For at least ten years we’ve seen rising fuel prices as a direct result of the Holyrood politicians desire to hit the consumer and stop us using carbon fuels and the amazing thing is that the public just seem to take all this nonsense. You’d have thought that after May 2008 headlines like these:
Truckers block roads in fuel price protest
More than 300 lorries descended on central London today in protest against rising fuel costs. In the largest protest of its kind in the capital, hauliers drove into the city from across the UK and converged near Marble Arch. … They also want Gordon Brown to shelve a 2p increase in fuel duty and a planned hike in road tax.
Over a mere 2p rise in petrol duty, the government would have though twice about the fuel price escalator, the renewable electricity tax and a myriad of other direct and indirect ways that the public are paying for eco-political nonsense. Well now after years of a two-fingered answer to all public concerns about fuel, they are facing a new round of headlines like these:-
- Spiralling fuel prices could bring UK to a standstill
- Fuel protests could bring the UK to a standstill
- £210 a year irse in petrol bills
- Petrol to hit £6.50 a gallon: Middle-East crisis cuts supplies
- Motorists suffer again as new year petrol duty and VAT rises bite
- Threats to blockade region with French-style protests over fuel costs
And what is the response from the lemmings who all vote for higher and higher carbon taxes on the Scottish people:
As fuel prices soar united Holyrood tells Chancellor: Scrap the duty rise
THE Scottish Parliament has called on the UK government to ditch a planned rise in fuel duty which could increase prices at the pumps by 4p a litre.
