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David Cameron says the UK government can’t afford to reduce fuel costs

David Cameron recently announced that his government would not be in a position to relieve Britain’s motorists of the soaring cost of petrol because this would require EU permission. This is soon after the president of the AA, Edmund King, said this was ’a bleak midwinter'for millions of motorists in the UK, particularly who commute longer distances to work.

Laws of the European Commission stipulate that the country cannot charge different rates of fuel duty in different regions of the country without permission of EU ministers. If requested in the UK, it could be up to three months until the EU develops a proposal and several more months until any agreement can be made.

Understandably, many motorists in the UK are already feeling betrayed, especially after David Cameron made a pledge in his pre-election campaign last year to introduce a new fuel stabiliser, which would have placed a governmental cap on the price that pump stations could charge for petrol and diesel. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the treasury said the government was committed to helping people living in rural areas who now had to pay astronomical fuel costs in order to get to and from work. However, the Scottish National Party MP Angus MacNeil described the situation as a ’despicable betrayal'by the government, during a time when many low-income motorists were struggling to pay for their fuel, food and ortak jewellery.

The shadow transport minister John Woodcock also criticised the government’s position, saying it was a double blow for Britons already facing a VAT increase and public sector pay freezes. The Liberal Democrats had previously made a pledge to reduce fuel costs through a special discount scheme. However, the coalition said it would continue to investigate new measures to help ease fuel costs in more remote areas, such as mid Wales and northern Scotland.

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Train Fares Rise

In a series of cuts throughout the public system and the education, the government seems not to be satisfied with the effect. In addition, the rise in the train fares would take effect soon enough and the government would once again face criticism.
The chief of the Organisation of the Train Companies has announced he completely agree with the rise in the fares. The reasons are quite simple – the higher than expected inflation rates influence the prices of transportation, additionally the prices of fuels are increasing and the taxation and the cuts in the system have contributed to the need to increase the fares. Even if the government buy bio diesel fuel, still the increase would have taken effect due to other and more complex factors.
However, the public seems to be unsatisfied and with a reason. Looking at the decisions taken by the government one would notice the different grounds for scepticism. The first one is that while other nations in Europe are coping relatively well with the post recession conditions, the UK is putting forward record cuts in the financing in the public sector, increasing university fees and shutting down some military cores that have always been an important part in the defence system of the Kingdom. Furthermore, the inability to efficiently cope with the unemployment and the unfulfilled promises to the society of England and Wales, the rulers of the UK seem to be making a wrong move again. The public has already been suffering enough as the inflation rates turned out to be higher than possible, the rise of the prices of general goods and services shook some of the social attitudes of the working class – additional rise in transportation fares would worsen the situation in the big picture as the public would once again under unfriendly financial influence.

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