You like me been a petrol head will be sick of the seemingly constant rise in fuel duty so lets do something about it and follow this campaign, get signed up and together convince the government to lower duty after all wasn't it us who voted them in bout time they started to listen

Petrol and diesel have dominated the news headlines over the last few days. This email update is to let you know our take on the situation and to ask you for a little help.

Here is how we see it:

The real ‘fuel crisis’ is not the current particular dispute between the tanker drivers and their employers. Important as it is to see this dispute resolved fairly and quickly, the real ‘fuel crisis’ is the scandalously high price that families and businesses are having to pay for petrol & diesel. This will be made worse by the fact that the Government waived through in the Budget another 16p a gallon in fuel taxes to hit us all this summer.

The reaction to the possible disruption to fuel supplies has surely showed the Government one thing …. PETROL & DIESEL ARE ABSOLUTELY VITAL TO FAMILIES, BUSINESSES AND THE ENTIRE ECONOMY. Our argument is that forcing up prices by increasing fuel duty is hurting families, damaging business and holding back growth. All our polling shows that fuel tax is the nation’s number 1 priority and recent figures have showed that Britain’s economy is hardly growing at all. The Government is investing hundreds of millions of pounds in ‘job creation’ to fight unemployment. As well as truly understanding the suffering that high petrol & diesel prices are causing, they need to listen to our research which clearly shows that CUTTING FUEL DUTY is the most effective way of creating jobs and boosting growth. If you have not done so already, please see the evidence at http://fairfueluk.com/cebr.html
Some people have asked why FairFuelUK doesn’t support the idea of hauliers and farmers ‘blockading’ refineries and stopping the flow of fuel to protest about high prices. Please go to this link for a review of the Campaign's position.

Over the next few weeks, we will be fighting in Parliament to see the 16p a gallon increase, waived through in the Budget speech, scrapped and to make the Government see that it should be cutting fuel duty, not raising it!

We need your help to give us the power to make the politicians listen. We are fortunate to be supported by the RAC, the Road Haulage Association, the Freight Transport Association and The Fuelcard Company. On top of that, we have over 235,000 individual supporters like you. That figure of 235,000 is impressive – but it needs to be so much higher! This is where we need your help. There are 30 million motorists in the country. We need to spread the word to those millions of potential supporters that they don’t need to go and ‘blockade’. What they need to do is sign up to www.fairfueluk.com so that the Government realise they are facing a massive and growing movement of public opinion.

Please, as a matter of urgency do these three simple things:

1. Please ask everyone you know to sign up to www.fairfueluk.com – every extra signup (it’s free and only takes a few seconds) really does make our argument more powerful. There’s a simple copy and paste email below that you can send to your address book.

2. Help us spread word of the campaign by a powerful showing of our ‘CUT FUEL DUTY NOW’ sticker campaign. You can order them here http://fairfueluk.com/sticker___donations.html

3. Please post your experiences and comments on our blog at http://fairfueluk.com/quentins_blog.php so that we can see how the price of petrol & diesel are affecting you.


We had some success last year defeating over 9p per litre of rises in fuel duty. We were hugely disappointed that the chancellor ignored our calls in the recent Budget but with your help and support, the fight goes on!

Kind regards,

The FairFuelUK Team

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Dear Friend,

I’ve signed up to www.fairfueluk.com – the nation’s leading campaign group fighting for a cut in tax on petrol and diesel. If you are as angry as I am at the scandalously high prices please help them by signing up yourself and forwarding this message to your contacts. Unbelievably, the Government is ploughing on with its plan to add another 16 a gallon in fuel taxes this summer. FairFuelUK needs to dramatically build up its supporter base to fight for this fuel tax rise to be scrapped. Signing up is free and takes just a few seconds. The campaign is backed by the RAC, The Fuelcard Company, and the two trade bodies that represent the UK’s 20,000 leading road freight companies.

 

Signed up and shared on fb.

 

wont make any difference whatsoever as the government just dont care.

 

That's the exact mentality that gives the government the green light to fuck us over, less winging more action!!!

 

i'm afraid warrens right,if everything stopped for a week then the goverment would be forced to do something,but all the sheep proved last week they will pay no matter what the price so whats the point? the whole country needs to do something,not just a few petrolheads.

 

Just block the roads, show the goverment we are no longer little puppies who bark a little then lick their feet.

