here in Canada? petrol is about 55 pence a gallon
ha! ha!
its good to live in Canada

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I’m sure antony means 55p per liter.

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Get on your bikes burn some fat and save £££££

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I have to smile at Howard Wheeldon’s comments.
Of course people still fill up their vehicles, they have to get to work !!!!!! Idiot

On the almost daily increase in fuel, the government have to step in. How can the petrol companies justify these rises, when they make billions of dollars profit every year

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CONGRATULATIONS to the government, they have been wanting to turn us into a third world country for a while, and now its happening. people cant afford to drive, cant afford to buy what they want at the supermarkets and if they like a drink or a smoke they are treated like lepers. thanks a bunch gordon ‘mugabe’ brown. he has been shafting his own people for years and obviously the government see that as the way forward.

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nu labour lies we’re doing fine jobless down rubbish,houses worth 30% less than they were last year,fuel tax at an all time high,gas elec food highest it’s been in 20 years good old labour same old labour killing the country with lies.

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There is NOT an integrated public transport system in this country so people rely on their cars to get to and from work, to shop, to socialise and for their leisure time. We are being screwed by the government and the oil companies. Modern cars use less fuel; is it sheer coincidence that petrol prices are rising? Diesel fuel is becoming more popular; is it coincidence that there has been a sharp hike in the price of diesel? If LPG becomes widely used as a fuel I wonder what will happen to the price?

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The problem with the UK and petrol is we’ve dug ourselves into a huge hole that we cannot get out of. Everyone knows 70%+ of the price is tax, but now the country depends on the income so very little will change in the future.

Nice comment about motorists are still ‘willing to pay’. Just goes to show how much out of touch MPs are with their strategies and the UK population. It’s simply not the point of willing to pay, us drivers have no choice when we need our cars to drive to work.
And don’t start ranting on about public transport. Where I work there is no viable solution, so get stuffed.

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The country’s in a state. No-one’s got any spare money. Everything is rising except house prices, wages and public spending. From Monday to Friday this week, my bedshops total takings were £360. (My Rent is more than my profit). Everyone I speek to seems to be in the same boat.
If the government doesn’t act soon, I can see many small businesses being forced to close down and many more people being unemployed. As far as I can see, we are on the brink of the bigest recesion this country is yet to see.
The question is, What can we do about it? The answer appears to be nothing. Yes, we can vote for a different government next year, but what good is that? They’ll just lie, cheat and line there own pockets like every other government has.
Something has to change and Fast!

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So Carl — taxation without representation is tyranny? Hmmmm where have I heard that before?

Unfortunately, that isn’t the point now. The point now is that in the 1970s when we all KNEW petrol was finite and we needed alternate fuels, neither the Americans nor the Brits did anything to encourage alternate fuels, conservation etc. Complain all you want about taxes, but if the taxes collected had gone toward perfecting non-polluting cars and alternate methods of electric generation, we’d be in much better shape now. Instead, we’re taxing cigs, the Americans are lowering taxes on the rich oil tycoons, and the middle east is socking it away for tough times ….. just be glad you aren’t on an island in the Pacific with a mean elevation of 1 metre above sea level —- THOSE folks have problems!

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Well looks lie I won’t be spending my USD in Dudley for a while, bad enough over here right now.Canada ? I have my own small company & used to go to Canada about 6 times /year on buisness, now it’s too expensive.
Hey I just found, out Tony Brown has been over here for the last few days, what an impression he must have made, coming over the same time as the Pope,that’s thinking ahead -

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This Labour government takes approximately 80 pence in every £1 as fuel tax, it has nothing to do with the high cost of oil that’s driving up the price, its this governments obsession with taxing motorists off the road that is driving up the price.

The reason that they want to drive us off the road is because of the estimated increase in the population in the UK, the other day it was reported that the population of the UK was going to increase from 60 million to 90 million in less than 20 years, if we are all driving our cars then where are all the cars going to go, the government isn’t going to build or improve the roads in the UK, so if the motorist cant afford to drive that leaves more room for more people coming here from the EU.

Gordon Brown doesn’t really need any more money, as well as the hundreds of millions of pounds he has given to 3rd world countries to improve their education, he has just given £100 million to countries effected by malaria, to supply them with mosquito nets to rid them of malaria, doesn’t matter about British people dying of cancer because they are being denied life saving cancer drugs.

Trouble is we pay up and let it happen, we are unable to connect what is happening to the country to the fact that we actually vote this government in, and in the local elections coming up we will do it again, we ask for everything we get.

Jim of Bearwood

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6 – yeah great if you work just down the road. Even better in the wind, rain, snow. Then in the summer, get into work sweating and stinking of BO all day!! All these people going on about biking it to work are all talking nonsense. Its not the answer as most people have a good way to travel to work, we don’t all work on our doorstep.

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Jim of Bearwood – rising prices nothing to do with price of oil? Perhaps then you’ll furnish us with the change in cost of a barrel of oil over the past couple of years, compared to duty increases (virtually nothing). We’re approaching or have reached peak oil production, world energy consumption is rising. Fuel is not going to get any cheaper. No government is going to cut fuel duty (and why should it?).

The motorist isn’t being hard done by either. In real terms, over the past 30 years, bus/rail fares have gone up over 80% above inflation. Motoring costs have remained virtually static. It is public transport users who are getting a raw deal and not the motorist.

