Talk alone will not cut fuel prices
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IT MAKES ME laugh. In the last fuel tax protest in 2000 the government said it was not the way to solve issues that involve the whole country— they must be dealt with around a table with little disruption to the economy. So what is it doing to the economy now?
And what has talking at the table done so far? Taken extra tax out of the pocket of every person that gets into a car to go to work.
Now you are taxed not just on what you earn, but on how far you live from work —or on how many sick people you visit in one day if you are a care worker.
And in the background you have the hauliers' representative the Road Haulage Association bleating around the farmyard for about 10 months with a plastic bucket on their head, because with diesel at £.1.06 obviously nobody's heard them ('RHA decides against fuel price protests', CM 6 December).
Farmyard owner Name and address withheld