Ninety Five Pence
I noticed as I drove into work this morning that the garage nearest the office is now charging 94.9p for a litre of Diesel.
This is extortionate, but I suspect that somewhere out there petrol stations have already crossed the “pound a litre” mark. This is all the governments fault - not only did they already tax the motorist excessively “to drive people onto public transport” - they have failed to provide a cheap, reliable public transport system that can take people where they need to go, when they need to go there in a timely and efficient manner.
They then compounded the problem by joining the USA in the invasion of Iraq, which destablised the political situation in the middle-east, driving oil prices, and hence fuel tax revenue ever higher.
Then the oil companies take their cut, posting record profits in the process, and who’s paying for all this - that’s right, it’s us, the motorist who uses the car because there’s no practical alternative.
It’s time to start those rolling blockades on the motorways, blockade the depots again - we need to remind the government that it can’t walk all over the people who voted it in (I have to say at this point that I didn’t vote Labour because of the illegal invasion of Iraq and the ever increasing fuel prices) - the government needs to listen to the people - not ignore us like they usually do.
How can we possibly be maintaining inflation at the levels the Government claims we are when fuel prices are rocketing by around 10 percent a year - according to the AA, average prices for Diesel in June 2003 were 77.2p, June 2004 was 82.8p - now they are 90.2p for the same litre of Diesel.
5 Years ago the country ground to a halt becuase of Government Policy and oil company profiteering - it’s time for this to happen again.
Remember this:
For every £50 you put in your tank, you’re giving the government £37 in tax
Online Protest Petition
http://www.fuelprotest.com/
RUF Forums
http://www.fuelprotest.com/forum.php
Less Tax On Fuel
http://www.lesstaxonfuel.co.uk/
Fuel Forum
http://www.fuelforum.co.uk/index.shtml
AA Fuel Price Surveys
http://www.theaa.com/allaboutcars/fuel/index.html
