The immediate priority should be to cut the levy before VAT that Labour have imposed on the motorist. It is Labour progressive tax policy and greed that has got us into this state. Labour do not understand the meaning of prudance or stability its always spend, spend,spend.

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

Henry North, London

If the British hauliers stayed at home, hauliers from the continent would snap up the chance to deliver our food with their cheaper fuel. It is hard enough for hauliers in this country to hang onto the work, without giving it away.

Annie, Basildon, UK

My support to the hauliers. The high price of fuel affects all. greedy companies that no thought for the ordinary. With their increasingly obscene amount of wealth, they're detached from the lives of 80% of the population. Winter offers OAPs the choice of starvation or hyperthermia. Shameful

susan linton, Crymych, Pembrokeshire

A litre of petrol in countries like Kuwait and Egypt costs around 15 pence. Can anybody tell me why the citizens of a country like Britain, which produces its own oil, have to pay around 115 pence?

Ian, Cheltenham, England

Its quite simple we should let the hauliers stay at home for two weeks and see how the government copes with no food being delivered to the supermarkets and how there is no bread on the shelves. It should spark riots

Go on why dont you do it and bring a general election on

Please

Henry North, London, UK

If the fuel duty is cut then the oil companies will only ramp the price up to make up the difference. It is speculation, exerbated by the weak pound, that is driving up prices.

Paul, Coventry,

Well done the Truckers, I say - at least they are not as GUTLESS as the rest of the population & will have a go!
In fact they are helping the country & reducing inflation - if fuel prices continue to rise, & it is passed on, there will be a GENERAL STRIKE....now how will the Gov like that!

ABBY GRANT, London/Hammersmith, UK

Do the people who say this is a pointless exercise not understand? Yes, they are are protesting because they have got to breaking point. However, the rest of Europe has to put up with the $130 oil barrel to and they only pay around £1 per litre, why the difference? FUEL DUTY.

Rob, Gloucester, England (unfortunately)

"Have there been any arrests? What would happen if every interest-group blocked the roads every time they had a grievance?"

We'd be French, obviously.

W Smith, Manchester,

Paul Danon - "Freedom of speech isn't freedom to do anything if one is cross about something."
Since when, in this country, did 'Freedom of Speech' change Anything?
We can pontificate 'til the Cows come Home, the "gentlemen" at the top never listen until it's election time and even then ........

Neal, Tunbridge Wells, England

Wake up everyone. Increasing fuel by 30% increases the cost of every single thing in our economy, as most goods are transported several times during their production, at various stages. So how does that fit with keeping inflation to 3%.....so Gordon would rather fleece us now and crash the economy?

David, Oxford,

Chris, London, England - don't be so naive. The real price of fuel including VAT is about 65p a litre. Government make more money from fuel than the oil companies through the blatant theft they call fuel duty. Just 'because they are truckers' doen't mean they don't recognise theft when they see it.

David Thijm, Storubridge, UK

Capping the oil tax revenue to forecasts would mean that over this it could be levelled at effectively nil. 70% of the pump price is tax. Inflation would then be contained, and unless the treasury has made some serious forecast errors elsewhere such as a 10p tax rate botch we will all be ok. oh.

Matthew S, London,

The price of a liter of low-octant (87)gasoline in US, even today,is ($3.65 per gallon) which is less than $1 (or 45 English pennies) per litter. The reason the gas prices are so high in UK (and European Countries) is the fact that exorbitant amount, more 75% of it is tax collected by the Government

John, Atlanta, GA

Have there been any arrests? What would happen if every interest-group blocked the roads every time they had a grievance? Driving a big vehicle does not put one outside the law. Freedom of speech isn't freedom to do anything if one is cross about something.

Paul Danon, London,

Since inflation appears to be intrinsically linked to fuel prices shouldn't the rate of fuel duty be reduced. If fuel prices are on the increase then then there will be more revenue generated from fuel sales, is this not compounding the current financial crisis?

Chris, Blackpool,

If the government does not listen, we should blockade refineries and the ports.
I run a small fleet5 of lorries and will shortly not be able to continue to trade.
We cannot simply pass the fuel price rise onto our customers.
They will just get the foreigners to do it instead.

Graeme, medway,

I totally agree with Peter Carroll Fuel prices are too high.
Perhaps the average driver should add their weight to this by only targetting certain garages for fuel. this might get the competitors to reduce their prices.

Or we should join the hauliers on the A40. The government have let us down

Katie, Ashford, Kent

Well done lads!

There's only one way to get rid of this 70% tax on fuel.

Andy T, England, UK,

These hauliers are squeeling as they find it harder to compete with the economies of scale delivered by the big multinational hauliers. Much as i dislike seeing someone loose their business, they are facing the enevitable march of global economics. The price of diesel is just one of the factors.

paul, London, England

I think it is time for some inspirational leadership.

MPs earning £60`000 per annum, AND wanting expenses is pure greed. Tax increases in the face of a recession is just madness.

We need vision and courage for this country.

Will the true leaders of men please stand up and take control.

P Flannery, Glasgow,

I think the issue is $130+ per barrell of oil.
Considering this is global, what do the truckers expect the government to do?
I guess that is why truckers are truckers.
Should we also think of switching our rail infrastructure to solely electric, as diesel will become far less economical

Chris, London, England

I agree fuel cost’s are ridiculous, but why try to get fuel duty cut, surely in the long run it won’t change a thing, prices will continue to rise.
The oil cartels are going to squeeze everyone for all the money they can. We should be investing our efforts in breaking our dependence on oil all tog

Jim, Leicestershire, UK

This is an area where Britain needs to take the lead in Europe. Fuel taxes need to be standardised across Europe and they need to be standardised at, as a minimum, British levels. The price of oil right now is very cheap compared to what it will become unless we curb our dependancy.

Martin, Bristol,

The world's oil reserves are dwindling and what oil remains is becoming harder and harder to extract. We need to start thinking about how we're all going to cope with higher oil prices, as the price is only going to go up in time.

Is blockading the A40 the best response we can manage?

Julian Fletcher, Oxford,

I would like to know why marine and aviation fuel do not attract similar 'green taxes' as the UK motorist's fuel?

Ian, Winchester, England