UK motorists pay highest percentage of fuel duty and tax in Europe

Irboylin, Reduce fuel VAT to 5%, where does this reduced revenue for the treasury then get 'added back'? Or should we reduce spending or increase borrowing? 150 miles a week is hardly travelling to work. I used to travel 140 miles a day to work and back. That was my choice, I didn't moan about it. We could have moved home, but didn't want to. I too will stick to my semi-rural location.

Some people are just idiots that 'you should not live so far away from your place of work' Its not really a choice, my GF has to travel 150miles a week just to get to work because she was made redundant from a job she was in for over 20years as that is the only job she has managed to get in that time. I am lucky as my job is only a couple of miles and so was hers. You have to go where the work is, we dont all live in cities where public transport is better managed than in rural towns where trains run every couple of hours buses 2 or 3 times a day. The town where I live has suffered because of the economy, it is only a population of over 15,000 but there was jobs on the doorstep but not anymore so you have no choice but to travel. They would be better off reducing the VAT on fuel to 5% just like it is for gas and electric as in some places it is essential. Shall we all move to the 'big cities' overcrowd them lets do it!! On second thoughts I don't want to live in a place where it pollutes my lungs and also do not want to live where all you see is horrible buidlings and idiots. I think I will stick to my rural countryside of Mid-Wales, beautiful fields clean air.....

[i]electricblue said Why is there supposed to be a universal correlation between owning a car and the ability to work? If you want to live miles from a potential employer then live with the consequences. [/i] Your so right. I mean, bugger experience. I'll work for my 'local' employer for minimum wage, rather than commute sixteen miles for my 'better than minimum wage' skilled job, for which I have qualifications. Oh, and next time a nurse complains about travelling and parking expenses at our local hospital, I shall tell her to jack her job in and go veg picking in the fields backing on to her house. We could all work at the most conveniently placed employer, but I think even employers would be confounded to realise the best person for a job is actually working in an unsuitable job, just because it is 'next door'. After all, if you have spent years as a mechanic, or electrician, or brick layer, or nurse, or doctor, or accountant, or solicitor, or any other trade or profession that requires time spent to master that skill, why jack in a job and start working in an area that you have no experience with, just because it is 'next door'. Oh, and since the nearest factory to me is still ten miles away, I still need to commute. I could use a push bike, but that is only sensible in the height of Summer. Come Winter time, exposure to the elements would be unwise for someone fast approaching fifty. So, while some may be lucky enough to be able to work a stones throw from their home, most of us have to commute to be able exercise our right to work. After all, you wouldn't employ an electrician to look after the sick, and you wouldn't employ a nurse to rewire a house.