The Sun tabloid newspaper is now campaigning against the exorbitant fuel taxes, which are higher in the UK than in many other countries.
Will the Labour politicians stop snooping and listening in on the public, and start listening to their anger and frustration ?
Pumped dry UK sick of fuel taxThe Sun
Friday 30th May 2008By DAVID WOODING
Whitehall Editor,
and LYNSEY HAYWOODBRITAIN would have the cheapest diesel in Europe if Labour's punitive taxes were axed, it emerged yesterday.
But nearly 60p in every Pound paid at the pump goes straight into Treasury coffers -- making our diesel the dearest.
Today The Sun launches a backlash campaign against sky high fuel prices to find the cheapest forecourts in Britain.
And we urge our army of readers to boycott those pumping up prices.
The huge sums siphoned off by the Government were revealed in figures put out by Business Secretary John Hutton.
They also reveal that the UK has Europe's second-lowest prices for unleaded petrol before tax and duty.
Chancellor Alistair Darling is poised to ditch plans to slap an extra 2p duty on fuel from October amid rising public anger.
But yesterday's figures prove millions of motorists are already being clobbered every time they fill up.
Our diesel costs 48.8p a litre before tax and duty are added. But at the pump, with 58 per cent tax added, it averages 116.6p.
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Meanwhile Tories seized on Mr Hutton's fuel tax figures to blame Labour for rip-off prices and rising household bills.
Shadow Treasury minister Philip Hammond said: "Gordon Brown's claim that world oil prices are the cause of the soaring costs is exposed as a sham."
PM Gordon Brown hopes his call for increased North Sea oil production will ease the crisis.
But yesterday Sun readers were demanding more action.
Shop worker James Read, 32, said: "The cost of fuel is crippling. I just can't afford to go anywhere."
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Surely the media column inches obsessed spin doctors will communicate this anger through to their out of touch political bosses, dithering in the Downing Street bunker, with this clear message from Rupert Murdoch's media empire and from the public ?
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