Fuel Prices

Thursday 29th May, 2008

I’m sick to death of this country. Honestly, it has had it as far as I am concerned. This Government has turned our country into such a Nanny State. Now we have another fuel crisis looming.

I am not a political person, and not really interested in what goes off down in the Big Smoke - typical of the voting apathy that goes off in our country and something I am going to have to change. However, they are rapidly pissing me off down in the Houses of Parliament. Road tax is going up for bigger cars - which put the dampers on me having the vehicle I really wanted because I couldn’t stand/afford to pay road tax at the extortionate prices that are coming in.

My new car is not really what I wanted, but I compromised with myself because of the road tax and running costs. I got a diesel car because diesel used to be cheaper. Now I find it is costing me more to run than my old petrol 1.8L saloon car. I should have kept that!

Whatever luxury I try and have those robbing thieves down in London take it off me. I have always paid taxes, and my job was never well paid for the work I had to do. My wages had to be budgeted to allow for expenses on my car and I had to pay for car parking. I could not get a bus, as there are no buses in our village - one comes through every month or so, and that is usually late! It is too far to go on a bike - also, I would fear for my life on a bike on the dual carriageway and roadways to work.

I would not want to live where I worked as it totally depressing, and unsafe so that was definitely not an option. And so I feel penalised for living in a small village not a million miles away from a city, and for having the luxury of a car.

We pay enough road tax without having to have extra tax on the fuel. Road tax is a joke - you should see the roads around here…an absolute joke. One of our roads has been closed for months, I have to go on a two mile detour to get to the doctors in the next village. It’s been a farce - it costs me more in diesel just to go down the road because of the two mile detour.

And so to the point of this post? Sign e-petitions if you can be bothered. That is what it boils down to in this country - apathy. Don’t let this slide, sign the petitions and be heard. One person shouting the odds can’t be heard very loud, but hundreds of people shouting can make a lot of noise…please speak up to lower fuel prices. It is ridiculous what we have to pay in our country. Absolutely ridiculous.

I urge you all to go and sign the e-petition listed HERE to try to get fuel prices lowered.

I apologise for the awful grammar in this post, I’m rather depressed today, and tired - although I’ve slept, it has not been a natural sleep. I like sleep, but at the moment I have such a lot buzzing around my frazzled brain I am finding it hard to concentrate. I am sick of this depression, and have been to the doctor who suggested counselling. I have to pay however, as the NHS counselling would take too long to come through, and so it was suggested that I pay. Typical. I telephoned the counselling service, but nobody was there to take my call - I got an answer machine. I left a message, but nobody has come back to me. I am too apathetic to ring again! I telephoned another counselling service, and again I got a recorded message. This was before the bank holiday. Stuff it, I shall just have a moan on here - after all it’s my website! LOL!

Night all, hope you who read this sleeps well! Rant over!