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Motorists are being warned of a potential summer of discontent, as business and transport bodies crank up their protests against the planned 2p-a-litre increase in fuel duty.
Hundreds of businesses across the UK are urging the government to scrap the hike, due to be introduced from April, because of the damage it would cause firms, especially those in the haulage industry.
More than 700 businesses have called on the chancellor to scrap a planned rise in fuel duty.
The increase will cost the haulage industry £170m, they say. Fuel duty went up by 2p a litre in October, and the average price of a litre of unleaded is now over 104p.
In a letter to the Chancellor Alistair Darling, the companies said the higher fuel tax would make British hauliers less competitive than their European rivals.
The planned duty rise comes as oil prices hover near $100 a barrel.
"We are alarmed by the signals that the government appears to be sending to such a crucial industry at a time when the economy appears to be stalling," the letter said.
The British Chambers of Commerce said the government must urgently reconsider the tax.
"This is yet another tax on business which further erodes our international competitiveness," said David Frost, director general of the BCC.
A further increase in fuel duty of 1.84p is due in April 2009.