Fuel Tax Protest: About Time

A fuel tax protest next week is long overdue. We pay 70% on petrol - almost the highest in Europe but the government is always trying to shift the blame onto oil prices and Katrina -anything but where the real guilt lies -with a bloated parasitic State that mugs people every day at the gas station.Not so much petty theft as grand larceny. The Americans went to war over tax far lower than we are paying but then us Brits tend to respond to government demands with a craven acquiescence which only encourages it to more depradations; its appetite grows with the feeding.