Quentin Willson challenges MPs over fuel prices
: On Tuesday 25th January, at 9 am , Quentin Willson, the well-known
motoring columnist and TV presenter, will be on College Green, opposite
the House of Commons, to present MPs with letters from the Fair Fuel UK
Campaign. The Campaign has appeared on BBC SE, ITV, BBC Politics Today,
Sky News, Radio 5 Live, Radio 4 and many local radio stations; all in
just 12 days since the launch. Things are moving fast, but it is the
petition that really counts to show the magnitude of opposition. So
please spread the website link to help this campaign succeed. www.fairfueluk.com
Here are 4 examples of the many hundreds of "affect on their lives- fuel cost experiences" sent through the website
"I
can't cut down any more than I already have. We now only use our car
for school and work and fit any other necessary journeys around that. We
live 6 miles from our nearest school and I no longer travel home while
my youngest is at nursery because I literally can't afford to. I have
to keep my dog in my car while I go to work for up to 2 hours because I
can't afford to go home and walk him after work and then travel back to
pick the children up from school. My husband has a long commute to work
because jobs where we live are very limited. If petrol costs rise,
something will have to give - I can't not take the kids to school, but
we will have to give serious consideration to the financial viability of
my husband continuing to work. We rarely take the kids out at the
weekend because the added fuel cost is something we have to consider
non-esential."
Just
getting out and about, I am a disabled driver who needs his vehicle,
the vast increase in fuel means I now spend more days inside the home.
Plus the effect that this also has on pushing up prices everywhere else
as a very detrimental affect to one's health."
"I
have just had to put my prices up to my customers 15% just to cover
fuel cost...............My fuel bill per month is more than I pay rent
for 2000sq ft commercial property in Dorset....."
"As
a disabled person receiving Mobility component of Disabled Living
Allowance I exchanged my allowance for a car on the Motability
scheme...I can no longer afford fuel for anything but essential
journeys!"
Thanks
to your support, the FairFuelUK campaign is storming ahead and making a
quality impact in the media and with the public! We have 20,000 people
signed up to our on line petition and hundreds of people are gathering
written signatures in their areas using forms downloaded from the
website. In fact, with 1300 petition forms downloaded so far, this will
mean at least an additional 26,000 supporters will be added to the
campaign.
It's
so important that you forward this email to EVERYONE you know asking
them to sign up to the on line petition. Even if you have never done
this before – please do it for this campaign as the cost of fuel impacts
on every aspect of your lives. 20,000 signing up in 12 days is a
fantastic start, but chances of getting a fair deal on fuel depends on
us getting tens of thousands of more signatures. We need to have a big
enough petition that the Government have to take notice!
Please tell your friends, family and colleagues to sign the petition at http://www.fairfueluk.com
. If you have colleagues at work without access to the Internet, why
not put up a petition form on your notice board. You can download an
official one to copy, from our website at http://www.fairfueluk.com
"Fair
Fuel UK" needs your help even more so, after the Chancellor's comments
today! Please ask your friends and contacts to add their support by
signing up at www.fairfueluk.com
There’s
only 55 days to the Budget and the planned massive 23p per gallon hike
in fuel prices. We are campaigning to stop that rise. Our support is
growing fast – but we need more! Please forward our link – www.fairfueluk.com
– to as many of your contacts as you can and ask them to sign up and
pass it on to their contacts. We have only a short time to build up the
pressure. Every extra signature really does help…
Thanks again and very kind regards
Peter Carroll & the Fair Fuel UK Campaign Team
http://www.fairfueluk.com
the profit really does go to the government & big oil companies. i am a bookkeeper for several supermarkets one with a petrol station. the margins on fuel are 1.5% and thats without taking wages, and overheads into account...in other words its making a loss on fuel.
well if you take the 80% tax/duty then look at how much the fuel companys make a liter of fuel proble is only a few pence
just thought it's more now 20%vat ?
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