Please sign this petition against high fuel duty online

[JonnyBoy12]

Sorry if this is the wrong area, but have just seen petition which you all must sign. It is to get the government to lower fuel excise duty which is crippling this once great nation's economy. Can I urge you all to sign it and also tell all your friends and family to do so as well?

This is important as it concerns you all.

See the link below:

https://submissions.e....gov.uk/petitions/347

[fliptheswitch]

I know your hearts in the right place, but this is absolutely pointless.
These petitions have been going round for ages... yet still no change.
And for that reason, I'm out.

[GillyGee]

you were urged to sign it and not told to.......

[MarkRae]

"...you all must sign." Not me, for one...

[Old_Geezer]

You MUST pay high fuel duty.

[fliptheswitch]

Also agree with Gillygee. Get a grip Redhelen.

[Buenchico]

In the interest of the environment, the sooner that fuel prices go above £2 per litre, the better.

I certainly won't be signing the petition.

[fliptheswitch]

Hmmm. Actually, Buenchico, you make a very good point.

[stokemaveric]

really all this ''enviromental'' garbage gets on my nerves,the u.s,china,russia etc etc take absoloutley no notice of ''green issues'' so its a waste of time really..petrol prices will remain high because of the greed of various governments who implement tax on fuel and oil companies..they are all on a winner except the motorist and haulage companies..where would any of us be without transport????

[JonnyBoy12]

Okay then, if I can not tell you that you must do something then can I strongly urge you to do it. It is all of you I am thinking of here as this high fuel tax has been around for decades. Do these petitions not work then, fliptheswith? I thought that they were supposed to make a difference to our little world?

[alexanderd]

Jonnyboy petitions seldom do any good and, as evidence , there is an online one at the mment to bring back capital punishment. If 100000 people sign then parliament must debate it. What do you think are the chances of that happening? p.s there are already well over 100000 signed up

[micmak]

I am 62 years old. I have never signed a petition, a matter of principle. At one point I fell out with my mother-in-law ( something to do with horses ) In the late 60's I was assaulted by a woman with a large handbag for refusing to sign a anti-abortion petition.

[cazzz1975]

I agree with the others, I have signed a fair few petitions that have gone into the millions in the past, even with a million signatures they will do nothing about it.

[DTCwordfan]

Double excise, take cars off the road....and favour renewable fuel usage with lower taxes on them. I am also in favour of low taxes (i.e. zero for the exploitation of black oils, the UK sits on massive reserves but it is about the economics of using heating systems to get it onshore and the primary processing - this could be done by zero PRT (petroleum resource taxation) applied to any crude produced in the UK and a "proportional" excise reduction to the oil cos for every barrel used as a proportion of their overall barrels produced

[redcrx]

does it say what they pertitioners would transfer the tax to to make up the shortfall?

[SIRandyraven]

Use train to go to work and work from home twice a week.
High fuel prices make the roads nice and quiet.
So happy with stutus quo.