FairFuelUK

[littleoldman2]

Received this email forwarded to me.

Dear FairFuelUK Supporter, Our battle to see off the August 3p per litre (16p a gallon) rise in petrol/diesel tax that was just waved through in the Budget has started! We received great coverage in The Sun (read by 7.5m) about our damming initial survey findings – you can see it here...


Over the coming weeks we’ll be asking you to help by contacting your own MP. But right now, we are asking you for some very simple help. The FairFuelUK community now numbers over 251,000 concerned citizens and business owners across the country – but to make an even bigger impact in the minds of our MPs we need even more people behind us. We can’t afford to use press and TV advertising to reach new people, so that’s why we are asking for your help.
If you are at home now, why not ask other family members to sign up?
If you are at work, how about your office or factory colleagues?
If you are a member of a local organisation or club, how about asking the other members?
If you run a business, could you ask your staff to sign up?
If each supporter spreads the word to just a few others, the overall effect can be amazing.
Why not ask them by word of mouth or perhaps forward this email?
The sign up page link to back the campaign is at www.fairfueluk.com
We know that sometimes people feel a little awkward about passing on requests such as this. However, we know from experience that anyone who cares about the cost of petrol & diesel almost always welcomes finding out about FairFuelUK. If we can drive our community up towards 500,000 supporters in advance of all the campaigning and lobbying we are doing in the next few weeks in Parliament we will have an even greater chance of seeing off that 16p a gallon tax hike.
As ever, thanks so much for your support………
Kind regards,
Quentin Willson, Peter Carroll, Lynne Beaumont and Howard Cox
FairFuelUK Campaign Team

[MJC-DEV]

Absolutely no point!

The cost of oil will continue to rise and swallow any reduction in duty, Get use to £2 per litre, it will happen with or without changes in duty.

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by MJC-DEV

Absolutely no point!

The cost of oil will continue to rise and swallow any reduction in duty, Get use to £2 per litre, it will happen with or without changes in duty.

This

Plus the country is skint (thank you Gordon!) and needs to collect taxes from somewhere to balance the books. Do you want to pay a little more for fuel or see even more cuts in services? You have no choice.

[littleoldman2]

I have no real problem with tax's on fuel and think this should be extended to include all fuels. By that I mean all fuels should be equally taxed e.g farmers and construction, trains, boats and aviation fuel, coal, electricity, gas (the list is endless) not just road users. I don't wish to get into the poor struggling to get to work on highly taxed fuel while the rich buzz around in their almost tax free helicopters argument, I just want fairness.

[littleoldman2]

Originally Posted by MJC-DEV

Absolutely no point!

The cost of oil will continue to rise and swallow any reduction in duty, Get use to £2 per litre, it will happen with or without changes in duty.

As the cost of oil goes up so do the revenues from VAT is that not enough?.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

This

Plus the country is skint (thank you Gordon!) and needs to collect taxes from somewhere to balance the books. Do you want to pay a little more for fuel or see even more cuts in services? You have no choice.

Not this.

This country relies on fuel for everything. If it keeps going up, then the food you eat goes up, you won't be able to drive to work because the fuel is too much, and companies won't be able to earn a living because a) you aren't there to do that for them, and B) because they can't afford to sell their products.. etc etc etc

Keep rising the cost of fuel, this country kills itself off. SIMPLE. Besides, government tax is far greater percentage of the oil part of the fuel is anyway.

Reduce fuel duty, more people buy fuel, meaning more tax spent on fuel, meaning more companies selling, and moving, your food is cheaper, you spend more, you can go to work to earn the money to spend more.



Jeez, do people really think collecting taxes to balance the books works by hiking everything up.......FFS.

[punyXpress]

Thought the Fuel Duty rise was to save the planet?

[littleoldman2]

Originally Posted by punyXpress

Thought the Fuel Duty rise was to save the planet?

Just the politicians excuse to put up taxes, if they meant it they'd tax aviation fuel etc at the same rate. Fact is increasing an old tax doesn't lose as many votes as bringing in a new one.

[dizzyblonde]

Aye, there is some sort of 'green' arrangement that is in place,which is the real reason as to why they can't bring fuel down. All a load of cobblers, they can do it, they just don't want to do it, plus the EU thumbscrews are well and truely tight.

Fuel has gone down where I live 139p a litre for diesel, woo. I accept the price though, and when it goes up i'll still buy it. When I was a kid (the 80's) cars were luxury items and we walked all over the place. I think Hauliers etc should pay less, and anyone that is involved with food delivery etc should get a duty cut this in theory will make food and essentials cheaper, then hike it up for joe public. Discuss