UK PETROL PRICES
UK Petrol taxes & Prices are the highest in Europe and possibly the world. Strange for an Oil Producer!
Petrol prices and tax can only be effected by you if you let someone know how you feel. Simply cut and paste the email text below into your new email, add your name and address (if you wish) then send it to those who represent and look after your interests. The men who can:
Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil ServiceDeputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for the Environment,
Transport and the Regions
The Rt Hon John Prescott MP john_prescott@detr.gov.uk
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP browng@parliament.uk
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| I the rightful
owner of this email address and UK subject wish to register my disagreement at a taxation
structure that makes petrol in the UK amongst the most expensive in the world, which
place's an unnecessary burden on industry and individuals.
My disagreement does not indicate support for or against the recent protests that have been held with regards to this matter. |
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Quote from Tony Blair UK Prime Minister
"It's now going to effect real people..."
I'm not sure what that makes the Taxi Drivers, Truckers
and Farmers!
Quote from Gordon Brown during an interview with John Snow 21st
Sept 2000
"We will not be pushed around by a group of
demonstrators" - Sorry Gordon but it
seems to be more than just a few protestors
Gordon Brown - Labour Conference 25th Sept 2000
Reduction in the cost must come from the producers
reducing prices and not through the custom duty. - Despite 70% being the duty !
Quote from the UK Government Labour Party's WebSite Home Page
"The Labour Party is a democratic
socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more
than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true
potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the
hands of the many not the few…" http://www.labour.org.uk/
Trade and Industry Select Committee on Fuel Taxation (31 October)
Since 1993 taxation rates on oil production has increased 50% with Corporation tax and additional levies of 12.5% on top, with VAT is charged at 17.5% on top of that.
Petrol Retailers Assoc. stated that competition in UK was more competitive than Europe and many retailers are making less than 2% litre with 164 forecourts closed since 13 September due to the excessive level of taxation, supply prices and the effect of government intervention.
Level of taxation on fuel in 1979 was 49%, it is now 86% on leaded and 85% on unleaded and vehicle tax with insurance costs have risen 40% in the same period.
It was also pointed out that the increase in the price of fuel has had no effect on reducing consumption or car ownership; both have risen.
UK diesel is the highest priced in Europe (almost double that in France and Germany).
We have been informed that a secret meeting in Versailles (9th September 2000) sealed and delivered an agreement binding all EU governments not to reduce fuel taxes; signed on behalf of the countries by their Finance Ministers. We have as yet been unable to confirm this and Ministers we have contacted have declined to comment.
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