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17. ConservativeChitChat.co.uk Blogs » Blog Archive » Something still needs to be done about the UK's Taxes on Petrol & Diesel

The other day I read an article saying it now costs £100 to fill the fuel tank of an average family car.That means filling your car now costs:£11 more than one of those Amazon Kindle E-Reader gadgetsFilling your tank 4 times costs the same as an iPhone 3GS cost me to buy outright on Pay as You Go from the Vodafone Online Store last year, or also the same as an iPAD2 16GB WiFi.
URL: http://blogs.conservativechitchat.co.uk/2012/03/01/something-still-needs-to-be-done-about-the-uks-taxes-on-petrol-diesel/ - 9KB - 03 Sep 2012
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18. Bishop Hill blog - Swampy's country cousins

You have to laugh. Swampy it seems, was not the slowest green in the country. Meet his country cousins from up north. When it comes to brightness, these guys are the blackest of black holes:ANTI-FRACKING protesters who glued and chained themselves to petrol pumps in Great Lever over the weekend were at the wrong garage, it has emerged.Four people were arrested on Saturday after anti-fracking protesters used glue and bike locks to attach themselves to fuel pumps at the petrol station in Rishton Lane.The group had chosen to base the protest next to a Total petrol station after the French firm announced it would be investing more than £12 million in the UK’s shale gas industry.However, it emerged later that the petrol station was no longer owned by Total - but the new owners had not got around to taking the signs down yet.
URL: http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/1/20/swampys-country-cousins.html - 108KB - 20 Jan 2014
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19. Fuel price 'rip-off' should be investigated by fair trading watchdog, say MPs as retailers fail...

MPs are demanding an investigation into petrol retailers who are ripping off motorists by failing to pass on the benefits of cheaper fuel.The cross-party group of 60 MPs are urging the Government's competition watchdog to look in to claims of price-fixing by UK oil companies.Tory MP Robert Halfon, who tabled the motion, said research shows oil companies take up to three weeks to change their prices when the cost of oil falls, and even then they fail to pass on the full benefit.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2169654/Fuel-price-rip-investigated-fair-trading-watchdog-say-MPs-retailers-fail-pass-savings.html - 217KB - 06 Jul 2012
Excerpt: are demanding an investigation into petrol retailers who are ripping off...

20. Drivers pay record 81p to Treasury for every litre of fuel | Mail Online

A record 81p of the cost of every litre of petrol goes to fill the Government’s coffers, figures reveal today.For every 138.3p motorists typically pay per litre at the pumps, almost 59 per cent goes to the Treasury in the form of fuel duty and VAT, according to data obtained from the House of Commons Library.Campaigners said it showed the strain on the UK’s 33million drivers was already too great – and called for Chancellor George Osborne to further postpone next year’s planned duty increase.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2228947/Drivers-pay-record-81p-Treasury-litre-fuel.html - 198KB - 07 Nov 2012
Excerpt: 81p of the cost of every litre of petrol goes to fill the government 8217 s...

21. Left Watch | Conservative Home

By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter. Over at the New Statesman I'm described as an "economic neanderthal" by the left-wing economist David Blanchflower. My experience is that people usually resort to abuse when they're losing an argument and Blanchflower has been the leading champion of the Ed Balls view that Britain should carry on adding to its debt as if there's...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/leftwatch/2011/08/pour-petrol-on-a-fire-rub-salt-in-a-wound-increase-debt-in-a-debt-crisis.html - 48KB - 18 Sep 2011
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22. ConservativeChitChat.co.uk Blogs | Blog Archive | Another Conservative MP enters my Bad Books

The latest addition is Justine Greening, having today been reported in the Telegraph & Daily Mail to be in support of increasing tax on Petrol & Diesel at a time the bloody things (remember, fuel gets taxed twice - fuel duty + V.A.T) need cutting to encourage growth & stop ripping off tax payers by charging more in tax on petrol & diesel than the actual fuel costs. The members of the public commenting below the 2 articles don’t sound too chuffed with her either. So much for the potential she showed looking into the Car Insurance rip-off not so long ago.The previous MP to get into my bad books being Claire Perry - the one completely oblivious to products such as Net Nanny, Cyber Patrol, the filtering built into ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite & similar products, and even Internet Browsers such as Internet Exploder & Mozilla Firefox.
URL: http://blogs.conservativechitchat.co.uk/2012/06/25/another-conservative-mp-enters-my-bad-books/ - 8KB - 03 Sep 2012
Excerpt: be in support of increasing tax on petrol diesel at a time the bloody things...

