Article: Truckers call for proposed diesel duty to be scrapped.(Features)

Article: Unlike New Zealand, the British Government warned truckies weeks ago that it plans to impose a 5c a litre increase in diesel duty in October, follo...
New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand);  July 5, 2008 ;     521 words ...Unlike New Zealand, the British Government warned truckies weeks ago that it plans to impose a 5c a litre increase in diesel duty in October, followed by similar hikes in 2009 and 2010. But truckies' body, the British Freight Transport...

Article: Farmers see red on fuel.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  December 8, 2005 ;     129 words ...A BIG hike in red diesel duty will leave Welsh farmers facing some of the highest fuel prices...Pre Budget Statement this week Chancellor Gordon Brown upped red diesel duty by 1.22 pence-per-litre - equivalent to a 23% rise. NFU Cymru president...

Article: Hike could take oil up to $50 a barrel by summer; Market eye; The combination of a rise in oil prices coupled with an increase in diesel duty could take us back to the protest chaos of 2000, argues Ian Fraser
The Sunday Herald;  May 16, 2004 ;     548 words ......global oil prices, coupled with the 1.9p per litre hike in diesel duty that is being planned by Chancellor Gordon Brown for September...s bows, suggesting that unless Brown scraps plans to lift diesel duty - a move that would see (pounds) 500 per year added to the...

Article: City: Hauliers head for Continent
The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 14, 1999 ;     217 words ......fleets to the Continent after last week's further rises in diesel duty and Vehicle Excise Duty for larger vehicles. The Fuel Duty...light vans have done nothing to assuage their wrath, while the diesel duty increase lifts the pump price from 64p a litre to 70.6p. Dossetter...

Article: Time to cut diesel duty; COMMENT.(News)
Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  June 4, 2008 ;     123 words ......once priced similarly. But now the difference between the two can be 12 pence per litre or more. For the sake of everyone's pockets, it is time for the Government to cut diesel duty so that the litre price is broadly the same as that for petrol.

Article: Truckers welcome excise duty cuts; BUDGET 2001 R E V I E W.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  March 8, 2001 ;     265 words ......Association has welcomed the chancellor's statement that the diesel duty and vehicle excise duty cuts have been confirmed. Richard...However, we regret that he has been unable to extend the cut in diesel duty beyond the 3p per litre previously announced. Duty on diesel...

Article: Talks offer to avert London lorry protest London
The Independent - London;  March 22, 1999 ;     473 words ......slowly through the streets in protest at Budget increases in diesel duty and road tax. John Reid, the Transport minister, said he would...Wincanton said the Chancellor's decision to add 6p a litre on diesel duty would add pounds 5m to its annual fuel costs. Mr Dossetter...

Article: Budget Reaction: "Increase in Fuel Duty Puts British Hauliers at Risk," Says the Road Haulage Association.
PR Newswire Europe;  March 21, 2007 ;     433 words ......hauliers before the above-inflation, 2 pence per litre increase in diesel duty takes effect on October 1, says the Road Haulage...one in October and another next spring when diesel duty goes up by another (above inflation) 2 pence...

Article: Farmers' ire fuelled by 20% rise in diesel duty.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  March 17, 2005 ;     384 words ......strengthen the fight against climate change by not extending its financial support for biofuels. Farmers face a 20% rise in red diesel duty to tackle rebated fuel fraud. Oil fraud was estimated to cost the exchequer pounds 850m in 2003. NFU Cymru president Peredur...

Article: Too little.(News)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  December 18, 2003 ;     34 words ...THE belated move towards a 2pper litre increase in milk prices is ``too little, toolate'', the FUW has said. Milk chairman Dei Davies,of Holywell, said it was ``one extra brick to stand on to keep our heads above water''.

Article: Tory bid to curb fuel duty fails
Evening Mail;  April 28, 1999 ;     80 words ...A LAST-ditch bid, spearheaded by the Tories, to block inflation- busting rises in petrol and diesel duty has failed in the House of Commons. Despite a backlash from angry truckers, the rises - six per cent above inflation - announced...

Article: 'Weak' co-ops under fire
The Scotsman;  October 31, 2002 ;     271 words ......increase. Walker said of growing concerns that the 2p per litre increase fought for by the union might not reach farmers: "The co-o...between major retailers and Dairy Crest will give a 2p per litre increase, claimed the English NFU. The deal will increase the wholesale...

Article: INDIAN OIL CORP DEMANDS SHARP HIKE IN PETROL, DIESEL PRICES.
AsiaPulse News;  April 14, 2005 ;     249 words ......today sought a massive Rs 4.59 per litre increase in petrol and Rs 5.18 a litre hike...crude prices necessiate a Rs 1.17 per litre increase in petrol and Rs 2.95 a litre hike...litre, translated into a Rs 0.61 per litre increase in petrol and Rs 0.57 a litre hike...

Article: Protest is now all gas and no fuel!
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  October 22, 2000 ;     255 words ...THE organisers of the 'People's Fuel Protest' get more preposterous by the day. They not only want a large cut in diesel duty but they now want a complete reorganisation of Britain's tax system. They're pontificating about the introduction of road...