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Observing the number of cars on the roads and the number of miles they travel does not suggest that petrol is not affordable for most people.

'Petrol per gallon 1950 = 15 (new) pence (36 old pence)'

I was serving petrol in 1949/50 at 11d a gallon (fact).

That's ~ 1p a litre!!!!

140%? Do wages even begin to compare?

I never quite understand why every thing we buy must always get cheaper, electrical goods, clothes, food, with two notable exceptions, namely property and fuel.

I never quite understand why every thing we buy must always get cheaper, electrical goods, clothes, food, with two notable exceptions, namely property and fuel.

Indeed. It has long puzzled me why we expect governments to increase our standard of living year on year without us working any harder.

It has long puzzled me why we expect governments to increase our standard of living year on year without us working any harder.

Indeed. It has long puzzled me why we expect governments to increase our standard of living year on year without us working any harder.

Please explain how you think governments increase our standard of living

Constant innovations, improved communications, smaller and tighter geometries, higher efficiencies, optimised production, improved tools – all these feed each other.
From a technological viewpoint, we can reasonably expect constant increases in value for money for such goods.

The real question is: why are we being taxed more and more, yet receive less and less?

Is that true?

This may not be so true for you as your generation was recovering from global unpleasantness.

Driver Protest Weekend. 1st to 3rd April. Details. http://bit.ly/dRZGjT

Despite the petitions, pulling lorries up Whitehall, the publicity given to fuel campaigns and The Budget 'cuts', petrol & diesel is now several pence dearer than before the fuel protests started. Clearly all drivers now need to take action to demonstrate their unity and persuade Government to relieve pressure on them in other ways. Please support all drivers by re-sending this message. http://bit.ly/dRZGjT

Keith Peat, Driver's Protest Union. (Founder)
'Giving power to UK's drivers'
follow twitter @DriverProtest
www.youdrive.org.uk
07722917074
01507441638

In the ideal world that would result if I were the Dictator expenses incurred in travelling to work would be tax deductible.

The FairFuel UK Update from Quentin Willson

Thank you for signing the FairFuelUK campaign petition. You were one of the 140,000 that helped us force the scrapping of the 5p fuel duty rise and made George Osborne become the first Chancellor for a decade to reduce duty. YOU MADE THAT HAPPEN. Believe it or not, prices would have been 6p even more on the increasing levels we have been seeing since the Budget. So, while we managed to get the government's undivided attention to the Budget day, they have failed us since.

The miserable 1p reduction in duty was swallowed up overnight and proved that tinkering round the edges and making empty political gestures achieves nothing. In fact I'd say the government made themselves look very foolish during the budget. Fuel duty is out of control. All our dire warnings are coming true. The £1.50 litre of diesel is probably only weeks away and the IMF agree that rising crude oil prices are a serious threat to UK growth. £2.00 a litre for diesel could become a awful reality.

On the website http://www.fairfueluk.com we have outlined the next phase of the FairFuelUK Campaign. We intend to focus on these 3 long haul campaign objectives with your support.

1. Try to stop all further duty rises on fuel in this Parliament
2. Aim to acheive parity with Europe in terms of duty. We pay on average 24p more than our EU colleagues
3. Set up an effective fair fuel price stabiliser

With over 30 million drivers in the UK we can make a difference, a real diffrence. We can force the government to control duty and protect the economy. If each one of you contact at least ten of your friends, relatives and colleagues we'll have over a million signatures. And if they do the same too, we'll have several million more. Just imagine how insecure those MPs will feel with this much pressure on their constituency seats.

Our new plans are set out at http://www.fairfueluk.com. Fuel is cheap, its the tax duty that's villainously expensive. So contact as many people as you can and let's start multiplying those numbers. Only together can we make this absolute insanity stop.

Thanks again for your support..

Quentin Willson
FairFuelUK

http://www.fairfueluk.com

For more details, contact:
Peter Carroll, Fair Fuel UK Campaign - Mob: 07866 800755
Lynne Beaumont, Fair Fuel UK Campaign - Mob: 07885940945
Howard Cox, Fair Fuel UK Campaign - Mob: 07515 421611

http://www.fairfueluk.com email addresses: campaign@fairfueluk.com Why not Campaign: The Puffins,Peene, Folkestone, Kent. UK

Here! Here! DCB...... I too have long thought that if: "we were all in this together" so why should a self employed man be able to claim his tax back on the fuel he uses to get to work when an employed man can't!

Some of it seems are more equal than others......