Where Fuels and Angels Fear to Tread !!

Fuel has now reached the £1.20 a litre mark !!!

£1.20 !!!, I remember buying fuel at 35p a litre, yes granted that was some time ago now but even still.

This isn’t the end of it either. It’s predicted to reach £1.50 a litre by summer (2010) and £2.00 a litre by Christmas.......

This is a disaster. No really, it is.
The economic knock on effect of this could be catastrophic.
We are just starting to see the first tender shoots of growth that may give us hope of getting out of this recession we’ve spent the last couple of years in. But this growth needs to be nurtured not stomped on with the All Mighty Tax boot.
Just ask yourself, can you afford to run your car this time next year when, very likely, it’s going to cost you twice as much to run it?
Then what happens to the Haulage Firms?
Their Fuel costs are exponentially greater than yours.
Don’t forget, these are the people we rely on every day and don’t really realise or think about it.
What happens to these firms? They have to pass on the increased costs to the people they deliver for. The likes of your local supermarket, your morning paper, the milk you put on your cereal and in your tea. The wheat that gets turned into bread, that you pop into your toaster. Even the fuel you put in your car. This all has to be delivered, and it’s delivered by road, it doesn’t just magically appear at the store.
So the cost of delivering everything is going to go up, this extra delivery cost will eventually be passed onto you the consumer. So not only is it going to cost you more to go to work but everything you buy from bread to televisions will also go up in price. Do you see where this is going?
Eventually people will start buying less, this in its self will start to affect people. People buying less means less profit for businesses. This in turn starts to panic the Top bosses, business owners and shareholders who like to protect their profits and income.
This leads to job losses. Cutting the wage bill increases profits.
As more people lose their jobs, less gets bought and we get trapped in a vicious circle.
Mean while, as less is being bought, less needs to be delivered so haulage companies start to lose their contracts. Loss of contracts means loss of jobs and haulage companies go out of business.
As more haulage companies bite the dust, the remaining ones have less competition and in turn will start to increase their prices. This, alas, is human nature.
So the fuel tax is being increased by Government so they can try to get us, that’s everyone, regardless as to whether you drive a car or not (See Above), to pay for their mistakes.


So Government is increasing fuel tax, that must be good for the environment right?


Anyone who has looked at the whole “Global Warming” circus will have worked out it’s just being used by Governments to raise taxes.
If Governments were REALLY bothered about the environment there are plenty of “Alternative Energy” developments that they could have invested in and brought into common use.
Electric Vehicles have been around for decades, but only in the past few years have they been looked at as a viable alternative to fossil fuelled cars. Some car manufacturers are looking at hydrogen fuel cells, which, incidentally can also be used to heat and power homes. But none of these companies and technologies have had any serious help from governments to try to increase the development speed and bring them to market quicker.
If Gordon Brown is SO worried about the environment, why does he get shipped around in a LARGE JAG?????

Could it be Government likes our dependency on Fossil Fuels, because they are easier to Tax?