UK Petrol Prices Reviews

I work at a petrol station and actually started the day most stations ran dry for the first time. When we first got people the maximum amount was £20 so i didn't really notice, but when we also ran out last week i realised how petty some british citizens can be , especially the middle class ones. People were being pathetic! Getting £4 worth ...

Say what you like about Gordon "Prudent" Brown - and i will say plenty of things about his taxation policies - he has been very clever on the fuel tax issues. Stealth taxes abound - my married couples allowance has gone - I do not benefit from the "replacement" childrens allowance or whatever. Other little taxes have ...

Two Jags Prescott has already given us the answer to high fuel prices - "If you don't like it, vote us out." as stated in today's newspapers. The only problem with this attitude is that we will Mr.Prescott! However, it was the Tories who introduced the fuel escalator. Mr Brown has turned it into a fuel rocket. Prices ...

There hasn’t actually been a fuel crisis, well not another one yet, but the panic has set in. It’s like when you see a crowd queuing and you start queuing yourself, in the self belief you may be missing out on something. I was coming back from town when I saw queues outside the petrol station, so as soon as I got home I went and ...

I may be a little misinformed in my judgement of all this business but I can't honestly see what all the fuss is about. It seems to me that the whole nonsense is good old Mr Public finding yet another something to moan about. "Crisis"??? The floods and destruction by bad weather are a crisis. The famine in Africa is a Crisis. A ...

The overwhelming feeling which has stuck with me throughout the entire debacle that has become known as 'the fuel crisis', is the complete selfishness of the British public, masquerading as 'support for the workers'. In the 1980's when ordinary working-class people were fighting for their jobs and striking in order to ...

For a long time it's been the Governments policy to increase fuel tax on a regular basis. The last Tory goverment announced they would increase fuel tax by 5% above inflation for the for-see-able future. This Labour goverment is no different. If the Tories were still in goverment the situation would be exactly the same. ...

Well once again we, London that is, seem to be in the midst of another petrol crisis and as far as I know there are neither demonstrations at the oil refineries nor any breakdown in supply. However the facts are that people in London are panic buying, which has resulted in long queues at the forecourt and many London petrol stations running out ...

After days of floods, are people going to support yet another fuel protest?. A fuel protest is planned for a few days time, but after the lack of transport etc., that the floods caused, many members of the public will be waiting for things to go back to normal, just as they do this another fuel protest will be under way! ...

I have been away working around Europe for the last two years and i have just returned home to the UK. I watched and read news stories on the last Fuel Protest, and talked to friends who tried in vain to explain to me what it was like to live through it. It looks like i'm going to be around this time to see the thing at first hand. ...

Well i'm sure we all remember the last petrol crisis, which was just a couple of months ago. When Tony Blair was elected for prime minister, he said something along the lines of 'we're a listening government,' well he certainly didn't listen last time there was a crisis and it doesn't look like he's going to pay any ...

OK when will people wake up and realise that there is a bigger picture here. You cannot argue that petrol prices are too high without looking at the whole taxation issue. The portion of the price of petrol that is not tax varies with the price of crude oil and you can't blame petrol companies or the government for that. The other ...

However much I sympathise with farmers and lorry drivers, especially the enormous taxes they have to pay on their vehicles, it's also the poor old general public who are being asked to pay obscene amounts for petrol. I agree that because of the environment and global warming that we should be weaned off using too much of the fossil ...

So Mr Straw says he will not be held to ransom by fuel protesters, well in case you did not know that is politician speek, let me translate into English for you what he actually means. This pertucular phrase has several meanings. What he is actually saying is we will not allow the people that are responsible for paying our ...

Not again....well its two weeks until the budget and already the farmers are threatening to barricade again. This time mainly food retailers are going to be hit but people are already queuing for extra fuel and Ive heard on the news that there are some petrol stations are drying up.Whats happening to this Country???? I do agree that the ...

I see this as a further example of Tony Blair's supreme indifference to the views of the people that elected him. The amount of tax that goes to the Treasury is the highest of any industrialised nation and is the main part of our current £16 billion surplus in the nation's coffers; £16 billion I may point out that is ours and not his! ...

As we draw closer to another possible fuel crisis I really do wonder how it's all going to end. I backed the protesters last time round and will do the same again. The government's attitude to the problem seems all wrong to me. Tony Blair has stated that swift police action will be taken against any further protests. Excuse me, I thought ...

On the BBC2 Newsnight programme on 31st October a brief comment was made about car owners being expected to fill up their cars with petrol prior to the expected "action" during the following week. It appears that many motorists, like me, quickly panicked and filled up their cars the following morning. At the petrol station I use ...

Petrol prices in the UK are too high. Anybody who owns a car will tell you that the price rises arising from the fuel price escalator have well and truly hit where it hurts most – deep in the pocket. The price of petrol is now at a silly level. Small businesses need to keep their costs to a minimum and if they rely on transport, then the ...

While the last petrol protest ended without causing the whole country to grind to a halt, the warnings of the protesters have been ignored and it seems we may be on the brink of another crisis. The run up to christmas must be the worst time for there to be a strike but the population en mass have a sympathy for the protestors, it is bad ...