Fuel is still too cheap as long as people are prepared to break speed limits and drive at 80, 90mph+ down the motorway. Most cars will do significantly more mpg if driven carefully and within the speed limit. I bet many people haven’t even thought about their driving style, but if they changed it they could more than offset the rise in fuel price through the increasing their mpg.

There are plenty of journeys that people could stop using their cars for now without the slightest inconvenience. Lots of people drive for journeys less than a mile or two – mostly out of laziness not necessity (that newspaper really is heavy isn’t it…) – they could easily walk. Equally there are plenty of journeys that people could choose to use public transport or cycle for – the option exists now. Sadly people always choose to point out the journeys they “have” to use a car for, rather than actually looking at those where they don’t “have” to.

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29. Martin Davies. People talk about how great cars like the Prius are but that particular car has a greater carbon footprint over its first three years than most other family hatches in the world when taken from the production stage. Unfortunately the green lobby and marketing teams skip the manufacturing part because they don’t want you to know that fact. Bio fuel is also going to be more damaging to the environment as most of it is going to be produced in areas which were once rainforest and are being cleared in order for this financially benefiacial product to be grown. Hydrogen cells are the way forward but not enough investment is being put into this. The easy answer would be for all of the car manufacturers to pool their resources to speed up the development but this will never happen as somebody will always want to come first so it’s just a case of waiting for Honda to sort it out

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Dominic, I really thought that we wouldn’t have idiots commenting on this issue !!!! your either not living in the UK or you’re a wind up merchant having laugh, the point I was making was the tax that is levied on every pound we have in our pocket, its not the price of oil that’s the problem, it’s the government tax loading that’s the problem.

But back to the cost of fuel, so your telling me that the price of fuel hasn’t increased? Your telling me that the tax on fuel hasn’t increased? What about the VAT on fuel? What about the tax on car insurance? What about the tax on car repairs and servicing, What about the tax on car spares? What about the Road Tax being increased? What about all the extra parking charges that have been bought in, I make no apologies for saying this, you’re a fool, and I don’t find your sense of humour very funny.

Dominic I will try and keep this simple for you, your obviously unable to comprehend how this government is taxing the workers to death in this country, if you had a car at this time last year and you worked out the cost of running it for a week, if you had the same car this year and you worked out what it cost you to run it for a week, that cost would have been increased by approximately £25 a week.

Fuel doesn’t have to cost that much, the same fuel in the USA is a third of what it costs here, my sister in law went on holiday to somewhere in South America, she was talking to the coach driver, who told her how much it cost to fill his coach up with fuel, it was the equivalent of £35 in our money, it takes me nearly £70 to fill my VW Touran diesel tank, our oil is no different to oil in the USA, its only the tax that’s different, take the tax off fuel and it would cost me about £5, that’s the difference.

People keep saying that the government would have to raise taxes in other ways, why??? If Gordon Brown can afford to give hundreds of millions of pounds to 3rd world countries to help improve their children’s education, countries like Africa, India, Pakistan, Eastern Europe, then he doesn’t need that much tax off us, if he can give over a hundred million to these same countries to pay for Mosquito nets, again he doesn’t need to tax us that much, hope its clearer now Dominic.

Jim of Bearwood

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Jim of Bearwood: I’m deadly serious. Yes the cost of fuel has gone up in real terms, but the cost of motoring hasn’t. My point is that public transport users have suffered massive real terms increases in fares. The result is that motoring has become more affordable in real terms (especially against rising disposable income) and public transport less affordable. It is those who have to rely on public transport who have really suffered and not the motorist.

My car certainly isn’t costing £25 a week more than last year to run, for the vast majority of car owners that kind of increase simply isn’t true.

Over time the total cost of running a car has come down – purchase and maintenance costs have come down (more miles between servicing etc), and fuel efficiency has generally increased. Vehicle excise duty has come down for many cars. There are plenty of motors around for which the tax disc is only £35/year.

In the USA the cost of fuel has been going up, much to the annoyance of the population over there. Even if we had a lower level of duty on fuel, people would still complain when it went up due to the cost of oil rising. You also neglect to mention that the average American car is hideously inefficient, because the lower cost of fuel doesn’t give manufacturers the incentive to improve efficiency. I suspect if you compared the total cost of motoring between the US and UK it may not be as different as you think.

As I said, fuel isn’t yet that expensive if people are still prepared to drive their cars vastly over the speed limit on the motorway (massively increasing fuel consumption) and driving far bigger and less efficient cars than they actually need. The growth in the numbers of 4x4s over the years is a good case in point.

Personally, I don’t have a problem with the government spending money on foreign aid. There is no case for reducing fuel duty and decreasing expenditure elsewhere to compensate. Nor do I think that a cut in fuel duty would be anywhere near covered by cutting foreign aid expenditure which in the scale of public spending is pretty small.

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Dominic you really need to tell the rest of us where you’re working and living because it seems you’re out of touch with the rest of society.

It seems you have very little experience in the real world. Your comments are ridiculous so please do tell where you’ve been hiding all these years.

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Honestly Dominic I have far better things to do with my time than try and convince the minority (ie you) of the real facts.

If you’re so adamant that your views are correct then book yourself a slot on national television and see how the vote goes. I think you’re in for a severe shock.

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India? Pakistan?
Last I looked they don’t need to develop nuclear weapons. Each has had them for years.
Sure, cut overseas aid. Won’t make a difference to your fuel bill though.

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