a tourist, not my choice to live in. Send me photos of Sydney when you get there - my favourite city of any in the world.

I'm not talking all taxes, I mean the ones that affect the average person. I'm all for increasing tax rates for the high earners and totally support a 50% tax bracket. Heck, I'd be prepared to be one of those paying 50%

As for Australia, 2 of my mates both moved to Australia and absolutely love it. Far greater quality of life with more positives outweighing the negatives. If my wife and I weren't so close to our families we'd have moved there years ago

[FastWheels]

a sign from me as well !