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When VAT was temporarily reduced to 15%, the Chancellor added 2% duty to fuel to offset the reduction in tax collected from motorists. Now that VAT has been increased to 17.5% again this hidden tax has not been removed - hence recent rises in your fuel costs. Sign the petition at the link below to have this stealth tax removed!

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/DutyReduction/

Signed

More about rip off Briton here:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... inent.html

And a bit more from slightly earlier this year:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/new ... ys-AA.html

Chris.

Signed!

its a joke the price of fuel!

i rember filling up in 2003 and it being like 60p per Liter

seb421 wrote:Signed!

its a joke the price of fuel!

i rember filling up in 2003 and it being like 60p per Liter

You should've saved some in a jerry can like I did.

I've got some vintage 1985 I'm saving for a special occasion, too.
It's got lead in!

(Faster but heavier, probably).

Fuel prices are absolutely disgraceful. I expect some ecomentalist wants us all to use public transport, but here's just one reason why I won't. My colleague and I are going on a course in Newcastle soon, travelling up on Sunday afternoon and back on a Wednesday evening, so hardly peak times. Cheapest rail fares from Norwich, return - £280!.

Instead we will go in my Jaaaaaag and pay £85 for petrol and get there warm, comfortable and clean!

Its one of the reasons I won't vote this year (for the first time ever). Fed up with being taken for a mug because I pay my way.

seb421 wrote:
i rember filling up in 2003 and it being like 60p per Liter

when i started riding on the roads 4 star was 60p a gallon, with free shots of 2 stroke oil lol.
10 number 6 was 48p.
3 stone o monkey nuts was 3 & 6

shockin fuel prices. called in at chorley services for diesel and it was 122.3 a litre, nearly 15p more than supermarket price.
what happened to the near riots last time when fuel went up over a quid a litre???
as usual nobhead britain lies down and takes it.
consider it signed, as if it matters :/

Stratman wrote:
Instead we will go in my Jaaaaaag and pay £85 for petrol and get there warm, comfortable and clean!

Fellow Jaaaaaag owner!

I have a 3.0 'S' Type, love it to bits, awesome performance, extremely comfy - but 25mpg (good for a Jaaaaaag I guess), but with a 300 mile commute every weekend, I will have to let the girl go

Paid £14k three years ago, now anticipate £3.5k in return

cliveyandrews wrote:

Stratman wrote:
Instead we will go in my Jaaaaaag and pay £85 for petrol and get there warm, comfortable and clean!

I have a 3.0 'S' Type, love it to bits, awesome performance, extremely comfy - but 25mpg (good for a Jaaaaaag I guess), but with a 300 mile commute every weekend, I will have to let the girl go

Paid £14k three years ago, now anticipate £3.5k in return

I know how you feel mate. I bought a BMW 330 on Wednesday. I am doing quite short journeys and am averaging 18.5 mpg so far ! Will soon need to remortgae the house to get a tank of fuel !!!!

I'm lucky 'cos I work from home and I kept my '98 Mondeo which I have had 10 years and 167,000 miles! I use that for short trips and the XJ8 is just for long trips so I doubt I do more than 5,000 miles a year in her, and I only paid £5,700 a couple of years ago (its a 2000), so the fuel costs don't really matter. Great feeling behind the wheel though

....Sigh...ned. Fed up with price of fuel amongst other things .