23. Why petrol costs ¿mean it¿s not worth getting a job: High prices make working uneconomical |...

The high cost of fuel is encouraging people to live on benefits because driving to work makes it uneconomical to get a job.Travel to work costs reduce the extra income gained from getting a job by 40 per cent for the average low income worker, according to a hard-hitting report by the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank today.An IEA report today FRI demands the abolition of fuel duty, currently 58p a litre, which is the highest in the Western world. The IEA says that fuel costs - which cost taxpayers £33 billion every year - are damaging almost every sector of the economy.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233715/Why-petrol-costs-mean-s-worth-getting-job-High-prices-make-working-uneconomical.html - 226KB - 16 Nov 2012
Excerpt: 3 c sunny spells 5 day forecast why petrol costs 8216 mean it 8217 s not worth...

24. MPs demand probe as 30,000 drivers sign fuel petition | The Sun |News|Politics

MPs will today demand a major probe into claims of petrol price fixing.Tory Rob Halfon will present a 30,000-name petition to the Office of Fair Trading calling for a full UK inquiry into soaring road fuel costs.An EU investigation was launched in May over bombshell claims that BP and Shell pushed up oil prices to rip off millions of motorists.That came months after a mini-probe by the OFT, the UK’s markets regulator, found no evidence of wrongdoing — an inquiry dubbed “limp-wristed” by Mr Halfon.
URL: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/5013558/MPs-demand-probe-as-30000-drivers-sign-fuel-petition.html - 61KB - 27 Jul 2013
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25. £2bn fuel duty hits motorists | The Sun |News|Politics

HARD-UP drivers handed the Government more than £2BILLION in fuel duty last month alone, official figures reveal.A surge in petrol sales generated £929million of fuel duty for the Treasury coffers in June.Diesel buying — much of it by truck drivers — contributed another £1.35billion.Motorists pay just over 40 per cent of the pump price in fuel duty. This rises to 60 per cent when VAT is added.So when drivers pay £40 at the till, £24 goes straight to the taxman.
URL: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/5034549/2bn-fuel-duty-hits-motorists.html - 62KB - 27 Jul 2013
Excerpt: official figures reveal a surge in petrol sales generated a 929million of...

26. Study shows impact of electric cars is worse than petrol-powered vehicles | Mail Online

A study of pollution in 34 Chinese cities has found that the electricity generated by power stations to drive electric vehicles leads to more fine particle emissions than petrol-powered transport.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2100936/Study-shows-impact-electric-cars-worse-petrol-powered-vehicles.html - 99KB - 14 Feb 2012
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27. Jonathan Isaby: When you discover how much the Government taxes your petrol, you'll want to support the campaign to freezefueltax.com

The Government is working to try and make the tax system more transparent. At the last Budget, George Osborne announced the introduction of annual tax statements after a successful campaign by Ipswich MP, Ben Gummer. Those statements still need some improvement: they leave out Employers’ National Insurance, for example, and that means they understate the amount people are paying in direct taxes, let alone indirect taxes. But they are a big step in the right direction.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2012/08/when-you-discover-how-much-the-government-taxes-your-petrol-youll-want-to-support-the-campaign-to-fr.html - 229KB - 21 Aug 2012
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28. Robert Halfon MP: Conservatives should believe in good business, not big business - as the oil market shows

