Wee Jock Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 (edited) Dont know if any of you chaps are on facebook, there is a petition running on there regarding the fuel price, you may want a look or want to sign the petition if so you will find it here: http://media.causes.com/ribbon/979329 Edited January 9, 2011 by Wee Jock
Wee Jock Posted January 9, 2011 Author Posted January 9, 2011 Signed!!! One more to the cause it can only help!
Joe G Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Id be up for blockade lol Then at least you could just say
thebigfelly Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 yeah blockade id agree with too , best time to do it now, block the docks where all this salt for the roads is getting dropped off, no salt for the gritters , mass public complaints about frozen road , what a good time to do it
Wee Jock Posted January 9, 2011 Author Posted January 9, 2011 Cool, the more the merrier! Have just sent the following email to my local Westminster MP for Argyl & Bute Alan Reid: Dear Alan Reid, I am writing to you as you are my local MP, I would like to bring your attention to my concerns over the current price of fuel in this country. I like many other people in this country am fed up with having to pay over the odds in Tax for what is to many people and absolute necessity rather than a luxury. We are currently paying two thirds of the price at the pump for our fuel to the Government, we are paying VAT and fuel duty, this is not fair or just and it needs to be abolished. When the fuel price rises, everyone gets hit by it, including those who do not drive because the price of food goes up, the price of clothes goes up, the price of heating goes up, everything that needs to be delivered to a place where we can go and buy it will increase in price because it costs more to get it there in the first place. My Wages do not go up with the price of fuel and the increase in VAT, My average household shopping bill for buying the same goods has risen by over twenty pounds in one week! Last year when the fuel started to creep up in price, I started a Facebook cause page to campaign to force the government to act to keep fuel below £1.00 per litre, when I started this I hoped that I could get enough interest to get 500 people to join so I could start a petition to the government. Currently the membership of this page is more than 270000 people and growing by the second, not the hour but the second. Move the taxes to Fast food outlets and nightclubs and Theatres, these are real Luxury items, Think about the volunteers that help out with soup kitchens, meals on wheels and any other organisation that relies on charitable people, they will not be able to do this if you keep taxing the fuel we need. Please feel free to look over the face book page with the cause and you can see for yourself the response this has had all over the country. http://www.causes.com/causes/434764-k... Yours sincerely, Also sent this to Jackie Baillie MSP, they dont deal with it only at Westminster! Feel free to copy and post to your MP Paul
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