Thursday 17th April 2008

RAC: Cap Spiralling Fuel Costs

Motoring groups beg Government to stop soaring fuel prices

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Prices show little sign of falling

The soaring cost of fuel must be capped to halt a crisis on Britain’s roads, road groups have warned.

The RAC Foundation has pleaded with the Government to act now on petrol prices as motorists continue to suffer from spiralling costs.

Costs for delivery firms are understood to have increased by 20 per cent in the last year and they are struggling to make ends meet.

Petrol prices have gone through the roof for motorists and are a further burden on top of rising tax costs and increases in schemes such as the Congestion Charge.

The RAC Foundation and the Road Haulage Association this morning called on the Government to cap petrol prices by reducing the amount the Treasury takes in fuel duty – currently 65p in every £1 spent at the pumps.

Drivers currently pay an average of 108.06p a litre for unleaded and 117.41p for diesel.

Crude oil has hit a record of $114 and unleaded could hit £1.50 per litre by September, experts have warned.

RAC Foundation acting director Sheila Grainger said: ‘The Treasury could be imaginative and use fuel duty to cushion families from the high cost of crude oil on world markets.’

[Silentrunning]

Fuel will just keep going up... nothing will ever change

[Ikemi]

What with Brown needing every penny he can get his mits on, I doubt the Government will reduce the slice of tax they rake in

[VladD]

Ikemi said:

What with Brown needing every penny he can get his mits on, I doubt the Government will reduce the slice of tax they rake in

How wrong you are. This Government cares for its people and we will see something announced next week.

[Bizzle]

VladD said:

Ikemi said:

What with Brown needing every penny he can get his mits on, I doubt the Government will reduce the slice of tax they rake in

How wrong you are. This Government cares for its people and we will see something announced next week.

lol!
classic.

[Apache]

And sarcasm award of the week goes to......

[VladD]

If it does happen though, I'm going to look like a genius.

[VladD]

Apache said:

And sarcasm award of the week goes to......

Thank you, thank you very much.

First of all I'd like to thank my parents for all the help in rasing me as a sarcy little tosser. I'd also like to thank my agent and of course Gordon Brown and the RAC for presenting this opportunity.

Unfortunately Gordon can't be here to help me accept this award tonight as he's currently in the USA supporting the Pope on his "Just give God a try" tour.

I love you all.

Edited by VladD on Thursday 17th April 11:38

[Apache]

VladD said:

If it does happen though, I'm going to look like a genius.

and even more unlikely....the government will appear to care about its people more than it does money

[shithotfast]

VladD said:

Ikemi said:

What with Brown needing every penny he can get his mits on, I doubt the Government will reduce the slice of tax they rake in

How wrong you are. This Government cares for its people and we will see something announced next week.

TRUE! This government cares for its people! Unfortunately its people are the other MP's who can claim everything on expenses without a receipt anyway....

[big_rob_sydney]

I seriously cant believe how this situation has come about. The cost of fuel in the UK is criminal. Why is it, that the major oilfields are only a hop, skip, and a jump away, and yet in both America and Australia, where the fuel has so much further to be transported, it is so much cheaper?

It’s no surprise to me that this is the UK governments doing. But why don’t people do something about it? I think there was a truckers blockade some time ago, wasn’t there? Why not do it again? Why not demand no more than 50% fuel tax? Even that is ridiculously high.

Fair dinkum, this is a disgrace.

I can only say, that I’ll be glad to leave this place next year…

I forgot to mention...

This is on top of
a 5% rise in council tax (roughly double the 2.5% inflation rate),
the removal of the 10p tax bracket,
a 20% increase in gas costs

All the while delivering average service at best.

My garbage bin was stolen last year, and it took 6 weeks to get a replacement bin. The inconvenience was a pain.

They’ve added a speed camera in an area on my way to work, where no one was speeding at the best of times, and now due to road works, traffic is lucky to get up to walking pace through this 30mph zone.

What a joke the priorities are here.

Edited by big_rob_sydney on Thursday 17th April 12:07

[gazza_3]

We need this government out there a bunch of blithering idiots who have no idea on "real life", I'm sure with there salary's they don't care about fuel costs, i could run the fking country better then these tts.

Edited by gazza_3 on Thursday 17th April 11:55

[chrisbr68]

Its actually over $115 a barrel since that article was printed. Surely there will be some kind of crisis, especially as it looks like its going to go up by over 50% in one year!

[_Deano]

given that Brown needs all the help he can get with regards to voters for Labour. I think that there may be something in the pipe line.

Gordon Brown: "I'm Gordon Brown your leader and to help the people with the current Credit Crunch, i will reduce tax on petrol by 1p"
Dumb public: All hail Leader Brown, we will all vote Labour come the next election.

2 weeks later the price of petrol goes up by 1p because of the price of oil, but it's not GB fault now.
wr.

Edited by _Deano on Thursday 17th April 12:06

[wab172uk]

A case of falling on deaf ears.

[hirsty27]

Have'nt we been been here before with this topic?..

Can't be bothered with this 'fuel is rising' topic any more. Goverment does'nt give a fg st about it!!,-(until the country in at past meltdown point), remmember this NEW Labour lot are counter reactive, "We'll do something after the st hits the fan!!".. And also the General public seem to be at a loss as what to say/do about the daft situation. 'Enough is enough' was ages ago!. Where are we at now?, I don't know?..

Unfortunatly it looks like the country will have to slip into a recession before Gorgon-(not fit for office) Brown will get off that fence he likes sitting on and actually does the job 'he' so desparatly wanted to do.

I notice food is rising steadily now,...I wonder if this has anything to do with the fuel at 'stupidly high levels'...x1000.

I'm putting this topic if the 'life's bullst' section of my brain,...along with that umm Global Warming is based on CO2 from cars malarky!....yeah O.K....whatever you say!..?..

[pugs9000]

Seems i am lucky paying 104.9p a litre, obviously this luck is comparative. I have only been driving for 5 years but back then i was paying around 72p a litre and some greenies say the cost of motoring has gone down 10%. They won't cap fuel prices, just tax the air we breathe- thus leaving us no option to shut pu and accept this.

[DaveR]

gazza_3 said:

We need this government out there a bunch of blithering idiots who have no idea on "real life", I'm sure with there salary's they don't care about fuel costs, i could run the fking country better then these tts.

Edited by gazza_3 on Thursday 17th April 11:55

Maybe, but I think they'd still have you on spelling and punctuation!

[Morningside]

Yeah. Thanks "motoring organisation" (note use of quotes) where were you before? Its a bit late now bleating of behalf of the motorist. You have as much political clout as the other lot.

Silentrunning said:

Fuel will just keep going up... nothing will ever change

Agreed. Can anyone every see ANY Govenment taking 2p off the price? Anyhow when does Darlings 2p hike kick in?

I slightly apologise for my annoyed posting, but prices seem to be rising almost daily.

[big_rob_sydney]

wab172uk said:

A case of falling on deaf ears.

I don’t get why its falling on deaf ears. OK, on a forum like this, we’re cars people, and not everyone shares our passion. BUT, food still needs to be transported to stores, and I highly doubt that Tesco will say “Due to our corporate goodwill, we will soak up the increased transport costs”.

Everybody has to eat, and costs for foodstuffs have increased, so this affects everyone. How much further will people allow themselves to be squeezed?

[Oat$y]

My Question is this!!! If BP extract the oil, refine the oil and sell it at the forcourt when did they pay $114 a barrel when they actual own it in the first place?