In an effort to spread out my anger over as many days as possible, I thought I may as well pre-empt my ire by calming (at this stage) expressing my outright disgust at the government's failure to react to the fuel crisis. Why is it that if American politicians (such as Florida Governor, Charlie Crist) can see that consumers are struggling and that they'd benefit from a temporary fuel tax cut, our own political elite cannot?
David Cameron and George Osborne ought surely to be calling for a fuel tax reduction in the current crisis. With 3/4 or more of the cost of a tank of petrol being tax, the government is simply raking it in as oil prices soar. Keeping Britain moving must be more important than the supposed benefits to the environment from people not being able to afford to buy petrol?
The political environment is much different from in 2000 when we last saw fuel protests. So will the Tories now side with the oppressed masses against a government led by a bunch of Marie-Antoinettes?
2 comments:
Why aren't you encouraging people and businesses to become more efficient in their use of fuel? Why are you whining for a state bailout like this? Are you a socialist or something?
Gosh Alex you are simply SO clever. Your mother and father must be so proud of you (assuming your mother can even remember who your father is). You moron.
Cutting taxes is not a state bailout. It is returning money taken from taxpayers back to the taxpayers. The levy on drivers is wholly unmerited and thankfully this is becoming clearer to more and more people as petrol prices keep on rising. Except to those, like you, who are willfully blind.
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