Today in Parliament, I will lead a debate in Parliament, urging the Office of Fair Trading and the Financial Services Authority to investigate the oil market. This is for three reasons:Petrol and diesel have never been more expensive, despite a two-year freeze in fuel duty.Oil companies - we have proof - are stopping cheaper oil prices from getting to market. This hurts people on low incomes, who are filling up the family car.A professional oil trader has now given an explosive statement to my PetrolPromise.com website, explaining in detail how the oil-price is being rigged by speculators and banks........Now I want to see lower fuel taxes, too. I have always campaigned in Parliament - with the Sun, Times, Mail, Express, Telegraph, FairFuelUK, and others - for a cut in fuel duty. In the future, I will always urge the Government to reduce fuel duty if they can.But as Conservatives, we should believe in good business, not big business. If cartels and crony corporates are pushing up the cost of living, we should oppose them just as strongly as we oppose Labour’s vision of a centralised “Big State”.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2012/09/from-halfon4harlowmp-.html - 230KB - 13 Sep 2012
Excerpt: market this is for three reasons petrol and diesel have never been more...

29. Fuel taxes are pricing motorists off the road, claim campaigners as car use plummets | Mail...

Ministers were accused of pricing motorists off the road after figures revealed that car use has dropped to its lowest level for eight years.The Department for Transport breakdown showed that road use fell for the third year in a row for the first time since records began more than 60 years ago.It also revealed that less than £1 in every £3 collected in motoring taxes goes towards road maintenance.Campaigners said the statistics demonstrated the need for the Government to cut fuel duty and ease the pain on motorists.Tory MP Robert Halfon, who led the successful campaign to delay a 3p increase in fuel duty planned for January, said: ‘High fuel prices are continuing to force people off the roads, and are crushing businesses and families. We need to go further in cutting petrol tax, and we need to put further pressure on oil companies to reduce prices at the pumps.’
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074828/Fuel-taxes-pricing-motorists-road-claim-campaigners-car-use-plummets.html - 130KB - 16 Dec 2011
Excerpt: we need to go further in cutting petrol tax and we need to put further...

30. Harry Potter actor Jamie Waylett charged with having petrol bomb during London riots - Telegraph

Harry Potter actor Jamie Waylett has been charged with having a petrol bomb during the London riots.
URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harry-potter/8821621/Harry-Potter-actor-Jamie-Waylett-charged-with-having-petrol-bomb-during-London-riots.html - 69KB - 12 Oct 2011
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31. Who's to blame for UK's 'cost of living crisis'? Labour, of course - Telegraph

Labour have already lost the argument on austerity and cost of living. Ed Miliband can’t do anything about the economic adjustment.Something quite unexpected happened to me at the weekend. Filling up the car with petrol, I found it to be noticeably cheaper than the last time I did it. Admittedly, this was a while back. All the same, I’ve become so hardened by years of rising pump prices, that to have my presumptions shattered in such a pleasing way was really quite a shock.Nor is it just fuel prices that have been falling. According to the British Retail Consortium, shop prices fell 1.4pc in February, following a 1pc fall in January. Even food price inflation, at “just” 1.1pc in February, is at a seven-year low.
URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10704164/Whos-to-blame-for-UKs-cost-of-living-crisis-Labour-of-course.html - 75KB - 08 Apr 2014
Excerpt: the weekend filling up the car with petrol i found it to be noticeably cheaper...

32. Boris Johnson speech's extraordinary attack on the 'quitters, the splitters, the kippers' |...

The London Mayor addresses a rally of Conservative activists tonight, before his official speech to the conference faithful in Birmingham tomorrow.Mr Johnson vowed to take on the 'quitters, the splitters, the kippers' who are trying to undermine the Tory party.And he mocked defectors with an extraordinary sex joke. He told delighted Tory activists:'The EU commission wants to ban vacuum cleaners on the grounds that they are too powerful.‘If you do not handle your vacuum cleaner correctly, you may end up inhaling the hamster – the budgerigar through the bars of the cage.‘And I have read that there are some people – probably the type who are thinking of defecting to UKIP – who present themselves at A&E with barely credible injuries sustained through vacuum cleaner abuse.’The outspoken remark is likely to infuriate UKIP supporters, and will draw comparisons to when defence minister Anna Soubry said of Mr Farage: 'I always think he looks like somebody has put their finger up his bottom and he really rather likes it.'
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2773868/Boris-building-Cameron-prepares-parade-star-player-Tory-conference-quell-UKIP-jitters.html - 364KB - 30 Sep 2014
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