Please sign this petition for Fair Play on Fuel NOW!

[JonnyBoy12]

Not sure if this has been posted before, but I would like you all to sign a petition to stop unfair duty on fuel. It is listed below, and they can not get enough signatures, so if you could all sign this that would be a help, and also if you tell all your friends to do this then that would also be appreciated.

www.fairfueluk.com

[squarebear]

Waste of time. Nothing will come of this. Remember the road blackades a few years back? That did nothing either.

[flip_flop]

I do think hauliers and such like should be protected from increasing fuel costs but from a personal and purely selfish point of view, I don't particularly care about increasing fuel costs.

I walk to and from work and Mrs Flop walks our school-age daughter to school. We have one car which last year covered just 2000 miles. I have three bikes, which is a bit self-indulgent but they are fairly old, and last year covered less than 2000 miles in total.

So fuel rises don't particularly bother me - in fact, get the public transport infrastructure right and then charge a fiver a litre. Could force more people on to public transport!

So I won't be signing the petition - Plus as squarebear says, even if millions signed it, absolutely nothing would happen.

[TWR]

Your post beggars belief Flip Flop do you not think we pay enough tax in this country? the majority of the British public work hard for the money in fact longer working hours than they do in Europe, Yes I agree that hauliers should have a reduction in fuel duties, regards Public Transport " That's a joke" with today's congestion, I note you have not commented on Foreign Transport that come into this country paying sod all towards our roads, the government can reduce the Tax by doing the above. do you think the French would except this?

[mccfluff]

flip - i walk to work as well but i feel for our co car drivers, they are only paid the HMRC recommended fuel rate and right now most of them are paying to do their jobs as they are not getting the money back they put in for business mileage.

[Xylene]

Why should hauliers get a reduction in fuel duty? The damage they cause costs billions to repair and their idiot drivers can't even read a "Warning Low Bridge" sign!

Get these parasites off the roads, the railways can move it faster, cheaper and SAFER!

[TWR]

Do you live in Fairyland Xylene? who the hell do you think brings your food, Fuel, Clothes, Household good to your town? Father Xmas? the next time you Condemn the haulage Industry, just take your time & look at the road Tax the lorry pays then come back & see if you can justify your statement.

[sddsddean]

So Xylene, your local Tesco/Sainsburys has got its own railhead has it? Remember, if you bought it, a truck brought it!

[Twenty20]

I'm not sure Xylene thought that one through before posting...........

[agardner09]

I agree Xylene didn't think it through but neither did the Conservative government that asked Beeching to dismantle the railway branch network. Just think how easy it would be to deliver goods with all those branch lines even apart from the benefit to tourism.
But that's wishful thinking, the facts are the great British public chose road transport and now we are paying the price for it. Unless we choose to abandon the comfort, convenience and prestige of personal transport (fat chance) we will continue to pay. As a consequence our selfishness will result in gridlock, pollution and increasing fatalities. Mind you that has little to do with our governments continuing to milk the cash cow of motoring taxation.

[JimmyCooper]

Pointless

And if the govt did reduce the duty of fuel they would get it back another way

[The-HouseHusband]

Take a look at what cheap fuel causes by looking at the united states, if you think cheap fuel will cost you less in the long run think again. Sitting in Grid locked traffic for hours on end going nowhere and burning fuel, SMOG accumulating over all our cities just like the states.

Investment in alternative fuels is the only real way forward due to the finite resources of fossil fuels anyway.