Fairer fuel, campaigners march on Downing Street

In the sunny month of July the fight for cheaper fuel continued, in their latest pressure-building stunt FairFuelUK campaigners took a trip to 10 Downing Street to hand deliver a letter to the Prime Minister himself. The letter outlines the increasing struggle endured by companies and how foreign competitors are poaching their business with the aid of less taxed fuel, signed by Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow.

The MPs all helped to push a car to Downing Streetfrom Whitehall at 9am on the 12th July 2011 to show their support for the millions of UK motorists and businesses struggling with high petrol and diesel prices. The letter will set out the urgent need for the Government to pressure Oil companies to pass on reductions in the cost of Oil and for the Government to abandon its plan to increase fuel duty in January 2012. This January increase could add up to 4 p per litre.

FTA Chief Executive Theo de Pencier (one of the gentlemen to hand over the letter) had commented. “Fuel is the biggest single cost for transport operators, and unless the government acts to relieve the pressure faced by hauliers and other businesses we could be in danger of seeing more redundancies and more insolvencies in this beleaguered sector.”

Robert Halfon, who was also at Downing Street to hand over the letter, stressed that high fuel taxes weren’t working and restricted freighters.He said: “Not only are our road freight industries being crushed, but foreign road freight operators continue to expand their operations in the UK at the expense of domestic hauliers as their rates of duty are up to 24 pence per litre less than their British counterparts.”

Motoring strategist for the RAC commented that “peoples’ ability to live their lives and do the most basic of tasks, such as visit family and take their children to after school activities, is being threatened and it looks like it’s only going to get worse,”

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Author Emma Keast

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