“there appears to be an elephant in the room here. it is not the petrol proce that is the main issue here, it is diesel. everything now relies on road haulage, and it is the underlying cost of diesel that drives the proce of distribution up.

exactly 2 years ago a litre of diesel at the north bound services on the A419 at Cricklade was £1.06, on Friday it was £1.40, thats an increase of 32%. from personal experience that services is one of the cheapest around. the proce was around £1.15 in May 2010, so during the current parliment the proce has increased by 22%, the intermediate (nov-may) rise was i believe due to fluctuations in the price of crude.

IT should come as no suprize that the price of more or less everything has increased in proportion.

If suggest that the foundation to any economic recovery rests of reducing the price of diesel.”

“It never ceases to amaze me how much more we are paying for petrol here than the rest of the UK. I make sure I have just enough in the tank when I go and visit other places and fill up when I get there. Can often save 4p or 5p a litre.”

“C_edge appears to have the right idea - but when all of you have stopped blaming the Government for the huge tax on petrol, look back on prices over the past few decades - we are still not paying the real cost - only quibbling about the cost of pumping the stuff out of the ground and how much the government makes out of its sale.

The stuff is running out and we just have to change our lifestyles - renewable fuels are not going to replace petroleum - regardless of the hype about bio-diesel, hydrogen, or electric cars. You won't believe the land use and carbon emission figures for producing bio-diesel or hydrogen from commercial sources, or efficiency of producing electricity compared with using petrol or diesel directly in engines.”

“Problem is the Gov. need this cash and if you think you will be better off once electric or even hydrogen become widely available then think again, over the next few years prepare to see an increase in toll roads and peak pricing plans or even pay per drive black boxes fitted to your car etc, they will justify it because of the volume of cars on the road and the need to aid congestion, the green argument will not be there so they will hide the taxes behind tolls, they will never give up the revenue the motorist generates!”

“I agree with zinger1 on the boycott of major fuel suppliers but unfortunately the general public are not in a position to do so for a month, in oerder to do so you woud first have to buy a months supply of fuel so profits would peak at the pumps but then dip the following month hence no real impact made. When we had the fuel depot blockades it made more impact, but being the democratic country we are as soon as it was over instead of listening to the pubic ike a goverment should they passed a law making it unlawful to do it againi think they catagorised it " an act of terrorism " to blockade fuel depots and you would be arrested. The same as the pending strike by civil servants, the goverement has sounded warnings against it and are talking of passing a law to make strikes harder to have by passing another law to stop people going on strike. The trouble with this country is instead of sitting up and listening when these occurences happen and realising that joe public are not happy and finding out what they can do to sort it out. Because you are not playing their game and following like the lamb to the slaughter they pass a law to make it illegal. So where is the democray here in this country, they send troops into other countries to oust dictators because the peope revolt and help them over throw their goverment because they are seen to be not democratic but here in the UK we have to put up with it because, we as a pubic are not allowed to show distaste at anything we have to sit quiet and accept it. what is needed in this country is a general strike by everyone. only then wil your voice be heard and it will be loud and clear. then and only then will they sit up and take notice. extreme as it may seem, sometimes you have to get a back bone and stand up and be counted. something this country lost a long long time ago.”

“128.9p per litre at new Asda Hatherley, 128.9p at Morrisons Up Hatherley and 129.9p at Tesco Cheltenham. So no need to pay more than 130p folks!”

“If everyone boycotted one of the major fuel providers for a month and the leading supermarket for the same period we would start to see a difference. Both would be quick to lobby government to reduce duty to get the pumps pumping again because the two largest providers of fuel in these sectors have a huge amount of sway in political circles.”

“@ Laplands - you are absolutely right, apart from on one point. It would make no difference what we voted, as they are all part of the same network. No decent person would make it to a position of power in politics without selling out in order to claw their way up the ranks. They are all on the same gravy train at public expense. Why do they spend millions on jetting around the world from one conference to another, from one emergency meeting to another instead of using video or tele conferencing? Why do they spend millions on re-jigging schemes and introducing "new" administrative structures? We have seen locally the way in which they play, by reducing the number of active councillors, but simultaneously introducing a new "temporary" advisory scheme for the retirees, plus others, effectively increasing the cost to the public purse. It is a sham and utterly shameful.

If they wanted to kick start the economy, they could spend far less by simply making a lump sum payment of, for instance, £500k to each and every legally resident household in the UK. People could pay off their debts, increase their purchasing power, start businesses, to name but a few options. This would provide stimulus to the economy that no government appears able to make, for all the money they are throwing at it. It might seem a radical solution, but it would get the whole shebang moving again for sure.”

“Blame the goverments we have now and have had in the past. Milking the proverbial cash cow the motorist to fill the losses they have made in their coffers. we all know fuel of any type has gone up and wages havent. Petrol, Gas, Electricity. What have any of the goverments done, nothing at all just sat back and watch the taxes roll in that they scoop off the top and then blame the rise in the price of a barrel of crude or the price that these companies buy gas at or those who create electricity. These companies are basically using extortion in the public view knowing people need these to live and no one does anything about it. there are no governing bodies to monitor it and say this has to stop. The people of this country are right up **** creek without a paddle. The people we all empowered to run this country, be it now or the last bunch of idiots have no idea what its like in the real world they all have their heads that far above the clouds they cant see the general public who are trying to survive struggling like hell. all they are interested in is sending money out of the country. 62 milion a day to be a member of the ill fated euroclub, when it could be used to subsidise much needed things in this country. millions spent on illegal invasion of other countries and for what, we are no further forwards on the terrorism threats they keep on about than we were when they invaded iraq during the 90,s. The only way to make them realise is to vote with your feet.”

“As Tommadeit stated, join Fairfuel.co.uk, these people make a difference as shown recently by getting the 3p increase discussed in parliment. Have a say.”