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FairFuelUK has played a leading part in securing inquiries into Fuel Pricing issues and now we need your evidence to submit to these inquiries....
We recently helped to secure an Office of Fair Trading Inquiry into petrol and diesel pricing at the pumps and a Financial Services Authority Inquiry into alleged Oil Price fixing.
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Inquiry A: Fuel Prices | Inquiry B: Oil Price Manipulation |
| There is also evidence from ‘whistle blowers’ that the trade in Oil as a global commodity is ‘rigged’. Therefore, we wish to encourage anyone who has any knowledge of improper practices in the Oil trading world to come forward and contact us in confidence. |
Inquiries into Oil speculation and into the Petrol/diesel market are an essential part of our fight for a fairer deal on petrol and diesel prices. However, we reassure our supporters that we are still focussed on the other factor that plays a massive part in the cost of petrol & diesel – Fuel Duty. Our central aim remains to fight for lower fuel duty on petrol & diesel. The combined amount of fuel duty and VAT on a typical litre of fuel adds up to an eye-watering 80p per litre. That means that the cost of the actual fuel coming out of the pump, including the oil itself, the refining, the distribution and some for the retailer is about 60p – so the 80p combined Fuel Duty and VAT is an effective tax of 130% ! This huge tax burden is crippling families and businesses. It is dragging the economy down. With the support of our backers and our members across the UK we have successfully fought off over 9p per litre of planned Fuel Duty hikes. This has been a great achievement – but it is not enough. We remain committed to opposing any future rises in Fuel Duty (the next is planned for 1st Jan 2013) and to fighting for a cut in Fuel Duty.
The FairFuelUK Campaign won the Chartered institute for Public Relations Public Affairs Excellence Award 2012 - Managed by Peter Carroll Associates email: campaign@fairfueluk.com
Peter Carroll (founder) 07866 800755, Lynne Beaumont (co-founder) 07885 940945 , Howard Cox (co-founder & communications) 07515 421611