Petition to remove 5% fuel duty for OAPs & Disabled Oil users - C'mon Gordon!

Posted by: Somebody on 1 Jul 2008 at 11:03am

Whilst I appreciate the situation of some OAP's why should it be just them, I am also an oil user and i'm going to struggle this winter, some OAP's are better of then me and they get a heating allowence already from the goverment.
The goverment needs to do something, it is just world speculation and the demand China and the US is putting on supplies that drives the price up.
Pensioners aren't the only ones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mrs D Collins on 27 Jun 2008 at 2:25pm

We want to move house but the fact that we have oil for heating and hot water is going to make it harder to sell our house, what with that and the other factors due to mortgages etc guess we will have to stay put in a four bedroom house when we only need two-three bed bungalow.
The tax might not seem high at 5% but added to already high oil prices it calculates to a large amount per year, and like food it is a necessity.

Posted by: sharon on 11 Jun 2008 at 9:12am

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/NOHEATINGOILVAT/

I just saw this petition on here whilst browsing through the comments I have signed it and at the moment it has 106 signitures please sign so we can get it up to over the 200 minimum. and tell as many people as you know who are also affected by the oil prices or just care that you are affected by it
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Posted by: Mark Horsley on 10 Jun 2008 at 8:50am

I still don't understand why when I was paying abount 20p litre for heating oil, petrol was roughly 80p. This equates to 25% of the cost of car fuel (at the time), now it's about 61p for heating oil and 1.15 for petrol i.e 53%. Why if crude oil increases the same for everyone does it appear that heating oil is going up twice as fast?

Posted by: Johan Temmink on 30 May 2008 at 3:54pm

The £200 fuel allowance for pensioners is not worth a damn if the minimum you can get is 500 litres which cost £300 plus.....lower the minimum order quantity please!!!

Posted by: Johan Temmink on 30 May 2008 at 3:45pm

I won't be able to get oil either, I only have it on for 30 minutes a day to heat the water.

I am getting a 20 liter oil drum every week added in to the tank, it gets delivered to my house and put in to the tank all for £12.50 a drum....better than shelling out a crippling £309.

At least this way my oil does not run out, by the time the winter arrives my tank will be at least half full.

Posted by: Pam Dixey on 25 May 2008 at 11:51am

I am afraid we wont be able to afford oil next winter. We onlyHave the heating on 4hours a day as it is. Thank goodness for a coal firer

Posted by: miss jones on 23 May 2008 at 1:58pm

please also remember the single parents and poorer people that also have problems in budgeting for their heat source. unlike the elderly we do not get warm weather payments.there are also people that work and have to do many extra hours to fund their heating. so i say to the goverment look many of us have stopped going out because we can't afford it,(petrol)food so we are buying rubbish or not very much otf the good stuff,and we are all having to find other ways of keeping warm. but the government don't have to worry as we pay for their lifestyle!! something needs to be done and fast before we have people dying of starvation and the cold, through not being able to feed and keep themselves warm. back to the olden days then where the wife didn't eat so that the husband had good food so he could do his job.!!! there is no need for things to cost this much and instead of giving to other countries, lets be selfish for once and fund our people,

Posted by: Elizabeth Reid on 23 May 2008 at 10:42am

Government should definitely reduce VAT until oil prices level out - if they ever do again. The only winners are the government while pensioners and young families are having a tough time meeting bills for oil.

Posted by: Nessie King on 23 May 2008 at 10:24am

I am the mother of a disabled teen with mobility problems and arthritis. I cannot afford heating this year. I havent had hot water in my house since oil was installed in 2004 as I couldnt afford the oil to run it. I have a fireplace in my lounge and come winter this will be my sole form of heating. My disabled son will have to move from his bedroom to the lounge to sleep. 2 years ago my 1000 litres of oil cost £247 and I struggled to pay that. I had to get a grant last year to cover my oil bill of £400 now with the price of oil going up daily my oil today would cost £650. Tomorrow it will be probably nearer to £700. So we will have no heating this winter.

So let me ask you - why is it the elderly alone who should have this discount? Do we not deserve a discount too?