Dozens of lorry drivers took to the streets this week in protest at record-high diesel prices, which have risen by 30 per cent over the last 12 months.
With oil Giants Shell and BP announcing huge profits in the first quarter, how can the high price of fuel be justified? Are the rising costs affecting you or your business? Is it enough to drive you off the road? Share your views.
LETS ALL HAVE A RIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes very worried. As I am a community Nurse I have to use a car in a county which has the largest land mass in uk. At present subsidising the NHS out of income as the expenses received do not match the cost of running vehicle per mile. told that over 40p a mile attracts further taxation so do we stop working now?
When is this government going to stop targeting the working class for every charge possible and yet allows overseas investors profits without tax - and on top of this will only grant working classes an average of 2% salary increase which does not cover inflation running at well above 3% and then awards itself a massive pay rise?
Corruption? Caring for ukPLC? I don't think so. time this government went.
i agree with some of the other letters this a rip off government and it is a tax on going to work to pay more tax. come on David Cameron now is your chance stick your neck out and say you will do something positive about the fuel duty and your in no 10 .cut the duty people will spend the money on things they need and the government still gets its tax
fuel theft has already killed one person,i dread to think what the future holds,once the scum bags start looking for free fuel,mind tou with the price of it,they will probably only find empty tanks anyway.
Alistar darling states that the govenrment to be green; the retrospective tax on post 2001 cars is not a green measure as it will mean more new imported cars will be produced and Alistair is failing to take into account the negative impact of all this extra new car production.
The govrnment over the past eleven years has become too dependant on fuel revenue and cannot take green measures such as banning the sale of new cars with combined figures poorer than 35mpg because they would lose too much money on the sale of fuel to the well heeled who can stillafford to run those cars.
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