Lower The Current Levels Of Taxation On Fuels Within All Uk Territories. Petrol, Diesel, Heating Oil And Gas By At Least 30%

[Khalsa Army]

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pls can everyone in the uk sign this

We the undersigned petition the government to lower the current levels of taxation on fuels within all UK territories. Petrol, Diesel, Heating Oil and Gas by at least 30%

The current cost is unsustainable to the average family. I myself drive 60 miles per day to work and home again and can not maintain this level of spending (even in our current diesel car) The fuel prices in the UK are simply ridiculous the fault in this case does not lay with the fuel companies it is completely the governments over taxing the hard working people in the United Kingdom.

This petition is not the same as http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/FuelDuty99 we are calling for the reduction of all fuel prices Petrol, Diesel and Home heating Fuel and Gas among others

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Lowerduty30/

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[singh_comradz]

its noble but the gov't would never agree. they are still pushing ahead with the 2p fuel rise despite criticism, therefore this petition (asking for major cuts) will go out the window. taxes on fuel/energy are a huge revenue for the sarkar, a cut in the region of 30% would result in the gov't being unable to provide adequate basic services such as healthcare, education etc...

as for the costs, the whole world is suffering and i guess the doom and gloom has just started :umm:

[Harmeet_Singh]

Thank god for Ken livingstone and the free Oyster for student!!!!

[proactive]

its noble but the gov't would never agree. they are still pushing ahead with the 2p fuel rise despite criticism, therefore this petition (asking for major cuts) will go out the window. taxes on fuel/energy are a huge revenue for the sarkar, a cut in the region of 30% would result in the gov't being unable to provide adequate basic services such as healthcare, education etc...

as for the costs, the whole world is suffering and i guess the doom and gloom has just started :umm:

The government gets something like 70% of the price of petrol at the forecourts. Because of the dramatic rise in the price per litre from 90p to £1.18 within the last six months, the government has been earning an extra 20p per litre. That's an extra 22%, so it could easily lower the tax rate by the same amount . So the tax would go down to 48% and conversely the price of a litre would go down to around 98p per litre. But they don't care about the motorist because they know a significant amount of the voters will vote labour no matter what. This is what they rely on. When the time comes for the election, just remember that Gordon Brown stuck two fingers at the common people and put him out of a job. (although looks like the labour MPs will knife him in the back before any election!)

[japmans]

this is all a really sweet and pretty idea

but generally, a decrease in taxes in one area will follow an increase in another, and vice versa.....

The province of quebec, for example, has the lowest tuition in Canada...they also have the highest gas prices... now, Quebec has more than two goods (i.e gas and education), but the simple model can explain alot about behaviour.... so in this case, Quebec may be using some of the excess tax income it receives from gas prices to help continue subsidize education and tuition fees.

let`s not kid ourselves, the UK doesn`t control the world.... the problem is from consumer behaviour, from speculation, from a lack of supply, and from OPEC`s monopolistic behaviour.

are gas prices too high?? yes and no... yes, because they're higher than ever before... but mainly because demand has justified this increase (the advent of faster shipping vessels for example to ship goods from china to UK and to North America... these ships require WAY more fuel usage than the traditional vessels) and because speculation of political instability in the Middle East where most of the world's oil comes from has created a volatile situation.... (Kinda like..if UK's bread and butter came from tshirts, and the entire world came to the UK for tshirts, and all of a sudden, there was massive political instability, rioting in the streets, murders of big political figures, and so forth, the ability for tshirt manufacturers to conduct business seamlessly and efficiently through these conditions decreases dramatically...)

UK has free health care pretty much universally..... something which many countries wish they could offer... or at least, something which citizens in many countries wish they could have..... if, for example, the governments are putting this excess surplus of gas tax money back into social programs, then it is doing what it is supposed to be doing... I believe it's a Labour government, which means a large part of its purpose is to make sure there are sufficient, significant, and adequately funded social programs.... just saying, there's a good chance that a large portion of the pain you're feeling at the pump MIGHT be being offset by unrealized benefits in other areas.... just a possibility.

[singh_comradz]

its noble but the gov't would never agree. they are still pushing ahead with the 2p fuel rise despite criticism, therefore this petition (asking for major cuts) will go out the window. taxes on fuel/energy are a huge revenue for the sarkar, a cut in the region of 30% would result in the gov't being unable to provide adequate basic services such as healthcare, education etc...

as for the costs, the whole world is suffering and i guess the doom and gloom has just started :umm:

The government gets something like 70% of the price of petrol at the forecourts. Because of the dramatic rise in the price per litre from 90p to £1.18 within the last six months, the government has been earning an extra 20p per litre. That's an extra 22%, so it could easily lower the tax rate by the same amount . So the tax would go down to 48% and conversely the price of a litre would go down to around 98p per litre. But they don't care about the motorist because they know a significant amount of the voters will vote labour no matter what. This is what they rely on. When the time comes for the election, just remember that Gordon Brown stuck two fingers at the common people and put him out of a job. (although looks like the labour MPs will knife him in the back before any election!)

i dont think the sarkar is making the extra 20p cus the opec countries have increased the costs leading to higher prices at the pumps.

also opinion polls show the tories are in the lead, so i doubt our gordon would want to upset voters anymore, especially after the fiasco with the abolition of the 10p tax rate