Fair Fuel Campaign appeals for E-petition support!

THE FAIR FUEL UK campaign has utilised the Government's new e-petitioning website to get its case for 'no fuel duty rises' to be debated in Parliament.

According to FairFuelUK then high fuel prices are hurting all of us: Supermarkets are seeing footfall and sales down as people drive to their stores less; people are filling up less resulting in more than 16,000 motorists running out of petrol on motorways; some motorists are giving up driving completely.

While some environmentalists will claim that the above affects of high fuel prices are not necessarily a bad thing, it is certainly the case that public behaviour is changing as a result. FairFuelUK's Quentin Wilson says on his Blog:

"Not only is the government's dogged reluctance to lower duty harming our economic growth but its changing our behaviour. Sometimes dangerously. One of those 16,000 people who ran out of petrol on a motorway was killed on the hard shoulder... FairFuelUK has been warning the government and Treasury for months that their fuel duty policy is having a huge social and economic cost. But they're not listening. That's why its critically important that we force a government debate by hitting the 100,000 signature mark"

FairFuelUK have already obtained over 200,000 signatures on their own petition about the subject, but are now calling for supporters to sign the Cheaper Petrol and Diesel E-petition on the Government website.

It will be interesting to see if the campaign reaches its target figure of 100,000 signatures and does indeed trigger a Parliamentary debate.