Go Green its cheaper (UK Petrol Prices)

Member Name: lucie19

Product:	UK Petrol Prices
Date:	15/09/00 (7 review reads)
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Advantages: The fuel prices are forcing people to use greener methods of transport

Disadvantages: It is hurting people who have to rely on their cars such as the disabled

I do not drive, I will say that to start with but that does not mean that I do not appreciate the problems that are being caused by the fuel prices at the moment. Someone told me that if we paid the same tax on a pint of milk as we do on petrol milk would be around £2.50 a pint!
However, I can see why the government put so much tax on fuel it is for the same reason as the taxes on smoking; they want to discourage people from using it. We are all up in arms about the state of the environment (and its not a fantasy) we have about thirty years of oil supplies left and global warming is causing the ice caps to melt. This will cause our entire global climate to change and our sea levels to rise. Yet none of us seem willing to do anything about it. We must chose either we carry on using the amount of fuel we are preferably at a lower price or we do something about the environment i.e. walk short journeys and use the bus, tube, train or cycle to work which in the long run would cut our fuel bills for us.
I can already hear you screaming “but there is no bus service in my village” “the trains are too unreliable” etc etc. In the majority of cases there is no excuse, I have no car and I manage with a baby fine thank you very much. My sister this week had to travel to work by bicycle this week because of the fuel shortage and she has decided that the three-mile bike ride saves her so much money that she will continue to do it after the shortage has ended.

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