Petrol to break the £1/litre mark soon

[King Cnvt]

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/a...ars/article.do

Motorists face a triple whammy of tax rises on petrol that will take unleaded to more than £1 a litre.

Three scheduled increases, totalling 7p a litre, will begin with a 2.35p per litre increase in duty from October 1.

The AA and the Petrol Retailers' Association urged the Government to defer the rises indefinitely after the AA published its latest fuel price report yesterday.

Combined with the 1.47p duty hike from December 2006, the October rise alone will mean a typical two-car family will be more than £100 a year worse off, said the AA.

But there is even more pain to come. As oil prices rise to record levels, the Government is also set to impose 2.35p in extra duty next April and 2.11p in April 2009.

The Treasury already takes about 70p in every pound as tax on petrol, which costs an average of 95.2p per litre.

Paul Watters of the AA said: "This is the highest rise in fuel duty since March 2000.


Still, as long as house prices go up, who cares.

[Murder1]

The Treasury already takes about 70p in every pound as tax on petrol, which costs an average of 95.2p per litre.

[Churchill]

It's only fair...

[KathyWoolfe]

The Treasury already takes about 70p in every pound as tax on petrol, which costs an average of 95.2p per litre.

About time we started protesting again.

That truckers protest in 2000 hasn't seemed to help reduce the tax levied on fuel much - and the government / local councils are trying to think up even more ways of getting monet out of the motorist. The Nottingham council is proposing to levy tax on every company parking space in the city centre.

[Bagpuss]

The Nottingham council is proposing to levy tax on every company parking space in the city centre.

I thought that was already done?

[Muttley08]

I remember the fuel protests...tried to drive through Edinburgh at the time...

Really appreciated the way they made their point to the government by causing traffic chaos on a go-slow protest through the city centre...to pi$$ everyone else off who has nothing to do with the cost of petrol.

They weren't very pleased when I performed appropriate hand signals at them.

Fortunately at that point I was driving the other way

[Bagpuss]

They made the government listen for a short while. The problem isn't them it's the rest who take it on the chin and do nothing but moan. If this were france we'd be burning sheep.

[Churchill]

They made the government listen for a short while. The problem isn't them it's the rest who take it on the chin and do nothing but moan. If this were france we'd be burning sheep.

If this were NZ, we'd be shagging them.

[Muttley08]

If this were NZ, we'd be shagging them.

Or Wales...or do they not need an excuse?

[Bagpuss]

The protests happen there when you stop them