Maybe signing the petition won't make a difference. Not signing certainly won't. It's up to nearly 86k now.
Signed! Highest price I have seen is £1.66.9 at Chievely Services on the M4/ A34 junction - glad I did not need fuel!!
Octoberon. I have signed the petition. But it still won't make any difference especially here in the UK as road users here just accept it and are an easy target for everyone to make cash from. Joe.
Yeah, you're right Joe, but we rely on cars so much it's difficult to boycott the pumps to any significant degree, which might make more of a statement. I filled my car up today - £106. It would be interesting to know how much the cost of living is also higher because of the transport costs for all the food/goods we buy. Maybe if people knew just how much this is costing them across the board there'd be more outrage.
Here's a comparison of petrol prices around the world. https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/
Thats an interesting website, thanks for posting. The "US price" is an average for all states, some of which have way higher taxes than others on fuel (CA. NY and other Democrat run states). Here in TX we're paying roughly a dollar less/gal than that average. I'm guessing that getting reasonable fuel prices in the UK is going to be largely a problem of convincing the public at large that they're not getting a good return on investment for whatever the fuel taxes are supposed to be paying for?
Well the government here likes to tell us we're a low tax economy because our income tax starts at 20% with around an £11,000 per annum threshold before you start paying tax. But then they fleece you for stealth taxes like incredibly high tax on petrol and many other items. One of our main drains is our social security budget. That is why people come all the way from Africa and Eastern Europe to get in and take advantage.
Looking through those prices , you pay somewhere around 40/60 pence more per litre, that's close to 90/100 cents a litre more in England than we do in Australia. And we have fuel stations that are more than the length of England from the states capital where the fuel is originally supplied from ... !
