Great shame he did not oppose any of the fuel tax hikes under Labour over last 13 years. Their increases have led to today’s high cost of petrol. I am lobbying Chancellor to help motorists in forthcoming Budget Speech.

Daniel kawczynski MP
Shrewsbury

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Delicious to see David Wright calling for reduction in fuel duty when it was his party leader, Ed Milliband, who as environment secretary in the previous government, kept arguing for drivers to be hit again and again with duties and taxes.

The CO2 reduction agenda that Labour pushed onto us from the back of their ministerial limousines is still around, so why Ed Milliband and David Wright’s sudden concern for the motorist rather than the environment? Is this an admission that they got things wrong? Is this a sudden realisation that green taxes slow economies down? Surely not. Surely they can’t be so flexible with their ethics that they’re willing to forget the green past in favour of a short-lived political swipe at the coalition?

And David Wright’s mate, Ed Balls (who he voted for in the Labour leader elections) was the key member of the treasury team (and later Chancellor) that ensured that drivers were hit again and again by duty rises but seems to have suddenly flip-flopped as well. C’mon Ed Balls, you have always admitted your faults, weaknesses and errors (none at all, apparently), so surely your push for a reduction in fuel duty now is more a tacit admission that you got it wrong rather than political opportunism. Isn’t it?

By the way, folks, with Japan’s economy really hammered recently, the world demand for oil has fallen and will remain lower for the short – to mid term, so the price per barrel has dropped and as it’s quoted in Dollars, which are also falling, should be even more affordable, not dearer. So when shall we see the knock-on reduction in pump price? Just asking.

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400,000 participants or not? This says different…

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/03/12/facebook-petrol-prices-protest-gets-115000-members/

Make your flippin’ minds up people!

Regardless of how many may have signed Facebook, fuel prices are ridiculous. Local transport cannot provide access to many areas where people need to be, not just for pleasure but for work purposes too – how do the Government expect us to get to work when we are faced with these prices?

They dropped themselves in it by forcing smokers to give up… now they can’t fund the NHS among many other due to loss of taxes, where will this leave us when people stop using their cars?

Time ALL political parties were disbanded and we got out of the EU methinks.

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Whilst I fully understand that we must have taxation to pay for services I disagree that fuel should face this level of taxation. No other product or service is taxed at 70%. The crux of the matter is not the price of crude oil it is the taxation placed on the end product. Fuel duty is a tax that is then taxed again with the VAT. It is worth noting that the UK Govt has to apply to the EU to change fuel duty since they signed up to the Energy Tax Directive, The Govt require permission from the EU before fuel duty can be reduced. Yes Brussels Governs us!

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Good on him – the telford MP is making a good point and I support his calls for this asa rural resident who knows only too well the cost of fuel

Its a simple fact in the UK the tax is too high and the Condems lied when they were in opposition claiming they would have a fuel duty stabiliser, now they just put up VAT adding 3 p a litre to the price in once fell swoop

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