 

While the fair fuel campaign is good people standing together there is no room to slash fuel duty because the fundermental problem this country has is there are not enough tax payers to pay for our ever growing welfare state, slashing fuel duty will just end up on income tax, vat, or another stealth tax.

 

Time for a revolution!!

 

Whilst I agree to an extent, the situation won't get any better if people just sit back and accept it!

The fuel blockades achieved nothing. We're still here, years down the line, getting ripped off on fuel duty

 

The problem does spread further than the fuel tax you're right, but that said they are taking the piss out of us...
They could hike the tax up on booze and fags and drop fuel tax!
Im all for blocking the roads and having a proper protest, as the government will ignore any written petetion etc. But i have signed it all the same.

Another thing to protest about is foreign aid, we give out billions to countrys with better or faster growing economies than our own...
Unemployment benefit - the numbers who receive it are growing everyday...
Immigrants, people coming in an taking our jobs and claiming our benefits!

 

and even if they messed things up for a week, the government will NOT give in to civil disorder. They will just put more laws in place to beat us into submission.

motorists are a obvious cash cow the government just cant do without at present and for the next decade or more.

As rab suggested, revolution or a complete collapse of our democracy is the only thing that will achieve the necessary changes to the welfare state and the issues you mention to free up enough cash to reduce fuel tax.

The problem is weve taken decades to create this corrupt welfare state and corrupt public sector. It will take decades to change it back to anything sensible.

The simple fact is the benefit vote and public sector vote is too great for any politician to risk loosing significant votes by even suggesting the necessary changes, let alone actually getting them to happen.

 

Totally agree, last weeks panic buying just made the situation worse and gave the government/fuel companies the perfect opportunity to hike the prices even more, its gone up 4p in a week where I live, the government know people have no choice than pay for fuel, whatever the price, and last week just proved it.

 

apparently it raised just shy of £300 million in extra tax revenue on fuel alone

Perfect timing for the end of the tax year

 

Correct. And Warren is right, won't make any difference. Perhaps if we didn't have all these fucking immigrants and ponces in this country .... best left for another thread I think.

 

Done, but it won't get us anywhere.

 

Call me a cinic, but is it a case of:


Summary:

"please join our mailing list, we'll do nothing useful, but we'll try and sell you stuff"



Like all the other "campaigns" which have and always will achieve nothing.



The government needs fuel duty revenue, you wont talk the price down IMHO

 

I know were you coming from but blocking the roads wont work either didn't we all try that in 2000 when we was fighting £1 a litre? if enough ppl signed this they would listen they would have too but come on there was only just over two hundred thousand last time i checked but how many ppl drive in the uk? MILLIONS if missions signed they would listen

 

Was talking about this with someone the other day, the only real fair way of going about it is to get rid of the cost of your car tax and add 25p tax to the price of fuel which in turn gets used for what your road tax would of been used for.

I have 4 cars which I keep taxed, 2 of them get used everyday by me and the otherhalf and 2 which maybe get 1-2k miles a year, yet I still pay over £400 to keep them taxed.

 

just been to fill the turbo up with vpower and there out. had to use bp ultimate. saw a few tankers en route though. noticed that premium unleaded was readily available, the higher octane stuff was out at most stations. prices are through the roof these days. if everyone stood firm and refused to do anything for a day bringing the country to a standstill, then im sure the price of tax would come down. sadly 98% of us moan and then get on with it. the spongers/immigrants who dont work are the ones who ultimatly benefit from the working mans tax bill/vat ect. barracading/welding up the doors of every dole office could be a start. itll fuck up the dole mans drinking/injecting schedule for a day or two if nowt else....

 

To replace the government we voted in? Lol

 

I propose you head it up, many will follow

 

no they wouldnt.

 

AGAIN? this exact thread gets posted several times a year, not ONCE has it changed anything! in fact when the first one was posted, probably in 2003 the price of fuel was HALF what it is today, so stop posting this crap, it has doubled my fuel costs!!!!
oh and this motion HAS been put before the government, they just delayed the increase, brilliant!

 

there has been petition after petition and campaign after campaign with millions signing it, it will never force any change in the goverment as they know they can get away with robbing us motorists of money, I support everyone that speaks up against it but I know not a single thing will change

 

How can we get them to change then...?