Just wondering if anyone agress with me on the following. That it is not up to farmers and truckers to dictate government finance policy by blockading oil depots. They are unelected and accountable to no one. The government is, however, and if the public fell agrived they should take their grievences up with their MPs and when ele elections come, give the government a piece of their mind. i never voted for 'farmers for action' to take over the treasurary, so why should they force a cut in fuel duty?
That forcing up the price of road hauage is a good thing. Prior to rail privitisation under the Tories a large variety of goods were moved by rail, and they still are - EWS is doing a brisk trade. However, many smaller users were forced out of the rail market by the bizare pricing structure that accompanied the sectorisation of BR freight division. Th sole intension of these was to force smaller users of the rail in order to make the railfreight sub-sectors mare attractive to private buyers. Rail haulage has a number of advantages over road - it is much better for the environment, it causes less infrastrucure damage then lorries on the roads, economies of scale can be applied, it is an efficent use of the extensive public investment that is the rail network by night, it is often faster then the roads and offers more certainty of delivery time- why is the post office comming back to the rails?
I just thinck that these increases can only be a good thing if the force an evaluation of the perveristy that is goods haulage in this country.
Any comments please...