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Dorsetrambler

Location:Dorchester, GB
Age: 63
Gender: male
In a few words: 62 years old married with two adult sons one of which is a rock and roll pianist and the other a naval architect

Cut Fuel Tax Now - Or Else!!!

Published: Monday June 16,2008 by Dorsetrambler

We are in the grip of another Brown made crisis and this could probably be the worst one yet. The rising price of fuel is freezing our mobility, ruining our prosperity, causing inflation through record high distribution costs and adding to the economic woes caused by the bungled handling of our economy and worsening economic recession. Brown should be cutting fuel tax now to restore some stability but he cant because his economic mismanagement and waste of public funds have landed this country with so much debt that he and his Darling muppet are no longer in control. He grabs every penny of windfall taxes to fund his past and present excesses without caring a damn for the consequences.

With Fuel tax and VAT Brown is stealing half the price of the current £1.36/litre at the pumps. The fuel tax was designed to be a green tax to try and reduce the use of and dependency upon fossil fuels. The high price of crude oil is now acheiving this efect without the addition of a fuel tax. There is no reason for the fuel tax to remain. The fuel tax should immediately be cut by 50% to bring us back to an average £1/litre. Brown should not have mismanaged our economy to the extent that he is totally dependent on fuel tax to survive, he should cut his extravagant spending and economise as the rest of us are being forced to do, if he can't do this he should be replaced by somebody who can. A total 60% tax on fuel is disgraceful at a time when we are facing a national crisis and the real tax level is even higher when you remember that he has already taken 30%(Income tax and NI) from your earnings even before you buy the fuel.

This horrible government is not going to listen to our plight, they do not have a clue on crisis management. They have not the wit to do other than profiteer from windfall taxes and hope everything will come all right in the end. This time it isnt going to work. The international oil shortage is not going to go away. We need urgent and immediate action to force a change of policy and or government. Something like the last lorry owners blockade is probably the only solution but this time they should not give in until the Brown creature is removed from office.

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