Sunday, July 23, 2017
Understanding Premature Deaths from NOx
We’re told we have a major health problem
caused mainly by cars. We all know pollution is definitely a health issue,
particularly in our cities. I’ve already written about the various sources of
urban NOx and PM and have made the case that it’s factually inaccurate to blame
poor air quality solely on passenger cars. But what should worry us all are the
figures of premature deaths due to NOx pollution that are now firmly embedded
in the media. We’re told that 40,000 people die in the UK prematurely because
of NOx pollution. So where does ...
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Monday, June 26, 2017
On behalf of all drivers in the UK, here is our take on the emissions saga! Written by lead spokesman for FairFuelUK, TV broadcaster and motoring journalist, Quentin Willson and published in the Evening Standard 28th June 2017
"As you despair at the angry rhetoric dividing our country right now you might have missed another line of division that’s fast approaching – the enforced decline of the passenger car. The recent hysterical diesel debate and the latest London Mayor’s Transport Strategy both paint a grim picture for the future of car-based mobility. By 2041 Sadiq Khan wants 80% of all London journeys to be by public ...
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Be totally clear, 37m drivers will be at the heart of the new Government’s plans to raise fuel levies, congestion charges, parking costs and environmental taxes. FairFuelUK is apolitical, totally! BUT, it is right for the benefit of motorists, commercial drivers, the economy and the environment that we look at what is the best political package for 81% of the electorate. Through your support, we asked all General Election Candidates, that’s over 3200 politicos, where they stand on the following issues?:
1. Fuel Duty 2. Urban Taxes 3. The future of diesel 4. Road congestion and investment 5. Fair and honest pricing at the pumps
Here is a summary of our ...
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Monday, April 3, 2017
 The staggering ignorance towards effective ways
to lower emissions by the Government continues to perplex millions of diligent
drivers. Their myopic and out of touch dogma that by simply taxing drivers
more, will solve the issue is tantamount to pre-kindergarten levels of
intellect and stinks of incompetence.
With only 10% of emissions attributed to diesel cars, why should hard-working
drivers, families, white van man, small businesses be held responsible for 90%
of the issue. It’s clear that Ministers do not have a clue how to lower
emissions but want to be seen to be doing something. Even if that something is
manifestly and categorically ...
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Friday, March 31, 2017
When asked by Petroleum Review to contribute a pump prices missive
to this August trade magazine, I was equally flattered and surprised. Turkeys
voting for Christmas came to mind. FairFuelUK’s remit since 2011 has been to
ensure a fair deal for 37m drivers at the pumps. But then I paused, and
recognised that having the chance to air issues impacting on the readership’s
customers, shows professional recognition and a willingness to listen.
When this article is published however, the Chancellor will
have already given the last Budget to be posted in Spring. FairFuelUK on behalf
of its 1.4m supporters will have called upon the ...
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Sunday, March 26, 2017
With
Supermarkets, at last, driving down pump prices due to Brent Oil falling by 9%
in Sterling since the beginning of February, the Government continues to say
that 37m drivers see pump fill up costs reflect oil price changes within 7
weeks. But this claim is in no way reflected in the wholesale and retail data
collected in the last 12 months**. Everything about the shadowy world of the vehicle fuel supply chain has a musty repugnant smell about the way it formulates pump prices. In the last 12 months, the fuel supply chain has consciously held back wholesale changes amounting to at least £6billion*. Even ...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
 Howard Cox and I listened to the Chancellor hoping a new man at the helm would be cause for optimism for drivers and the economy.
This wasn’t a driver-friendly Autumn
Statement. Car insurance tax went up, £1b on roads is an eightieth of what
we’re about to spend on HS2, there was no significant increase in buyers
incentives for low emission and electric cars no mention of plans for an electric
wireless charging superhighway and only £27m on a road to join Oxford and
Cambridge. £220m on easing congestion
pinch points might sound a lot but in reality it’s just a tiny raindrop echoing
in a ...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
 Autumn Statement: The longest Tax
Freeze in history Must be Turned into a Cut
Pre-Autumn Statement releases and announcement rumours of a continuing freeze
in fuel duty till April 2018 show that the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his
first ‘Mini-Budget’ is undeniably listening to FairFuelUK’s overwhelming
economic evidence that lower prices at the pumps are hugely beneficial to the
economy.
However, following the Autumn Statement UK petrol drivers will remain the 5th
most fuel taxed in the world with diesel drivers being punished more than all
other countries in 1st position. (See Table) UK drivers will still pay £33bn in
fuel taxes ...
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Conservative MPs lead by Chair of the APPG on Fair Fuel, Charlie Elphicke MP, plus SNP's Angus MacNeil MP and Labour's Rob Flello MP handed in a petition to the Treasury on Tuesday 15th November calling for a cut in Fuel Duty in the Autumn Statement together with a demand for a new pump pricing monitoring watchdog called PumpWatch. The PumpWatch Petition with 23,000 signatures collected in just a week was handed into the Treasury by Charlie Elphicke and FairFuelUK Campaigners Quentin ...
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